Humpback whale tangled in Noosa shark net - video
Authorities are battling to free a humpback whale which became tangled in shark nets off Queensland's Sunshine Coast
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Big sporting events don't always translate into big economic benefits
The economic gains from hosting large sporting events are much harder to quantify than governments claimWhen you hear that sporting events such as the recent football matches featuring Manchester...
View ArticleGreens to fight PNG policy in Adam Bandt's Melbourne seat
The party will try to take advantage of a backlash among progressive voters against Labor's hardline asylum policyKatharine Murphy
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UN refugee agency raises more concerns over Labor's 'PNG solution'
Coalition also faces criticism over plans to put 'three-star general' in charge of Australia's border protectionThe United Nations refugee agency has raised a number of issues with Labor's regional...
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Let's talk about making smacking children illegal | Susan Moloney
Children are the most vulnerable and dependent members of our society but it's still legal to hit them in Australia. A call for reform launched today wants to change thisThe Royal Australasian College...
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Spanish train crash driver wrote on Facebook about high speed – reports
Man named by local media is said to have written previously of driving locomotive so fast he was on the brink of getting finedA man named as the driver of the Spanish train that crashed at high speed,...
View ArticleIs the asylum problem a 'national emergency', as Tony Abbott says?
The opposition leader employs powerful rhetoric in discussing irregular boat arrivals. We ask whether his language is justifiedOliver Laughland
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Protests in Tunisia over killing
Mohammed Brahmi had been outspoken critic of ruling Islamist Ennahda partyThousands of protesters took to the streets of Tunisia over the murder of a leftwing secular opposition leader in a shooting...
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Bradley Manning 'motivated by fame'
Military court hears closing arguments in case which sees Manning face 21 counts relating to leaking of 700,000 documentsThe US government has accused Bradley Manning of transmitting hundreds of...
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Spain train crash driver under investigation amid questions over speed
As death toll rises to 80, questions asked about how train was allowed to travel at up to twice the speed limitAs Spain mourned the 80 dead in Europe's worst rail crash this century, questions were...
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Russia faces vodka boycott in backlash against anti-gay law
LGBT activists target brands including Stolichnaya and Russian Standard in response to ban on 'gay propaganda'There's nothing more Russian than vodka, so when gay and lesbian activists decided to...
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Iranian president's reformist agenda: 'One cannot live in a quarantine'
Hassan Rouhani, Iran's president-elect, has described online censorship as futile and views minority rights as vital to his jobIran's new president, Hassan Rouhani, was elected on an ambitiously...
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Chiwoniso obituary
Zimbabwean singer, songwriter and master of the mbira, a thumb piano traditionally used by male musiciansThe Zimbabwean musician Chiwoniso Maraire, better known as Chiwoniso or simply Chi, has died of...
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Peter Tatchell: 'I still hold on to the vision of something better'
This week, as David Cameron threw a party to celebrate gay marriage, veteran gay rights activist Peter Tatchell spent the evening alone in his council flat. So why wasn't he invited?When Downing Street...
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Thank God we have an archbishop who views Wonga's loans as modern slavery |...
Justin Welby is keen to recover the economic meaning of salvation as redemption. We are lucky to have him"Forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who have sinned against us." The familiar words of the...
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Those killed by PMA are victims of the war on drugs | Ian Birrell
Prohibition causes carnage across the globe. Now people are dying in the UK, will our leaders fix our archaic drug laws?In Swindon a young man lies in hospital critically ill after taking a green pill...
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IPCC investigates claim police spied on Christopher Alder family after death
Watchdog says sister of ex-paratrooper who died in police custody may have been placed under surveillancePolice are to be investigated over allegations that they placed under "improper" surveillance...
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Justin Welby says Wonga revelations will not divert him
Archbishop of Canterbury still determined to create alternative to Wonga, which he says has 'destroyed' livesIt's the £75,000 investment that has not only caused the archbishop of Canterbury intense...
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Blockbusters struggle to sustain fanbase amid 'summer of doom'
Industry insiders fear for future of big budget spectaculars, with US box office down 19% on same period last yearAt last week's Comic-Con event in San Diego, the film director Zack Snyder bounded on...
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George Osborne's description of the economy is near-Orwellian | Ha-Joon Chang
The fact that even Labour accepts the UK is 'on the mend' shows how low our expectations of economic performance areIf all else fails, they say, you can always lower your standards. This is what we...
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