Australians on board missing plane

A search and rescue mission is underway for a Malaysia Airlines flight, which has lost contact with air traffic control. Flight with 227 passengers and 12 crew on board missing ... Malaysia Airlines service bound for...

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Bullet hits man's pillow as he sleeps

A Sydney man has escaped with a grazed elbow after shots were fired into his innerwest home. Source: AAP A BULLET hit a man's pillow as he slept in Sydney's west. The 62-year-old was asleep with his wife in Windsor Avenue, Croydon Park...

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Defence chief warns sea lanes threat

DEFENCE force chief David Hurley has warned that any disruption to key regional sea lanes threatens Australia's ability to freely trade with Asia. In an oblique reference to a simmering territorial dispute between China and Japan over islands...

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Falconio murderer withdraws appeal

LAWYERS for Bradley John Murdoch, convicted of murdering British backpacker Peter Falconio, have withdrawn an appeal against his conviction. Murdoch is serving a life sentence with a 28-year non-parole period, but wanted his conviction quashed...

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Ford says no guarantees on 2016 closure

Ford says there are no guarantees the company will keep making cars in Australia until 2016. Source: AAP FORD is rolling new car models into Australia earlier than expected, but says it might shut down local manufacturing earlier than initially...

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Biotron shares jump on trial result

SHARES in drug developer Biotron have soared after data from a clinical trial of its lead anti-viral drug showed patients co-infected with HIV and hepatitis C were virus-free after six months of treatment. "This extends previous data that showed...

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WA election recount a 'disaster': Keelty

Former federal police chief Mick Keelty has described WA Senate election recount as a "disaster". Source: AAP FORMER federal police chief Mick Keelty has described the handling of the West Australian Senate election recount as a "disaster"....

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Little penguins make new friends

The penguin colony at Manly's Sea Life Sanctuary has welcomed two new females. Source: AAP TWIRL is shy, Velma is dominant. And now they're part of one big, happy little penguin family. The pair waddled into their new home at Sydney's...

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Kiwi dollar firms against Aussie

THE New Zealand dollar has firmed against its trans-Tasman counterpart after the Reserve Bank of Australia affirmed its policy of keeping its cash rate unchanged. The kiwi rose to 93.67 Australian cents at 5pm in Wellington from 93.37 cents...

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WA scrap yard fined $80,000 after death

A WEST Australian scrapyard has been fined $80,000 over an unsafe work environment where a worker was fatally crushed under a piece of metal. J & P Group, trading as J & P Metals, pleaded guilty in the Bunbury Magistrates Court to failing...

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Police release image over Vic kidnap bid

AN image has been released of a man police want to speak to about an attempted abduction of a boy from a Melbourne playground. The six-year-old boy was in the playground on Dempster Way in Narre Warren when he was approached by an unknown man...

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NZ MP urges Aust same-sex marriage reform

NEW Zealand MP Louisa Wall is challenging Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott to pick up the ball on same-sex marriage. The gay Labour MP, who is a former national representative netball and rugby union player, has released a video urging Mr...

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