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Save surpluses for a rainy day, OECD chief urges Canberra |
| PARIS: The head of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has praised Australia's resilience in the global crisis but called for a Chilean-style "rainy day" fund to quarantine budget surpluses when the emerging resources boom heat |
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Online copyright battle just beginning with landmark case |
| YESTERDAY'S landmark Federal Court judgment in proceedings brought by the motion picture industry against internet service provider iiNet is merely stage one in the ongoing battle between movie companies and ISPs over liability for pirated film downl |
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Santos rules out joint link on Queensland gas project |
| SANTOS chief David Knox says it is "increasingly unlikely" the company's multibillion-dollar Gladstone liquefied natural gas development will link up with rival projects in Queensland. Mr Knox has been in favour of consolidation among the Gladstone c |
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V8s rule in super new formula for Gold Coast Indy |
| THE Gold Coast Indy will become the SuperCarnivale with the A1 support category scrapped and replaced by 17 international drivers allocated to V8 Supercar teams. The V8 round will also become the third endurance event on the calendar, with the intern |
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Too many needles for pets |
| HUNDREDS of thousands of cats and dogs are being over-medicated with unnecessary annual vaccinations. The Federal Government's Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority has warned against the labelling of veterinary drugs that either i |
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Super plan will rob rich to pay poor |
| LOW-income workers would receive more generous superannuation payments as part of sweeping plans to make the tax system fairer. One option being considered by the Rudd Government would see the 15 per cent superannuation contributions tax reduced to |
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SA Government approves new suburb at Buckland Park |
| A $2 BILLION satellite city proposed for Adelaide's north will create thousands of jobs and millions of dollars of economic benefit, developers say. Others warn the new township of Buckland Park unnecessarily extends the urban sprawl and is at risk o |
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More Australians adopting while overseas |
| MORE Australians are bypassing our adoption laws by adopting children through international agencies while living overseas, a new report shows. There were 441 children adopted in Australia in 2008/09, up by just one on the previous financial year, th |
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Deported man fights to stay |
| LEBANESE-BORN Canadian national Ziad Chebib has been deported by the Australian Government but says he was mistreated while in immigration detention. He says he is desperate to return to Australia and will picket outside the Australian Embassy in Ca |
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Obama asks Australia to take Guantanamo detainees |
| THE US has made a new request for Australia to accept a group of detainees from Guantanamo Bay for resettlement. The request is the first by President Barack Obama's administration, which plans to close down the detention camp in Cuba within the nex |
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Opposition blamed for scholarship delay |
| Federal Education Minister Julia Gillard has refused to say whether the Government will retrospectively pay youth allowance scholarships to university students. Late last year the Senate blocked legislation to set up the scholarships. The Government' |
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New 'world class' school opens in Brisbane |
| The Queensland Government has opened the new $53 million Bayside State College at Wynnum West on Brisbane's eastside. Education Minister Geoff Wilson says it is a world class facility. "These facilities provide 21st Century education for our students |
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Extra funding to cover ANU, UC research costs |
| The Australian National University (ANU) says new funding from the Federal Government will mean it no longer has to use money raised from student fees to fund research. The ANU and the University of Canberra have received $86 million for research in |
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Obama to visit Australia next month |
| US President Barack Obama and his family will visit Australia in late March, the White House has confirmed. Mr Obama, who has referred to himself as "America's first Pacific president" because of his birth in Hawaii and his years in Indonesia, will a |
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Pressure on public schools to improve performance |
| WA's Director General of Education, Sharyn O'Neill, says public schools will work on their performance after private schools again outranked state schools in the TEE. St Hilda's in Perth has been ranked Western Australia's top performing school for T |
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