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20 Nov 09 | MORE than half the Coalition's 37 senators have formally declared their opposition to Malcolm Turnbull's desire to cut a deal with Labor on the emissions trading scheme, setting up a showdown next week that many fear could tear the Opposition apart.
19 Nov 09 | Celebrity gardener Peter Cundall has been arrested outside Tasmania's Parliament House in Hobart.
The ABC presenter was with a protest group today calling for a Royal Commission in the approval of Gunns Ltd’s proposed Bell Bay pulp mill in the state's north.
19 Nov 09 | Melbourne has shattered the highest temperature for a November night since records began, outstripping the previous record set in 1901 by almost two degrees, says the weather bureau.
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19 Nov 09 | The husband of slain woman Chloe Waterlow has remembered her as generous, bright and loving - qualities he says will live on in their daughter.
19 Nov 09 | Captain Dominic James ran out of options as his plane - carrying a critically ill woman and four others - was running out of fuel near Norfolk Island.
In the dark and facing a 1.5-metre swell, he brought the Westwind jet down and ditched in the sea.
19 Nov 09 | The father of drowned honeymooner Tina Watson believes his daughter may have been the victim of a copy-cat murder.
19 Nov 09 | A 34-year-old Sydney woman has been charged with the murder of a baby girl missing, feared dead, since 1996.
19 Nov 09 | A man armed with a knife who took a women hostage at Deakin University in Geelong has been arrested.
19 Nov 09 | VIDEO: Separated twin awake after surgery - Trishna being cuddled by guardian.
19 Nov 09 | JODEE RICH has accused the former prime minister John Howard of using his brother, Stan, to pressure him to admit defeat and settle the case the corporate regulator brought against him.
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19 Nov 09 | AFTER 11 days of crawling through some of the world's toughest terrain, Paralympian Kurt Fearnley yesterday celebrated conquering the Kokoda Track with his parents Jacqueline and Glenn - and a cold beer.
19 Nov 09 | The veteran tour promoter Paul Dainty recently declared that media reports of Britney Spears fans storming out of a Perth performance because she began lip-syncing were nothing more than a ''beat up''.
19 Nov 09 | It can be hard to separate truth from fiction in the quest for weight loss and doctors have as much trouble as the rest of us knowing the difference, write Garry Egger and Sam Egger.
19 Nov 09 | WHENEVER friends visited Bill Bradshaw, it was always time for tea and cake. He may have been sitting upstairs in his antique shop on Queen Street, Woollahra, firing the unloaded flintlock pistols he collected, but he would still offer tea and cake.
19 Nov 09 | COSMIC rays are being considered by air safety investigators as a cause of two rapid descents made by a Qantas Airbus on its way from Singapore to Perth in October last year.
19 Nov 09 | OMAI never set foot on Australian soil. Yet as the first Polynesian islander to be taken aboard one of James Cook's ships back to Britain, he played his own unique part in demystifying the South Pacific Ocean.
19 Nov 09 | IT TOOK nine hours for Waverley Council officers to remove a decade of detritus from the Bondi cliff-top inhabited by Peter James Millhouse.
19 Nov 09 | FIVE public universities are negotiating with the Premier, Nathan Rees, to relax planning laws and free up Crown land to help build housing for an extra 15,000 students in Sydney.
19 Nov 09 | MORE than two-thirds of young people are the victims of racism at school, with first-generation migrant women in years 11 and 12 most at risk.