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25 Aug 10 | Students at a West Australian high school have been told to plan a terrorist attack that would kill as many innocent people as possible as part of an assignment.
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25 Aug 10 | A SOUTHERN Tasmanian babysitter was this morning sentenced to nine months' imprisonment for assaulting a four-year-old who died in her care.
25 Aug 10 | Rob Oakeshott sees safety in his bold model for consensus politics - but others will see naivety.
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25 Aug 10 | THE Greens have called on Education Minister Lin Thorp to stop publishing the state's schools NAPLAN test results on the My School website.
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A man who escaped from police at Brisbane Airport was enjoying a beer at a pub when he was recaptured last night.
25 Aug 10 | What does it really mean to have a hung parliament, our expert explains.
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25 Aug 10 | Former whistleblower Andrew Wilkie says the three key independents, who are being wooed to help form a minority government, are just acting like another political party - with three separate factions.
Mr Wilkie, who is tipped to take the crucial Tasmanian seat of Denison, said he was "uncomfortable" with the way they were behaving - and had "quite deliberately" put off talking to them.
25 Aug 10 | Actress Rachael Taylor told ambulance staff who treated her then-boyfriend Matthew Newton in a luxury Rome hotel that he suffered from ''psychological problems'', according to Italian police.
25 Aug 10 | A public fund to preserve the childhood home of Richie Benaud is being considered by Parramatta City Council. The council voted on Monday to seek an interim heritage order from the Minister of Planning Tony Kelly for
25 Aug 10 | THE Premier, Kristina Keneally, says her government will not support a ban on the burqa, the head and body covering worn by some Muslim women, because ''such a ban has no place in multicultural NSW".
25 Aug 10 | AFTER 60 years, trams may return to the streets of Newcastle, as the Keneally government tries to satisfy developers and environmentalists.
25 Aug 10 | RENEE GOOSSENS, the youngest of five daughters of the conductor Eugene Goossens, has had rather a rough trot - suffering the sting of her father's scandal, disabled for life at 21, twice divorced and now, at the age of 70, fearing she may be thrown into the street.
25 Aug 10 | TONY ABBOTT says Australians want a kinder, gentler politics and Julia Gillard reckons they have made it clear they do not want to see business as usual in Canberra.
25 Aug 10 | THE Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, has remained tight-lipped on any changes to his broadband policy to woo the three regional independent MPs, but an analysis of his plan shows he could boost rural services in the next three years without a budget blowout.
25 Aug 10 | A HUNG parliament could reignite the climate change debate and shorten the path to a carbon price, the Climate Institute says.
25 Aug 10 | THE MAN seeking to use the hung parliament to funnel billions of taxpayer dollars back into his home state has told the people of Victoria and NSW not to fear his plans, even though they could mean less money for those states.
25 Aug 10 | MUCH of the coverage of the new Liberal National Party member for the Queensland seat of Longman, Wyatt Roy, has focused on his age, which is not surprising when you consider that he is a particularly fresh-faced 20-year-old. But what about the effect his age has on his politics?
25 Aug 10 | THE Liberal Party has extended its lead in the ultra-marginal West Australian seat of Hasluck, but the contest remains too close for a winner to be declared.
25 Aug 10 | AS ANDREW WILKIE stood at the door of his Hobart rug shop, one woman passing by blew him a kiss and another called out: ''You've got no idea how happy we are.''
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