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Carbon tax may hurt natural disaster zones

2:30 AM | Residents of areas hit by natural disasters could face carbon tax bills from rubbish dumps.

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Saving the species: this tiny two-year-old is the right possum for the job

2:30 AM | One of the country's rarest mammals and Victoria's faunal emblem will be the subject of a captive breeding program.

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Introducing Myer's fashion Cupid

2:30 AM | Salon queen matches her clients with the perfect clothes.

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Tit for tat as Liberal MP cops it as payback

2:30 AM | THE government has referred the NSW Liberal MP Craig Kelly to Parliament's privileges committee as payback for the opposition's pursuit of Craig Thomson.

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Two decades after Mabo, court set to recognise Lake Eyre native title

2:30 AM | THE Federal Court is expected today to recognise native title over Lake Eyre in a special hearing at Finniss Springs Station south of the Oodnadatta Track.

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MP ticked the right boxes

2:30 AM | IT LOOKS like the government has got away with it. That's what the Craig Thomson excitement was all about yesterday - can the Gillard government, with its wafer-thin advantage, survive his statement to Parliament?

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The sickening sound of an axe on its victim, a plaintive plea … and silence

2:30 AM | Once more a member of the Milat clan visits horror on a family.

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Greiner swallows entitlement cuts

2:30 AM | A FORMER premier, Nick Greiner, yesterday said he would not take legal action against the O'Farrell government in response to its decision to cut back his taxpayer-funded entitlements.

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Three new boats, but asylum seekers on decline

2:30 AM | THE number of asylum seekers coming to Australia has dropped by 9 per cent, at the same time as global asylum seeker flows increased by 20 per cent.

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Engineering jobs to go as Qantas consolidates

2:30 AM | QANTAS has indicated it will eventually close its aircraft maintenance base at Avalon Airport near Geelong, after its decision to slash 535 engineering positions and close a base at Melbourne's Tullamarine Airport by August.

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Rail lines shut down for weekend

2:30 AM | TRAIN users face a weekend without services through the city, a week after the Transport Minister, Gladys Berejiklian, declared RailCorp has been incapable of properly managing trackwork.

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Majority relaxed about cannabis use

2:30 AM | MORE than half of Australians support reduced legal penalties for use of drugs such as cannabis and ecstasy, an analysis of a federal government survey shows.

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Thomson gives PM a reprieve

2:30 AM | THE chances of the government collapsing over the Craig Thomson affair have lessened after his spirited defence of allegations against him entrenched views among independents that the courts, not the Parliament, should decide the matter.

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Injuries may push Dennis into second row

2:30 AM | DAVE DENNIS'S versatility will be tested in Bloemfontein as he is scheduled to move to the second row to provide cover for the Waratahs' growing injury list when they play the Cheetahs on Saturday night.

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More than a bandmate: Robin Gibb's place was at his brothers' side, writing chart-topping hits

2:30 AM | An integral member of one of the world's greatest pop groups, Robin Gibb was a masterful songwriter.

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It's absolute fiction, say union officials

2:30 AM | ''SAD and pathetic'' and ''absolute fiction'' was how the two union officials named in Craig Thomson's address to Parliament yesterday described his allegations that they had conspired to destroy his career.

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Claims war is over draw new lines in divisive battle

2:30 AM | ''PLAN A clearly doesn't work, we should discuss the options for Plan B.'' The words of Dr Alex Wodak, the president of the Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation, set the tone for a robust public forum on drug decriminalisation last night, hosted by the Herald's publisher and editor-in-chief, Peter Fray, at the University of Sydney.

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