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Electricity workers from NSW have said they will begin a campaign of industrial action from Monday, as the NSW Gov moves ahead with its controversial privatisation plans.

A 29yr old Australian man has been shot dead with a firearm by a black papuan near the massive Grasberg mine in Indonesia's Papua province, which is run by a unit of Freeport McMoran Copper & Gold Inc, Papua's police chief said.Police are hunting the criminals. There is local controversy over the mine

Sustainable products and services new to the marketplace are highlighted in the State of Design Festival ,in Melbourne on wednesday .

Only the election of President Barack Obama to the White House eclipsed the the death of the 'King of Pop' at the age of 50, research by Global Language Monitor found.

Only the election of President Barack Obama to the White House eclipsed the the death of the 'King of Pop' at the age of 50, research by Global Language Monitor (GLM) found. Jackson's death received more coverage than the Iraq War, 9/11 and the global financial meltdown, last year's Beijing Olympics, Hurricane Katrina, the death of Pope John Paul II and the Tsunami.

KEVIN Rudd today rejected calls from Malcolm Turnbull to immediately lobby China's president Hu Jintao for the release of an Australian Rio Tinto executive accused of spying.

Mr Turnbull has demanded that Mr Rudd “get on the phone immediately to the Chinese president and demand that the Australian citizen, Mr Stern Hu, be released and be given access to Australian consular officials. “The Chinese government must release Mr Hu or charge him,” Mr Turnbull said. However, Australian National University professor of international law Don Rothwell said Mr Turnbull's call for Mr Rudd to escalate the matter was “irresponsible”.

WELLINGTON: All Blacks coach Graham Henry has been given the chance to put right their humiliating early exit from the last rugby World Cup with his reappointment until after the 2011 competition.

That's 300 years of cold, in case you missed it! The Maunder minimum was the bottom of the Little Ice Age from which all IPCC temperature charts begin. That is because it was coldest then and makes the warming look worse. Had they started their charts during the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) we would be wondering why it is still so cool.

Former Vice President Al Gore declared that the Congressional climate bill will help bring about “global governance.” “I bring you good news from the U.S.,” Gore said on July 7, 2009 in Oxford at the Smith School World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment, sponsored by UK Times.

QUEENSLAND'S casinos showered a self-banned gambling addict with rewards and discounts that lured her back into their venues almost 500 times, documents show. The Courier-Mail has also revealed gaming giant Tabcorp is facing court action over separate alleged licence breaches..

IT is a mighty dome, stark, iconic, slightly elongated and famous all around Australia, if not the world. But in the past few days, Peter Garrett has been ducking his head. The Environment Minister was effectively ordered by Kevin Rudd yesterday to retreat from a plan to shut down the climb to the top of Uluru after Mr Garrett was caught in a political flash flood that suggested there were limits to the public's tolerance for all things "cultural". .

CENTRAL Queensland University, whose business has depended heavily on foreign students hoping to win visas as skilled migrants, may run out of cash by 2011, a report warns.

AUSTRALIA is directly challenging China's claims of espionage against detained iron ore executive Stern Hu, setting the Rudd government on course for its most serious foreign policy crisis since taking office in November 2007.

TELSTRA warned the Rudd government that Australia's antiquated triple-0 emergency call service needed to be overhauled six months before the Black Saturday bushfires, during which thousands of people faced huge delays after frantically phoning for help.

WITH the International Monetary Fund declaring that the global recovery is coming, rising unemployment in Australia still being contained and the Reserve Bank saying the economy has not weakened as much as expected, Kevin Rudd's political strategy is working like a dream.

This is the first picture of the ship which ran aground on Inset Reef,on the Great Barrier Reef, 600km north of Cairns.

A women who was charged with sex offences against 3 minors has been placed on the sex offenders list

Foreigners are being murdered and dissapearing in Goa, India. 61 died in 2008 alone in Goa. An australian man 65 who was murdered was another victim of Indian criminals. The teenager scarlett keeling from europe who was raped and murdered in Goa also brought european media attention to the area. In all 126 foreigners have died in Goa over 2 years.

Expressing concern over the continuing conflict in Afghanistan ...

We express our willingness to explore issues related to Russian-U.S. interaction and cooperation in restoring the transportation, energy, and industrial infrastructure of Afghanistan.

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Chinese security officials accused four detained staff of Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto Ltd of bribery on Friday as Australia sought to avert a diplomatic row centering on the massive iron ore trade.

In this remote Aboriginal town, 420 km south-west of Darwin, Northern Territory's capital, third world living conditions still prevail despite the Australian government's efforts to improve life for its oldest inhabitants.