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Todays Australian News
- Airports to get body scanners
Body scanners will be introduced at Australian international airports next year as part of a $200 million Federal Government plan to boost security.
- Call to check homes after insulation ban
The Master Electricians Association says the Federal Government's ban on foil insulation in its energy efficiency program will save lives, but every home that has had the product installed must now be checked.
- Australia close to defaulting on debts: Joyce
Opposition finance spokesman Barnaby Joyce is courting controversy again, warning that Australia is getting to the point where it will not be able to repay its overseas debt.
- ABC buckled on China doco, says producer
The producer of a controversial documentary about Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer says the ABC told him it decided against screening the film last December because it wanted "things to settle down a bit".
- Japan may scale back Antarctic whaling
Japanese media is reporting that the country's fisheries minister is considering scaling back its so-called research whaling in the Antarctic.
- Abbott unruffled in ironing row
Federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has dismissed criticism of his remark about housewives and ironing.
- Refugee retracts SIEV 36 threat statement
The first refugee to give evidence at a coronial inquest into last year's fatal SIEV 36 boat blast says he cannot remember telling police that a fellow passenger threatened to blow up the boat.
- Letter ban for radical sheik
A Sydney sheik accused of harassing the families of Australian soldiers killed in Afghanistan has had restrictions placed on him sending letters overseas.
- Boswell smashed over china plate 'threat'
Queensland Nationals Senator Ron Boswell has defended his choice of words during last night's Senate Estimates hearings, saying he was not being racist.
- Rudd wants drinking age lifted to 21
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says he would personally like the drinking age to be raised to 21 in Australia.
- Former top cop not guilty in perjury case
The perjury case against former senior Victorian policeman Noel Ashby has collapsed, with a court finding him not guilty on all charges.
- Jackson's doctor pleads not guilty to manslaughter
Michael Jackson's former doctor Conrad Murray has pleaded not guilty to a charge of involuntary manslaughter over the singer's death last year.
- Image shows 'monkey' roaming Darwin
Security camera footage has been released that apparently shows a monkey scampering across a street in Darwin.
- Alligator shot with dead girl in jaws
An alligator that killed an 11-year-old girl bathing in a creek in northern Brazil was shot dead by searchers with the victim still in its jaws, reports said today.
- Crocked Siddle refuses to blame workload
Australian paceman Peter Siddle says a strenuous workload was not responsible for the back injury which will sideline him for up to five months. |
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