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Sydney New Year's Eve: crowd estimates down on last year
Sydney Morning Herald
It's the annual event that wins global news coverage for Sydney, but it seems that this year the locals stayed away. Early attendance figures suggest the number of people who flocked to the city to watch the New Year's Eve fireworks display might have been ...

New Year 2015: Millions of people celebrate with fireworks, parties   ABC Online
Two men injured as New Year's Eve fireworks explode in their faces   The Daily Telegraph
Sydney NYE: crowd estimates down on last year   The Age
CBS News
Economic Times
Irish Independent
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Shanghai new year crush kills 35
BBC News
A crush at New Year's Eve celebrations in Shanghai has killed 35 people and injured some 42 others, Chinese state media report. The crush happened in Chenyi Square in Shanghai's historic Bund district overlooking the Huangpu river. Thousands of people ...

Moments after police warning, stampede at Shanghai gathering kills 35   Los Angeles Times
Stampede causes 35 dead in New Year celebration   Xinhua
35 Are Killed in Stampede in Shanghai   New York Times
Hindustan Times
Financial Times
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Australian Public Service led way on working agreements
The Canberra Times
Prime Minister Bob Hawke and his wife Hazel at a Bicentennial event in 1988. Photo: National Archives of Australia. More public service news. A major contributor to the problem of classification creep that has undermined the Australian public service can be ...

Newly released Cabinet documents show divisions emerge in Hawke government   9news.com.au
The Aboriginal rights treaty that never came: cabinet papers 1988-1989   Sydney Morning Herald
Secret cabinet papers show a time of debilitating change   Bundaberg News Mail

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Queensland records lowest ever road toll and few New Year's Eve arrests
Brisbane Times
While not taking away from the grief the loss of 223 people on the state's roads wrought, Police Commissioner Ian Stewart said it was an achievement to build from, to save others from the same grief. The previous lowest road toll, since police began collating ...

Queensland motorists urged to remain vigilant after lowest annual road toll ...   ABC Online
Qld road toll the lowest on record - Yahoo!7   Yahoo!7 News
Queensland records lowest ever annual road toll   Bundaberg News Mail

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Light aircraft recovery operation off Tasmania fails when line snaps
Sydney Morning Herald
Police trying to recover a light aircraft containing two bodies from deep water off Tasmania came frustratingly close before a snapped line sent it to the bottom again. The wreck was winched off the floor of Storm Bay, near Hobart, to within 15 metres of the ...

Tasmania light plane crash: snapped rope delays retrieval of bodies   The Guardian
Tasmanian Cessna crash recovery delayed after rope snaps   The Australian
Setback for light plane retrieval   Sky News Australia
SBS
Yahoo!7 News
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Clive Palmer advisor Andrew Crook involved in threats: police
Brisbane Times
Threats, loyalty to Clive Palmer and entreaties to "take one for the team", were all allegedly used against a National Australia Bank employee in one of the most bizarre cases of 2014. Clive Palmer's media adviser and confidant Andrew Crook has been ...

Conspiracy allegations against Clive Palmer's adviser detailed in court documents   The Guardian

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Palestinians Sign Treaty to Join International Criminal Court
Wall Street Journal
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas gestures as he delivers a speech during a ceremony in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Wednesday. Agence France-Presse/Getty Images. By. Nicholas Casey And. Joshua Mitnick. Joshua Mitnick. The Wall Street ...

Palestinians Join International Criminal Court, Despite Israeli and US Warnings   New York Times
Palestine takes steps to join International Criminal Court   Sydney Morning Herald
Palestinians join war crimes court after UN rejection   Reuters
Jerusalem Post
Aljazeera.com
DAWN.com
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Sydney New Year's Eve: Six hospitalised, 31 arrested for drugs at Above ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Six women were taken to hospital and more than 30 people were charged with drug offences after a New Year's Eve dance party in Sydney, police say. The women, aged between 20 and 24, were taken to St Vincent's Hospital after suffering adverse reactions ...

New Year's Eve 2014: Sydney cleared of revellers by police   The Daily Telegraph
31 charges with drug offences at festival   Sky News Australia
Drugs charges for 31 at Sydney NYE rave   Daily Mail

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Gun safety debate after mother shot by two-year-old
9news.com.au
The accidental fatal shooting of a US woman by her own two-year-old son at a Walmart store has left her family devastated and again raised questions about gun safety in America. Veronica Rutledge was out shopping with her son and three nieces on ...

'Everybody that met her ... loved her,' says relative of woman killed at Walmart   CNN
Idaho woman shot dead by two-year-old son was successful nuclear scientist   South China Morning Post (subscription)
Christmas gift designed to conceal weapon was opened by toddler who shot ...   The Age
SMN Weekly
The Public Slate
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Officer hospitalised as crowd of 60 stone police at Pingelly
WA today
Damage to a police vehicle after a crowd stoned officers in Pingelly. Photo: WA Police. At least three police officers were hurt when a crowd of up to 60 people stoned police outside the Pingelly Hotel in WA's South West in the early hours of New Year's Day.
Crowd of more than 50 attacks Western Australian police van, female officer ...   9news.com.au
Police attacked by New Year's crowd at Pingelly Hotel   Central Midlands & Coastal Advocate

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