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2015-06-16 Australia More Top Stories


The Australian
   
Cash for boats a new deal: Wilkie   
Herald Sun
A FORMER intelligence analyst says the practice of paying cash to people smugglers is a recent and unhelpful development. THE Abbott government is facing calls to clarify reports Australian officials paid $US30,000 to people smugglers to return to ...

Labor may have also paid people smugglers   Sky News Australia
Labor caught up in people smugglers cash claim   NEWS.com.au
Indonesia 'shocked' at Bishop   Perth Now
9news.com.au   
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9news.com.au
   
Brisbane house fire claims 11-year-old boy   
Daily Mail
A Brisbane family has been plunged into grief after a house fire claimed the life of an 11-year-old boy. The boy's mother and two sisters, aged 13 and 10, also had to be dragged from the burning home at Westlake, in Brisbane's west, about 11.30pm on ...

Paramedics tried to revive 11-year-old Brisbane house fire victim for almost an ...   9news.com.au
Boy killed in Brisbane house fire   WA today
Fatal house fire, Westlake   The Queensland Times
Fraser Coast Chronicle   
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Sydney Morning Herald
   
Illegal accommodation: City of Sydney cracks down on black market syndicates   
Sydney Morning Herald
It was a nondescript three-bedroom house in Ultimo. But inside, investigators were shocked to find 58 beds crammed into 19 dirty, makeshift rooms. This illegal accommodation is among 38 being investigated by a new City of Sydney investigation squad ...

A makeshift shower with sheets of plastic covering the walls of the room. Source ...   NEWS.com.au
Task force tackles Sydney slumlords   Sky News Australia
Sydney housing crackdown finds 58 beds crammed into 3-bedroom house   Stuff.co.nz
The Fifth Estate   
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ABC Online
   
Police officer seriously injured after crashing van into Federation Square tram ...   
ABC Online
A police officer is in a serious condition, downgraded from critical, after the van he was driving hit a tram pedestrian barrier in Melbourne's CBD. The van was speared by the rail separating pedestrians from tram platforms between Flinders Street Station and ...

Melb police officer injured in van crash   9news.com.au
Cop van crashes into Flinders Street tram stop   Brisbane Times

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Sydney Morning Herald
   
Government MP highlights Tony Abbott's poor voting record in electorate mailout   
Sydney Morning Herald
It may be an unwritten rule, but it's usually a rule nonetheless that of the many ways to get ahead in a workplace, publicly critiquing your boss is not one of them. However, it's a life lesson not yet learned by one government MP, who has risked raising the ire of ...

Abbott plays down another leak   The New Daily
Abbott takes on Labor over security   Yahoo7 News
Newspoll shows drop in support for Labor   Sky News Australia
New Zealand Herald   
The Australian   
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Sydney Morning Herald
   
Higher petrol prices on the way   
Sydney Morning Herald
Sorry, drivers. It looks like that brief, beautiful moment of cheap petrol you've probably just got used to is coming to an end. A report from market researcher CommSec shows petrol is set for its biggest quarterly price jump in nearly 25 years. The average price ...

NSW petrol prices set to jump by biggest amount in 25 years   The Daily Telegraph

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Sky News Australia
   
Buffett takes $500m stake in IAG   
Sky News Australia
Billionaire Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is buying a $500 million stake in Insurance Australia Group after the two companies entered into a 10-year partnership. The partnership will see Berkshire Hathaway receive 20 per cent of Insurance Australia ...

Devil will be in detail for IAG-Berkshire insurance tie-up   The Australian
IAG's deal with Warren Buffett is a major coup   Sydney Morning Herald
CompaniesBuffett fast-tracks Asia push with stake in IAG   Financial Times
The Daily Telegraph   
Insurance Business   
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Boat payment questions legitimate: Shorten   
Daily Mail
The government is being either incompetent or dishonest in relation to alleged payments to people smugglers, Labor leader Bill Shorten says. Mr Shorten told the Labor caucus on Tuesday that questions about money allegedly being paid to people ...


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Financial Times
   
South Africa ignores its obligations to justice   
Financial Times
For a moment, it looked as though the International Criminal Court had run its man to ground. For the past five years, the ICC, based in The Hague, has sought the extradition of Omar al-Bashir on charges of genocide and mass killing, many related to events in ...

Should South Africa have arrested Sudan's president?   Washington Post (blog)
US says 'disappointed' Sudan's Bashir allowed to leave South Africa   Reuters
Sudan president arrives in Khartoum   Irish Independent
Irish Times   
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Times LIVE
   
Libya: Unclear if US strikes killed al-Qaida leader   
Washington Post
CAIRO — A Libyan military spokesman said Monday that three foreigners were among a number of militants killed in U.S. airstrikes in eastern Libya, but said it is too early to determine if the target, an Algerian al-Qaida-linked leader, was among them. The U.S ...

Questions shadow US strike on veteran Algerian jihadist in Libya   Reuters
Catching up with "The Uncatchable" one   The Economist
Pentagon Says Airstrikes in Libya May Have Killed Qaeda Leader   New York Times
MSNBC   
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