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Tony Abbott and backbench warn Coalition cabinet ministers to stay on script ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has put his ministry on notice over same-sex marriage, warning them to maintain public unity after a week of damaging debate that pitted cabinet minister against cabinet minister. And backbench MP Ann Sudmalis has lashed MPs ...

Same-sex marriage: Cabinet split over 'people's vote'   The Australian
Tony Abbott 'reads the riot act' to 'untidy' ministers   The Australian Financial Review
PM reads Cabinet the 'riot act' on unity   Sky News Australia
The Guardian
Irish Independent
The Independent
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Bangkok bombing investigation: no shortage of suspects in Erawan Shrine attack
Sydney Morning Herald
Bangkok: Thailand's military has played down fears that Muslim insurgents waging a bloody war in the country's southernmost provinces were responsible for Monday evening's bomb blast in the Thai capital. Army chief Udomdej Sitabutr said in a televised ...

Who's behind the Bangkok bomb blast?   ABC Online
Bangkok Bomb Blast Revives Fears of Political Violence   Wall Street Journal
Bangkok bombs: What do we know?   BBC News
Financial Times
New Zealand Herald
NEWS.com.au
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Queensland police minister to be investigated by ethics committee
The Guardian
Jo-Ann Miller allegedly left documents in a safe that was subsequently transferred to the electorate office of an LNP MP. Photograph: Dan Peled/AAP. Joshua Robertson. Monday 17 August 2015 22.27 EDT Last modified on Monday 17 August 2015 22.30 ...

Police Minister Jo-Ann Miller to face ethics committee   Ipswich Advertiser
Jo-Ann Miller referred to Parliamentary Ethics Committee   Brisbane Times
Queensland Police Minister Jo-Ann Miller referred to Parliament's Ethics Committee   ABC Online
Perth Now
The Advertiser
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Elderly woman dies after alleged hit-and-run at Crows Nest in Sydney's north
ABC Online
Police are searching for a taxi driver who allegedly hit an elderly woman and failed to stop on the Pacific Highway at Crows Nest in Sydney's north. Officers said the woman, believed to be aged in her 80s, was crossing the road at about 11:00am when ...
Elderly woman dies after a hit-and-run   Herald Sun
Woman killed in alleged hit and run by taxi in Crows Nest   9news.com.au
Hit-and-run crash at Crows Nest   WA today
NSW Police Online (press release)
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The train strike planned for Friday has been withdrawn
Herald Sun
Cannot Contact Server. Please upgrade your Flash Plugin. Metro Train strike action 1:37. Play video. http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/. With negotiations between Metro Trains and the Rail Tram and Bus Union stalling, eventual commuter chaos will ...
Melbourne train strike called off as parties return to bargaining table over ...   ABC Online
Union says no Vic train action: court   Sky News Australia
Public transport strikes: Four-hour train strike called off but tram stoppage ...   The Age
9news.com.au
Red Flag
3AW
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20 Bodies Found at Indonesian Plane Crash Site
NBCNews.com
Twenty bodies have been found among the wreckage of a Trigana Air Service plane that crashed with 54 people on board in Indonesia, the national news service Antara confirmed Tuesday morning. The ATR 42-300 passenger plane disappeared Sunday, ...

Bad weather prevents rescuers from reaching Indonesian plane   Financial Express
Indonesian rescuers reach crash site, plane 'destroyed'   The Sun Daily
Bad weather hampers bid to reach Indonesian plane crash site   The News International

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Rape trial shines spotlight on elite St Paul's School 'sexual scoring' culture
Sydney Morning Herald
He was a senior and she was 15 when he allegedly raped her on the roof of a school building last spring. At the elite St Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, which boasts a century and a half of famous alumni and a vast, bucolic campus that would ...
Elite school's vile sex contest exposed   NEWS.com.au
Rape trial at elite St Paul's School exposes 'sexual scoring' culture   Stuff.co.nz
Rape Trial Focuses on Sexual Culture at Prestigious St. Paul's Prep School   People Magazine
WCAX
KTIC
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Carramar assault: Man stabs two women, mows them down with his car
NEWS.com.au
POLICE have arrested a man who allegedly stabbed two women and ran them over with his car in the car park of a southwest Sydney community centre. Initial reports suggest one woman, aged in her 30s was assaulted by the man who struck her with his car.
Man arrested over allegedly stabbing two women, hitting them with car in ...   ABC Online
Women stabbed, run over by car outside community centre in Carramar   Sydney Morning Herald
Women stabbed, struck by car in Sydney   The Australian (blog)
9news.com.au
Stuff.co.nz
NSW Police Online (press release)
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Questions continue in State Parliament over missed child welfare notifications
Courier Mail
The heat was on Social Services Minister Jacquie Petrusma in State Parliament. Picture: LUKE BOWDEN. TASMANIA'S Human Services Minister has been pressured to reveal when she first knew more than 150 child protection notices had been missed in ...

Tas govt knew about welfare worries: Labor   The Australian (blog)
Human Services Minister not told about child protection failures for weeks ...   ABC Online
Urgent kids probe   Perth Now

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Getup glitter 'stunt' sparks hazmat scare
Herald Sun
ALL that glitters is not gold - just ask Craig Laundy. STAFF for the less-than-impressed federal Liberal MP were forced to call in a cavalcade of emergency services units on Monday after receiving letters containing what they thought was suspicious powder.
Six fire trucks, six police cars and one hazmat unit investigate glitter ...   Sydney Morning Herald
Glitter sent to MP causes police, hazmat scare   Whitsunday Times
Glitter campaign mistaken as suspicious   Sky News Australia
Daily Mail
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