au-hotdailynews: 2015-10-17 Australia Australia

Australia to fast-track Kiwi visa appeals amid swelling anger
Sydney Morning Herald
Australia will fast-track the appeals process for New Zealand criminals facing deportation as Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull moves to calm cross-Tasman anger over the increasing number of Kiwis locked up in immigration detention. Mr Turnbull announced ...

PM Malcolm Turnbull in talks with NZ counterpart John Key   The Australian
Malcolm Turnbull promises John Key he will speed up appeals for New Zealanders ...   ABC Online
Turnbull says detainees can appeal from NZ   Sky News Australia
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Curtis Cheng funeral: mourners farewell killed police employee
Sydney Morning Herald
It was the highest accolade serving police officers can give to a lost colleague. Out of the main entrance of the south facing façade of St Mary's Cathedral came the casket of Curtis Cheng covered in white flowers. Then two police drummers began to play.
Parramatta shooting victim Curtis Cheng farewelled at funeral in Sydney   ABC Online
Curtis Cheng remembered as gentle man   Sky News Australia
Parramatta shooting victim Curtis Cheng remembered as a gentle man at Sydney ...   9news.com.au
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Privatisation of government services an option, says Treasurer Scott Morrison
The Australian Financial Review
West Australian Treasurer Mike Nahan during the meeting with federal Treasurer Scott Morrison and the state and territory treasurers. Kate Geraghty. Phillip Coorey. Share on twitter. by Phillip Coorey. The Turnbull government is planning a new era of ...
Tax reform: Scott Morrison says all options on table   The Australian
WA GST share to fall below forecast, Treasurer asks Canberra for more money   ABC Online
Treasurer Scott Morrison. Photo: Getty Images   Sydney Morning Herald
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Gino and Mark Stocco: Air and land search for men who allegedly fired at ...
ABC Online
A large-scale search is underway in southern New South Wales where two armed men, who police say are wanted in a number of states, are on the loose after shooting at officers during a car pursuit.
'Most Wanted' Stocco father and son take on police officers in NSW Riverina   The Daily Telegraph
Most Wanted   NEWS.com.au
Manhunt under way for most wanted duo   Sky News Australia
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Blair Cottrell, leader of Aussie 'patriots' UPF, wanted Hitler in the classroom
Sydney Morning Herald
Australia's most vocal anti-Islam street movement, the United Patriots Front, has a new leader whose online history shows he has supported far-right causes, including hanging a picture of Adolf Hitler in every Australian classroom. Victorian ...
United Patriots Front leader quits as mosque fight loses pace   The Australian
United Patriots Front head Shermon Burgess resigns over video mocking him   The Guardian
United Patriots Front: Anti-Islam group leader Shermon Burgess quits over ...   ABC Online
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Local residents advised to stay indoors after black smoke billows from factory ...
ABC Online
Residents have been urged to stay indoors after a factory fire spewed black smoke into the air in Melbourne's north. The Metropolitan Fire Brigade (MFB) said the fibreglass factory in Heidelberg West was ablaze when they arrived at the scene early on ...

Toxic smoke from fibreglass factory fire   The Australian (blog)
blaze engulfs Heidelberg West factory   Herald Sun
Smoke warning after fibreglass factory fire in Heidelberg West   The Age

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Perth Lord Mayor Lisa Scaffidi awaits council election results amid corruption ...
ABC Online
Perth Lord Mayor Lisa Scaffidi will today find out if she has been re-elected for a third term, less than two weeks after a corruption watchdog found she "failed in her duties" by failing to properly declare thousands of dollars in travel. A record 1 ...
Fashion conscious ... Ms Scaffidi has racked up $7599.34 for clothing and ...   The Australian
Thousands spent on dressing councillors   Perth Now
Self-serving Perth Lord Mayor Lisa Scaffidi doing the Scaffidi Shuffle   WA today
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Two charged after extortion raids in Sydney
ABC Online
Two men have been charged in relation to an alleged extortion syndicate in Sydney's south-west. Officers from the Middle Eastern Organised Crime Squad raided properties at Bankstown, Punchbowl and Greenacre on Friday afternoon. They seized a large ...

Two Sydney men in court over extortion   The Australian (blog)
heavily armed police make arrests across Sydney, targeting extortion racket   Sydney Morning Herald
Two men arrested after west Sydney police raids target alleged extortion racket   9news.com.au
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Man who stole $1m from Indigenous Business Australia allegedly bought Aston ...
ABC Online
A Canberra man who stole more than $1 million from a Commonwealth authority set up to help Indigenous people in business allegedly bought an Aston Martin and other lavish items with the money. Indigenous Business Australia, which helps Aboriginal and ...

The return of the big picture?   Sydney Morning Herald
National Indigenous Human Rights Awards – “the Aboriginal & Torres Strait ...   The Stringer
Rocky workshop improves chances to win govt contracts   Rockhampton Morning Bulletin
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Police investigate shooting at Nudgee
Brisbane Times
Police are struggling to get information out of a man who was shot at his own home after an argument with four other men. The four men arrived at the Somers Street, Nudgee, home about 4.30pm and an argument broke out outside, police said.
Brisbane man shot in hand and leg   Sky News Australia
Man shot during argument at Nudgee   Ipswich Advertiser

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