2014-10-23 Australia More Top Stories

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Canadian parliament attack: the identical terror threat facing Canada and Australia  Sydney Morning Herald
Bishop's 4am text to Canadian minister · Islam convert suspect in shooting · The Pulse Live: Stephanie Peatling blogs from Parliament. Canada and Australia have both featured prominently in the Islamic State's online diatribes, in which the group urges its ...

2014-10-23 Australia Health

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US and UK asked Australia to send personnel to West Africa to combat Ebola crisis  Sydney Morning Herald
The Pulse Live: Stephanie Peatling blogs live from Parliament. Both the United States and the United Kingdom have asked Australia to send personnel to West Africa to help combat the deadly Ebola virus, foreign affairs officials have told a Senate hearing.
Positive talks about Ebola team deployment   The Australian
Ebola outbreak: US, UK have asked Australia to send medical teams to fight ...   Radio Australia
Australia tackles Ebola outbreak with super-committee of public servants   The Guardian

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WHO seeks Ebola funds over medics  The Australian
LOGISTIC and financial support to rebuild West African health systems that have collapsed in the face of the Ebola epidemic is more important than sending frontline health workers to combat the virus's spread, says a director of the World Health Organisation.
Government insists Australia is ready to fight Ebola in the region   ABC Online
Government insists it's ready for Ebola outbreak in Asia-Pacific region   Sydney Morning Herald
Ebola rapid response teams have not been trained to deal with an Ebola ...   NEWS.com.au
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Minister says no truth in shoot to kill bat policy  ABC Online
The New South Wales Environment Minister is dismissing reports that he is set to introduce a shoot to kill policy to combat bats and flying foxes. The Health Department is warning the public not to handle the animals due to the risk of contracting the potentially ...

2014-10-23 Australia Science

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Worst one-night stand EVER: Randy humans bedded Neanderthals 60000 years ...  Register
Scientists in Germany have extracted the oldest human DNA ever found – from a 45,000-year-old femur found by a Siberian ivory hunter. And after studying the genetic goop, the researchers have concluded that humans started interbreeding with their ...

2014-10-23 Australia Sports

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South Sydney Rabbitohs now worth more than $20 million after James Packer ...  Sydney Morning Herald
South Sydney's market value has soared to more than $20 million after James Packer paid about $7.5 million for a 37.5 per cent stake in the NRL premiers. Packer, who is one of Australia's richest men, joins his good mate Russell Crowe as the Rabbitohs ...

2014-10-23 Australia Entertainment

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The Hobbit movies cost up to $870 million to make  Sydney Morning Herald
More movies coverage · Movie session times. The movie trilogy The Hobbit has so far cost nearly three-quarters of a billion US dollars to make as the epic continues to set new benchmarks for studio spending. Financial documents filed this month in New ...

2014-10-23 Australia Technology

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How HBO and streaming TV could spell new hope for an Apple-made television  Sydney Morning Herald
Recently Apple has debuted new iPhones, updated its iPads, touted new Macs and introduced a new operating system. But there's one product that wasn't even mentioned: an Apple television. For years, people have speculated that Apple is on the verge of ...

2014-10-23 Australia Business

Investors need cold bath: UBS economist  Sydney Morning Herald
UBS global economist Paul Donovan has called for investors to take a cold bath and stop overreacting to economic data and thinking global growth is in trouble. Mr Donovan also believes Australian investors need to take the Reserve Bank of Australia more ...

2014-10-23 Australia Australia

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Wedderburn shooting: Three people from same family found dead, man arrested ...  ABC Online
Three people from the same family were shot dead and a man was arrested after a four-hour siege in central Victoria following a "minor neighbourhood dispute", according to police. Police were called to a home at Mulga Ridge Road at Logan, just outside ...

2014-10-23 Australia World

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Canadian parliament attack: the identical terror threat facing Canada and Australia  Sydney Morning Herald
Bishop's 4am text to Canadian minister · Islam convert suspect in shooting · The Pulse Live: Stephanie Peatling blogs from Parliament. Canada and Australia have both featured prominently in the Islamic State's online diatribes, in which the group urges its ...