Kevin Rudd Holden must clear 08 stock of taxpayers’ money

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd today announced a massive $6.2 billion corporate welfare program for the three foreign-owned carmakers operating in Australia.

Rees orders public sector hiring freeze to make sure his job isn’t advertised

Tomorrow’s state mini-budget will freeze public sector hiring, with only front-line positions exempted, New South Wales Premier Nathan Rees has revealed.

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Kevin Rudd Holden must clear 08 stock of taxpayers’ money

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd today announced a massive $6.2 billion corporate welfare program for the three foreign-owned carmakers operating in Australia.

• Rees orders public sector hiring freeze to make sure his job isn’t advertised
• NZ decides: constant puns will be ‘key’ to new administration

 

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Maldives move-to-Australia plan copied from New Zealand

The Indian Ocean republic of Maldives believes it is sinking and will set up an account to finance everyone moving to Australia at some point.

• Moon captures Indian lunar probe, helped by Pakistani intelligence
• Black senator forced to quit over presidential election result

 

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Maldives move-to-Australia plan copied from New Zealand

The Indian Ocean republic of Maldives believes it is sinking and will set up an account to finance everyone moving to Australia at some point.

• Moon captures Indian lunar probe, helped by Pakistani intelligence
• 900,000 student pranksters to be fined $250 for not wanting to join student unions

 

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WA police database used as ultimate guide to picking up

Western Australia’s Crime and Corruption Commission has laid further charges against a cop who used police computer systems to print out the rego details of women he’d met so he could contact them again.

• Unusually buoyant Brahman promises bovine dirigible applications
• Smokers in revolt: anti-social, disease-ridden outcasts say they’re being treated like lepers

 

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Black senator forced to quit over presidential election result

Constitutional provisions protecting the separation of powers will oblige President-elect Barack Obama to resign from his Senate seat before taking office in January.

• Could America make history and elect its first Panama Canal Zonian president?
• A true hero defends a bad idea whose time has passed

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Poo-eating woman concerned she’ll be remembered as the woman who ate poo

Jessica Whyte, the woman who claims she ate complimentary faeces-laced gelato at the Coogee Bay Hotel, is concerned she’ll always be remembered as “the woman who ate the poo.”

• Amnesty not even sure where to begin with proposed “penis shot off” penalty
• Students punished with time off school

 

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Kevin Rudd Holden must clear 08 stock of taxpayers’ money

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd today announced a massive $6.2 billion corporate welfare program for the three foreign-owned carmakers operating in Australia.

• Poo-eating woman concerned she’ll be remembered as the woman who ate poo
• Tragicomic Telstra-inspired movie to feature guy who bought T2 at $8

 

 

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History made as a horse wins Melbourne Cup for the 148th time

Five-year-old stallion Viewed has taken out the 2008 Melbourne Cup in a photo finish, delivering trainer Bart Cummings a record 12th Cup win.

• ABC presenter suspended after ranting to all six of his listeners
• Tragicomic Telstra-inspired movie to feature guy who bought T2 at $8

 

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Charlton Heston dead, guns found at scene

Actor and former National Rifle Association president Charlton Heston has been found dead at his Beverly Hills home, after a long illness. He was 84.

• Keating: debating dead guy ‘like being flogged with a wet order of service’
• No drugs on Heath Ledger $20 note, John Flynn $20 note yet to be tested