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Campbell Newman and the LNP have swept to an historic election victory in Queensland. Bligh, Newman, and Peter Beattie comment on the day's events.
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New York -
Electronic music has come to the fore over the last few years. Junior Boys, MGMT, and Sleigh Bells have ascended to the top of the charts. New York-based duo WAZU are riding that pop-dance wave.
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Kevin Rudd has quit his position as Foreign Minister and is now likely to challenge Julia Gillard as Prime Minister of Australia.
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Canberra -
Acclaimed actor and arts supporter, Geoffrey Rush, was named Australian of the Year 2012 at a public event on the lawns of Parliament House in Canberra.
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Riyadh -
The Saudi Arabian authorities have sentenced an Australian Mansor Almaribe,45, of Shepparton, to 500 lashes and a year in prison. The Australian, who is a Shiite Muslim, was charged with committing the offense of "blasphemy" while on pilgrimage to Mecca.
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Dunsborough -
An Australian man has died after being attacked by a shark while paddling on his bogey-board at Sugar Loaf Rock In Bunker Bay.
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Two twin sisters from Australia were simultaneously shot in the head at a shooting range in the U.S. One of the women died and the other is in the hospital, in critical condition.
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Melbourne -
An Australian man, who considers himself a real-life Spiderman, will spend 22 days enclosed in a glass store-front window with hundreds of poisonous spiders to break a record for habitation with arachnids, while raising money for charity.
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Canberra -
Australian rugby league star Joel Monaghan is embarrassed this morning after a photograph of him simulating a sordid act with a fellow player's pet dog at a drunken end-of-season party, was released on the Internet.
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A 21-year-old Australian man is fighting for his life now, in critical condition, after taking on a dare and eating a slug.
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