Bali mourners were terror target
JEMAAH Islamiah mastermind Azahari bin Husin was planning a suicide bomb attack on the memorial service held in Kuta last month for the 202 people who died in the Bali nightclub bombings three years ago.
 Tamil Tigers in tsunami funds row
Attack could be in cyberspace
Police lack tracking technology
US resumes ties with Jakarta
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Skills get power in new jobs market
SKILLED workers will be protected by increasing bargaining strength in the new deregulated jobs market, but the downside is people could struggle to find a dentist or plumber.
Dennis Shanahan: New backlash
Joyce to challenge IR changes
Reforms claim first casualty
Hard choice for Nationals
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Poisoned river starts China panic
AN 80km-long slick of toxic chemicals surged down a river into one of China's biggest cities yesterday, leaving up to 9 million people without water and sparking a state of emergency in neighbouring Russia.
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 | opinion
Gay purge
The Catholic Church's crackdown on homosexual priests
will backfire, suggests Jacquelynne Willcox
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'Boys club' faces $10m lawsuit
CHRISTINA Rich earned close to $1 million a year as the highest-paid female partner in Australia for the world's largest accounting firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers.
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Treasurer coy on tax cuts
Early action 'might have saved Van'
MP bribe claim untrue: leader
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 | features
Caught in the net
Not everyone in the industry is happy with the Government's $220 million package to preserve fish stocks, writes Andrew Fraser
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US plans to cut Iraq troops
THE Pentagon is planning to reduce US troop numbers in Iraq to about 138,000 from 160,000 after the December 15 Iraqi elections, US military officials confirmed yesterday.
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Glider sparks border gunfight
Pinochet charged with tax fraud
Bush steps up Zimbabwe sanctions
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Apples, not A-bombs
Isaac Newtown has trounced Albert Einstein in a poll that asked which of the two had made the greatest scientific achievements
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Allenby makes bird of it
TAMING Moonah Links is hard enough with two good hands; Robert Allenby achieved the feat with only one yesterday.
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Yorke sounds Reds alert
McKenzie 'ready' to take top job
Strokes of genius, mood swings form life of Brian
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To die unread
Vladimir Nabokov's son looks likely to accede to his father's wishes and destroy his last, unfinished manuscript
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T3 doubt as Telstra tumbles
TELSTRA shares yesterday tumbled to their lowest point since the day the lumbering telco floated on the share market in 1997, casting further doubt over the Government's ability to offload its majority stake just as it named three investment banks to manage the sale.
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$200m bargain for discounters
BHP, Woodside split bill to drill
Dragon rumour fires up bourse
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Editorial: Tinkering at the edge
On tax: Those who argue for a simpler, fairer tax system will be underwhelmed by the announcement from Peter Costello yesterday. On workplace reform: They play politics differently in Queensland. Yesterday state Opposition Leader Lawrence Springborg demanded that his federal friend Barnaby Joyce oppose John Howard's contentious plan for workplace reform in its present form.
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US resumes ties with Jakarta
WASHINGTON'S decision to restore full defence ties with Jakarta underscores the vital role Indonesia is now playing in the global struggle against terrorism.
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Shows take snapshot of now
SYDNEY'S inner suburbs have the highest density of commercial art galleries in Australia. This month, a trawl of some of the leading galleries there provides almost a perfect snapshot of contemporary Australian art.
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Ignoring useless information 'key to good memory'
FILTERING out useless information can help people increase their capacity to remember what is really important, researchers say.
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