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Retail sales in worst showing since 1984

2:35 PM | Retail sales posted their weakest annual growth in 27 years in 2011, as consumers cut spending in favour of saving or paying down debt.

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Body in fridge may be linked to biker's head-on crash

1:53 PM | Body parts are found in a fridge in Chatswood, while a motorcycle rider crashes and dies near Bathurst.

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'Sydney extremists' behind Canberra embassy attack

1:08 PM | The Syrian embassy believes "extremists from Sydney" who are not Syrian were behind the attacks at the weekend and has called on the Australian government to take the investigation into the incident seriously.

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Media attacks on PM 'sexist', says Greens leader

12:57 PM | The Greens leader Bob Brown has declared the "unrelenting criticism" of Prime Minister Julia Gillard is sexist and said male media commentators were the biggest culprits.

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Barnyard runaway gets on police officers' goat

12:11 PM | This billy goat has made police a little gruff.

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MPs accuse Rudd of inflating support as PM urges calm

11:09 AM | Labor MPs have expressed anger that they are being counted among supporters of former prime minister Kevin Rudd, who is accused of inflating his numbers in caucus to destabilise the leadership of the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard.

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Sydney's sunny weather coming to an end

11:06 AM | After Sydney's sunniest weekend since December, cloud cover quickly rolled in this morning with a southerly change.

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Prime Minister regains slight edge on Rudd among the party's faithful

10:56 AM | The Age/Nielsen poll shows Julia Gillard has now regained a slight 50- 47 per cent lead as preferred Labor leader among ALP voters while Coalition voters overwhelmingly prefer Kevin Rudd.

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Carbon tax only a good start: report

10:50 AM | A carbon price alone will not be enough for Australia to meet its target of a dramatic cut in greenhouse gas emissions by mid-century.

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Independents undecided on leashing watchdog

10:47 AM | The Labor government is yet to persuade crossbenchers to support legislation to abolish the controversial building industry watchdog.

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Get your heart racing

10:40 AM | It's not just how often you exercise but how hard you do it that is vital when seeking to lose weight.

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Reset your body clock

10:34 AM | Learn to tune into your body's internal 'master clock' and reap the benefits to your health and energy levels.

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Baby girl drowns as floodwaters hamper response

9:15 AM | AN 18-MONTH-old baby girl has drowned in a dam on a property 20 kilometres south of St George after paramedics were hampered in their response by floodwaters.

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New crew laws will destroy jobs: Qantas boss

9:11 AM | Qantas's chief executive, Alan Joyce, has renewed his attack on proposed law changes limiting the airline's ability to hire foreign flight crews, arguing they will force it to dump services to Darwin and Cairns.

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Boy missing after weekend of record ocean rescues

9:05 AM | Emergency services are searching for a teenage swimmer missing for more than 19 hours off a central coast beach, as surf lifesavers made a record 700 rescues across NSW yesterday.

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Family split by wall of water

9:04 AM | The news St George flood evacuee Allen Stanley will be waiting for today is not whether his house has gone underwater, it's where his paraplegic father is.

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Sydney drive-by: man shot three times in the leg

7:30 AM | A man has been shot three times in the leg in south-west Sydney this morning - the second drive-by shooting incident in the city in the past week.

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Motorist crashes again after driving away from accident

6:38 AM | A driver who was involved in a car crash tried to drive away but crashed again and flipped his car in Sydney's eastern suburbs this morning, police say.

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Women found in safe after robbery

6:16 AM | A man armed with a toy pistol locked two female employees in a safe yesterday after robbing their Mount Druitt pub, a police spokesman said.

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