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Thrills and chills

3:02 AM | Baby, it’s cold outside - but the city's entertainment is starting to heat up. Follow our guide to enjoy the best of it from June to August.

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Troubled waters: review says there are too many fishers in the sea

3:00 AM | THE biggest overhaul of commercial fishing for two decades in which the state government would pay fishers to leave the industry has been proposed by an independent review.

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Five held for child prostitution

3:00 AM | FOR as little as $10, three men in their 50s allegedly used two sisters to procure sex with girls as young as 12.

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Rego stickers to go but state will drive remembrance days

3:00 AM | IN ANOTHER life, Barry O'Farrell spent a few months driving unregistered. But the Premier insists motorists should have little fear of committing a similar misdemeanour after his government said yesterday it would scrap car registration stickers.

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Heaviest HP job cuts outside region

3:00 AM | HEWLETT-PACKARD'S decision to shed 27,000 staff globally - more than 8 per cent of its workforce - should fall less harshly on the Asia-Pacific region, according to an analyst.

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Rinehart turns up heat on Fairfax

3:00 AM | GINA RINEHART has ramped up the pressure on Fairfax Media after being overlooked for a board seat, warning the current board was failing shareholders.

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Crime groups rife at ports, inquiry finds

3:00 AM | AUSTRALIA'S border security is exposed to 19 ''critical'' risks and dozens of other serious vulnerabilities, which are wrecking efforts to control an epidemic of drugs and arms smuggling on the waterfront.

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Thomson treated 'worse than Ivan Milat'

3:00 AM | CONCERN is growing for the wellbeing of Craig Thomson after he pleaded publicly yesterday for an end to his trial by the Parliament and the media.

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Wilkie in talks for health rescue

3:00 AM | THE Gillard government is actively considering Andrew Wilkie's request for a special $400 million rescue package for the Tasmanian health system, with Labor's attitude towards the independent ''warming markedly'' since the Thomson and Slipper scandals threatened its knife-edge majority.

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New rules will focus on union spending

3:00 AM | THE Gillard government will next week introduce legislation strengthening the requirements for organisations like unions to have strict rules about financial accountability and spending.

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Aide says he fell victim to infighting

3:00 AM | THE former NSW ministerial adviser accused of breaching election funding laws, Tim Koelma, has broken his silence to declare his innocence, with supporters claiming he is caught in a vicious dispute between Senator Bill Heffernan and another staffer.

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When enough is never quite enough

3:00 AM | QUESTION TIME used to be all about the carbon tax. Those were the good old days - back when the Opposition Leader accused the Prime Minister of wanting to wipe out Whyalla, when the footprint of rubbish tips was debated and when at least one observer wondered whether it wouldn't be a good idea to reduce bovine emissions by getting cows to light their own farts.

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Unnecessary drugs prescribed - study

3:00 AM | DOCTORS are still prescribing unnecessary cholesterol and blood pressure drugs to older patients despite being warned against the practice, a study has found.

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Stronger Futures continues dark era for Aborigines, says Amnesty

3:00 AM | AMNESTY International has sharply criticised Australia's treatment of its indigenous people and asylum seekers in its annual world review of the state of human rights.

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Paper vents outrage at MPs' report

3:00 AM | THE AGE has condemned as ''outrageous'' a Victorian parliamentary committee's response to claims it inappropriately accessed Labor's database during the November 2010 state election campaign.

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The MP, the escort and a meeting in the Boardroom

3:00 AM | A HIGH-CLASS escort has signed a statutory declaration alleging she had sex with the federal MP Craig Thomson.

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Docks to be tested under tough new security laws

3:00 AM | THE biggest reforms in decades to Australia's waterfront security and freight supply chains will be unveiled by the federal government today in a bid to crack down on corruption and organised crime.

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Defence faces hard choices, says report

3:00 AM | HUGE cuts to the Defence budget will force Australia to face a stark choice between the military we should have and the one we can have, with the global recession and the end of a decade of costly land wars likely to reconfigure the shape of the country's armed forces.

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Biggest drug bust a reminder of Italian group's global reach

3:00 AM | THE long slippery slope towards a life sentence began for Pasquale Barbaro in June 2007, when customs officials on Melbourne's docks singled out a container of Italian tinned tomatoes.

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Warning on relaxing online betting rules

3:00 AM | PROBLEM gambling harm minimisation measures must be linked to any move to liberalise online gambling to prevent an increase in gambling addicts, experts have warned.

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