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• 17yo boy quizzed over Albury service station armed hold-up - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

  17yo boy quizzed over Albury service station armed hold-upPostedNovember 09, 2015 11:18:05 Albury police will question a Wodonga teenager over an armed robbery at an Albury service station on Saturday night.Police allege the 17 year old used a shard of glass to demand cash and cigarettes from the attendant at the service station, before driving off in a car containing other youths.The male attendant was not injured.Wodonga police later arrested the teenager at his home in relation to other o..

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• Scrutiny well-timed

  Letters to the EditorACT Auditor-General Maxine Cooper is to be congratulated on the far-reaching and carefully researched report on the government's handling of public transport ("Auditor raises transport concerns", November 7, p1).The share of Canberrans taking ACTION to work has decreased from 7.8per cent in 2011 to 7.1per cent last year, despite a disproportionate increase in expenditure, which puts into question the government's "2012 frequent public transport network".Before self-governmen..

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• Police investigators seek witnesses to deadly truck crash near Taree

  

  Police investigators seek witnesses to deadly truck crash near TareePostedNovember 09, 2015 07:18:09 An investigation is continuing into a deadly truck accident that partially blocked the Pacific Highway north of Taree for 12 hours on Saturday. There was a number of vehicles travelling on the road because it was actually vehicles travelling northbound that stopped when they saw the inferno and managed to drag and rescue the driver out of the front truck. Inspect..

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• Holbrook Show veteran retires from service

  

  The 133rd Holbrook Show was the swansong for show stalwart, Shirley Breasley.For the past 41 years, Mrs Breasley from Holbrook has served as the honorary secretary of the annual show, coordinating entries, sponsors and exhibitors.Mrs Breasley is stepping aside from her role as secretary, but will continue as a committee member.''I've seen many changes and loved every minute,'' she said.'Most importantly, we have a great show.''Pavilion exhibits always excite keen interest among visitors, an..

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• Sydney agent sells tree-change dream after heading bush

  Sydney agent sells tree-change dream after heading bush Monday, 09 November 2015|   Nick Bendel View Comments Regional agents can pick up extra b..

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• Ketamine depression trial receives $2 million funding

  

  KIM LANDERS: The Federal Government will fund Australia's largest clinical trial of the drug ketamine to test whether it can treat depression.Currently, ketamine is only approved for use as an anaesthetic.After an ABC investigation earlier this year, a chain of clinics was banned from prescribing the drug to depressed patients.But now the Government's National Health and Medical Research Council has awarded a $2 million grant to the University of New South Wales to study its use..

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• Cooking with vegetable oils releases toxic cancer-causing chemicals, say experts

  

  Martin Grootveld, a professor of bioanalytical chemistry and chemical pathology, said that his research showed “a typical meal of fish and chips”, fried in vegetable oil, contained as much as 100 to 200 times more toxic aldehydes than the safe daily limit set by the World Health Organisation.“The human brain is changing in a way that is as serious as climate change threatens to be"Professor John Stein, Oxford University’s emeritus professor of neuroscienceIn contrast, heating up butter, olive oi..

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• DreamLab: App creates 'smartphone supercomputer' to help find cure for cancer

  

  DreamLab: App creates 'smartphone supercomputer' to help find cure for cancerUpdatedNovember 09, 2015 14:01:34 An app that allows users to help find a cure for cancer by pooling their smartphones' computing power has been launched today by Vodafone Foundation and The Garvan Institute of Medical Research.DreamLab automatically downloads and solves research problems while the user sleeps, sending the results back to the Institute and speeding up research into breast, ovarian, prostate and panc..

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• Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates. Picture: Lacy O'Toole/CNBC ...

  

  The End Game48:00The bid to control and ultimately eliminate malaria worldwide is perhaps one of the most ambitious global health projects is.Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates. Picture: Lacy O'Toole/CNBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty ImagesAUSTRALIAN scientists will infect healthy people with malaria in a bold new research project boosted by $10 million in funding from Microsoft founder Bill Gates.The funding will help scientists at the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute in Bris..

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• Sydney man critical after hotel fight

  

  Sydney man critical after hotel fightA man has collapsed with a suspected brain bleed while being questioned by police about a fight outside a hotel in Sydney's west.The 22-year-old collapsed while speaking with police about the incident outside a Parramatta hotel in the early hours of Saturday.He was taken to Westmead Hospital where he remains in a serious but stable condition.A second man, aged 21, was taken to hospital with facial injuries including a broken nose.Three men, two aged 18 and a ..

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