Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Tasmanian Premier Will Hodgman tells Labor leader Bryan Green 'slit your wrists, mate' and other top stories.

  • Tasmanian Premier Will Hodgman tells Labor leader Bryan Green 'slit your wrists, mate'

    Tasmanian Premier Will Hodgman tells Labor leader Bryan Green 'slit your wrists, mate'
    Tasmanian Premier Will Hodgman tells Labor leader Bryan Green 'slit your wrists, mate' Updated March 15, 2016 17:26:37 The Tasmanian Premier has been forced to apologise to the state's Opposition Leader for suggesting he "slit his wrists".The throwaway line came after Will Hodgman sat down after a speech in State Parliament this morning.Mr Hodgman had just resumed his seat after talking about the state's tourism boom.He was not addressing Parliament but was overheard on..
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  • Four Corners crew Linton Besser and Louie Eroglu leave Malaysia for Singapore

    Four Corners crew Linton Besser and Louie Eroglu leave Malaysia for Singapore
    Four Corners crew Linton Besser and Louie Eroglu leave Malaysia for Singapore By South East Asia correspondent Adam Harvey in Kuching, staff Updated March 15, 2016 17:49:17 The Four Corners team detained in Malaysia after trying to question Prime Minister Najib Razak have left the country and flown to Singapore after authorities decided not to press charges against them. Key points:Four Corners team has arrived in SingaporeThey were escorted out of Malaysia after..
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  • Humans of New York photographers' anti-Trump letter goes viral

    Humans of New York photographers' anti-Trump letter goes viral
    The man behind the popular Humans of New York photography project has spoken out on politics for the first time, sharing his first-hand experience with hundreds of Muslims to shut down Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump's racist views. The post, the first text-only effort from photographer Brandon Stanton, whose page usually shares the warm faces and touching personal stories of New Yorkers, criticises Trump's Islamaphobic rhetoric. While some of the comments on the post are in suppo..
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  • NSW anti-protest laws an attack on democracy, say legal experts

    NSW anti-protest laws an attack on democracy, say legal experts
    Proposed laws that intend to increase tenfold the fines for coal seam gas and mining protesters in New South Wales have been strongly criticised by the Law Society of NSW and the NSW Bar Association, just as they are expected to be rushed through both houses of parliament. The reaction came as hundreds of protesters gathered outside Parliament House in Sydney to express their opposition to the proposals. Some of their placards read: “You gotta fight for your right to fight for your right.” Re..
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  • Numan Haider inquest: police not told of terrorism suspect's threats

    Numan Haider inquest: police not told of terrorism suspect's threats
    Asio intelligence that the 18-year-old terrorism suspect Numan Haider had threatened police with a knife and had made violent remarks about officers on Facebook was not passed on to joint counter-terrorism unit police, a senior manager from the unit has told a Victorian coroner. The senior officer, identified only as “Officer H” and who has 20 years’ investigative experience, told the coroner, John Olle, that had he known about the threats he would have recommended a meeting between two Victori..
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  • Govt proposes tax hike on cigarettes

    Govt proposes tax hike on cigarettes
    Govt proposes tax hike on cigarettes
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  • Bill Shorten says Labor spend would be different, not larger

    Bill Shorten says Labor spend would be different, not larger
    Bill Shorten told the National Press Club a Labor government would make different spending choices than the Coalition. Alex Ellinghausen A Labor government would make different choices than the Coalition about how to spend money, and would seek spending reductions, not increase the size of government, Opposition Leader Bill Shorten says.The Turnbull government consistently seeks to make the size of government a fundamental point of difference b..
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  • Man's body found on footpath in Brunswick East

    Man's body found on footpath in Brunswick East
    Body found on Melbourne footpath0:16A man's body has been found on a footpath in Melbourne's suburbs. UPDATE: A MELBOURNE gangland lawyer and owner of a popular cafe in Lygon St has been found dead in a targeted execution in Brunswick East.A garbage truck driver found the body of Joe Acquaro on a footpath in St Phillip St, about 100m from Gelobar, at 3am.Mr Acquaro, 55, was aware there was a $200,000 murder contract put out on him last year.MAFIA CONNECTIONS: Last lawyer hit ‘the end’ of gangla..
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  • Brisbane council election: LNP candidate Ashley Higgins quits Tennyson race

    Brisbane council election: LNP candidate Ashley Higgins quits Tennyson race
    A Liberal National Party council candidate has been forced out of the party and withdrawn from this weekend's election race amid allegations he sent explicit images to a teenage boy in 2011. Ashley Higgins' sudden departure, just four days out from the Brisbane City Council polls, has thrown Lord Mayor Graham Quirk's bid for re-election into turmoil. LNP will have 'no candidate' for Tennyson Graham Quirk says they have "got to move on" from a scandal which saw Tennyson candid..
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  • Greens, Coalition 'gang up' to gag debate

    Greens, Coalition 'gang up' to gag debate
    Greens, Coalition 'gang up' to gag debate
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