Kelly O'Dwyer accidentally endorses bill criticising Turnbull Government in procedural bungle and other top stories.

• Kelly O'Dwyer accidentally endorses bill criticising Turnbull Government in procedural bungle

  

  Kelly O'Dwyer accidentally endorses bill criticising Turnbull Government in procedural bungle Updated October 12, 2016 21:06:59 The Federal Government has been embarrassed by a procedural bungle in Parliament, after accidentally endorsing a bill amended by Labor, which criticised the Government.Minister for Revenue and Financial Services Kelly O'Dwyer was seeking to pass the International Tax Agreements Amendment Bill 2016 through the House of Representatives.But Ms O'D..

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• HSC 2016: 77000 students to sit first exams across NSW

  

  More than 77,000 NSW high school students will sit their first HSC exams this week as one of the final cohorts to sit the test before the NSW government enacts sweeping reforms across the state. More News Videos Previous slide Next slide Matthew's keeping his head above water Two men arrested by counter-terrorism police Shark attacks surfer near Ballina Don't ease alcohol-sale restrictions: St Vincent's There's life after Year 12..

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• Elderly man dies after vehicle smash

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• Gable Tostee trial: Murder accused ordered pizza after Warriena Wright's fall, court hears

  

  Gable Tostee trial: Murder accused ordered pizza after Warriena Wright's fall, court hears Updated October 12, 2016 20:49:12 Gable Tostee ordered a slice of pizza while walking alone around Surfers Paradise shortly after Warriena Wright fell to her death from his apartment balcony in 2014, a Brisbane court has heard.Tostee, 30, pleaded not guilty to murdering the 26-year-old New Zealand tourist, whom he met that night via dating app Tinder.The pair's exchange on Tinder ..

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• Gillard's threat warning to public women

  

  Threats of abuse towards female politicians are "just not on", government minister Mitch Fifield says, after Julia Gillard warned some women in public life have to deal with almost daily rape threats. The former prime minister, speaking at a memorial service for British MP Jo Cox, said threats of violence have become increasingly prevalent for women in public life. Ms Cox was shot and stabbed to death in her constituency in northern England earlier this year. "'As a woman in public life, the vi..

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• Natural disasters are costing more but killing less

  

  Radical change is needed in the way natural disasters are managed as they become bigger and more frequent due to climate change, the Red Cross warns.Disasters killed 32,550 people last year, including 16 Australians, and affected 108 million people across the globe, the organisation's annual World Disasters Report says. More News Videos Previous slide Next slide Haiti desperate for help No Brexit blues for UK tourism Pick-up truck ploughs into Native..

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• Moderate Liberals say Tony Abbott's party democracy push will backfire

  

  Like other Liberals in the dominant "moderate" faction, Trent Zimmerman worries that plebiscites would lead to branch stacking. Andrew Meares Winning the endorsement of regular Liberal Party members for a federal seat shouldn't have been hard for Trent Zimmerman.After all, he was a popular local councillor and man about town, had worked for the even more popular outgoing MP, and happened to be the acting president of the NSW division of the Lib..

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• Baird backflips on sharks a day after dogs

  

  Gemma NajemAustralian Associated PressMike Baird has performed a second policy backflip in as many days, announcing he will pursue a six-month trial of shark nets along NSW's north coast after another shark attack.After resisting calls to install nets, which kill other marine life, the premier announced the policy change on Wednesday, a day after he reversed a ban on greyhound racing.The premier says he will lobby the federal government to install shark nets along the state's north coast after a..

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• 'I beg you, do not just put it in the filing cabinet', witness pleads at NT Royal Commission

  

  The survival of Indigenous people in the Northern Territory depended on the outcome of the Royal Commission into Child Protection and Detention, a witness told the commission hearing in Darwin.Pat Anderson, co-author of a 2007 report on protecting young Indigenous people from sexual abuse titled Little Children Are Sacred, begged commissioners to be firm saying the issues they were considering had been talked about many times before. Commissioners Mick Gooda and Margaret White AO. Photo: G..

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• Boy terror suspects' 'beheading plot'

  

  ONE of two schoolboys ­arrested as they were allegedly preparing to behead someone in Sydney’s southwest is the son of a convicted terrorist.Police swooped on the 16-year-olds in a laneway behind a Bankstown mosque about midday, hours after the pair allegedly bought two bayonets at a gun shop.The threat of an attack was considered imminent and police wearing protective vests descended on the prayer hall after officers received information about the alleged purchase of the knives.media_cameraPoli..

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