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• Short Ends: Booth Babes, Drunken Astronauts, And Chicken Police

  Published: July 27, 2007, 7:45 pm

  Tags: Defamer Hollywood, 2800, 446, 2801, 425, 874

  Before her meeting with Harvey Weinstein for the Grindhouse booth babe gig at Comic-Con, this comely go-getter had both her legs. · Suspect that you might be a drunk astronaut? Take this quiz and find out for sure. · Happy Gay Birthday, Lance Bass! · Lindsay Lohan's assistant-stalking meltdown brings fresh attention to

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• Police nab horse smugglers

  Published: September 5, 2007, 5:47 pm

  Tags: Influenza, Law Crime Justice, Crime, Police, Sport, Horse Racing, Australia, Nsw, Dubbo 2830, Inverell 2360, Newcastle 2300, Orange 2800

  Authorities say police have pulled over a truck illegally transporting a horse in north-west New South Wales.

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• Kids started fatal blaze: coroner

  Published: September 6, 2007, 12:01 am

  Tags: Disasters Accidents, Fires, Residential Fires, Law Crime Justice, Australia, Nsw, Mount Victoria 2786, Orange 2800

  A coronial inquest has found children started a fatal house fire two years ago at Mount Victoria in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney.

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• NSW 'couldn't reject' big coal mine

  Published: September 6, 2007, 6:13 pm

  Tags: Business Economics Finance, Mining, Environment, Government Politics, States Territories, Australia, Nsw, Mudgee 2850, Orange 2800

  The New South Wales Government says it would have been unfair to reject an application for a large coal mine in the state's central-west because of concerns about climate change.

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• Warrego water auction scrapped, Bligh not happy

  Published: September 13, 2007, 8:01 pm

  Tags: Federal State Issues, Water, Bega 2550, Broken Hill 2880, Orange 2800, Tamworth 2340, Wagga Wagga 2650, Qld, Longreach 4730, Toowoomba 4350

  Queensland's auction of 8,000 megalitres of water from the Warrego River has been scrapped after the Federal Government withdrew its support for the sale.

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• PM announces $400m for drought-affected farmers

  Published: September 16, 2007, 11:16 pm

  Tags: Drought, Federal Government, Australia, Bega 2550, Broken Hill 2880, Orange 2800, Tamworth 2340, Wagga Wagga 2650, Toowoomba 4350, Port Pirie 5540, Renmark 5341, Tas, Bendigo 3550, Horsham 3400, Mildura 3500, Wodonga 3690

  Prime Minister John Howard has announced more than $400 million in new funding for drought-affected farmers.

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• Cancer-stricken Andren farewells electorate

  Published: September 19, 2007, 1:34 am

  Tags: Federal Parliament, People, Australia, Nsw, Orange 2800

  Independent federal MP Peter Andren has farewelled his constituents as he bows out of politics due to inoperable pancreatic cancer.

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• Andren fires parting shots at Howard, Rudd

  Published: September 20, 2007, 10:43 pm

  Tags: Elections, Federal Government, Federal Election 2007, Howard John, Rudd Kevin, Orange 2800

  Outgoing federal independent MP Peter Andren says the Federal Opposition has allowed the Howard Government to rob Australia of its "fair go" character.

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• Drought could cut wine vintage by more than half

  Published: September 24, 2007, 3:10 am

  Tags: Rural, Viticulture, Australia, Canberra 2600, Newcastle 2300, Orange 2800, Wagga Wagga 2650, Wollongong 2500, Bundaberg 4670, Southport 4215, Toowoomba 4350, Adelaide 5000, Mount Gambier 5290, Port Pirie 5540, Renmark 5341, Tanunda 5352, Launceston 7250, Mildura 3500

  The Winemakers Federation of Australia says next year's vintage could produce less than half the fruit of a normal season.

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• Murray-Darling crisis: 'No more water in 6 weeks'

  Published: September 24, 2007, 9:00 pm

  Tags: Environment, States Territories, Rural, Irrigation, Water, Australia, Nsw, Bega 2550, Broken Hill 2880, Orange 2800, Tamworth 2340, Wagga Wagga 2650, Toowoomba 4350, Renmark 5341, Bendigo 3550, Horsham 3400, Mildura 3500, Wodonga 3690

  The New South Wales Government says irrigators in the Murray-Darling Basin only have enough water to last them about another six weeks.

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• Family turns to Facebook to search for missing man

  Published: September 30, 2007, 8:18 pm

  Tags: Emergency Incidents, Information Communication, Internet, Nsw, Orange 2800

  The family of a New South Wales man who has been missing for more than five weeks has started an international search for him using social netorking website Facebook.

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• Andren dies after three-month illness

  Published: November 2, 2007, 6:33 pm

  Tags: Community And Society, Death, Government And Politics, Federal Government, Australia, Nsw, Lithgow 2790, Orange 2800

  Popular federal independent MP Peter Andren has died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 61.

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• Leaders remember Andren as 'man of principle'

  Published: November 2, 2007, 11:46 pm

  Tags: Community And Society, Death, Government And Politics, Labor Party, Liberal Party, Greens, People, Brown Bob, Howard John, Rudd Kevin, Australia, Nsw, Orange 2800

  Political leaders have paid tribute to independent MP Peter Andren, who died of pancreatic cancer this morning at the age of 61.

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• Andren remembered for integrity, independence

  Published: November 8, 2007, 9:22 pm

  Tags: Government And Politics, Federal Government, Australia, Nsw, Orange 2800

  About 600 people have turned out to pay their last respects to the highly popular federal independent MP, Peter Andren, in central western New South Wales.

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• Authorities act quickly over alleged EI breach

  Published: November 22, 2007, 12:12 am

  Tags: Livestock, Equine Production, Veterinary Medicine, Animal Diseases And Disorders Equine Influenza, Australia, Nsw, Newcastle 2300, Orange 2800

  Police and the New South Wales Department of Primary Industries are investigating an alleged serious breach of equine influenza restrictions at Orange in the state's central-west.

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