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Motorist crashes again after driving away from accident

6:38 AM | A driver who was seriously hurt in a car accident tried to drive away but crashed again and flipped his car in Sydney's eastern suburbs this morning, police say.

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Women found in safe after robbery

6:16 AM | A man armed with a toy pistol locked two female employees in a safe yesterday after robbing their Mount Druitt pub, a police spokesman said.

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Funding jeopardised as hospital targets blown

3:00 AM | HOSPITAL doctors say they are unlikely to meet a new federal government target to admit or discharge emergency department patients within four hours, jeopardising millions of dollars of federal funding.

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Weekday slog a good reason for a free run

3:00 AM | LIKE so many great ideas its brilliance lies in its simplicity: a free five-kilometre timed run every Saturday morning in a local park run by volunteers open to all-comers.

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Winds down trees and power lines across city

3:00 AM | Winds of up to 100 kilometres an hour caused injury and widespread damage throughout Melbourne yesterday.

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Aussie icons now species in danger

3:00 AM | We are sentimental but no Australian brand is going to survive simply because it is Australian.

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Regulator helps David beat Goliath Google

3:00 AM | Australian entrepreneur Mark Bowyer has won a small but important victory against Google.

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Rinehart threatens to cancel ransom insurance for her children

3:00 AM | THE bitter battle between Gina Rinehart and her three eldest children has escalated, with Australia's richest person threatening to withdraw the ''ransom insurance policy'' she holds for the family unless they agree to keep details of the legal action private.

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No arrests yet over embassy invasion

3:00 AM | POLICE have made no arrests in relation to an attack on the Syrian embassy in Canberra, amid claims intruders were provoked by ''erroneous statements'' from the Australian government and media about events in Syria.

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Rudd faces grilling over executives held in Dubai

3:00 AM | THE Foreign Affairs Minister, Kevin Rudd, will face questions in Parliament tomorrow about whether he has done enough to help two Australian executives facing bribery charges in Dubai over a 2007 property deal.

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Filmmaker dies flying helicopter for new doco

3:00 AM | AN AUSTRALIAN screenwriter described as James Cameron's ''right-hand man'' was one of two filmmakers who died in a helicopter crash on Saturday near Berry on the NSW south coast.

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Family links strong in Australian cells

3:00 AM | FAMILY connections and friendships are at the core of the terrorist networks active in Australia over the past 12 years, a Monash University researcher has found.

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Westpac slow to pass on rate cuts

3:00 AM | WESTPAC home loan customers are still waiting - some up to four months - for the bank to pass on two pre-Christmas interest rate cuts. The bank says it is ''an opportunity for the customer to get ahead by paying more than they need to''.

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Poll throws Gillard a lifeline

3:00 AM | JULIA GILLARD has been handed a lifeline with the latest Herald/Nielsen poll showing support for the Prime Minister and her government increasing sharply.

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Rudd still leads Gillard but Labor voters reject change

3:00 AM | KEVIN RUDD has a healthy lead over Julia Gillard as preferred Labor leader, but among Labor voters Ms Gillard is ahead by a nose.

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Peace promoters hope to nip violent ideologies in the bud

3:00 AM | HAYDER SHKARA, at 21, is busy as a journalism-law student and the Australian welterweight taekwondo champion, but this year he is finding time to spread messages of peace, with federal government counterterrorism funding.

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Employment agency rorts investigated

3:00 AM | THE federal government has started an investigation into 14 employment agencies suspected of rorting its multibillion-dollar job assistance scheme, as evidence mounts of the long-running program being routinely abused.

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Gender salary gap improves as female graduates get ahead

3:00 AM | GENDER has been a sore point when it comes to starting salaries. Male graduates have tended to get more than their female counterparts, often for no apparent reason. But there are signs things may be changing, at least in some occupations.

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Well-off get more from health insurance rebate

3:00 AM | THE Health Minister, Tanya Plibersek, has revealed the disproportionate benefits better-off people get out of the health insurance rebate in a fresh bid to swing support for a means test.

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Invest in public schools - survey

3:00 AM | WITH the release of the review of school funding expected by the end of the month, the teacher's union has added public opinion to its calls for reform with a survey showing 70 per cent of Australians believe the federal government needs to invest more in public schools.

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