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• Sacha Baron Cohen’s ‘Dictator’ in Australia to meet ‘Slippery Pete’

  

  Admiral General Aladeen, from fictional country the Republic of Wadiya, has arrived in Australia with plans to meet Prime Minister Julia Gillard and offer beleaguered politician Peter Slipper a job.

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• John Howard predicts Kevin Rudd will roll Julia Gillard

  

  Former prime minister John Howard predicts Prime Minister Julia Gillard will be rolled by her predecessor Kevin Rudd before the next election.

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• Australian billionaire Clive Palmer plans to build Titanic II

  

  Mining magnate Clive Palmer has floated plans to build a fleet of world class luxury liners, including a 21st-century version of the Titanic.

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• Palmer makes titanic bid for government

  

  Queensland mining magnate Clive Palmer wants to take on Treasurer Wayne Swan in his inner Brisbane seat of Lilley as calls for an early election intensify.

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• KFC ordered to pay $8m to Australian Twister victim

  

  KFC has been ordered to pay $8 million damages after a judge found a Sydney girl was left severely brain damaged after eating a Twister chicken wrap.

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• Anzac Day Centenary: 2015 Year of Turkey in Australia

  

  To mark the centenary of Anzac Day, 2015 has been named the Year of Turkey in Australia by Prime Minister Julia Gillard.

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• Chopper reveals he has cancer on Twitter

  

  Infamous Australian criminal, Mark “Chopper” Read reveals to the world he has cancer via Twitter.

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• Australia not safe for Chinese students

  

  Concerns have emerged for the safety of Chinese students in Australia after two Chinese men were assaulted in a robbery in Sydney.

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• Young Aussies drink enough to be experts

  

  If young people devoted as much time to their professions as they did to drinking, they would be leaders in their fields, a lobby group says.

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• Aussies honour the Anzacs – new and old

  

  ANZAC DAY | As Prime Minister Julia Gillard honoured the original Anzacs at Gallipoli, Australians at home wept for the new Anzacs.

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• It ‘pays’ to have sex whilst working

  

  A public servant has been awarded compensation for injuries received while having sex on a work trip.

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• Giant snake-eating spider snapped in Cairns

  

  Incredible photos: A frighteningly large neighbourhood spider captured eating a tree snake.

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• Men at Work’s ‘zany’ member Greg Ham dies

  

  Men at Work’s Greg Ham is being remembered for more than just his best-known flute riff.

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• An economy to chew your arm off for: PM

  

  PRIME Minister Julia Gillard says it is right to bring the budget back to surplus when the economy is growing at a rate that leaders around the world would “cheerfully chew their right arms off” to have.

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• ‘Dickhead’ Guy Pearce says sorry to Canberra

  

  Australian actor Guy Pearce has apologised to Canberra for being “such a dickhead’’ after making derogatory comments on an American talk show.

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• PM Julia Gillard to visit Gallipoli, Singapore

  

  PRIME Minister Julia Gillard will mark Anzac Day at Gallipoli this year, as part of a week-long international visit to Turkey and Singapore.

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• Hamish Blake unaware of Gold Logie leak

  

  COMEDIAN was unaware the winner of the Gold Logie had been leaked and said he was genuinely surprised when his name was read out.

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• Madame Tussauds opens in Sydney

  

  KEITH URBAN, Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Croc Dundee are personalities you might not expect to see sharing the same stage.

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• Spying on activists, ASIO under fire

  

  Reports ASIO has been feeding the Australian Labor Party intelligence on mining protesters has sparked outrage among the Greens, adding strain to their already uneasy ties with the ALP.

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• Australia’s Bald Archy bedpans pollies

  

  Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott have never looked so low, their faces pictured in bedpans in the winning Bald Archy artwork.

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