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                    [Title] => Australian senator claims parliament assault, says not a 'safe place' for women
                    [Summary] => In a tearful Senate address, independent Lidia Thorpe said she had been subjected to "sexual comments", cornered in a stairwell, "inappropriately touched" and "propositioned" by "powerful men".
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                    [Title] => Australian senator accuses police of 'assault'
                    [Summary] => Cell phone footage of the incident showed Thorpe trying to burst past police officers toward the protest and being dragged back by a male officer.
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                    [Title] => Australia capital airport closed as bushfires flare anew
                    [Summary] => Bushfires near the Australian capital Canberra forced the city's airport to close on Thursday, as passenger flights were halted to make way for aircraft working to extinguish the blazes, authorities said.
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                    [Title] => 1.2 million Australian Christmas lights set record
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Lawyer David Richards assembled the Canberra light show with the help of an army of volunteers and powers it with electricity donated by a local power company.

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Tony Abbott has been sworn in as Australia's new prime minister 11 days after he led his conservative opposition to a crushing election victory.

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 Firefighters have gained control over a factory fire that billowed toxic smoke across Australia's national capital, Canberra. The plume closed many schools and two people required medical treatment minor smoke inhalation.

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CANBERRA (AP) – Australia's army has started shooting 6,000 kangaroos to thin their population on an army training ground near the capital, an official said Friday, outraging conservationists who have vowed to protest.

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CANBERRA (AP) - The doctor charged in Australia in connection to the failed British terrorist plot was kept in custody Monday after the government invoked immigration laws to keep him behind bars despite a magistrate's ruling granting him bail.

Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews told reporters in Canberra, the national capital, that he had canceled the working visa of Mohamed Haneef on suspicion that he had links to criminals and said he would soon be taken into immigration custody.
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"We have to play hardball. The general policy is to place national interest before anything else. It should be tit for tat," Angara said.

He said filing a case with the World Trade Organization (WTO) is futile.
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