The price you pay for being an Aussie

$A falls slightly on job losses Source: AAP COMPARED to Yanks, we shell out half as much again to fill our tanks. Shave or buy shoes and you'll lose. We're so expensive that the price Canadians pay for a pair of jeans at home would only buy...

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Firefighters killed by fallen tree

DSE firefighters tackled the fires in the Harrietville region this week. Picture: Simon Dallinger Source: Herald Sun TWO firefighters have died fighting a gigantic blaze in isolated bushland in northeastern Victoria. The Department of Sustainability...

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Australian woman's NYC rape horror

An Australian tourist was raped in a midtown Manhattan alley after exiting her taxi and being grabbed from behind by this man, according to New York police. Source: The Daily Telegraph AN Australian woman raped in New York City was attacked...

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Mad-cow countries can sell us their beef

Dutch and Croation beef has been cleared for importation to Australia. Source: Supplied AUSTRALIA has reopened the door to beef imports from Europe, a decade after banning meat from countries with a history of mad cow disease. Food Standards...

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Lovelorn Aussies being fleeced online

EXCLUSIVE: AUSTRALIANS have lost $23 million to dating scams in the past 12 months - an all-time high. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission will use Valentine's Day to reveal that in 2012 it received reports from 65 people who admitted...

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Traitorous plot to kill his brother

Brother accused of his murder ... William Metlej. Source: The Daily Telegraph A CONSTRUCTION worker has been accused of organising an assassination attempt on his brother after twice planting drugs in his house in the hope of having him arrested....

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Tony Abbott's bold water plan leaked

More like it to come? ... Warragamba Dam / Pic: Polair3 Source: The Daily Telegraph UP to 100 dams could be built across the country to prevent floods, fuel power stations and irrigate a food boom to feed 120 million people across the Asia...

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Woman invents ghost to keep house

A WOMAN claimed her family home was haunted in a bid to keep the price tag low enough that she could keep it in a divorce settlement. The wife, 52, told her husband, lawyers, a property valuer and a court a ghost had been seen at the property....

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