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4:00 AM AEDT | How can we save some of our most charismatic animals from extinction due to climate change? American biologist Camille Parmesan has a radical suggestion - move them. She talks to Suzanne Goldenberg.
4:00 AM AEDT | Don and Betty Draper, would no doubt approve; characters from the hit series Mad Men are to be immortalised in plastic. Mattel has announced it will create a limited-edition release of Barbie and Ken dolls to celebrate the Emmy Award-winning show about a fictional Madison Avenue advertising firm, Sterling Cooper, in the 1960s.
4:00 AM AEDT | A FORMER student is suing the exclusive The King's School after he was allegedly subjected to sexual assaults and daily beatings by fellow students.
4:00 AM AEDT | IN THE north-eastern corner of the Gladesville Hospital grounds, a former mental asylum once notorious for its crowded conditions and neglected inmates, is a nondescript plot where the corpses of more than 1000 former psychiatric patients lie.
4:00 AM AEDT | THE NSW government has been accused of putting people at risk from shoddy insulation work by advising occupants to conduct a do-it-yourself fire and electrocution risk assessment.
4:00 AM AEDT | STAGGERED school starting times have helped parents like Joy Poulos co-ordinate drop-off and pick-up times for children attending different schools.
4:00 AM AEDT | THE Opposition Leader, Barry O'Farrell, has pledged to put economic growth at the centre of a Coalition government plan to get NSW moving again.
4:00 AM AEDT | THE government and opposition have edged closer to a deal on changes to the youth allowance with the Deputy Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, agreeing to economic modelling on opposition amendments.
4:00 AM AEDT | PUBLIC hospitals which beat national standards on reducing patient waiting times will get bonus payments from the federal government, the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, has revealed.
4:00 AM AEDT | THE Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, now seems unlikely to meet another big election pledge - to introduce a national dental scheme.
4:00 AM AEDT | THE Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, has told the Senate to leave his proposed paid maternity leave scheme alone as the government mounts a concerted attack on increasing obstructionism in the nation's upper house
4:00 AM AEDT | BELINDA VASTA, 40, was still getting over the shock of her marriage breakdown when the pressure from Centrelink to find a job became intense. She had been a stay-at-home mother who had not worked in nine years. To support her two boys she depended on the single parenting payment.
4:00 AM AEDT | TAXPAYERS will pay up to $100 million to remove foil insulation or install electrical safety switches in 50,000 homes in a bid to fix the government's suspended insulation scheme.
4:00 AM AEDT | THE welfare-to-work reform implemented under the Howard government failed to achieve its objectives, leaving three of the four target groups - disability pensioners, the very long-term unemployed and mature-age unemployed - little or no better off, an official report shows.
4:00 AM AEDT | DAYS before the schoolyard fight that ended in Jai Morcom's death, the boys involved had brought spanners, chains and padlocks to the playground to win control of a disputed lunch table.
4:00 AM AEDT | FOR most of the year Ethabuka Reserve, which abuts the Simpson desert in the far corner of western Queensland, is a dry, hostile place.
4:00 AM AEDT | A LOVE of country music almost proved fatal for a wheelchair-bound Canadian man.
4:00 AM AEDT | THE chairman of the ABC, Maurice Newman, has again waded into the global warming debate, telling a collection of senior staff they had succumbed to ''groupthink'' in their reporting of climate change.
4:00 AM AEDT | HE is set to rewrite the textbooks.
4:00 AM AEDT | A COALITION split has emerged over Tony Abbott's threat to hold a referendum for a federal takeover of the Murray-Darling Basin, with the Nationals leader, Warren Truss, telling irrigators the move is not National Party policy and Nationals backbenchers publicly rejecting it.
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