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National Gallery pays $8m for Hustler centrefold

[Edition 38] CANBERRA, Monday: The National Gallery of Australia has purchased a rare back-issue centrefold from the US magazine Hustler, as part of its ongoing commitment to acquiring lesser-known pornography.
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Nitschke’s euthanasia ship hits iceberg, delights passengers

[Edition 37] DARWIN, Monday: Euthanasia fanatic Dr Philip Nitschke has claimed that his new cruise ship will become the new choice for aged travel. Nitschke has released plans to purchase a Dutch ship which will be able to legally carry out euthanasia in international waters as soon as the Netherlands parliament legalises euthanasia. Nitschke claims…
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Non-trendy gay man has average time at Mardi Gras

“I’d rather be at home though.”
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Melbourne’s free paper war intensifies: Fairfax to launch free novels for pretentious commuters

[Edition 33] MELBOURNE, Tuesday: The Fairfax Group has announced plans to hand out free novels on trains and trams, in a bid to claim a larger share of Melbourne’s competitive commuter market. The company hopes to capture a monopoly on pretentious commuters, who like to hold up impressive, highbrow books while travelling to work.
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Howard claims duty free booze ‘pretty much balanced up the cost of Centenary trip’

[Edition 25] CANBERRA, Wednesday: Prime Minister John Howard has launched a scathing attack on critics of his overseas trip celebrating the Centenary of the Federation of Australia. Releasing figures from Treasury Mr Howard has claimed that the trip was ‘pretty much revenue neutral’.
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Aussie transmitters to broadcast Christian messages to Asia, Muslims to retaliate with Cat Stevens

DARWIN, Sunday: The Australian Government has leased a former Radio Australia transmitter near Darwin to a British Christian fundamentalist group called Christian Voice. The group plans to use the transmitter to broadcast their Christian message to a predominantly Islamic South-East Asia, an area renown for religious tension. But Indonesia’s Muslim President Wahid has vowed to…
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Outback tragedy: 60 children dead after Qantas forgets to collect youth choir

ALICE SPRINGS, Tuesday: Tragedy has struck the desert this week, after the entire Australian Youth Choir was left stranded in the desert by Qantas airways due to a scheduling error. The death of the choir is just the latest in a series of setbacks for the beleaguered airline, with the youth choir having already been…
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‘Ralph’ employees sacked for downloading positive images of women

[Edition 20] MELBOURNE, Wednesday: Following the dismissal of 27 Telstra employees last week for downloading hardcore pornography on their work computers, Ralph magazine sacked five employees yesterday for downloading positive images of women.