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Auditor's report on emissions errors a blow to green dream

3:00 AM | JUST months before the carbon tax is introduced, an auditor's report has found more than one in six major polluters has made ''significant errors'' when reporting its greenhouse emissions and energy use to the government.

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Kalajzich prepares for first taste of freedom

3:00 AM | ANDREW KALAJZICH will walk from jail today into a world he barely recognises, 25 years after he was convicted for murdering his wife, Megan.

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Launchers on loose: still searching but no sign of lost rockets

3:00 AM | POLICE and security agencies still have no idea of the whereabouts of nine rocket launchers that fell into the hands of a murderer, a drug ring boss and, allegedly, a terrorist cell leader, after an army captain stole them from a NSW military ammunition store a decade ago.

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Payouts to falsely jailed up by $1m

3:00 AM | THE NSW Police Force was forced to pay out more than $5 million to compensate people it had falsely imprisoned and assaulted last financial year.

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Sacked casino boss faces deportation after temporary business visa cancellation

3:00 AM | THE sacked former managing director of The Star casino, Sid Vaikunta, was employed on a temporary business visa, meaning he and his wife, Malavika, are likely to be forced to leave Australia within weeks.

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Don't give Gillard any free kicks, says Abbott

3:00 AM | TONY ABBOTT has told his MPs that only Coalition ill-discipline can save Labor and Julia Gillard, urging his side to avoid unnecessary fights over principle.

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Majority of O'Shane decisions overturned in Supreme Court appeals

3:00 AM | SENIOR judges have been criticising the magistrate Pat O'Shane for more than a decade, upholding 88 per cent of Supreme Court appeals against her judgments in criminal matters and ordering half of them to be reheard by other magistrates.

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Growing alarm over child porn epidemic

3:00 AM | CHILD pornography use has reached epidemic proportions in Australia, as paedophiles increasingly record themselves molesting children before swapping the images with other abusers, federal police have warned.

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Why forecasters can be wrong when a cut feels so right

3:00 AM | TO UNDERSTAND why so many economists - 24 out of 27 - got it wrong in tipping the Reserve Bank would cut interest rates yesterday, you need to know a bit more about the forecasting business.

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Indonesia tweeters fly in the face of censorship law

3:00 AM | JAKARTA: After pulling the plug on more than a million online porn sites, Indonesia's Communications Minister, Tifatul Sembiring, has now set his sights on Twitter.

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Threat of rate rise as Reserve holds the line

3:00 AM | DENIED an interest rate cut, mortgage holders may soon be hit by a rate rise as the ANZ Bank prepares to announce an interest rate move independent of the Reserve Bank.

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MPs recall Sir Zelman's wisdom, healing touch

3:00 AM | WISDOM, greatness and a special ability to heal a divided nation after Gough Whitlam's sacking in 1975. That was how MPs remembered the former governor-general Sir Zelman Cowen in Parliament yesterday.

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Launchers on loose: still searching but no sign of lost rockets

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Katter's power plan still on table

3:00 AM | THE Gillard government is keeping open the prospect of a $335 million grant for Queensland independent Bob Katter's CopperString power project, even though it has failed a key requirement for the funding.

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Hearing for trio tried in Lebanon for jihadist links

3:00 AM | THREE Australian men convicted of terrorism-related offences in Lebanon a little more than a year ago are to have their appeals heard in the military court in Beirut in April, according to the latest advice given to the federal government.

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We can't abandon refugees, says architect

3:00 AM | STAKEHOLDERS in a failing Australian taxpayer-funded refugee resettlement project in Afghanistan should have asked more questions about the siting of its $8 million housing estate, one of its former United Nations' managers says.

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Coalition defends asylum centre costing

3:00 AM | THE opposition immigration spokesman, Scott Morrison, has defended his use of an international catering and logistics company to provide costings for an asylum seeker centre on Nauru.

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Stranger danger and traffic biggest worries for city parents

3:00 AM | ONLY 40 per cent of city parents think it is safe for their primary-school-aged children to go to school on their own, a study has found, with parental fears about ''stranger danger''and road safety the main deterrents.

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Sport chiefs want legal change over Optus ruling

3:00 AM | THE chiefs of Australia's biggest sporting codes have used their considerable clout to push the Prime Minister and senior ministers for urgent changes to copyright law following a court ruling allowing Optus to broadcast delayed video of matches on its mobile phone network.

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