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Pip Courtney takes Landline's centre stage

5:00 AM | IT'S been almost 26 years since a young ABC cadet from Tasmania began her career in journalism and current affairs.

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Sewing his way to success

4:00 AM | GUNNEDAH isn’t the only town able to boast a fashion icon in model Miranda Kerr, with the spotlight recently turned on Moree’s up-and-coming fashion designer Dylan Cooper.

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‘We need farmers’

4:00 AM | GOVERNOR-General Quentin Bryce used her Australia Day address to highlight the importance of careers in agriculture and the vitality of farmers for all Australians.

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NFF welcomes broadband committment

11 Feb 12 | THE National Farmers’ Federation (NFF) has welcomed the announcement by the Prime Minister that two satellites will be built to deliver high speed broadband to regional and remote Australia.

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India’s rural crush

10 Feb 12 | STARVATION and suicide plagues India’s farmers and rural poor more severely today than it did prior to the country’s green revolution. |

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Fears flood-risk map will hit insurance cover

10 Feb 12 | A NATIONAL flood-risk map to be managed by the federal government will be used by insurers as a cover to raise premiums unnecessarily, according to consumer advocates. | Cotton cops a cropping | Australia key for food price ...

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Joyce battles floods at home

10 Feb 12 | QUEENSLAND Senator Barnaby Joyce has missed the start of federal parliament for 2012 to roll up his sleeves back home in the inland town of St George and help the local community battle devastating floods.

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Four Corners has Labor sides on edge

09 Feb 12 | KEVIN RUDD is refusing to grant an interview to the ABC's Four Corners program as both sides of the leadership divide grow increasingly paranoid about an upcoming episode about Mr Rudd and Labor. |

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Flood anger as disaster strikes again

09 Feb 12 | THE irate mayor of the flood-damaged Balonne Shire wants to know why State Government authorities turned their back on her region and failed to help prepare for this year's flood disaster. |

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Down came the rain and washed the spiders out

09 Feb 12 | IF you thought that white blanket across this road east of Moree was fog, think again. |

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Balonne’s bank buster

09 Feb 12 | FARMERS along the Narran, Culgoa, Bokhara and Birrie river systems in the State’s far north are preparing for what are expected to be among the biggest flows since European settlement. |

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Rural school buses run on empty

09 Feb 12 | SCHOOL bus contracts in rural South Australia are being granted to large companies, leaving small regional operators and drivers out of work. | Extra public transport for ... | Rural road speed reminder

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$620m NBN satellites to connect remotest towns

08 Feb 12 | The Gillard government has announced that the National Broadband Network will spend $620 million on two new satellites to connect some of Australia's most remote towns. |

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Audit finds errors on emissions

08 Feb 12 | JUST months before the carbon tax is introduced, an auditor's report has found that more than one in six major polluters has made ''significant errors'' when reporting its greenhouse emissions and energy use to the government. | AACo's 'green' abattoir punt | Carbon tax only a good start: ...

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Hawker makes a splash for MS

07 Feb 12 | TOMORROW the community of tiny outback town Hawker will get behind one of its own and a worthy cause as locals hit the pool to raise funds for the Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Society of South Australia and the Northern Territory. |

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Buyers beware supermarket tactics

06 Feb 12 | FRUIT and vegetable prices might be down due to increased supply and a supermarket price war, but shoppers beware: some more expensive items are lurking in the shopping trolley. | Discounting is the new retail ... | Big two begin tomato flinging

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US energy plans pinned on gas

05 Feb 12 | IN THE race to shore up energy certainty in the face of peak oil, vastly differing strategies are on the international table. |

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Farmers squeezed out of energy boon

04 Feb 12 | LANDHOLDERS should be capitalising on seismic changes in how we generate energy, Matthew Wright says, but instead they are being pushed aside. |

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Egremont keeps it simple

04 Feb 12 | THE lessons from life and nature are free but the consequences of not learning from them can be costly. | Good season underpins weaner sale | Island gets on kikuyu grass

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Thousands evacuated as floodwaters rise

03 Feb 12 | FLOODING has forced more than 2000 people from their homes in northern NSW and isolated 11,000 people, while Moree braces for its worst floods in 36 years.

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