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Muggled out of his mind: Radcliffe turned up to Potter set drunk

6:53 AM | Daniel Radcliffe says he turned up to the Harry Potter set drunk, with many scenes where he was ‘‘dead behind the eyes’’.

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Train commuters to try a little less conversation

6:23 AM | TRAIN commuters travelling between Newcastle, the central coast and Sydney will soon be able to ride in ''quiet carriages'' where talking is discouraged.

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Bacchus Marsh drill site sparks protest

3:00 AM | The latest in a series of protests ends with the arrest of a man who chained himself to a drilling rig eight metres above the ground.

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It's all fare comment

3:00 AM | The city's diners are fired up - and they're not afraid to tell it like it is. Read what they had to say, then share your experiences both good and bad.

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Parents fight for right to manage child's gender

3:00 AM | THE parents of an 11-year-old child who was born a boy but identifies as a girl oppose statutory intervention.

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Backbenchers want dole payments lifted

3:00 AM | Lifting the dole should be a key focus of the Gillard government this year, backbenchers have told caucus.

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Rates must fall to put lid on the dollar

3:00 AM | The professional punters may be divided about which direction the Reserve Bank will jump today, but there are 107 good reasons why our central bank should cut interest rates again. All relate to the strength of the Aussie dollar.

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Jetstar viability at risk, warns Joyce

3:00 AM | QANTAS'S chief executive, Alan Joyce, has argued that proposed law changes aimed at limiting the ability to hire foreign-based flight crews will force its budget offshoot, Jetstar, to pull out of Darwin and Cairns.

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Body found in fridge linked to fatal crash

3:00 AM | A FIERY crash on the Great Western Highway on Saturday evening was just the beginning.

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Casino bosses warned of staff drug culture

3:00 AM | The gaming giant Tabcorp was warned of an alleged culture of drug and alcohol abuse among senior management at The Star casino.

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Did he or didn't he? Rudd denies asking powerbroker for help in hostile state

3:00 AM | Kevin Rudd has been accused of meeting a factional powerbroker in South Australia to shore up his numbers.

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Olyroos' London shot all but on ice

3:00 AM | AUSTRALIA are on the verge of not sending a football team to compete at the Olympics for the first time in 28 years after the Olyroos crashed to defeat against Uzbekistan in Tashkent on Sunday night.

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Coalition's Nauru costings linked to caterer

3:00 AM | The Coalition's ''secret'' costings on reopening an asylum seeker village on Nauru were provided by a logistics company.

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Health funds told to drop planned rises in premiums

3:00 AM | The Gillard government announces sweeping moves to rein in health insurance premium rises.

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Gillard aims to time it right as voters back race equality

3:00 AM | ALMOST two-thirds of voters support changing the constitution to recognise indigenous people as the first inhabitants of the land but the Prime Minister has warned the proposed referendum on the issue should be delayed until there was ''overwhelming bipartisan support''.

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Follow the leader - it's not a game

3:00 AM | IS THE Labor leadership issue a bizarre beat-up entirely confected by the news media? Certainly not. Is it an unstable and shifting situation, which may lead to a challenge, and which is notoriously difficult to report? Absolutely. Here are some of the dilemmas:

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Women want the chance to bend it like Beckham, headscarves and all

3:00 AM | MUSLIM Lakembaroos are free to wear the hijab when they take to the soccer field in club competitions in Sydney every week.

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Bank on it: punters support rate cut after weak sales

3:00 AM | A BETTING plunge on financial markets suggests an interest rate cut today is as good as certain after weak retail sales figures appearing to show the worst growth on record.

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Push to raise subsidies for students in rent crisis

3:00 AM | Three out of four students receiving youth allowance and Commonwealth rent assistance still live in housing stress.

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Child calls police after mother's suspicious death in unit

06 Feb 12 | Two children, aged three and five, were in a Sydney unit when their mother died in suspicious circumstances, say police.

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AFL games in Wagga? It's never going to happen

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