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After Rupert – welcome to the game of thrones at News Corp

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It seems like only yesterday that Rupert Murdoch and son James were fronting up for News Corp executive management at the UK House of Commons culture select committee, dodging comedy cream pies from protesters and struggling to explain how the phone-hacking which destroyed the News Of The World and the company’s potentially...

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Ambassador's return to Indonesia shows his recall was futile

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imageAustralia's ambassador to Indonesia Paul Grigson (right) returned to Indonesia this week.AAP/Aaron Bunch

Five weeks after the executions of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, the Australian government has sent its recalled ambassador to Indonesia, Paul Grigson, back to Jakarta.

The Indonesian government had anticipated any diplomatic fallout from the...

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Killing cats, rats and foxes is no silver bullet for saving wildlife

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imageStoats (_Mustela erminea_), feral cats (_Felis catus_), red foxes (_Vulpes vulpes_) and black rats (_Rattus rattus_) are invasive predators in different parts of the world.Clockwise from top left: Sabec/commons.wikimedia.org (CC BY-SA 3.0); T Doherty; CSIRO/commons.wikimedia.org (CC BY 3.0); 0ystercatcher/Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

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