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MALCOLM Turnbull's hopes of fighting off a Liberal rebellion over climate change to hold on to the Opposition leadership have been shattered by a poll showing a whopping 60 per cent of Australians are against Kevin Rudd rushing the Emissions Trading Scheme through parliament.

Ninety per cent of the methane that sheep produce is burped out. Map: Glen Innes 2370 Australian scientists are trying to lower the carbon footprint of the nation's livestock by selectively breeding sheep that emit less gas through burping.

Quote; Not since Henry Kissinger fled a team of LaRouche organizers, in the back of a delivery truck in New York City's Central Park in the early 1980s, has an obese fascist moved so fast to escape an angry crowd, as Al Gore did today in Chicago. Appearing at a bookstore in the downtown Loop, Gore was confronted by a team of demonstrators from a grass roots group called "We Are Change," as he was signing his latest fascist screed on the global warming swindle. Gore bolted from the bookstore, raced down an alley, jumped into a waiting car, and tried to speed off, with protesters chasing after him and banging on the car. Midwest LYM organizers, who were also on the scene to confront the global warming swindler, provided an eyewitness account of Fat Albert's flight of fear. http://rogersparkbench.blogspot.com/2009/11/al-gore-chased-from-chicago-book.html

Turnbull's lack of political skills has let him down. WHEN Malcolm Turnbull was head of the Australian Republican Movement, he was confident his ambition to see an end to the constitutional monarchy was an idea whose time had come.

Five years ago, when Australia decided it was time to reduce Test series against West Indies from five matches to three, some stalwarts were offended.

Jeremy Hart teeing off at Hole 6 on Nullarbor Links golf course. From here to the red flag fluttering in the scrub it is only 175m a bit longer than a football pitch.

Three years ago, Production Parts landed an $80 million contract with the US joint strike fighter program Map: Melbourne 3000 Manufacturing has taken a hit during the global financial crisis but the aerospace industry continues to land contracts worth tens of millions of dollars.

Police say a seven-month, three-staged investigation has uncovered two highly organised corruption rings working within the department.

FIRE skipper Chris Gayle last night blasted the West Indies' capitulation to Australia at the Gabba as a "disaster". The tourists last night slumped to a humiliating defeat inside three days, with unheralded bowlers Tasmanian Ben Hilfenhaus and Nathan Hauritz giving Australia first blood with victory by an innings and 65 runs.

Crowds have gathered in Australian cities calling for marriage equality after a bill to endorse gay unions was rejected by the Senate.

Papua New Guinea has criticised the United States's "irresponsible" and "unacceptable" climate change policy at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting .

Police say it has been a relatively quite start for Schoolies from New South Wales and Victoria celebrating on the Gold Coast.

The opposition leader accused the "hard right" critics within the Liberal Party of waging a climate change war that could destroy the party, but declared "I will win on Tuesday". "I am unbowed," he told Channel 9, adding opposition treasury spokesman Joe Hockey had pledged his support on Saturday night.

A professor at the University of Sydney who wrote a scathing essay about NSW Health's implementation of a Cerner system within emergency departments has accused the government of pressuring his institution to take the essay down, which it did, if only temporarily.

Bravo to the Liberal leader for trying to act on climate change. Who could possibly have thought that the Liberal Party would tear itself apart through such violent disagreement on climate change? This is a complete no-brainer. Three years ago, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, of all people, put his finger on it when he said: "Der debate ...

When Gavin Larkin was 26 he and his brothers experienced a shocking loss. Their father took his own life at the age of 55.

A TASMANIAN seafood company is at the centre of a dispute that has landed an Australian skipper in jail in Indonesia.

Dozens of revellers have been caught with drugs at a dance festival in Sydney's Moore Park.

A BABY boy has drowned in a backyard pool in central western NSW. Police said that doctors from Gulgong Hospital contacted them about 8.20pm on Saturday to advise them a one-year-old boy had been brought in by paramedics and had subsequently died.

The New South Wales Rural Fire Service is hoping kinder weather conditions will help it get the upper hand on several major fires burning across the state today.