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NewsMail Afternoon Edition Tue 18 Oct, 2011 Top Stories More Top Stories » Bat-wielding pensioner fights off intruders A 70-year-old pensioner armed himself with a baseball bat to fight off two burglars caught rifling through his gun safe in a Perth suburb. More » Telstra shareholders approve NBN deal Carbon tax repeal could cost millions Sydney buses withdrawn over safety concerns Shalit prisoner swap gets underway Inflation figures 'could trigger' rate cut News Ltd set to announce Australian paywall Serial paedophile jailed over hostel abuses Vat vandals drain NSW winery of $800k 100-year-old runner sets marathon record More Analysis » 'Name 10': the journalism of Andrew Bolt Recently Michael Kroger delivered an address to the Institute of Public Affairs in honour of Andrew Bolt. "It was Andrew Bolt who challenged Robert Manne to name just 10 members of the Stolen Generation, something Manne has yet to achieve," he said. Nothing I will ever write will make the slightest difference ... Bolt's 'Name 10' fabrication is now a settled part of contemporary right-wing mythology, a mythology fuelled by Bolt's factually dubious journalism on the Stolen Generations. More » Sailing into royal history Changing expectations of Aboriginal school attendance The anonymous man Occupy Everywhere is no Convoy of No Confidence Why the left should support Katter's Australian Party Migration policy is a mess, but that's not why Bowen should resign Hagfish haiku: a lesson in ugly politics Exporting carbon and hypocrisy: our big growth industry A story that tells us as much about Australia as Iran Just In More Just In » Skull found at construction site in Wembley A skull has been unearthed at a construction site in the Perth suburb of Wembley and police have been called in to determine if it is human. More » Sydney buses withdrawn over safety concerns Small-town USA rolls with economic punches News Ltd set to announce Australian paywall Serial paedophile jailed over hostel abuses Olympic Dam mine bill goes to SA Parliament Vat vandals drain NSW winery of $800k Solar racers out of smoke and chasing place in sun Young man jailed for mowing down father Elaine Nile dies after cancer fight World More World » Shalit prisoner swap gets underway Vehicles carrying Palestinian prisoners began leaving Israeli jails early on Tuesday (local time), starting a phased prisoner exchange meant to secure the release of abducted Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. More » Bangkok fighting losing battle against floods Kenyan troops push into rebel-held Somalia NTC flies flag over Bani Walid Stricken ship holding together in heavy seas Business More Business » Telstra shareholders approve NBN deal Telstra shareholders overwhelmingly back a plan to hand the telco's fixed-line copper network to the NBN in a vote at the company's annual general meeting. More » Inflation figures 'could trigger' rate cut Samsung seeks iPhone ban in Australia Time for half-measures is over: Swan Miners weigh on local markets German warning cools global shares Coalition carbon plan 'creating uncertainty' Obama hammers jobs plan on bus tour Qantas lying over plane groundings: union Overseas investment in Australia on the rise Politics More Politics » Olympic Dam mine bill goes to SA Parliament By Angelique Johnson Enabling legislation for a mining expansion at outback Olympic Dam has been introduced to the South Australian Parliament. More » MPs get redundancy package boost Eight killed in fierce Yemen clashes Billiard tables sale debacle costs $100k More Australians risk falling into poverty: report Sport More Sport » Wallabies 'care' about bronze play-off The Wallabies insist they want to come away with something to show from their flawed World Cup campaign and deeply care about winning this week's third place play-off with Wales. More » Helmet, Jimmy Choux drawn side-by-side Cummins buoyed by lofty expectations Packer accepts one-match ban O'Neill to call time in 2013 Science and Technology More Science and Technology » Solar racers out of smoke and chasing place in sun James Glenday They have dodged bushfires and road trains but the leading teams in the World Solar Challenge race between Darwin and Adelaide are about to reach the halfway mark at Alice Springs. More » Animals shrinking as Earth warms: researchers Samsung free to launch another tablet Court stops sale of Samsung tablets Black Death was mother of all plagues Environment More Environment » Key unsure of oil slick cost to economy By New Zealand correspondent Dominique Schwartz New Zealand's prime minister, John Key, says it is still too early to say how much the Rena shipwreck will cost the economy. More » Carbon tax repeal could cost millions Race to pump oil from stricken ship Fears grow for stricken NZ ship Aussies help rescue animals in NZ oil spill About this email You received this email because you are subscribed to ABC News email alerts. This message was sent to you at starnewsposting@gmail.com Please add newslists@your.abc.net.au to your email address book to see images by default and stop the email being treated as spam. This email address is not monitored - Please don't reply to this email. 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