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NewsMail Afternoon Edition Tue 25 Sep, 2012 Top Stories More Top Stories » Forensic team searches home of missing ABC worker Forensic police and homicide detectives have searched the home missing ABC employee Jill Meagher shares with her husband in Melbourne. More » Timber company Gunns in administration Explosion sparks blaze at Qld industrial plant Drunk Irishman fined over 'stupid' attack on MP Woman, girl missing after boat capsizes in NSW Abbott unveils plan to boost defence spending Travel, printing cuts to help save $550m Court hears terror accused had bomb formula MP porn charges case to prompt legal review Priest accused of abuse cover up terminally ill More Analysis » Let's free up the private world of public servants To this day, the quickest way to freak out a public servant is to ring him or her on a direct line. Those who don't immediately hang up in terror will make it clear they are not authorised to speak. In a world marked by the democratisation of information, the barriers between public servants and journalists remain stubbornly inviolate. Why should a vast wealth of knowledge and expertise, amassed at considerable public expense, not be freely available wherever necessary to improve the standard of public debate? More » UN victory within sight PR disasters and the fraught subject of Islam A crackdown on illegal immigrants. Interested? Anyone? Labor dogged by the big issues Defending multiculturalism is in all our interests The fictional universe of the spiritual illuminati Are ministerial advisers really the villains here? Multiculturalism: a principled work in progress Whose eyes are in the skies? Just In More Just In » Woman, girl missing after boat capsizes in NSW A woman and a four-year-old girl are missing after a boat capsized on the Gwydir River, in western NSW. More » Forensic team searches home of missing ABC worker Police officer loses assault compensation fight Explosion sparks blaze at Qld industrial plant Drunk Irishman fined over 'stupid' attack on MP RBA warns Australia exposed to Asia vulnerabilities Court hears terror accused had bomb formula Abbott unveils plan to boost defence spending Timeline: The rise and fall of Gunns Man on double murder charge World More World » Ex-Israeli PM spared jail in corruption case An Israeli court has spared former prime minister Ehud Olmert a prison term for breach of trust, opening the door to a political comeback if he should want one. More » Obama offers himself up as 'eye candy' 5,000 police sent in to quell iPhone factory brawl Marines face court martial over corpse urination Hopes fade for climbers buried in Nepal avalanche Business More Business » Timber company Gunns in administration The Tasmanian timber company Gunns has gone into voluntary administration, after losing the support of its bankers. More » RBA warns Australia exposed to Asia vulnerabilities IMF chief urges Europe, US to boost growth Foxconn factory opens after riot Politics More Politics » Abbott unveils plan to boost defence spending By chief political correspondent Simon Cullen Tony Abbott has promised to "properly" index military pensions in the first year of a Coalition government along with an aspiration to eventually boost real growth in defence spending. More » Travel, printing cuts to help save $550m Obama offers himself up as 'eye candy' MP porn charges case to prompt legal review Senate to begin power price inquiry Sport More Sport » Hodge set to return for GF Hawks captain Luke Hodge is confident he is all but over a stomach virus, which threatened to derail his grand final campaign. More » Storm confident Waqa will play grand final Swans peaking at right time: Kennedy Ennis not focused on personal battle Sheens hasn't quit, say Tigers Del Piero's planned debut scrapped Science and Technology More Science and Technology » Turnbull launches survey to inform NBN priorities The Federal Opposition is launching a survey to help a future Coalition government decide which areas to prioritise for faster broadband services. More » Endeavour lands in LA after final flight Dead fish test among spoof Nobel winners Breakthrough fast-tracks Hendra test results Cancer in rats reignites GM food debate Environment More Environment » Orica charged over mercury vapour release Chemical company Orica Australia is again being prosecuted for breaching a pollution licence at one of its plants, this time in southern Sydney. More » Arctic sea ice melts to lowest recorded level Company to fight super trawler ban Irrigators plot High Court water fight Japan to phase out nuclear power by 2040 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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