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Experts warn of safety risks with mobility scooters for elderly

3:00 AM | FROM quick trips to the shops to longer commutes for medical appointments, motorised scooters have become an increasingly popular way for the elderly to stay mobile, but health experts warn they can also be deadly.

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Welcome mat rolled out on counterculture paradox

3:00 AM | PUNK'S anarchic ethos isn't usually associated with plush floor coverings. But that is part of Marco Fusinato's rationale in creating an art installation designed to challenge convention and spur viewers into questioning their assumptions.

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New war emerges, as seen on your television

3:00 AM | Ten years on from the premiere of 24, the American television series that made torture seem like a normal response to the problem of terrorism, we have Homeland, about a freed American POW, who may or may not have been "turned" by his al-Qaeda captors.

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Facebook can alienate people further - study

3:00 AM | Facebook can help you accumulate friends, but people with low self-esteem should watch their words.

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Student takes award for revealing submerged city's secrets

3:00 AM | MORE than 3500 years ago, before it disappeared under the waves, Pavlopetri was a thriving town in Greece.

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When a garbled message strikes fear into a publisher's heart

3:00 AM | Mike Taylor, editor of Money Management received an email that stopped him in his tracks.

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18-year-old males 'are most likely to offend'

3:00 AM | FRESH OUT of school and into a changing world, 18-year-old males are more likely to commit a crime than people of any other age or gender.

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Casino's new man linked to US inquiry

3:00 AM | THE STAR casino is preparing to import a US gaming executive, Mark Brown, who until recently ran one of the world's largest casinos, the Sands Macau, whose parent company is embroiled in a corruption inquiry.

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Strangers are not greatest danger

3:00 AM | CHILDREN are more likely to be assaulted by relatives or acquaintances than by strangers, says the commander of the NSW sex crimes squad.

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Heat on Skinner over sacking

3:00 AM | THE ability of the Health Minister, Jillian Skinner, to work with government boards has been questioned in a blistering letter from a leading Sydney businessman after her decision to sack Roger Corbett as the chairman of the Sydney Children's Hospitals Network.

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Covert evidence of cruelty halts abattoir

3:00 AM | A SYDNEY abattoir has stopped slaughtering and faces permanent closure and prosecution after video evidence of ''the worst case of animal cruelty'' emerged.

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Stealthy lift of rate for new mortgages

3:00 AM | THE ANZ has quietly lifted the mortgage rate it charges new customers.

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Memo states Defence role in death of Iraq prisoner

3:00 AM | THE United States refused to accept that Australia was not responsible for a man captured by the SAS in early 2003 who later died en route to a secret and possibly illegal prison, according to a US report into his death.

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Face in aspiring crowd has time on side in 'insular' world

3:00 AM | WYATT ROY plays politics as deftly as someone three times his age. When pressed on his ambitions in Canberra, he's careful not to blurt out the obvious.

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End to medical rebate will cost $1300 a year

3:00 AM | HIGH income earners face increased health cover payments - including up to $1300 extra a year for families - with the government poised to pass legislation to means-test the 30 per cent private health insurance rebate.

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Amnesty calls for more bridging visas as boats keep coming

3:00 AM | THE government has released 257 boat arrivals on bridging visas since its policy shift on detention, but in that time 1078 more asylum seekers have come ashore at Christmas Island.

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Higher earners losers in means-testing of rebate

3:00 AM | THE government estimates about 2 million people will lose some or all of their health insurance rebate under new measures estimated to generate $2.4 billion in government savings over three years. But it is justifying the move in the name of equity, as the losers will be single people and households on higher incomes.

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Call to put more diplomats in Asia

3:00 AM | A LEADING bank has warned that more Australian diplomats are needed in Asia to cope with a massive geopolitical transformation, as some local Chinese provinces will eventually have a bigger economy than that of Australia.

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Pilots were warned plane could drop from sky

3:00 AM | PILOTS flying a Qantas regional service with more than 100 passengers wrestled with shaking joysticks warning of an aerodynamic stall during two botched landing attempts at Kalgoorlie after they unwittingly programmed the flight computers with wrong data.

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Bid to speed up inspection of A380s

3:00 AM | AIRCRAFT engineers are demanding Qantas and other airlines speed up the inspection of their A380 fleets for wing cracks, saying the latest directive from the European air-safety regulator does not go far enough.

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