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09 Feb 10 | Red Bend Catholic College staff and students recognised the school's top academic achievers of 2009 recently...
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09 Feb 10 | Forbes lawn bowlers Brian Asimus and Scott Andrews have won the District Pairs title, played at Parkes...
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An insider's view: David Wilson should have been saved
09 Feb 10 | Former Labor foreign minister Gareth Evans is the key to the truth on why the Keating government wasted five chances to bring kidnapped Australian David Wilson home alive from Cambodia in 1994.
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