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No vote, no live telecast, but Eurovision still a huge draw

3:00 AM | AUSTRALIA, get ready to Light Your Fire, for that is the theme of Eurovision 2012, which promises to take over Azerbaijan, European television and a terrifying number of Australian bars and living rooms this weekend.

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Tram plans could drive commuters off the buses

3:00 AM | THOUSANDS of commuters would be forced off buses at a major new tram interchange at Central Station under early plans to revitalise Sydney's central business district and put a light rail line down George Street.

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Google's tiny tax bill in Australia alarms Turnbull

3:00 AM | GOOGLE has refused to explain why it paid just $74,176 in Australian tax last year, despite making an estimated $1 billion in revenue from the Australian market.

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Study takes worry out of childhood anxiety

3:00 AM | THERE was a time when 11-year-old Annaliese McGuirk was so crippled by anxiety that she would arrive at school in tears, the thought of being away from her parents and interacting with her classmates too much to bear.

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NSW cancer patients pay for bungle

3:00 AM | CANCER patients in NSW are caught in a bungle that means they pay up to $800 for life-saving chemotherapy drugs while those in other states pay less than $40.

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Sweet sorrow

3:00 AM | Megan Johnston wonders why sad songs and tragic tales make people feel so good.

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The actor and the artist: playing swapsies

3:00 AM | RACHEL GRIFFITHS has played many memorable roles on the screen. Her latest is on the home front, where she has swapped roles with her husband, the artist Andrew Taylor.

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Family still struggles to make sense of Milat murder

3:00 AM | Matthew Milat wanted to emulate his great-uncle, according to his victim's grandmother, writes Paul Bibby.

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Qantas leaves the bad news behind

3:00 AM | WHEN Alan Joyce steps aboard Boeing's flash new 787 Dreamliner in Sydney today for a joy flight, Qantas's boss will get a chance to show off the bright and glitzy future of the airline.

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Facebook loses friends over float flop

3:00 AM | A WEEK on from the ''biggest technology flotation'' in history, the party's over for Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's founder and chief.

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Labor closes ranks as Abbott calls on Thomson to resign

3:00 AM | THE government has accused the Opposition leader, Tony Abbott, of breaching the Crimes Act by suggesting Craig Thomson's wellbeing would be best served if the MP resigned from Parliament.

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Recent home buyers to find equity magic has vanished

3:00 AM | THE sluggish housing market has sparked predictions that the latest generation of home owners will be unable to rely on their home as a key source of higher wealth, as many baby boomers did.

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PM in the dark on Rinehart visa deal

3:00 AM | THE Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, was not consulted on a deal allowing Gina Rinehart to import more than 1700 foreign workers to help build a massive iron ore project in Western Australia.

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Judges rarely meet young in parenting disputes, says study

3:00 AM | AUSTRALIAN Family Court judges and magistrates rarely meet the children whose fate they are deciding and many are reluctant to do so, a new study shows.

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Henry honoured to join Reconciliation Australia board

3:00 AM | THE former Treasury secretary Ken Henry has accepted a seat on the board of Reconciliation Australia. Dr Henry is a special adviser to the Prime Minister leading the development of a white paper on Australia in the Asian century. He is also a director of National Australia Bank and executive chair of the institute of public policy at the Australian National University.

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Growing numbers show women are at home on the range

3:00 AM | THE industry that was to define a colonised Australia, shape its literature and populate its rural towns for well over a century began humbly.

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Funder shortlisted for PM's awards

3:00 AM | ANNA FUNDER has just been in Greece for a week and is living in New York, but the chances are she would like to be back in Australia as her debut novel, All That I Am, continues to rake in the honours.

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Gift of giving: children learn how to help those in need

3:00 AM | BULLYING and ridicule about her reading disabilities often drove Indigo Wallace-Knight to cry in her mother's arms during the first few years of primary school.

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Patrick White's rare first novel revived for a new audience

3:00 AM | AFTER 70 years, Patrick White's first novel is to see the light of day again. Happy Valley established the young Australian as one of the coming talents of the literary world when it appeared in the late 1930s. Praise poured down from London and New York critics. But White never allowed its republication.

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Ex-premier fires up over Canberra's Gonski snub

3:00 AM | ONE of the most prominent members of the Gonski review into school funding has broken her silence over the government's failure to act on the panel's recommendations, admitting she is disappointed and mystified.

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