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January 26, 2012: Canberra, ACT. Aboriginal rights protesters outside a function attended by Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. Published: The Daily Telegraph - January 27, 2012 Page: 2 Edition: ST Keywords: politics / politicians / civil unrest / violent demonstrations / security breach / HL0412
Mob doesn't speak for us, say indigenous leaders

MAINSTREAM indigenous leaders have condemned activists from Canberra's Aboriginal tent embassy who led an angry mob to besiege Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott in a nearby restaurant yesterday. The activists responsible for the melee had targeted the Opposition Leader, accusing him of inciting racial tensions by saying that it was time to ``move on'' from the embassy, established 40 years ago yesterday as a symbol of the struggle for Aboriginal rights. Police and the Prime Minister's security detail were forced to escort the two leaders through the crush of 200 protesters outside the Australia Day function at the Lobby restaurant, with Ms Gillard stumbling as she was dragged, ashen-faced, through the angry throng.
January 26, 2012: Canberra, ACT. Federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott takes part in the Great Swim Series 2.2km swim around Sydney Harbour in Sydney, New South Wales on Australia Day. Published: The Australian - January 27, 2012 Page: 4 Edition: AF Keywords: politicians / swimming / sports events / national days / HL0412
A sunburnt, wet and windswept country

WE were soaked in northern NSW, baked in Perth and blown across Darwin. On a summer's day of extremes, the best weather was to be had in Melbourne, turning on their head all those jokes that have been told since Federation. For a nation that is determined to celebrate Australia Day outdoors, it was a reminder of how fickle our surrounds can be.In ceremonies around the country, 13,700 people from 143 countries became citizens with solemn pledges and soft lamingtons. The largest intake was at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, where about 1700 newly minted Australians were encouraged by electoral commission officers to enrol to vote ahead of the Queensland state election. Where the Prime Minister chose for her formal duties an elegant, wide-brimmed hat, Tony Abbott cut a familiar figure in swimming cap and togs, as he plunged into Sydney Harbour next to the Opera House with other entrants for a 2.2km race.
January 25, 2012: Brisbane, QLD. Queensland Premier Anna Bligh poses during a photo shoot in her office at the Executive Building in Brisbane, Queensland after announcing to the media the date of the upcoming state election on 24/03/2012. Published: The Australian - January 26, 2012 Page: 6 Edition: AC Keywords: politics / politicians / state government / posing / portraits / half length / HL0412
Labor team to be put in place today

ANNA Bligh's election team will be finalised at an ALP meeting today as both parties gear up for the Queensland campaign. Candidates will be selected for more than 10 electorates held by the Liberal National Party and independents, with nominations called for the Labor-held outer Brisbane seat of Mt Ommaney after incumbent Julie Attwood announced her retirement from politics An extraordinary meeting of the party's administrative committee will endorse the remaining candidates for the non-Labor seats. Electorates to be officially filled today include the western Queensland seats of Callide and Warrego, and the Gold Coast electorates of Currumbin and Surfers Paradise.
January 25, 2012: Brisbane, QLD. Leader of the Queensland LNP Campbell Newman poses during a photo shoot in his office at Spring Hill in Brisbane, Queensland after Premier Anna Bligh announced the date of the upcoming state election on 24/03/2012. Published: The Australian - January 26, 2012 Page: 7 Edition: AC Keywords: politics / politicians / state government / posing / portraits / half length / HL0412
Would-be premier will feel blowtorch

THERE was a point in Campbell Newman's military career when he applied for leave and wrote the reason as ``executive burnout -- well it's smouldering!'' The son of Liberal politicians would later leave the army to work in the private sector before becoming the popular lord mayor of Brisbane. In his seven years at City Hall, Newman battled an initially Labor-dominated council, took on major infrastructure projects and, finally, in a crazy-brave moment, resigned last year to become the Liberal National Party leader-designate. But nothing Newman has experienced will compare to the next two months, when his leadership will be put under the blowtorch, the heat on the LNP forging what is likely to be the next government.
January 26, 2012: Melbourne, VIC. (L-R) Roger Federer of Switzerland shakes hands with Rafael Nadal of Spain after losing their men's singles semi finals match on Day 11 of the 2012 Australian Open Tennis Championships at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Victoria. Keywords: international sport / tennis tournaments / grand slam / half length / HL0412
Nadal back from injury to ruin Federer's plans

LESS than two weeks ago, Rafael Nadal wasn't even sure whether he'd be able to contest the Australian Open. Now the world No.2 is just one win away from claiming the championship after relying on sheer aggression to blast past great rival Roger Federer in four enthralling sets last night. Rushed to hospital for scans after aggravating his knee injury when getting up from a hotel chair on tournament eve, Nadal was left standing tallest after overpowering the Swiss maestro 6-7 (5) 6-2 7-6 (5) 6-4. Nadal couldn't extend his right leg 24 hours before his first round encounter, but a combination of guts and round-the-clock physio have lifted him to the brink of an 11th career grand slam title. ``If you told me (I'd be in the final) two Sundays ago, I couldn't imagine that,'' Nadal said last night. ``It's a dream to be back in the final.''
January 26, 2012: Gold Coast, QLD. A police vehicle outside the home of tennis player Bernard Tomic after Tomic was stopped and fined for driving his orange BMW on a restricted license on the Gold Coast in Queensland. Keywords: sports personalities / driving offences / sports cars / HL0412
A Tomic spit over harassment claim

TEEN tennis ace Bernard Tomic allegedly accused police of harassing him yesterday because ``you think I'm not Australian''. The 19-year-old was pulled over three times while driving his $150,000 orange BMW on the Gold Coast before an extraordinary stand-off with officers at his home. Tomic was twice fined $300 but refused to stop a third time and was followed to his luxury Southport home by a patrol car with its siren blaring and lights flashing.But when police tried to stop him a third time, he drove home and locked himself inside, calling former Gold Coast mayor Lex Bell for assistance. Within minutes television and radio stations were broadcasting live from his home as a face-off with police began. P-platers are not allowed to drive high-powered cars and Tomic has previously been pulled over for allegedly breaching special conditions allowing him to drive his V8 only to and from training. He is still to be interviewed about hooning complaints made late last year.
January 25, 2012: Canberra, ACT. Jessica Watson, solo round-the-world yachtswoman and current Young Australian of the Year for 2011, poses during a photo shoot in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory ahead of the 2012 Australian of the Year Awards. Published: The Australian - January 26, 2012 Page: 9 Edition: AC Keywords: awards and prizes / sailors / posing / portraits / full length / HL0412
Jessica turns her horizon to voting

Round-the-world sailor Jessica Watson, 18, who is today awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia, says lowering the voting age to 16 would give youth a voice. The former Young Australian of the Year -- honoured for her services to youth and sailing -- was in Canberra yesterday, almost two years after returning from her nine-month circumnavigation of the globe as a 16-year-old.
January 26, 2012: Sydney, NSW. Fans watch Frenzal Rhomb perform live on stage during the 2012 Big Day Out music festival at Homebush in Sydney, New South Wales. Keywords: live music / concerts / gigs / live shows / fans / crowd shots / HL0412
We danced in the rain

THE weather was decidedly un-Australian but nothing could rain on the parade.The teens, twentysomethings and young at heart headed to the Sydney Showgrounds for the 20th Big Day Out. More than 47,000 music fans streamed through the gates from 11am for the all-day festival which featured dozens of rock, pop, dance and hip hop acts including Kanye West, Noel Gallagher, The Living End and Hilltop Hoods.
January 25, 2012: Adelaide, SA. Australian cricketers Michael Clarke and Ricky Ponting return to the field after the lunch break during Day 2 of the fourth Australia v India Test match at Adelaide Oval in Adelaide, South Australia. Keywords: test cricket / batsman / batting / international cricket / HL0412
Clarke's men to show no mercy

THE hands of the 100-year-old clock at the Adelaide Oval read 3.58 when Michael Clarke finally called a halt to the Australian innings yesterday, but for the bone-weary Indian fieldsmen it felt more like two minutes to midnight. As the afternoon had worn on and their brains slowly fried in the blazing South Australian sun, it almost seemed to the delirious Indians that Kenneth Milne, designer of the historic scoreboard, had peered a century into the future and foreseen their predicament when he made allowances for a fourth box to record the total. In 70 Adelaide Tests, never more than three-figure boxes had been required -- 674 being the highest score recorded at the ground, by Don Bradman's side against India in 1948. But if the ruthless mood Clarke displayed while batting carried over to his captaincy, there was every chance he wouldn't declare until Australia had reached 1000.
January 24, 2012: Sydney, NSW. Actress and Australia Day Ambassador Kate Ritchie poses during a photo shoot at Vaucluse House in Sydney, New South Wales. Keywords: celebrities / actors / national days / posing / portraits / full length / HL0412
Aussies, let us rejoice

HER RM Williams boots were made for talking and on Australia Day, Kate Ritchie thinks we all need ``a good kick up the backside to remember how great we've got it''. Such fighting words aren't what you'd expect from one of TV's nicest leading ladies, but the former Home & Away star is taking her latest cheerleading role -- as an Australia Day spokeswoman -- seriously. As someone who grew up on the small screen juggling school and the hurdles of teen fame, Ritchie says she is grateful for the opportunities this nation has given her. Born in Goulburn and raised in Campbelltown, she befriended the boarders at her agricultural high school and was given a window into the rural Aussie lifestyle. ``I would go to stay on their farms in Taralga and Condobolin, then go to work and be up at Palm Beach at 5am watching the sunrise,'' Ritchie said.

 

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Flood challenge still remains

A YEAR ago most Australians were stunned by shocking images of the flash-flooding in Toowoomba and the Lockyer Valley, and the death and destruction visited upon those communities. What's more, Queenslanders were bracing themselves for the arrival of floodwaters in the heart of Brisbane. That flooding was not as brutal or deadly but caused extensive damage and hardship. In floods, storms and cyclones across the Sunshine State last summer at least 35 people died, many lost loved ones, and thousands lost their homes and livelihoods, but Queensland did not lose its spirit or its hope. Even south of the Tweed and across the Aussie Rules states, people understood the pride and defiance of Queensland Premier Anna Bligh's emotional declaration at the time: ``We are Queenslanders, we're the people that they breed tough, north of the border.''