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Mental illness in men costs $3b, says report

3:00 AM | MENTAL ILLNESS in young men costs the Australian economy more than $3 billion per annum, a new report to be launched by the minister for mental health today reveals.

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Wig maker's hair-raising transition

3:00 AM | Louise Rinaldi has worked on some famous follicles, even of the underarm variety.

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Fashionistas captivated by Gucci's artisan assembly line

3:00 AM | IN CHADSTONE'S glossy Gucci boutique, a glamorous young woman is cooing over a half-made handbag.

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Champion boxer struggled with drugs and mother's murder

3:00 AM | Johnny Tapia - an American prizefighter who won world titles in three weight classes in a chaotic life that included jail, struggles with mental illness, suicide attempts and five times being declared clinically dead as a result of drug overdoses - was found dead at his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on Sunday. He was 45.

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Study shows nation's economic resilience

3:00 AM | MOST Australians were better off after the global financial crisis than they had been before it, a new study shows. Fewer were missing out on the essentials of life and more were feeling satisfied with their financial situation.

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New laws criminalise slave practices

3:00 AM | FORCED marriage, labour and organ trafficking are the targets of new laws being proposed by the federal government to clamp down on ''slavery-like'' practices.

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Some facts on Roy Hill deal, but lots of secrecy

3:00 AM | THE heated political debate has been full of opinions about the Enterprise Migration Agreement between the government and Gina Rinehart's Roy Hill project, but few facts.

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Labor sets up team to look after foreign worker deals

3:00 AM | A FEDERAL cabinet committee which counts the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, as a member will oversee the implementation and operation of Enterprise Migration Agreements, which allow mining barons such as Gina Rinehart to import foreign workers to help construct giant projects.

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Anger as medical graduates miss out on internships

3:00 AM | MEDICAL graduates will be forced interstate or overseas to secure internships next year, potentially costing the state government more than $20 million in lost investment.

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Sleepy town tops state for road kill

3:00 AM | Heathcote's soil is famous for yielding some of the state's best shiraz, but sadly it isn't so much big reds the locals have been polishing off lately, but big greys.

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Mitcham managing injuries for Olympics

3:00 AM | IT'S amazing what the small matter of an Olympic gold medal can do for the confidence.

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Australia joins action against Syrian envoys

3:00 AM | AUSTRALIA has taken part in an international diplomatic offensive against Syria to protest against the regime's brutal crackdown on civilians, delivering a 72-hour ultimatum for the country's top envoy to leave Canberra.

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Time to end pursuit of Thomson, says Gillard

3:00 AM | THE Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, has called for an end to the parliamentary pursuit of Craig Thomson as the opposition produced an email suggesting alleged offences against the former Labor MP could have been referred to police three years ago.

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Pulling in mining dollars takes frontier spirit - hard to find in the city

3:00 AM | ONCE upon a time, the words ''go west young man'' (or woman) conjured up excitement. That frontier spirit was nowhere to be seen yesterday among young jobseekers visiting the Ryde Centrelink office.

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457 visa worker in PM office

3:00 AM | Julia Gillard's chief 'spin' man, John McTernan, is one of the arrivals under the foreign workers scheme.

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Abbott popularity hits new low, alongside PM

3:00 AM | Tony Abbott's view of his personal unpopularity is that he just has to 'beat the other horse', says MP.

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'Ick' factor, gratuitous boom-tish and, of course, some dead horse

3:00 AM | Enough, you've cried, throwing your collective hands in the air. Enough of the cacophony surrounding politics: innuendo, gossip, will she/won't she, did he/didn't he, is he/isn't he. Tell us about the things that matter to us, not to politicians in their plays for power.

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