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	8/16/2012: FRONT PAGE: A hug for the baby of the team SHE produced a performance beyond her tender years in London and yesterday the silver-medal smile of Gold Coast 16-year-old Brittany Broben lit up the room when she was greeted by her baby cousin Jordan as Australia’s Olympic team arrived home in Sydney. Visit Courier Mail Web Site

	8/16/2012: Front Page: Don na Hay mini cookbook Just $2 with today’s paper » Token P79 Visit Daily Telegraph Web Site

	8/16/2012: FRONT PAGE: $250M PARKING TAX CON MELBOURNE’S con- troversial congestion levy has barely altered motorist behaviour despite sucking $250 million into state coffers. The carpark tax — designed to deter drivers who arrive in peak hour and stay all day — requires a radical over haul to... Visit Herald Sun Web Site

	8/16/2012: Front Page: DRUG PENALTY DISMAY A STRING of suspended sentences handed out to drug-trafficking offenders in the past month is evidence Tasmania was soft on drugs, say police insiders and those who deal with the aftermath of drug abuse. Supreme Court of Tasmania sentences posted on... Visit Hobart Mercury Web Site

	8/16/2012: NEWS: Rioli saw friend ‘spooning’ TERRITORY AFL player Cyril Rioli says he walked in on his friend spooning a sleeping, intoxicated woman moments before she ran out of the room saying the man raped her. Territorian Shaun Stanislaus, 27, has pleaded not guilty to raping the woman as... Visit NT News Web Site

	8/16/2012: FRONT PAGE: Tobacco giants take a hit THE Gillard government’s plain pack tobacco triumph has prompted warnings that the measure will intensify price competition and result in cheaper cigarettes. Government and health groups yesterday hailed as a victory for global health the High Court’s... Visit Sydney Morning Herald Web Site

	8/16/2012: Front Page: Baby, it’s great to be home SOUTH Australia’s Olympic heroes arrived home yesterday looking a little worse for wear but they all shared one emotion – elation. ‘‘It is so great to be home,’’ said Opals basketballer Jenni Screen, sporting her bronze medal and a black eye. Visit The Advertiser Web Site

	8/16/2012: FRONT PAGE: Smoking’s next frontier: push grows for total ban AUSTRALIA’S push to bring in the world’s toughest tobacco packaging laws has won the backing of the High Court — but some of the nation’s leading healthcare executives have called on Canberra to take the next step and ban cigarettes. Cigarettes sold... Visit The Age Web Site

	8/16/2012: FRONT PAGE: Nauru locked in, now hard work begins THERE’S a shortage of land, insufficient water and the Australian government is not sure its own staff can be housed on Nauru to reopen the Howard-era detention centres. Immigration Minister Chris Bowen has been warned that the government could breach... Visit The Australian Web Site

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