Tweed poll results will take a week and other top stories.

• Tweed poll results will take a week

  

  THE make-up of the new Tweed Shire Council is not likely to be known for at least five days after the region went to the polls yesterday.Only the current Mayor Katie Milne and veteran Councillor Warren Polglase are certain to be returned after counting stopped on Saturday night.Seventy-six candidates across 15 groupings stood for election on Saturday in one of the largest local government ballots in history.The only other certainty from the election so far is residents in a referendum rejected a..

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• Amazing things animals get up to when we're not looking

  

  Penguins may waddle on land but they behave like a 'marine commando' under water. Photo: Getty. Anna Salleh. Share. Tweet Share Reddit Pin EmailComment. What does a penguin get up to out at sea? How high can a condor fly? And do sloths really live ...

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• Aust wins support for whaling scrutiny

  

  Australian Associated PressAustralia has won international support to put greater pressure on Japan to end its so-called scientific whaling programs.The International Whaling Commission has agreed to Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg's resolution to engage directly and more robustly with discussions around scientific whaling, instead of delegating reviews to a separate committee.The commission's meeting in Slovenia also agreed to a second Australian resolution, co-sponsored by several other c..

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• Scientists have no idea why sharks are congregating in northern NSW

  

  Broken Head shark attack0:36Man bitten by shark at Broken Head near Byron Bay. Courtesy: Byron Bay Great white sharks are the ocean’s most powerful predator.A SURFER has become the 12th person to be attacked by a shark in Australia this year, escaping with bite marks to his leg after hitting the surf on Monday morning at Broken Head, in northern New South Wales.It’s become the most dangerous stretch of coastline in the country for shark attacks, and the phenomenon has mystified scientists.“It’s..

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• Remove hostile crocs, but no cull: survey

  

  Remove hostile crocs, but no cull: survey

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• NASA's New 'Intruder Alert' System Spots An Incoming Asteroid

  

  Enlarge this image Asteroids regularly pass by Earth, as depicted here. A new NASA system called Scout aims to identify the ones that will come closest to the planet. P. Carril/ESA hide caption toggle caption P. Carril/ESA Asteroids regularly pass by Earth, as depicted here. A new NASA system called Scout aims to identif..

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• We're in front line for global warming

  

  SCIENTISTS have warned WA will be one of Australia’s hardest hit regions by global warming over the next 30 years.Almost 80 per cent of people in the WA Speaks survey were concerned about climate change. And despite the issue falling out of public discussion in recent months, nearly a quarter said they were “extremely concerned”.The CSIRO’s latest State of the Climate report, released this week, predicted WA would see more hot days and more extreme weather in coming decades.Current projections s..

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• The world's newest, largest marine park will protect the most pristine ocean ecosystem on Earth

  

  File photo of Adelie penguins standing atop ice near the French station at Dumont díUrville in East Antarctica Thomson Reuters SYDNEY (Reuters) - Twenty-four countries and the European Union agreed on Friday to create the world's largest marine park in the Antarctic Ocean, covering a massive 1.55 million square km (600,000 square miles) of ocean. The Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources, meeting in Hobart, Australia, said the Ross Se..

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• Space News: NASA moon mission shares insights into giant impacts

  

  Orientale basin is about 580 miles wide and has three distinct rings, which form a bullseye-like pattern. Image credit: Ernest Wright, NASA/GSFC Scientific Visualization Studio. New results from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission are providing insights into the huge impacts that dominated the early history of Earth's moon and other solid worlds, like Earth, Mars, and the satellites of the outer solar system.In two papers published in the journal Science, researcher..

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