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The Federal Government is expected to introduce the legislation this morning to lift restrictions³ on foreign investment in Qantas. Labor⁴ and the Greens will use their senate numbers to set up an inquiry⁵ into how the government can best support the airline.

 

Little progress seemed to have been made in crucial talks in Paris overnight to try to resolve the crisis in Ukraine. Russia's foreign minister has been meeting the US Secretary of State John Kerry and other key EU ministers. The talks wrapped up with promises of further meetings in coming days.

 

Angry doctors in Queensland have again vowed⁶ to quit rather than sign individual contracts. More than 900 specialists met in Brisbane last night and passed a no-confidence motion at the state's Health Minister Lawrence Springborg. But the minister says he has no intention of backing down.

 

And a witness of the murder trial of Oscar Pistorius has told the court the athlete has once fired a gun at a restaurant. Professional boxer⁷ Kevin Lerena says he met Pistorius and two others at the restaurant last year.  He says one of them handed Pistorius the gun and it went off grazing Mr. Lerena's toe. Mr. Lerena says Pistorius asked the gun's owner to take the blame.

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