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America's intelligence agency, the NSA, is refusing to comment on the latest leak of top secret documents which appear to implicate Australian spies.
The document appears to show that Australia helped the US spy on an American law firm that was representing the Jakata in a trade dispute.
Topics: defence-and-national-security, trade, international-aid-and-trade, government-and-politics, international-law, law-crime-and-justice, information-and-communication, indonesia
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| UpdatedCuritiba, the venue for Australia's clash with Spain, looks set to be removed from the 2014 FIFA World Cup schedule.
Topics: soccer-world-cup, socceroos, soccer, sport, brazil
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| UpdatedThe child abuse royal commission will today turn its attention to how staff and Catholic Church officials at a Toowoomba primary school dealt with allegations of sexual offences against girls between 2007 and 2008.
Topics: royal-commissions, law-crime-and-justice, sexual-offences, education, primary-schools, child-abuse, children, toowoomba-4350
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| UpdatedA New South Wales corruption inquiry has heard a former RailCorp executive and his sister could face criminal charges for corruptly soliciting loans worth more than $1.5 million.
The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) investigation is probing allegations of improper conduct by former RailCorp employee Joseph Camilleri and his sister Carmen Attard.
Joseph Camilleri was in charge of maintenance contracts for the rail agency while his sister, Carmen Attard, worked for the state's Department of Family and Community Services.
The inquiry has heard the pair used the money to help Mr Camilleri's daughter Jessica Camilleri who had massive gambling debts.
Topics: corruption, law-crime-and-justice, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedCate Blanchett has won Best Actress at Britain's BAFTA awards for her role in Blue Jasmine.
Topics: film-movies, arts-and-entertainment, awards-and-prizes, united-kingdom, australia
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| UpdatedA 49-year-old man has been charged with murdering his stepdaughter at a home at Logan, south of Brisbane.
The 23-year-old Gold Coast woman died after being stabbed in the chest at a house in Victor Street at Boronia Heights late last night.
Ambulance officers tried to revive her but she died at the scene.
The victim's stepfather and 41-year-old mother have spent the day in police custody.
Topics: crime, boronia-heights-4124, southport-4215
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| UpdatedPremier Jay Weatherill has dismissed questions about Cabinet support for an innovation project and Liberal leader Steven Marshall has sought to draw a line in the sand on public sector job cuts.
The campaign is officially underway for the South Australian election on March 15.
The leaders have debated the issues on ABC Radio, ahead of a second face-to-face encounter on tonight in the ABC TV studios, when voters will have their chance to question the major parties.
Topics: states-and-territories, public-sector, elections, government-and-politics, unions, sa, adelaide-5000, australia
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| UpdatedThe body of a missing jet ski rider has been found in waters off Redcliffe, north of Brisbane.
Topics: missing-person, emergency-incidents, redcliffe-4020, tangalooma-4025, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedPrime Minister Tony Abbott has ruled out long-term subsidies for the agricultural sector as he continues a tour of severely drought-affected regions of New South Wales and Queensland.
Topics: federal-government, government-and-politics, rural, drought, disasters-and-accidents, broken-hill-2880, bourke-2840, longreach-4730, qld, australia, nsw
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| UpdatedJohn Kerry says climate change could impact the way of life in Indonesia, urges action by nations.
Topics: climate-change, environment, environmental-management, world-politics, indonesia, asia, united-states
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| UpdatedAt least four people have died after an explosion on a bus carrying Korean tourists in the Sinai peninsula near Egypt's border with Israel.
Topics: terrorism, unrest-conflict-and-war, egypt, israel, korea-republic-of
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| UpdatedImmigration Minister Scott Morrison says 35 asylum seekers escaped from the Manus Island detention centre last night but were quickly recaptured.
Mr Morrison says the breakout happened about 6:15pm (local time) and was the result of "much-heightened" tensions at the facility.
"Within about an hour and a quarter, control was restored to the centre," he said.
"All things were quiet last night."
Eight asylum seekers have been arrested and 19 have been treated at the centre's medical clinic, but Mr Morrison says none of the patients are "exhibiting life-threatening conditions".
Topics: immigration, community-and-society, refugees, federal-government, papua-new-guinea, australia, pacific
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| UpdatedEmergency workers in South Africa say they have successfully rescued 12 illegal miners trapped in an abandoned gold shaft near Johannesburg.
Topics: accidents, south-africa
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A severe snowstorm sweeping across Japan has killed 12 people and left more than 1,650 injured, Japanese media reported, as the extreme weather sparked widespread transport chaos.
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| UpdatedA banana farm is moving to full-scale production in the Cape York Aboriginal community of Hope Vale, a decade after the idea was first touted.
Topics: indigenous-policy, food-and-beverage, farm-labour, bananas, fruit, rural, hope-vale-4871, cairns-4870
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| UpdatedA search is underway off Brisbane for a missing jet ski rider in Moreton Bay.
Topics: maritime, redcliffe-4020, tangalooma-4025, qld
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| UpdatedNepalese police have found the wreckage of a Nepal Airlines plane, carrying 18 passengers in the country's mountainous west.
Topics: air-and-space, accidents, nepal
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Protesters in Kiev have vacated city hall after occupying the building for over two months as part of anti-government unrest sweeping Ukraine, in a highly symbolic concession ahead of a new mass protest.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, world-politics, ukraine
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The Prime Minister has refused to comment on reports that Australian spies gathered intelligence for the United States on Indonesian trade negotiations last year.
Topics: foreign-affairs, government-and-politics, federal-government, world-politics, security-intelligence, defence-and-national-security, australia, indonesia, united-states, asia
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| UpdatedThree people are dead and another is in a critical condition in hospital following a two-car collision in the New South Wales Hunter Valley.
Topics: road, accidents, jerrys-plains-2330, nsw, muswellbrook-2333
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| UpdatedThe Victorian Government says it is furious one of its departments has allowed billionaire trucking magnate Lindsay Fox to expand his property on to a public beach.
Topics: states-and-territories, government-and-politics, community-and-society, business-economics-and-finance, portsea-3944
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| UpdatedThe South Australian Labor Party has launched its bid for a fourth term in office with an event at Adelaide Oval.
The March 15 election will be the first time Jay Weatherill has contested an election as Labor leader.
Mr Weatherill said the party has a "comprehensive plan" for the state.
Topics: alp, state-parliament, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, liberals, adelaide-5000, sa
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The United Nations has recommended an international investigation into allegations of war crimes in Sri Lanka.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, rights, human, government-and-politics, sri-lanka, asia, united-states
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| UpdatedA 59-year-old man has died in a rockfall at a gold mine near Norseman in the West Australian Goldfields.
Topics: death, mining-industry, norseman-6443
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| UpdatedA family who were the victims of a shooting in Sydney's west say they know who their attackers are, but are unwilling to name them.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, police, seven-hills-2147, sydney-2000