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| UpdatedA Canberra punk musician has pleaded not guilty to the murder of popular local music fan Nicholas Sofer-Schreiber.
Watson man Christopher David Navin, 27, was arrested and charged on Friday after a seven-week murder investigation led police to a property in Grafton, in northern New South Wales.
Sofer-Schreiber, 27, was found dead in his Lyneham townhouse on December 28 after not being heard from since Boxing Day.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, music, canberra-2600, lyneham-2602, watson-2602, grafton-2460
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| UpdatedFlights from Australia to South-East Asia are mostly back to normal after an eruption from Indonesia's Mount Kelud forced some airlines to cancel their services.
Topics: volcanic-eruption, air-transport, indonesia, asia, australia
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| UpdatedSouth Australian Premier Jay Weatherill has visited Government House to dissolve parliament and officially launch the state's four-week election campaign.
The March 15 election will be the first time Mr Weatherill has contested an election as leader.
Labor is hoping to be re-elected for a fourth term and will need to defeat Liberal leader Steven Marshall, who has promised a review of government expenditure.
Topics: elections, state-parliament, industry, sa
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The United States government has outlined a new policy allowing licensed marijuana businesses to open bank accounts.
Twenty American states have legalised some form of marijuana use but banks have been reluctant to deal with cannabis businesses, for fear of being caught up in "drug money" crimes.
To qualify for legal protection from prosecution, the banks have to meet certain conditions.
Topics: drug-use, drug-offences, drugs-and-substance-abuse, community-and-society, law-crime-and-justice, business-economics-and-finance, industry, banking, united-states
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| UpdatedPolice are searching for a female driver who fled the scene after hitting a four-year-old girl near the Cape Byron lighthouse this morning.
Topics: accidents---other, accidents, disasters-and-accidents, byron-bay-2481, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedOne of New South Wales's most wanted men has been arrested over a stabbing in Sydney's west earlier this month.
Chinese student Gongcheng Chen was stabbed to death in his apartment at Auburn.
Chen's flatmate became the prime suspect in the murder but had not been seen since the night of the attack.
Last night detectives were told the man had been arrested in Perth.
Topics: police, law-crime-and-justice, murder-and-manslaughter, crime, auburn-2144, nsw, wa
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| UpdatedA car bombing outside a mosque in southern Syria has killed at least 33 people, according to monitors.
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| UpdatedShearers, graziers, shed hands and mourners from across the pastoral industry gather to remember a giant of the shearing world.
Topics: wool, rural, sheep-production, agricultural-crops, suicide, mental-health, depression, chinchilla-4413, qld, australia
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| UpdatedThe trucking company at the centre of a fatal explosion in Sydney last year has voluntarily withdrawn its entire Victorian fleet.
Topics: road-transport, industry, business-economics-and-finance, vic, nsw
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| UpdatedFifteen people have been killed in a violent clash in China's western region, in what officials have labelled a terrorist attack, state media said.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, terrorism, government-and-politics, china
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| UpdatedA man is fighting for life in hospital after he was impaled on a fence after losing control of his ute in Bendigo in central Victoria.
Topics: accidents---other, accidents, disasters-and-accidents, bendigo-3550, vic
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| UpdatedPolice believe a man who drowned in Sydney's south-west overnight accidentally fell into the water.
Topics: accidents---other, accidents, disasters-and-accidents, canterbury-2193, nsw
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| UpdatedAustralia's Lydia Lassila won a bronze medal in the women's aerials final in Sochi.
Topics: winter-olympics, sport, russian-federation
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| UpdatedThe reformist chief minister of New Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal, has resigned after an anti-corruption bill was blocked in the regional assembly.
Topics: government-and-politics, corruption, india, asia
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| UpdatedDavid Warner and Alex Doolan starred as Australia moved into a position of outright dominance over South Africa.
Topics: cricket, sport, south-africa, australia
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| UpdatedUS secretary of state John Kerry says China is willing to exert more pressure on North Korea to give up its controversial nuclear program and take additional steps to achieve this goal.
Topics: world-politics, government-and-politics, unrest-conflict-and-war, defence-and-national-security, china, asia, united-states
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US Secretary of State John Kerry has urged that any moves by Beijing to establish a new air defence identification zone be "done in an open, transparent way".
Topics: world-politics, government-and-politics, unrest-conflict-and-war, defence-and-national-security, china, asia, united-states
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| UpdatedMore than 100 Islamic hardliners have protested against the Indonesian government's decision to approve Schapelle Corby's parole from jail, saying the convicted drug mule should receive the death penalty.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, journalism, federal---state-issues, bali, indonesia, australia, qld, asia
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| UpdatedAustralia's Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says a review of travel restrictions on members of Fiji's coup-installed government is under way and will be finished within days.
Topics: world-politics, government-and-politics, elections, foreign-affairs, fiji, pacific, australia
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| UpdatedThe Federal Government is setting its sights on internet downloading and copyright, with Attorney-General George Brandis using a speech in Canberra to foreshadow copyright law changes.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, copyright, internet-culture, information-and-communication, australia
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Explore our interactive panorama images to get an insight into the drought ravaging NSW and Queensland.
Topics: drought, walgett-2832
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| UpdatedIndonesia says it will raise the Abbott Government's asylum seeker policy with the United States during official talks next week.
Jakarta has stepped up its protest to the Coalition's boat turn-back policy, calling in the Australian ambassador in Jakarta for a meeting with a senior official.
Indonesia's foreign affairs minister Marty Natalegawa says a strong protest message was given to Australian ambassador Greg Moriarty over the use of lifeboats to send asylum seekers back.
Dr Natalegawa says he will inform US secretary of state John Kerry about Australia's actions and let officials draw their own conclusions.
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says her relationship with her Indonesian counterpart remains "positive".
Topics: immigration, world-politics, federal-government
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| UpdatedA new opinion poll shows Queensland Premier Campbell Newman would probably lose his Brisbane seat if an election was held this weekend.
The Galaxy poll, commissioned by Channel Nine, surveyed 500 voters in Mr Newman's Brisbane seat of Ashgrove.
It shows the LNP's primary vote has dropped from almost 52 per cent at the March 2012 election to 41 per cent now.
Topics: polls, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedDavid Warner and Alex Doolan combined to put Australia a mammoth 479 runs ahead of South Africa in the first Test.
Topics: cricket, sport, south-africa
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| UpdatedA Melbourne music studio has handed over its walls to artists and now the city's busiest streets has its very own version of the Skywhale.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, community-and-society, human-interest, melbourne-3000