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The Community Services Minister Pru Goward is facing a fight with the Nationals to keep her seat at the next New South Wales election, after the party opened up nominations for pre-selection for Goulburn.
Topics: state-parliament, elections, goulburn-2580
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| UpdatedA three-quarters of a tonne quartz rock has been stolen from the National Rock Garden in Canberra.
Topics: police, act, canberra-2600, bendigo-3550
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| UpdatedThe Socceroos have unveiled their World Cup playing kit with the uniform paying tribute to the inaugural 1974 Cup team.
Topics: socceroos, soccer-world-cup, soccer, sport, sydney-2000, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedIndustry Super Australia has legal advice showing the Federal Government's planned changes to laws governing financial advice may not be lawful.
The Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) legislation took force in July last year, but the Coalition had announced plans to roll back elements of the laws.
Many of the changes would overturn reforms introduced in the wake of the Storm Financial collapse, in which some investors lost their life savings because of conflicted financial advice.
However, ISA's legal advice suggests a Government attempt to roll back some of the FoFA changes through regulation may be invalid, with financial advisers relying on the changes potentially exposed to legal action from clients.
Topics: regulation, business-economics-and-finance, australia
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| UpdatedA teacher at a Toowoomba Catholic school who was sentenced to 10 years' jail for sexual offences against young girls was the school's child protection contact, the child abuse royal commission has heard.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, sexual-offences, child-abuse, schools, toowoomba-4350, brisbane-4000, qld
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SPC Ardmona avoided closure last week when its parent company Coca-Cola Amatil and the Victorian Government announced a $100 million investment plan to keep the ailing company in operation.
ABC Fact Check examines the main claims and counter claims made about the conditions and entitlements of SPC Ardmona's workforce.
Topics: manufacturing, fruit, food-processing, rural, food-and-beverage, federal-government, australia, vic
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| UpdatedRabbitohs star Sam Burgess will leave the NRL for English rugby club Bath after the teams agreed to a three-year deal.
Topics: nrl, rugby-league, sport, rugby-union, sydney-2000, nsw, australia, england, united-kingdom
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| UpdatedThree men missing in a cave at a national park on the New South Wales Southern Tablelands have been contacted by rescuers.
Topics: emergency-incidents, act, canberra-2600, nsw, goulburn-2580
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| UpdatedThe ABC wants to hear from Australians who are managing properties in drought conditions.
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| UpdatedUkrainian opposition protesters have ended a two-month occupation of city hall in the capital Kiev, as part of an amnesty deal with the government.
In return, criminal charges will be dropped against protesters in relation to the ongoing civil unrest.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, activism-and-lobbying, law-crime-and-justice, government-and-politics, police, ukraine
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| UpdatedShoes found at Queensland teenager Daniel Morcombe's crime scene had similar wear patterns to those found in his room, a Supreme Court jury has heard at the trial of the man accused of killing the boy.
Topics: courts-and-trials, murder-and-manslaughter, woombye-4559, maroochydore-4558, brisbane-4000
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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 NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption inquiry has begun into allegations a former RailCorp employee and his sister solicited more than $1.5 million.
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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| UpdatedA man and a woman are in police custody after a woman was stabbed to death at Logan, south of Brisbane.
The 23-year-old died after being stabbed in the chest at a house at Boronia Heights late last night.
Ambulance officers tried to revive her but she died at the scene.
Topics: crime, boronia-heights-4124, southport-4215
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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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| UpdatedThe issue of planned public service job cuts has the South Australian Liberals and Labor at loggerheads as the official campaign gets underway for the March 15 poll.
Liberal leader Steven Marshall says, if elected on March 15, his party will put a cap of 5,170 on public sector job reductions over four years.
Labor Premier Jay Weatherill says the Liberals are keeping voters in the dark on jobs.
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 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.