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Hundreds of angry rice farmers swarmed around the Thai Prime Minister's temporary office in Bangkok, threatening to storm the building if Yingluck Shinawatra refuses to speak with them.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, world-politics, agricultural-policy, thailand
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A Melbourne babysitter caused the death of a 10-month-old girl and later tried to blame the parents, a jury has heard.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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| UpdatedThe Anglican Church says it is trying to make amends to around 45 abuse victims by offering some of them up to $75,000 each in compensation.
Topics: child-abuse, anglicans, royal-commissions, lismore-2480, grafton-2460
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| UpdatedSwiss authorities have detained the hijacker of an Ethiopian Airlines flight that was forced to land at Geneva's international airport.
Topics: air-and-space, law-crime-and-justice, switzerland
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A group of Victorian men accused of being part of a criminal motorcycle gang has appeared in a court on Queensland's Gold Coast.
Topics: courts-and-trials, southport-4215, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedWest Australian farmers say they feel excluded from the Prime Minister's current discussions about the impact of the drought.
Topics: drought, agricultural-policy, grain, federal-government, wa
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| UpdatedA 90-year-old woman has died in a house fire at Gerringong on the New South Wales south coast.
Topics: fires, death, gerringong-2534, wollongong-2500
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Refugee advocates say the Government's decision to send 10 unaccompanied children to a detention centre on Nauru has put the children at serious risk of mental health issues.
Topics: immigration, refugees, children, federal-government, mental-health, nauru, australia
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| UpdatedTensions at the Manus Island detention centre erupted into a violent breakout last night, after asylum seekers were told their only option for resettlement was to live in Papua New Guinea.
Thirty-five asylum seekers escaped from the centre through a fence about 6:15pm (local time) but Immigration Minister Scott Morrison says they were quickly recaptured.
Mr Morrison says all "non-essential staff" were evacuated, several internal fences were knocked down, safety-glass panels were smashed, bunk beds were "broken apart" and the pieces used as weapons and thrown.
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: refugees, immigration, community-and-society, federal-government, government-and-politics, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedOne of Coca-Cola's fastest-growing products, Frozen Coke and Frozen Fanta, was not included in the latest industry-funded study on soft drink consumption in Australia, which says we are drinking less of the sweet stuff than we were 15 years ago.
Topics: food-and-beverage, industry, research, obesity, health, diabetes, australia
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| UpdatedA court in WA has heard a Collingwood footballer was motivated by "sheer revenge" when he assaulted a man outside a nightclub on the state's south coast.
Marley Williams, 20, is on trial in the District Court charged with causing grievous bodily harm.
Topics: courts-and-trials, australian-football-league, albany-6330, perth-6000, collingwood-3066
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| UpdatedA major review into the impact of clean energy on retail power prices is expected to clear the way for the Government to make significant changes to the Renewable Energy Target (RET).
Topics: climate-change, environment, government-and-politics, federal-government, alternative-energy, energy, electricity-energy-and-utilities, australia
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| UpdatedA 15 year-old boy has been charged with the serious assault of his baby in Bunbury.
Topics: assault, bunbury-6230
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The New South Wales Energy Minister Anthony Roberts says communities will have to embrace coal seam gas and shop around if they want to avoid a massive spike in gas prices.
Topics: state-parliament, oil-and-gas, nsw
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| UpdatedThe foreign investment review threshold will be lifted to over $1 billion under the South Korea free trade agreement, full details of which were released today.
The deal will see tariffs on primary products that range from around 15 per cent to more than 500 per cent removed.
Trade Minister Andrew Robb says that should grow Australia's agricultural exports to Korea by 75 per cent over the next 15 years.
Business and farmer groups have generally welcomed the deal, but some community groups warn certain provisions could allow Korean companies to sue the Australian Government over various policies.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, trade, agreements-and-treaties, foreign-affairs, australia, korea-republic-of
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| UpdatedThe 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 Queensland mother whose daughter was sexually abused by a teacher at a Catholic primary school has branded the actions of the school authorities as "disgusting".
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, sexual-offences, child-abuse, schools, toowoomba-4350, brisbane-4000, qld
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| UpdatedSPC 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 who went missing in a cave at a national park on the New South Wales Southern Tablelands have been rescued.
Topics: emergency-incidents, goulburn-2580, nsw, act, canberra-2600
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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