Welfare 'crisis' figures don't stack up
The nation is now far less reliant on welfare payments, undermining Abbott government claims of a crisis of dependency in Australia.
Chinese firm's $25m coal grant
State-owned company given $25m in Victorian and federal funds to develop Latrobe Valley brown coal.
Australia enters Asian arms race
Australia is now the seventh-largest importer of major arms in the world and USA's best customer.
West's ageing hospitals to be rebuilt
Large parts of two western suburbs hospitals are so dilapidated they'll be knocked down, documents show.
Widening gap between rich and poor
The wealth divide in Australia is growing and the most affluent don't pay enough tax, according to a survey.
Jihadists live-tweet mass executions
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A concrete jungle: Life in the favelas
On Friday night, I saw the true face of the World Cup, and his name isn’t Neymar.
Victoria
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A Baptist church is under fire from locals for planning to develop apartments on land it was gifted by the Victorian colony in 1866.
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Up to a billion dollars of proposed spending cuts and revenue-raising measures due to start on or soon after July 1 are facing delays.
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We've no clue on Lew: Woolies
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Consensus on TV sport rights a must
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Consumers losers in NSW sales
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From toothless tiger to jungle king
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Lowy split gets a sporting jinx
The pressure is mounting on the chairman of the renegade trust, Richard Francis Egerton-Warburton, AO, LVO, EIEIO.
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Grey hair is a metaphor for experience, but very few females let their hair colour age naturally.
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