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When riding his real popemobile, the pope just smiles and waves — in this video game, the holy father dodges killer potholes and other obstacles.
Topics: offbeat, human-interest, games, catholic, paraguay
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| UpdatedThe Maritime Union of Australia lodges an appeal against a Fair Work ruling that that industrial action on the oil tanker Alexander Spirit in Devonport is illegal.
Topics: unions, industrial-relations, tas
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| UpdatedQueensland expects New South Wales to replace Robbie Farah with Michael Ennis for tonight's State of Origin decider but the Blues refuse to rule Farah out.
Topics: state-of-origin, rugby-league, sport, brisbane-4000, qld, australia, nsw
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More than $6 million worth of cannabis is seized by police as part of a major operation targeting so called "grow houses" in Canberra.
Topics: cannabis, law-crime-and-justice, crime, drug-offences, canberra-2600, australia, act
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| UpdatedA $4.5 million centre created to train Indigenous workers for the INPEX gas plant and launched with much fanfare in 2011 is quietly closed down.
Topics: indigenous-policy, oil-and-gas, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedThe economic cost of making Easter Sunday and Grand Final Friday public holidays in Victoria could reach up to $900 million a year and would outweigh the benefits, a new report finds.
Topics: state-parliament, states-and-territories, vic
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The United States Navy demonstrates its amphibious capabilities in Darwin ahead of participating in the largest military exercise between the US and Australia.
Topics: navy, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedAn Indigenous affairs adviser to Tony Abbott apologises for wearing a Confederate flag costume to an event, saying he was "unaware" of the flag's connection to racial tensions after a mass shooting in the United States.
Topics: indigenous-policy, race-relations, abbott-tony, nt
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| UpdatedA man charged with causing the death of a Tasmanian woman in a car crash tells a Hobart court he unknowingly drank a bikie gang affiliate's cider the night before the crash.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, campania-7026
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Some of the Pacific's foreign ministers are expected to raise concerns over Nauru's crackdown on dissent when they meet on Thursday and Friday at the Pacific Islands Forum foreign ministers meeting in Sydney.
Topics: foreign-affairs, government-and-politics, nauru, pacific, new-zealand, australia
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| UpdatedHan Solo, the Star Wars space hero who always has a fast ship and a good blaster, goes it alone in a new feature film.
Topics: film-movies, united-states
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Tasmania Police forensic scientists test an area of road for blood near where Launceston man Ben Plowright disappeared last month.
Topics: missing-person, community-and-society, police, law-crime-and-justice, perth-7300, tas
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| UpdatedAn 85-year-old pilot is killed when his light plane crashes after trying to take off at Lethbridge Airpark, north-west of Geelong.
Topics: accidents, air-and-space, police, lethbridge-3332, vic
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| UpdatedShadow assistant treasurer Andrew Leigh blames problems in the Australia Tax Office's online tax lodgement system on job cuts in the public service.
Topics: government-and-politics, tax, public-sector, unions, canberra-2600, australia, act
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| UpdatedThe mother of a Queensland girl who died after swallowing a button battery says she has no idea where the battery came from.
Topics: family-and-children, children, community-and-society, child-health-and-behaviour, maroochydore-4558
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Two Myanmar men accused of murdering two British holidaymakers in Thailand will go on trial today in a case that has caused outrage and raised questions about both the competence of Thailand's police and the treatment of migrant workers.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, law-crime-and-justice, thailand, asia
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| UpdatedThe Adelaide Crows will have a "red hot crack" against the West Coast Eagles in the team's first game since the death of coach Phil Walsh, veteran player Scott Thompson says.
Topics: sport, australian-football-league, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedA laser device as sensitive as a dog's nose might be able to detect disease, including cancer, from a simple breath test in the future.
Topics: medical-research, cancer, health, university-and-further-education, adelaide-university-5005, adelaide-5000, sa, australia
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| UpdatedA north Queensland teenager who became the first person charged by police exercising new powers to target out-of-control parties is found guilty.
Topics: courts-and-trials, police, laws, townsville-4810
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| UpdatedChinese shares are hammered yet again, at one point sliding more than 8 per cent, despite attempts to calm the market panic.
Topics: stockmarket, currency, economic-trends, markets, china, australia
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| UpdatedThe Federal Government gives conditional approval for a 20,000 hectare open-cut coal mine near prime agricultural land on the Liverpool plains in north-western New South Wales.
Topics: mining-environmental-issues, mining-industry, environmental-impact, gunnedah-2380
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| UpdatedA Canberra man who surrendered after a siege at a house at Page in Canberra's north yesterday is refused bail in the ACT Magistrates Court.
Topics: courts-and-trials, police, domestic-violence, act, canberra-2600
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| UpdatedGeoff Lemon looks at the third Ashes series in two years and warns of the dangers of over-using Australian cricket's biggest money-spinner.
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Sunshine Coast Mayor Mark Jamieson has defended council's approval for a mosque to be developed in Maroochydore.
Topics: community-and-society, religion-and-beliefs, islam, urban-development-and-planning, regional-development, maroochydore-4558, caloundra-4551
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| UpdatedA new campaign from Russian police urges people to take safer selfies, after about 100 people are injured and dozens die in gruesome accidents while striking high-risk poses.
Topics: internet-culture, accidents, social-media, russian-federation, brisbane-4000, australia