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| UpdatedA former director of an Adelaide real estate business, who police allege misappropriated about $500,000 from trust accounts, is arrested at Adelaide Airport before being charged.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedPolice investigating the death of New South Wales schoolteacher Stephanie Scott search irrigation channels between Leeton and Wamoon, in the state's south.
Topics: police, murder-and-manslaughter, leeton-2705
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Tasmanians with chronic lung diseases are being targeted in a campaign to prevent them ending up in hospital during winter.
Topics: health, health-policy, healthcare-facilities, tas
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| UpdatedFirefighters in New South Wales recruit two young Labradors whose powerful noses can help determine the causes of fires.
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This year's Labor Party national conference matters more than most with a federal election just over a year away, Bill Shorten still struggling to convince his party he has what it takes to lead and a number of serious policy debates afoot.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, political-parties, alp, vic, australia
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The way autism is diagnosed leads to an apparent tripling in cases in recent years that does not reflect reality, researchers say.
Topics: autism-spectrum-disorder, health, medical-research, australia, united-states
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| UpdatedASIC is concerned that staff at Australia's major banks are being less than cooperative with its investigation into potential interest rate rigging.
Topics: banking, regulation, australia
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Troubled Sydney Roosters star Shaun Kenny-Dowall is set to miss at least the next two weeks of the NRL season amid domestic-violence charges, according to coach Trent Robinson.
Topics: nrl, rugby-league, sport, domestic-violence, sydney-2000, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedQueensland's commission of inquiry into organised crime probes allegations police failed to investigate hundreds of complaints from across Australia of serious investment fraud allegedly carried out by companies based on the Gold Coast.
Topics: police, corruption, fraud-and-corporate-crime, law-crime-and-justice, qld
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Police investigating the death of a four-year-old boy on the Gold Coast in 2009 want to hear from neighbours at the time.
Topics: police, law-crime-and-justice, biggera-waters-4216
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North Korean girl bands are springing up on the border with China spreading propaganda for Pyongyang and raising much-needed revenue.
Topics: music-industry, human-interest, pop, popular-culture, arts-and-entertainment, communism, korea-democratic-people-s-republic-of
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| UpdatedA Papua New Guinea government minister who told parliament its national rugby league squad was ready to "hunt down ... kill ... and eat" Australian players says it was "light humour about sport".
Topics: government-and-politics, rugby-league, sport, papua-new-guinea, australia, new-zealand
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| UpdatedAuthorities urge onlookers to maintain their distance from a southern right whale frolicking off Avalon Beach in Sydney's north.
Topics: mammals---whales, environment, animals, avalon-beach-2107
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Investigators are trying to identify who emptied a suitcase behind a bush, which included the skeletal remains of a child, up to three months ago — before it was finally reported to South Australian police last week.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, wynarka-5306, sa
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Tasmania's Wrest Point Casino is fined for the second time in two years for allowing a faulty poker machine to be played.
Topics: gambling, law-crime-and-justice, tas
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| UpdatedAn alleged bikie who police say took part in the beating of a man with a pole and hammer inside the public foyer of South Australia's Yatala Labour Prison is in custody after being refused bail.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, yalata-5690, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedFast-food workers in New York City are set to have their minimum wage doubled to $US15 an hour by the end of 2018, with the rest of the state to follow by mid-2021.
Topics: community-and-society, business-economics-and-finance, united-states
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| UpdatedANZ is lifting interest rates on property investment loans, saying the move is designed to lower growth in the segment and comply with instructions from the bank regulator.
Topics: banking, housing-industry, consumer-finance, australia
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| UpdatedTalking about death is key to busting a cultural taboo that impacts our quality of life, an expert has warned.
Topics: death, health, family, human-interest, australia
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A Queensland man accused of kidnapping another man in Melbourne and driving him hundreds of kilometres into South Australia is in a psychiatric hospital, a court hears.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, adelaide-5000, sa, qld, vic, st-albans-3021
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A former quarry worker speaks at an inquiry into the fatal 2011 flood at Grantham, west of Brisbane, of his anger and torment over the cause of the disaster.
Topics: courts-and-trials, floods, local-government, activism-and-lobbying, community-development, grantham-4347, gatton-4343, toowoomba-4350
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At least 15 people are killed in Egypt after a cargo boat collides with a ferry on the river Nile.
Topics: accidents, disasters-and-accidents, egypt
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| UpdatedA whale calf beached at Palm Beach on the Gold Coast this afternoon dies.
Topics: mammals---whales, animals, currumbin-4223
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| UpdatedHousehold gas prices are predicted to jump 30 per cent, with the price rise also having the potential to kill parts of Australia's already struggling industrial sector.
Topics: oil-and-gas, manufacturing, economic-trends, australia, qld, wa
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A Barossa Valley winemaker accused of deliberately opening the taps on four wine tanks and destroying more than $300,000 worth of wine will argue it was not him, an Adelaide court is told.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, viticulture, lyndoch-5351, adelaide-5000, sa