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Police investigating Cardinal George Pell child abuse allegations: report
Police are investigating child-abuse allegations against Australia's most senior Catholic cleric, Cardinal George Pell, the ABC has reported.
Police are investigating child-abuse allegations against Australia's most senior Catholic cleric, Cardinal George Pell, the ABC has reported.
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For years the 12-year-old has undergone a battery of tests, but a new lab hopes to find the answer.
Lawyers who have battled for Aboriginal rights for decades fear the Northern Territory government is manoeuvring to play a central role in the royal commission into youth detention.
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Northern Territory Chief Minister Adam Giles says he was frustrated when, in 2010, he suggested putting bad criminals in a "concrete hole".
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Dylan Voller, the boy strapped to a restraining chair and with the hood placed over his head inside a Northern Territory detention centre, has penned a letter thanking his supporters for "getting the truth out there."
Eight inmates are protesting on the roof of Alice Springs prison.
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Chief Minister Andrew Barr has urged the prime minister to rethink plans to move public servants to Armidale.
Two newborn babies have reportedly been given nitrous oxide instead of oxygen at Bankstown Hospital.
Proposal for gender selection in Australia is still in doubt.
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The president of the Australian Human Rights Commission Gillian Triggs has called for an inquiry into juvenile detention after the ABC aired harrowing footage of apparent abuses of young people in custody in the Northern Territory.
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