Britain has voted to leave the European Union, in a shock referendum result that defied late polls and is predicted to hurt the global economy.

As dawn broke over Britain, it became clear that the Leave campaign had won – just – the majority backing of a deeply divided country.
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A murder trial has provided a detailed insight into the life of 31-year-old Mohammed Hamzy, his associates and a group known as Brothers For Life.

Tensions had been steadily simmering between Mohammed Hamzy and an alleged Brothers For Life member before October, 2012.
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Labor supporters were at odds with their own party platform on offshore immigration processing, with 58 per cent opposed to it despite Mr Shorten's team vowing to continue the policy.

YourVote has found strong support for same-sex marriage, climate action and a crackdown on multinational tax avoidance.
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Battle-hardened home buyers stared down the Brexit fears engulfing much of the world’s financial markets by turning up in droves to auctions in Sydney on Saturday.

Sydney's battled hardened home buyers stared down the Brexit fears engulfing much of the world's financial markets by snapping up homes at auctions on Saturday.
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The separation is "not an amicable divorce" from what "was not exactly a tight love affair anyway", according to the European Union Commission president.

A jilted Europe wants the UK out sooner rather than later, as the European Union Commission president warned that Brexit was "not an amicable divorce".
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Comment: If we were having a more adult election campaign, we'd be debating issues like productivity growth and income inequality, writes Ross Gittins.

A more adult election campaign, not one ruled by scare campaigns, would deliver a better outcome for us all.
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British singer Lily Allen has delivered a cutting reply to Donald J. Trump on Twitter, calling him a "moron" for his tweets praising Scotland for voting to "take their country back".

British singer Lily Allen has called Trump a "moron" in a cutting reply to Trump's inaccurate tweet about the UK referendum.
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The vote to leave the European Union exposed tensions and fault lines in British society, but perhaps none more gaping than its generational divisions.

Many young people in Britain have grown up thinking of European integration as a given, not a political experiment that would be rolled back before they could fully take part in it.
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The Catholic Education Commission of Victoria has circulated the letter to schools in marginal seats, seats where MPs are retiring and electorates where the Greens are hoping for a win.

Tens of thousands of Victorian Catholic school students have been sent home with letters warning their parents against voting for the Greens in next week's federal election.
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Seed is a "young, black and powerful" network of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people fighting for "a just and sustainable future ... powered by renewable energy".

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Amelia Telford remembers the moment huge slabs of her country were swallowed by the sea.
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At least 23 people in West Virginia have died in the US state's worst flooding in more than a century, and hundreds more have been rescued from swamped homes.

The mountainous state received up to 10 inches of rain on Thursday, causing rivers and streams to overflow.
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Andrew Grech helped build one of Australia's best-known law firms into a global, sharemarket-listed behemoth. Then it crashed like a house of cards.

Too big to fail? Andrew Grech transformed an Australian law firm into a sharemarket-listed behemoth - only to see it crash and burn.
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The general advice from senior super industry figures is not to panic as this could lead to selling stocks at the bottom of the market and missing out on the next growth cycle.

Australians managing their superannuation or trying to build a nest egg will be wondering what to do as the full impact of Britains decision to leave the UK pulls down stock markets.  
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"World's most successful newspaper crusade ends in glorious victory," declared one of Britain's leading tabloids the morning after the country's shock vote to leave the EU.

Many newspapers used downcast photos of British Prime Minister David Cameron announcing his resignation as his wife Samantha looked on.
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With the UK voting to leave the European Union in the historic Brexit referendum on Friday, the falling British pound is sure to have been a welcome sight for thrifty young travellers.

Travellers to the UK are being left with a tricky choice.
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The administrator appointed by the Baird government to run the newly merged Inner West Council, Richard Pearson, has written to residents vowing to "tirelessly" oppose WestConnex.

Merged council administrator Richard Pearson has written to inner west ratepayers about the controversial motorway.
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For those in need of a life-saving organ donation, ethnicity can affect how long they're stuck on the waiting list.

A new campaign aims to boost the number of people from a diverse range of backgrounds to improve access to organ transplants.
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Kelly O'Dwyer has forced Twitter to dismantle a Twitter "joke" account that compares her Higgins election campaign to the disastrous 2013 loss of Indi by fellow Liberal Sophie Mirabella.

The embattled Assistant Treasurer Kelly O'Dwyer has taken the extraordinary step of forcing Twitter to dismantle a social media "joke"
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What exactly happened and is it a done deal? Here are the short answers to your biggest Brexit questions.

A brief guide to the Brexit referendum, the immediate fallout and the broader impact.
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While Malcolm Turnbull formally launches the Liberal campaign on Sunday, former Liberal leader Dr John Hewson will be the star attraction at a climate protest in Turnbull's electorate.

John Hewson to skip Liberal campaign launch for Wentworth climate protest
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