The most recent 250 top stories.
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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull begins a three-day tour of regional and remote South Australia today, with power prices and cashless welfare cards on the agenda.
Topics: turnbull-malcolm, person, environment, alternative-energy, welfare, port-lincoln-5606, marla-5724, ceduna-5690
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| UpdatedWest Australian police are searching for a prisoner who has escaped from authorities in Perth's southern suburbs.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, police, murdoch-6150
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Yemeni security officials say a family of 11 people have been killed in a Saudi-led coalition airstrike in the war-torn western city of Taiz.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, territorial-disputes, terrorism, yemen
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Syrian government forces launch a counter offensive under the cover of airstrikes in a bid to regain control of areas they have lost to insurgents in Aleppo, activists and state media say.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, government-and-politics, territorial-disputes, syrian-arab-republic
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| UpdatedFor the second week running, Western Sydney lets a lead slip through their fingers, this time held to a 1-1 draw with Central Coast.
Topics: a-league, soccer, sport, parramatta-2150, gosford-2250, nsw, australia
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Twin explosions from female suicide bombers suspected to be with Boko Haram kill nine people and injure 24 in Nigeria's north-eastern city of Maiduguri, officials and witnesses say.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, nigeria
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| UpdatedHartnell and Oceanographer who head the Melbourne Cup assault for the Godolphin racing operation will start alongside each other following the barrier draw for Tuesday's $6 million race.
Topics: horse-racing, sport, flemington-3031, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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The national outpouring of grief for the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej has inspired a wave of volunteerism with many distributing free food and services.
Topics: death, grief, volunteers, royal-and-imperial-matters, thailand
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| UpdatedThe impressive Sydney FC beats the previously-unbeaten Newcastle Jets 2-0 to stay top of the A-League ladder with four wins from four.
Topics: a-league, soccer, sport, newcastle-2300, sydney-2000, nsw, australia
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Queensland proposes creating a new category of environmental protection for private land that would allow landowners to guard against mining and coal seam gas.
Topics: state-parliament, environment, land-clearing, land-management, national-parks, conservation, qld
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| UpdatedIraqi forces push into a town south of Mosul after Islamic State fighters fled with civilians used as human shields.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, terrorism, defence-forces, defence-and-national-security, iraq, united-states
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SA Labor uses its state convention to put-off a decision on whether it will endorse a high-level nuclear waste dump in South Australia.
Topics: nuclear-issues, environment, states-and-territories, alp, political-parties, government-and-politics, adelaide-5000, sa
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WA Nationals leader Brendon Grylls promises "blood nose politics" and pledges to crash or crash through with his plan to fix the budget and solve the state's GST shortfall with a mining tax.
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| UpdatedHow a near-death experience during a gas leak inspired a scientist to follow her passion and write a musical about her life's work — Antarctica.
Topics: theatre, environment, arts-and-entertainment, earth-sciences, animal-science, antarctica, hobart-7000
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| UpdatedPrized Icon lands a historic victory in the Victoria Derby, with James Cummings becoming the fourth generation of his fabled family to win the classic race.
Topics: horse-racing, sport, flemington-3031, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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Canberra's LGBTIQ community pays tribute to the victims of the Dreamworld tragedy at an event celebrating diversity in the capital this weekend.
Topics: gays-and-lesbians, accidents, canberra-2600, act, australia, brisbane-4000, qld
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| UpdatedPolice in far north Queensland locate the mother of a toddler who was found wandering alone in far north Queensland this morning.
Topics: missing-person, emergency-incidents, cairns-4870
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Federal Labor Leader Bill Shorten acknowledges the party's electoral shortcomings in Queensland, in his address to the state conference on the Gold Coast.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, federal-elections, elections, qld
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| UpdatedWith just 1 per cent of intellectually disabled people in Australia participating in sport compared with 23 per cent of the wider population, Special Olympics Australia CEO Corene Strauss says the country needs to "step up".
Topics: disabilities, health, community-and-society, adelaide-5000
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| UpdatedThe Federal Opposition and the Greens ramp up their criticism of Family First Senator Bob Day, who seems to be hedging his bets on whether to resign from the Senate amid hopes of a financial bailout.
Topics: greens, alp, government-and-politics, federal-government, federal-parliament
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| UpdatedThe former motorcycle world champion, who has arrived back in Sydney, says he was kept isolated from the outside world for 12 days and received "not much" help from the Australian Government.
Topics: sport, motor-sports, sydney-2000, japan
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| UpdatedIt is ironic that many inmates taking part in a Risdon Prison writing project, when given the theme "a good mate", choose to write about the drug ice and the devastation it has caused them.
Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, rehabilitation, risdon-vale-7016
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| UpdatedEnglish raider Oceanographer surges into Melbourne Cup calculations with a fast-closing victory in the Lexus Stakes at Flemington.
Topics: horse-racing, sport, flemington-3031, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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| UpdatedMelbourne Cup winning jockey Michelle Payne has had to be in two minds on Derby Day as she preps for a group 2 ride and her media commitments.
Topics: horse-racing, sport, flemington-3031, vic, australia
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| UpdatedAustralia's largest bird of prey, the Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle, is 11 deaths closer to extinction, with TasNetworks confirming the birds were electrocuted flying into powerlines.
Topics: birds, animals, animal-welfare, electricity-energy-and-utilities, tas