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The president of the Queensland's Court of Appeal, Justice Margaret McMurdo, announces her resignation after 18 years in the position.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, laws, judges-and-legal-profession, brisbane-4000, qld
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| UpdatedResearchers are using a concept that many find increasingly frightening — artificial intelligence — to develop an algorithm to determine what scares us most.
Topics: robots-and-artificial-intelligence, science-and-technology, australia, united-states
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A NSW parliamentary inquiry hears a senior clinician at Sydney's St Vincent's hospital continued to refer patients to an oncologist despite knowing he was deliberately under-dosing chemotherapy patients.
Topics: health-policy, cancer, sydney-2000, nsw, sutherland-2232
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Thousands of Australians claim to be suffering from tick-borne Lyme disease but a new report insists there is no evidence it exists in Australia.
Topics: health, diseases-and-disorders, medical-research, science-and-technology, australia
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The alleged national president of the Lone Wolf Outlaw Motorcycle Gang is refused bail in a Gold Coast court.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, crime, drugs-and-substance-abuse, drug-offences, southport-4215, qld
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| UpdatedAn inquest into the death of a WA firefighter examines why she and several colleagues were allowed to be in a so-called "dead man zone" in the Two People's Bay blaze without adequate safety equipment.
Topics: bushfire, courts-and-trials, albany-6330, wa
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| UpdatedThe ACT's 2017 Australian of the Year award is presented to former Canberra Raiders captain Alan Tongue.
Topics: awards-and-prizes, states-and-territories, charities-and-community-organisations, community-and-society, canberra-2600, act
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A dashboard camera captures an attempt by police to stop a ute stolen in a crime spree across northern Tasmania which is still unfolding.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, devonport-7310
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| UpdatedA senior member of the Christian Brothers religious order failed to tell police the truth about the nature of historic child sexual abuse complaints in Ballarat, lawyers assisting the sex abuse royal commission submit.
Topics: child-abuse, sexual-offences, royal-commissions, ballarat-3350, vic
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A stem cell treatment which has successfully restored some movement in quadriplegics' arms and hands will soon be on offer in Australia if a US company has its way.
Topics: stem-cells, medical-procedures, medical-research, doctors-and-medical-professionals, australia
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| UpdatedThe owners and staff at a pet store in Sydney's south west are devastated their pet python was stolen in a brazen daylight break-in at the weekend.
Topics: animals, law-crime-and-justice, sydney-2000, camden-2570, nsw
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Montacute Road is reopened less than five weeks after it was badly damaged during flooding that swept across the Greater Adelaide area.
Topics: floods, disasters-and-accidents, weather, bushfire, fires, montacute-5134, adelaide-5000
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Each year the Victoria Racing Club takes the Melbourne Cup on tour across Australia before it arrives at Flemington on the first Tuesday in November.
Topics: horse-racing, sport, australia, act, nsw, nt, qld, sa, tas, vic, wa
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The union representing Brisbane City Council bus drivers welcomes the fast-tracking of a review into bus safety following the alleged murder of Manmeet Alisher.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, community-and-society, courts-and-trials, moorooka-4105, qld, brisbane-4000, india
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The bodies of four people who died at Dreamworld on the Gold Coast have been released to families for burial, Queensland police confirm.
Topics: workplace, travel-health-and-safety, occupational-health-and-safety, coomera-4209, brisbane-4000
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West Australians will "reluctantly" embrace the privatisation of Western Power once they see the potential economic and employment benefits, Treasurer Mike Nahan says.
Topics: government-and-politics, electricity-energy-and-utilities, wa
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Notorious WA drug dealer Paolo Musarri, 67, receives a further substantial prison term for selling methylamphetamine and heroin.
Topics: courts-and-trials, drug-offences, perth-6000
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Shortly before they are off and running in Melbourne for the Cup, the Reserve Bank board will be considering interest rates, contemplating something else that's off and running - the east coast housing market.
Topics: money-and-monetary-policy, economic-trends, banking, housing-industry, australia
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| UpdatedThere were 111 assaults at Sydney's Star Casino between March and August this year, and less than a third of them were reported to police, figures leaked to ABC reveal.
Topics: assault, crime, law-crime-and-justice, community-and-society, gambling, state-parliament, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, pyrmont-2009, nsw, australia, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedFigures contained in an internal State Government review of violence at Sydney's Star Casino show the number of serious incidents are more than three times higher than official crime statistics.
Topics: assault, crime, law-crime-and-justice, community-and-society, gambling, state-parliament, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, pyrmont-2009, nsw, australia, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedA woman is found not guilty of manslaughter after leaving her elderly mother on the floor with no food or water for seven days after she fell over.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, murder-and-manslaughter, crime, adelaide-5000, sa, australia
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| UpdatedTurkey dismisses a further 10,000 civil servants and closes 15 more media outlets over suspected links with terrorist organisations and Fethullah Gulen, the man Ankara says orchestrated July's failed coup.
Topics: world-politics, law-crime-and-justice, turkey
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Police voice concerns about the management of the notorious rooming house in the Melbourne suburb of in St Kilda, saying it should be run by government agencies who could clean it up and make the area safer.
Topics: community-and-society, st-kilda-3182, melbourne-3000, vic
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| UpdatedIf you have trouble sleeping or your sleep pattern is disrupted, you may be surprised to learn that the bacterial colonies in your gut are also being disturbed.
Topics: sleep, sleep-disorders, diet-and-nutrition, health, australia
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A former Socceroo who died in an Adelaide hospital after an oxygen tube was connected to his catheter was assigned to a ward that did not specialise in his care because of capacity issues, a coronial inquest hears.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, health, adelaide-5000, woodville-5011, sa