18:05:00 18/11/2016
The Australian dollar has been on the slide since Donald Trump became president-elect of the United States. Much of the Aussie dollar's weakness is related to the strength of the US dollar - now at a 14 year high. The US dollar's strength is a mixed blessing for Australia. It's hurting some of Australia's key trading partners, but at the same time, the economy is in desperate need of a lower exchange rate. So how low can it go, and who will be the winners and losers?
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18:10:00 18/11/2016
Almost the entire political establishment has been licking its wounds for the last week, because the vast majority in the media, among the pollsters, and in academia got it seriously wrong. One factor was simply turnout - it's estimated that fewer than 50 per cent of eligible Americans voted. A lot of that was due to the failure of Hillary Clinton to energise the electorate. Democratic turnout was well down on four years ago when President Obama was re-elected. More
18:15:00 18/11/2016
The Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will spend this weekend in Peru, for the APEC Summit, the first major world meeting since the election of Donald Trump as the next US President. The Trade Minister Steve Ciobo has been there ahead of him, exploring new trade deals, and reassessing the different world order, after the election of Mr Trump on a protectionist anti free-trade platform. At home, Labor too has been reassessing its approach too - in light of the Trump victory, emphasising its messages on fairness and jobs.
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18:20:00 18/11/2016
Victorian education minister James Merlino and NSW education minister Adrian Piccoli joined forces at Footscray North Primary School in Melbourne's west today to put pressure on their federal counterpart over funding for Gonski. They want the Turnbull Government to commit to the final two years of the six year plan, in 2019-20. Federal Education Minister Simon Birmingham says the Commonwealth is already increasing funding.
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18:25:00 18/11/2016
Human Rights Watch says the discovery of mass graves in northern Iraq is evidence of 'crimes against humanity' by retreating forces of the so called Islamic State. The rights group says one site contains the remains of three hundred Iraqi police, massacred in an abandoned agriculture school 30 kilometres from Mosul. Most victims had been shot or beheaded. More
18:30:00 18/11/2016
Pressure is mounting on the Queensland Government to further expand a review into allegations of mistreatment at the troubled Cleveland youth detention centre. It comes as a former worker tells the ABC about a culture of poor management and some workers' use of excessive force on juveniles, which goes beyond the review's terms of reference. She is one of at least two workers who has not been asked to give evidence to the review, despite raising allegations of mistreatment in submissions.
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18:35:00 18/11/2016
It's time in office was marred by division and scandal and it received a drubbing at the Northern Territory election in August, reduced to just two seats. But the Northern Territory's Country Liberal Party insists it does have a future and it's begun the task of trying to rebuild. It's commissioned two senior conservative figures to review it's crushing election defeat, the former Federal Director of the Liberal Party Brian Loughnane and the Federal Director of the Nationals Scott Mitchell. Mr Mitchell has arrived in Darwin ahead of the CLP's annual conference this weekend to begin the review.
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18:40:00 18/11/2016
The Medical Council won't say whether two doctors responsible for giving a woman six months of chemotherapy she didn't need have been sanctioned. The woman was told she had stage four liver cancer by a surgeon who looked at her CT results, but didn't order any other tests. The case has been revealed in the latest annual report from the New South Wales Health Care Complaints Commission. The surgeon, the treating oncologist and the hospital have not been named, and the Medical Council won't reveal whether or not any action has been taken.
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18:45:00 18/11/2016
The Queensland Tourism Industry Council has defended the state's safety reputation after a nightmarish week on top of a horrific month for Queensland tourism. It came after news that a 60-year-old British man died while diving on Agincourt Reef off Port Douglas today during a reef trip. This comes after the death of two French tourists in their seventies while snorkelling near Cairns earlier in the week. The Dreamworld theme park is still closed after four people died in October, when a water ride malfunctioned. The Queensland Tourism Industry Council today has stated that these incidents while tragic, do not point to wider systemic problems.
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18:55:00 18/11/2016
Archaeologists have unearthed Australia's oldest-known piece of jewellery. They found the ornament, a pointed kangaroo bone worn through the nose, in the Kimberley region of Northern Australia. It's been dated at more than 46,000 years old. More
