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Public consultation into Aboriginal heritage on the proposed Shenhua mine site image
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Topics: mining-industry, mining-environmental-issues, mining-rural, aboriginal, gunnedah-2380
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Aboriginal elders speak out in support of heritage protection on Shenhua site
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Emotionally-charged speeches are heard as part of an investigation into whether Aboriginal heritage has been overlooked in the conditional approval of the Shenhua mine.
Topics: aboriginal, mining-environmental-issues, gunnedah-2380, breeza-2381
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Swans showcase NSW talent in AFL grand final
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Seven Sydney players will represent both club and state in the AFL grand final, following the Swans' recruitment from all over NSW.
Topics: sport, australian-football-league, sydney-2000, dareton-2717, gunnedah-2380, gosford-2250, cardiff-2285, nsw, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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Inside the fight against coal on the Liverpool Plains
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Meet the NSW farmers who have found themselves fighting coal mines alongside environmentalists.
Topics: environment, coal, mining-industry, mining-rural, mining-environmental-issues, gunnedah-2380
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Trainer avoids jail over stomach tubing of horse
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New South Wales horse trainer Cody Morgan avoids a prison sentence for cheating at two country horse races, by pumping a performance enhance substance into a horse through a stomach tube.
Topics: horse-racing, courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, tamworth-2340, gunnedah-2380, nsw
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Cattle newcomer attracts producers and royalty
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Australian beef producers are turning to a new Canadian breed of cow that is proving to be not just attractive in shades of black and white, but also very valuable.
Topics: beef-cattle, livestock, rural, bowral-2576, gunnedah-2380, australia, canada
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Armidale Catholic priest charged with child sex abuse
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The mother of a deceased alleged victim of former Armidale Catholic priest John Joseph Farrell says she is "ecstatic" after police charge the former clergyman with nine counts of child sexual abuse.
Topics: sexual-offences, law-crime-and-justice, royal-commissions, crime, armidale-2350, gunnedah-2380, nsw
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5yo Perth girl's 'Dingo' poem a national award winner
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Five-year-old Perth girl Esha Jabbal beats students almost twice her age to win the Dorothea Mackellar Poetry Award with her poem about a "little bit fat dingo".
Topics: poetry, primary-schools, children---preschoolers, carramar-6031, perth-6000, gunnedah-2380
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Caroona mine buyback 'does not mean Shenhua mine is cancelled'
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A decision to cancel the licence for the Caroona coal mine in the north-west of New South Wales does not mean the nearby Shenhua mine will also be cancelled, the State Government says.
Topics: mining-environmental-issues, mining-rural, state-parliament, government-and-politics, gunnedah-2380, tamworth-2340, nsw
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NSW Government to buy back Caroona mine licence from BHP
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A $220 million deal is reached for the State Government to buy back BHP Billiton's Caroona mining exploration licence on the Liverpool Plains, ending a decade-long fight by farmers to shut down the project.
Topics: government-and-politics, mining-industry, caroona-2343, nsw, sydney-2000, gunnedah-2380, tamworth-2340
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Woman dead, man critically injured after crash near Gunnedah
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A woman is killed and a man seriously injured in a single-vehicle crash in the New South Wales Northern Tablelands.
Topics: accidents, carroll-2340, gunnedah-2380, nsw
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Four people handed bans for stomach tubing of horse
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Racing New South Wales has handed bans ranging from nine to 15 months to four people found guilty over the stomach tubing of a horse before races in Tamworth and Gunnedah, in 2013.
Topics: horse-racing, sport, law-crime-and-justice, tamworth-2340, gunnedah-2380
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Gunnedah Council takes control of local government election
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Local Government elections will take place across much of New South Wales later this year, with Gunnedah Shire in the state's north one of only five planning to conduct the election itself.
Topics: local-government, government-and-politics, elections, gunnedah-2380
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Sky no limit for young Gunnedah mum
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This jobless aeronautical engineer takes to the skies instead.
Topics: community-and-society, immigration, women, regional, lifestyle-and-leisure, lifestyle, gunnedah-2380, turkey
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Basak Eraydin celebrating her pilot's licence image
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Topics: industry, air-transport, gunnedah-2380
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Basak and her son Deniz image
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Topics: rural-women, air-transport, community-and-society, emigration, immigration, gunnedah-2380
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Sewa talks about the election issues that matter to her image
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Topics: environmental-policy, federal-elections, gunnedah-2380
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Welington Sardinha at Gunnedah Tannery image
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Topics: business-economics-and-finance, industry, community-and-society, immigration, gunnedah-2380
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A Brazilian man is keeping alive a dying Australian trade
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Welington Sardinha is one of very few skilled tanners left in Australia
Topics: community-and-society, immigration, human-interest, industry, gunnedah-2380
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Coal seam gas fear on Liverpool Plains as Santos outlines plans
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Farmers on the Liverpool Plains express concern after obtaining information indicating Santos wants to drill up to four core coal seam gas exploration holes in the next three years.
Topics: oil-and-gas, mining-rural, mining-environmental-issues, mining-industry, gunnedah-2380
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'High potential incident' at Whitehaven Coal handling plant
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An incident where a front-end loader reversed into a light vehicle at a coal loading plant in northern New South Wales is being investigated by authorities.
Topics: mining-rural, workplace, accidents, gunnedah-2380
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Gunnedah Show image
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NSW Deputy Premier and Police Minister Troy Grant holds a Gun Smart awareness kit and a firearm safety flag at the campaigns launch in Gunnedah, 1 March 2016 image
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Topics: rural, occupational-health-and-safety, gunnedah-2380
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Gun safety is in the sights with launch of awareness program
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Experienced, licensed gun owners making basic mistakes is the reason behind a new gun safety awareness campaign in New South Wales.
Topics: rural, safety-education, occupational-health-and-safety, sport, gunnedah-2380
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DPI Director of Game Licensing Unit, Andrew Moriarty, says the Gun Smart awareness campaign reinforces basic safety messages. Audio
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Department of Primary Industries Director of Game Licensing Unit, Andrew Moriarty, says the Gun Smart awareness campaign reinforces basic safety messages. Read more.
Topics: rural, sport, gunnedah-2380
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