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| UpdatedThe South Australian Premier's plans for a nuclear waste dump could be very profitable, but the scheme is based on questionable economics and would see hazardous materials kept in "interim" storage for 109 years, writes Stephen Long.
Topics: parliament, government-and-politics, federal---state-issues, state-parliament, states-and-territories, nuclear-energy, nuclear-issues, sa
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Business SA criticises the report into whether the state should store nuclear waste, saying it was an "extraordinarily complex undertaking" that a citizens' jury with limited time had no way of making an informed decision about.
Topics: nuclear-issues, environment, parliament, state-parliament, federal---state-issues, adelaide-5000, sa
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Topics: fish, fishing-aquaculture, business-economics-and-finance, electricity-energy-and-utilities, state-parliament
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| UpdatedOnce power generation ceases at Hazelwood, the cooling ponds will drop in temperature, killing off a new barramundi fishery.
Topics: fish, fishing-aquaculture, state-parliament, morwell-3840
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| UpdatedA new $250 million Sydney Fish Market is set to be built next door to the existing one at Blackwattle Bay.
Topics: fishing-aquaculture, state-parliament, retail, pyrmont-2009, balmain-2041, woolloomooloo-2011, sydney-2000, nsw
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| UpdatedTwo thirds of a citizens' jury deliberating the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission findings does not want South Australia to store high-level nuclear waste "under any circumstances".
Topics: nuclear-issues, environment, parliament, state-parliament, federal---state-issues, sa
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Queensland's peak farm group is shocked and disappointed at the resignation of the state's Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries.
Topics: rural, sugar, beef-cattle, fishing-aquaculture, state-parliament, agricultural-policy, bundaberg-4670
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| UpdatedQueensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk asks Police Minister Bill Byrne to act as Agriculture Minister until she chooses a replacement for Leanne Donaldson who resigned from Cabinet last night.
Topics: government-and-politics, state-parliament, parliament, states-and-territories, qld
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| UpdatedWorkers at the Hazelwood power plant in Victoria's Latrobe Valley say they are frightened about what will happen after the plant closes at the end of March 2017.
Topics: states-and-territories, state-parliament, parliament, electricity-energy-and-utilities, morwell-3840, vic, australia
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New South Wales Corrections Minister David Elliott admits giving wrong information when he said there was no practice of isolation in youth custody, but says he did not deliberately mislead Parliament.
Topics: state-parliament, law-crime-and-justice, community-and-society, sydney-2000, nsw
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| UpdatedThe legislation to take 17-year-old prisoners out of adult jails in Queensland causes a split in Katter's Australian Party MPs Rob Katter and Shane Knuth for the first time.
Topics: state-parliament, parliament, government-and-politics, qld, brisbane-4000, dalrymple-heights-4757, mount-isa-4825
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| UpdatedQueensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk is presented with a sudden opportunity to reshuffle Cabinet after the resignation of Agriculture Minister Leanne Donaldson over a string of personal financial blunders.
Topics: state-parliament, government-and-politics, parliament, brisbane-4000, qld
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| UpdatedA special economic growth zone will be created for the Victorian Latrobe Valley to include infrastructure spending and tax breaks for communities moving to the area, following the announcement Hazelwood power station will close next year.
Topics: electricity-energy-and-utilities, industry, business-economics-and-finance, state-parliament, states-and-territories, morwell-3840, vic, australia
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| UpdatedNo Australian state will send 17-year-olds to adult jails as Queensland Parliament passes laws overnight to stop the practice.
Topics: state-parliament, parliament, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, qld
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A report on the internal workings of the Fraser Coast Council reveals a culture of 'control and fear' .
Topics: local-government, state-parliament, maryborough-4650, hervey-bay-4655
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| UpdatedQueensland Agriculture Minister Leanne Donaldson has been forced to pay almost $8,000 in unpaid rates to avoid the sale of her home.
Topics: rural, state-parliament, local-government, bundaberg-4670
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| UpdatedFormer Victorian emergency services minister Jane Garrett reveals in a Facebook post that she is fighting breast cancer but expects to return to work next year.
Topics: state-parliament, parliament, government-and-politics, breast-cancer, health, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedSame-sex couples, single people, and couples undergoing fertility treatment will now be able to adopt a child in Queensland, with the Palaszczuk Government passing an amendment bill with the help of the three independent MPs overnight.
Topics: adoption, family-and-children, community-and-society, state-parliament, parliament, government-and-politics, qld
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As a Victorian parliamentary committee prepares its report into the management of invasive animals on public land, the ABC goes bush with some of the hunters helping control deer numbers.
Topics: rural, pest-management, conservation, parliament, state-parliament, national-parks, vic, healesville-3777, yellingbo-3139
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Topics: cancer, state-parliament, health-administration, community-and-society, orange-2800
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| UpdatedQueensland dairy farmers are being warned to protect themselves against possible incursions of Bovine Johnes disease as southern producers sell up their herds.
Topics: rural, state-parliament, beef-cattle, quarantine, veterinary-medicine, dairy-production, bundaberg-4670
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| UpdatedA parliamentary inquiry hears that health chiefs are uncertain whether the total number of patients affected by low dosing of chemotherapy in western New South Wales will ever be known.
Topics: cancer, state-parliament, health-administration, community-and-society, orange-2800, bathurst-2795, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedQueensland Transport Minister Stirling Hinchliffe is expected to come under more pressure today to resign in the face of continuing problems with the south-east train network.
Topics: government-and-politics, state-parliament, parliament, brisbane-4000
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Darling Downs coal miners and farmers picket outside Queensland Parliament in Brisbane to protest against a water bill they say will threaten hundreds of jobs.
Topics: state-parliament, coal, mining-industry, mining-environmental-issues, mining-rural, agribusiness, dairy-production, beef-cattle, brisbane-4000, toowoomba-4350
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Western Australians have rejected daylight saving at the ballot box four times since 1975, but a Perth man is hoping to reignite the debate by running in next year's state election.
Topics: state-parliament, community-and-society, elections, perth-6000