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One Nation leader Pauline Hanson is ridiculed for travelling to a healthy section of the Great Barrier Reef while denying the effects of climate change.
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Neil Prakash, who was dubbed Australia's most wanted terrorist and believed killed in a US air strike in May, is alive and has been arrested in Turkey, officials confirm.
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Two men die in an ultralight plane crash at the end of a private runway in central Queensland.
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Miners suffering from black lung disease detail to a Queensland inquiry how their health has declined, as the parliamentary committee is told the State Government was alerted to concerns about black lung several years ago.
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A probe into Queensland Rail's bungled train crewing practices is upgraded into a Commission of Inquiry, with the Premier saying the QR board had failed to cooperate with an independent investigator.
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Usman Khawaja hits a vital century after a calamitous run-out ends Steve Smith's innings in the second session of day two of the third Test against South Africa. Follow the action via our live blog.
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The Federal Government rules out any changes to negative gearing despite calls from the New South Wales Liberal Government to ease housing affordability.
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Scott Driscoll, the former LNP member for Redcliffe, admits falsifying meeting minutes of the Queensland Retail Traders and Shopkeepers Association and taking secret commissions while with the group.
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The Federal Government confirms the relocation of a chemical regulator from Canberra to Armidale, in the Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce's electorate, at a cost of $25.6 million.
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Australians need to promote generational change in their communities to combat men's harmful attitudes towards women, the NT Police Commissioner says, as hundreds of people march for White Ribbon Day.
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A major fuel shortage at Melbourne Airport could cause flight delays and force some international flights to divert and re-fuel as early as this afternoon.
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The Queensland Government will ban single-use plastic shopping bags from 2018, and says it will not wait for other east-coast states to do the same.
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A UK academic has begun a protest campaign against sex robots, arguing they encourage people to consider women as property.
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The chief executive of online bulletin board Reddit admits to changing posts by supporters of US President-elect Donald Trump on the website.
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Prosecutors want a Tasmanian aged care worker who took photos of himself with naked residents put on the sex offender register.
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Consumer advocates welcome legal action launched by the national consumer watchdog over website reviews, saying it is a timely warning to retailers, service providers and consumers.
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For more than a decade, the Cassini spacecraft has been exploring the system of Saturn some 1.2 billion kilometres from Earth. As the first phase of its final descent begins, we look at what it has discovered about the ringed planet and its moons, and and what happens next.
