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| UpdatedEmbattled Parramatta Eels player Semi Radradra inks a one-year deal with French rugby club Toulon, in a move that will see him change codes.
Topics: rugby-league, sport, rugby-union, parramatta-2150
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North Korea is observing a three-day period of mourning for late Cuban leader Fidel Castro, state media reports, highlighting the longstanding ties between the two countries.
Topics: government-and-politics, foreign-affairs, communism, korea-democratic-people-s-republic-of, asia, cuba
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West Australian Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan rejects union claims that another 1,000 officers are needed to help police the state, saying a more strategic mix would be better.
Topics: police, perth-6000
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A Canberra criminal lawyer who allegedly accepted payment from a client's mother while also receiving funds from Legal Aid is being tried for dishonesty in the ACT Supreme Court.
Topics: courts-and-trials, judges-and-legal-profession, law-crime-and-justice, canberra-2600, act
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A seven-year-old Aleppo girl who tweets about day-to-day life in her hometown says she is "under heavy bombardments", as the Syrian Army seizes the key district from rebels.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, children, community-and-society, syrian-arab-republic
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| UpdatedA West Australian council makes a pre-election plea for more jobs and infrastructure to service its rapidly expanding suburbs on Perth's northern fringes, but an academic warns the WA capital is sprawling too far.
Topics: urban-development-and-planning, lifestyle, house-and-home, housing, community-and-society, government-and-politics, wanneroo-6065
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| UpdatedThe Syrian Army and its allies drive rebels from eastern Aleppo, in a wider advance that marks the biggest setback for the opposition in Aleppo since 2012, the army and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights say.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, world-politics, syrian-arab-republic
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A former Virgin employee accused of making hoax radio calls to pilots and air traffic controllers could endanger lives if he is released on bail, a court is told.
Topics: air-and-space, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, tullamarine-3043
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A Barnett Government reform team is expected to soon give the go-ahead for a $225-million package aimed at improving support and services in 10 remote Aboriginal communities.
Topics: community-and-society, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, fitzroy-crossing-6765
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A new housing development threatens black cockatoo nesting sites in Bunbury.
Topics: urban-development-and-planning, environmental-impact, environmental-management, local-government, south-bunbury-6230
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Traffic on Sydney's M4 motorway is brought to a halt as a four-wheel drive spins out of control with its driver sitting unconscious behind the wheel, as brave onlookers try to help.
Topics: accidents, health, community-and-society, prospect-2148
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Desperate parents believe it is safer for their children to go to boarding schools in Kenya or Uganda than live in some Melbourne suburbs.
Topics: immigration, crime, youth, parenting, melbourne-3000, south-sudan
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Like it or not, we all need money. So how do we get a better handle on our money so it has a positive impact on our health and happiness?
Topics: health, psychology, mental-health, australia
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| UpdatedPolice are investigating the death of an 83-year-old man whose body was found on a footpath in the Melbourne suburb of Reservoir.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, reservoir-3073
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The media has been blocked from joining a Supreme Court visit to the site of the new Royal Adelaide Hospital on Tuesday to look at five alleged building defects.
Topics: healthcare-facilities, health-policy, health, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedA skating rink in western Japan featuring about 5,000 dead fish frozen beneath the ice is forced to close after facing fierce criticism on social media.
Topics: human-interest, offbeat, japan, asia
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| UpdatedLawyers for a Canberra woman on trial for killing her mother describe the crime as "horrific", "bizarre" and "almost ritualistic", as they urge a jury to find her not guilty by reason of mental impairment.
Topics: courts-and-trials, murder-and-manslaughter, drug-use, death, canberra-2600, act
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Leaked documents reveal the South Australian Opposition is considering a pre-election commitment to spend up to $150 million and upgrade the Oaklands road and rail crossing in Adelaide.
Topics: federal---state-issues, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, local-government, urban-development-and-planning, oaklands-park-5046, marion-5043, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedARL commission chairman John Grant is fighting for his job after an EGM is called to decide his future.
Topics: nrl, rugby-league, sport, australia
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| UpdatedFormer Tasmanian health executive Jane Holden takes the State Government to court claiming she was wrongly sacked in 2014 and she is due $2 million in damages.
Topics: courts-and-trials, public-sector, tas
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| UpdatedPart of $5 billion in royalty deductions claimed by the giant North West Shelf oil and gas project off the north coast of WA are not legitimate, a federal audit finds.
Topics: oil-and-gas, wa, karratha-6714
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| UpdatedCanberra taxi drivers are angry about a deal between Uber and the ACT Government to get weekend partygoers home from Civic during the silly season.
Topics: government-and-politics, community-and-society, business-economics-and-finance, act, canberra-2600
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| UpdatedThe wife of Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman sparks outrage after playing a concentration camp prisoner in a Holocaust-themed ice skating routine on Russian TV.
Topics: world-war-2, television, russian-federation
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Accused-murderer Darren Ashley, who allegedly killed his former partner, persistently told a friend he was going to kill the woman, a court hears.
Topics: courts-and-trials, darwin-0800, alice-springs-0870
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| UpdatedAustralian tennis great John Newcombe backs the decision to leave top-ranked locals Nick Kyrgios and Bernard Tomic out of the nominations for the medal named in his honour.