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Survivors tell the royal commission examining institutional responses into child sexual abuse of the legal "catch-22s" that can trap victims.
Topics: royal-commissions, law-crime-and-justice, sexual-offences, community-and-society, sydney-2000
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Doctors at the Nepean Hospital in western Sydney have welcomed a major upgrade announcement but say it does not go far enough to meet projected future demands and shows the Government is beholden to the richer suburbs' "medical mafia".
Topics: healthcare-facilities, health-policy, health, community-and-society, government-and-politics, penrith-2750, kingswood-2747, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedAnalysis of agricultural exports shows commodities already trading with China, Japan and Korea are the biggest winners from the early years of free trade agreements.
Topics: agricultural-policy, federal-government, trade, livestock, agricultural-crops, dairy-production, wool, australia, melbourne-3000, perth-6000, sydney-2000, japan, korea-republic-of, adelaide-5000, china
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It is day one of Swans preseason training and AFL number 11 draft pick Oliver Florent is still coming to terms with his new life.
Topics: australian-football-league, sport, sydney-2000, nsw, australia, vic
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| UpdatedThe Royal Commission into child sexual abuse releases a report that is scathing of Jehovah's Witnesses use of 2,000-year-old protocols for dealing with complaints.
Topics: royal-commissions, law-crime-and-justice, religion-and-beliefs, community-and-society, child-abuse, sydney-2000
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In the business of bone donation, old hips are giving new life to people needing reconstructive surgery.
Topics: bones-and-muscles, health, medical-procedures, sydney-2000, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedThe New South Wales Government will spend half a billion dollars upgrading Nepean Hospital in Sydney's west, one of the city's busiest, in a long-awaited redevelopment.
Topics: health-policy, health-administration, health, federal---state-issues, kingswood-2747, penrith-2750, sydney-2000
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There is no age too young for children to begin learning music, although some instruments lend themselves to smaller hands and mouths.
Topics: early-music, arts-and-entertainment, music, music-education, children, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedBowling coach David Saker says Australia may need to call on forgotten pacemen James Pattinson and Pat Cummins sooner rather than later.
Topics: sport, cricket, adelaide-5000, sa, melbourne-3000, vic, sydney-2000, nsw, australia, south-africa
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| UpdatedSydney's Long Bay Correctional Centre is being considered as a potential Supermax unit for inmates detained on terrorism-related offences currently located 200 kilometres out of the city, Corrective Services NSW confirms.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, terrorism, state-parliament, sydney-2000, malabar-2036, goulburn-2580
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Sydney FC is still undefeated after eight A-League rounds but it has put in its poorest performance of the season in a goalless draw with Adelaide.
Topics: a-league, soccer, sport, sydney-2000, nsw, australia, adelaide-5000
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A new agreement between the NSW Indigenous Chamber of Commerce and the State Government aims to grow Indigenous business ownership, entrepreneurship and employment.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, work, sydney-2000, nsw
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Topics: chemicals-and-pharmaceuticals, agricultural-chemicals, sydney-2000, port-kembla-2505
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| Updated"No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling," said art historian Kenneth Clark. We visit the Art Gallery of NSW to see if that's true.
Topics: sculpture, painting, visual-art, arts-and-entertainment, sydney-2000, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedThe Turnbull Government will reinstate an inquiry into the housing market which it put on hold at the last federal election, and it will look into negative gearing, a Liberal MP says.
Topics: housing, federal-government, sydney-2000, australia
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| UpdatedThe Bombers end speculation by taking Canadian-born defender Andrew McGrath with pick one of the 2016 AFL draft.
Topics: sport, australian-football-league, melbourne-3000, vic, sydney-2000, nsw, australia
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Despite all 16 NRL clubs expressing a lack of confidence in his leadership after a funding dispute, ARL chairman John Grant is refusing to resign.
Topics: rugby-league, sport, nrl, sydney-2000
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The rainbow lorikeet, noisy miner and Australian magpie top the national tally for the third straight year as the country's most common birds.
Topics: birds, animal-science, environment, water, animals, gardening, australia, sydney-2000
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Animal activist Karen Justice, Australian Pet Welfare Foundation chief scientist Jacquie Rand and Real Estate Institute of New South Wales deputy president Brett Hunter, speak about a push to make Byron Bay Australia's first town with all pet-friendly rental accommodation.
Topics: animals, lifestyle-and-leisure, byron-bay-2481, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedThe artist Elizabeth Gould has not been entirely erased from history, but she has been reduced to an initial or replaced by the name of her husband.
Topics: books-literature, art-history, birds, animal-science, author, sydney-2000, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedSenior New South Wales Minister Rob Stokes speaks out against his federal Liberal Party colleagues on the issue of negative gearing, arguing the rules should change to help ease Sydney's housing affordability crisis.
Topics: housing-industry, housing, liberals, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedThe Australian honeybee industry worries pests will get past Australia's border surveillance, saying the situation is like a game of soccer without a goalie.
Topics: pest-management, agricultural-crops, sydney-2000, townsville-4810, canberra-2600