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Aviation officials confirm that the plane that crashed in Colombia killing 71 people had no fuel on impact, prompting an investigation into why the plane flew under those conditions.
Topics: air-and-space, soccer, sport, emergency-incidents, colombia
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President Vladimir Putin strikes an unusually conciliatory tone in his annual state of the nation address, saying Moscow wants to get on with the incoming US administration and is looking to make friends, not enemies.
Topics: world-politics, us-elections, russian-federation
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| UpdatedByron Bay woman Sara Connor says she did not kill Bali police officer Wayan Sudarsa and fled the beach because she was scared.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, murder-and-manslaughter, bali, australia
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| UpdatedPolice are holding Melbourne man Pande Veleski in connection to the stabbing death of a French tourist in the Northern Territory outback, the ABC understands.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, death, alice-springs-0870, ti-tree-0872
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| UpdatedOpposition Leader Bill Shorten says he thinks the Liberal Party will drop Malcolm Turnbull as leader before the next election.
Topics: government-and-politics, canberra-2600
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| UpdatedMartin Shkreli downplays the efforts of Sydney Grammar students who recreated the active ingredient in his company's expensive Daraprim HIV drug for just $20, saying "anyone can make any drug, its pretty easy".
Topics: aids-and-hiv, medical-research, doctors-and-medical-professionals, health, diseases-and-disorders, sydney-2000, nsw, australia
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Film development agency Screenwest will soon become a private company, in a bid to attract more funding for West Australian filmmaking.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, film-movies, wa, perth-6000
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| UpdatedNewly released drone vision reveals the devastation burning oil fields are having on communities near the Iraqi city of Mosul.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, terrorism, iraq
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Researchers in Western Australia who waded through 11 years of underwater footage find nursery habitats favoured by young sharks are not protected.
Topics: shark, environmental-health, marine-biology, perth-6000, kununurra-6743
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| UpdatedA Geraldton woman deliberately starved her baby daughter to death and then put her body in a shed, where it was not found until two months later, WA's Supreme Court is told.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, geraldton-6530, wa
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Police in Newcastle raid an inner-city unit where medicinal cannabis was being grown, seizing hundreds of plants.
Topics: cannabis, health, newcastle-2300
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| UpdatedPolice in the Kimberley in Western Australia confiscate 300 litres of homebrew beer and spirits they say was being sold on the black market.
Topics: alcohol, crime, broome-6725
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| UpdatedThe Northern Territory Parliament bans the use of mechanical restraint chairs on children in youth detention that shocked Australia when their use was revealed in a Four Corners episode.
Topics: youth, law-crime-and-justice, government-and-politics, family-and-children, darwin-0800, alice-springs-0870
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| UpdatedA Tasmanian school bans students from including candy canes and similar treats with their Christmas cards this year, along with a general veto on birthday cakes from 2017, in a move one parent has labelled "food shaming".
Topics: education-associations, primary-schools, community-and-society, public-schools, bellerive-7018, tas
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| UpdatedMothers who do not receive psychological help after giving birth prematurely are five times more likely to suffer depression than those who do, a world-first study finds.
Topics: pregnancy-and-childbirth, anxiety, diseases-and-disorders, mental-health, depression, health, melbourne-3000
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ACT Supreme Court cases are being delayed because of a lack of room, as the construction of a new court complex begins.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, building-and-construction, canberra-2600, act, australia
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| UpdatedFor more than 20 years Giles Walker has been turning industrial odds and ends into fully functional kinetic robots.
Topics: robots-and-artificial-intelligence, science-and-technology, street-art, performance-art, arts-and-entertainment, sculpture, visual-art, melbourne-3000, vic, australia, united-kingdom
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| UpdatedAn afternoon storm helps Queenslander Andrew Dodt hold his lead after the opening day at the Australian PGA Championship, with Harold Varner III and Adam Scott closing.
Topics: golf, sport, southport-4215, qld, australia
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| UpdatedThe situation in the Iraqi city of Mosul becomes more desperate with a key water pipe destroyed during fighting and supplies running low, aid agencies say.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, world-politics, government-and-politics, terrorism, iraq
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| UpdatedAs Queenslanders battle through the state's first heatwave of the summer, scientists map the hottest Brisbane suburbs where people are most likely to experience heat-related illnesses.
Topics: health, weather, health-policy, community-and-society, emergency-planning, emergency-incidents, brisbane-4000, qld
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| UpdatedPersistent lead contamination in the water supply at the new $1.2-billion Perth Children's Hospital is continuing to frustrate efforts to complete the building.
Topics: environmental-health, health, child-health-and-behaviour, health-policy, perth-6000
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The craze of bottle flipping has been labelled noisy, annoying and addictive, but while some schools are banning the pastime, one is turning it into a competitive sport to teach students about probability.
Topics: education, offbeat, mathematics-education, science, primary-schools, schools, mona-vale-2103, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedThe US Food and Drug Administration has approved a phase three clinical trial for MDMA — or ecstasy — to be used as a form of treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder. So, what is MDMA and what implications might the trial have for sufferers in Australia?
Topics: mental-health, health, science-and-technology, medical-research, doctors-and-medical-professionals, australia, united-states
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Tens of thousands of Victorians face steep hikes in their power bills next year in part because of the looming closure of the Hazelwood power station.
Topics: electricity-energy-and-utilities, state-parliament, community-and-society, melbourne-3000, vic
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| UpdatedStaff at Tasmania's Royal Hobart Hospital fear the holiday season and building renovations will further compromise an already struggling Emergency Department.
Topics: government-and-politics, health, state-parliament, health-administration, hobart-7000, tas