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President-elect Donald Trump chooses former campaign rival Ben Carson to become secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Topics: us-elections, government-and-politics, world-politics, united-states
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The Twitter account of a seven-year-old Aleppo girl who regularly posted about day-to-day life in her hometown disappears.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, children, community-and-society, syrian-arab-republic
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The NT Chief Minister acknowledges some of the decisions he got wrong, but says he is happy the public debate of Labor's first 100 days in power are about decision-making, not scandals and infighting.
Topics: government-and-politics, business-economics-and-finance, urban-development-and-planning, regional-development, darwin-0800, nt
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| UpdatedA massive fire in a Pakistani hotel kills at least 11 people and leaves more than 50 people, including a Pakistani cricket player, injured.
Topics: fires, disasters-and-accidents, pakistan, asia
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| UpdatedFive people are arrested following a crash that left a man with serious injuries and two separate car chases across Adelaide.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, adelaide-5000, darlington-5047, thebarton-5031, dry-creek-5094, salisbury-north-5108
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| UpdatedThe friend of 13-year-old Brisbane schoolboy Tyrone Unsworth, who took his own life last month, says a day before his death he broke down and told her "the kids at school keep telling me to go kill myself".
Topics: suicide, gays-and-lesbians, aspley-4034
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| UpdatedA new sexual health campaign is encouraging Territorians to get regular health checks, as the number of HIV cases in the NT double in the past year.
Topics: sexual-health, sexually-transmitted-diseases, community-and-society, gays-and-lesbians, sexuality, darwin-0800
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A man who says he was investigating a conspiracy theory about Hillary Clinton running a child sex ring out of a pizza place fires an assault rifle inside the US restaurant injuring no-one, police and news reports say.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, police, united-states
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There are concerns about the number of Australian stroke patients travelling overseas for stem cell therapies, many of which are untested and potentially unsafe.
Topics: stroke, research, stem-cells, australia
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Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce calls for more relaxed restrictions on the controversial Adler shotgun than most states and territories are willing to consider.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, laws, australia
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| UpdatedBuilders in Western Australia could be banned from public projects if they do not comply with a new code of conduct introduced by the State Government, as subcontractors at major projects claim to be owed millions of dollars.
Topics: building-and-construction, perth-6000
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With approval granted for a permanent rail line and a temporary construction camp, Adani's much-touted and often doubted Carmichael coal mine project in central Queensland takes a big step closer to reality.
Topics: coal, regional-development, mining-industry, mining-rural, mining-environmental-issues, brisbane-4000, rockhampton-4700
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A former Adelaide gymnastics coach convicted of child sex offences is given a good behaviour bond, with the judge ruling it is unlikely the man will offend again.
Topics: courts-and-trials, sexual-offences, law-crime-and-justice, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedA transgender sex worker, accused of infecting a client with HIV has been granted bail while she awaits trial in Perth.
Topics: sexually-transmitted-diseases, courts-and-trials, aids-and-hiv, perth-6000
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It was a "mammoth task" to narrow down the suspect list for the 1980s shooting and bombing attacks at the Sydney Family Law Court, one of the lead investigators tells the court.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, sydney-2000
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Managers from the NT Department of Corrections knew at least by May that there were serious problems at the Don Dale and Alice Springs youth detention centres, but they did nothing to fix the issues, a royal commission is told.
Topics: royal-commissions, youth, law-crime-and-justice, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, darwin-0800, alice-springs-0870
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| UpdatedStressed and angry Christmas shoppers are told to 'check their language and their temper' as an online survey finds 44 per cent of retail workers had been subjected to verbal or physical abuse.
Topics: community-and-society, antisocial-behaviour, unions, melbourne-3000, vic
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Hepatitis C medications approved in March this year have already topped the list of Australia's most expensive drugs, costing the taxpayer $1 billion.
Topics: pharmaceuticals, chemicals-and-pharmaceuticals, australia
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Those who blamed last week's blackout in South Australia on renewable energy are dead wrong, but that does not mean the state's renewable-heavy power mix is not posing problems as ABC political reporter Nick Harmsen explains.
Topics: electricity-energy-and-utilities, industry, states-and-territories, state-parliament, federal---state-issues, government-and-politics, weather, sa, adelaide-5000, australia
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The chief executive of a Canadian-based environmental firm says he has a solution to Port Hedland's dust problems and plans to launch a dust control trial within months.
Topics: mining-industry, occupational-health-and-safety, port-hedland-6721
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| UpdatedTrampolines fly into powerlines and a lightning strike reportedly causes a house fire as a severe thunderstorm tracks from Sydney all along the coast up to northern New South Wales.
Topics: storm-event, weather, sydney-2000, grafton-2460, newcastle-2300, armidale-2350, taree-2430, gosford-2250, tamworth-2340
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| UpdatedAustralian teenagers see mental health as one of the top three issues facing the nation, shortly behind drugs and alcohol and equity and discrimination, according to a new survey.
Topics: youth, community-and-society, mental-health, anxiety, charities-and-community-organisations, sydney-2000
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A woman who starved her pet Chihuahua to death will only serve six weeks in custody after a magistrate suspends her prison sentence.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, adelaide-5000, hackham-5163, sa
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Representatives of Queensland's agriculture and tourism sectors say Australia's Great Barrier Reef progress report to UNESCO could make or break their industries.
Topics: great-barrier-reef, tourism, agribusiness, environment, qld
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| UpdatedWestern Australia's Roebourne prison is "decrepit" and poses a significant risk to inmate health and safety, the state's Custodial Inspector says.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, roebourne-6718