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Sue Jensen has beaten cancer once and intends to do so again. But, she is still hoping the Victorian Government sees fit to legalise assisted dying.
Topics: euthanasia, health-policy, ethics, medical-ethics, death, melbourne-3000
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Russia and China have vetoed a draft resolution at the UN Security Council that called for a seven-day ceasefire in Syria's embattled city of Aleppo.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, world-politics, syrian-arab-republic
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The Philippines' vice-president has resigned from her cabinet position after the country's president banned her from cabinet meetings.
Topics: government-and-politics, philippines, asia
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Brexit, the rise of Donald Trump, and now the imminent departure of Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, were all predictable and 30 years in the making, according to political scientist Mark Blyth.
Topics: world-politics, european-union, united-states, united-kingdom
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Peter Costello says Federal Parliament should not have wasted so much time on the backpacker tax.
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The British Government has launched a Supreme Court battle over who has the power to trigger the formal process of leaving the European Union, seeking to overturn a legal ruling that could derail its Brexit strategy.
Topics: courts-and-trials, world-politics, government-and-politics, law-crime-and-justice, united-kingdom
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| UpdatedThe WA Chamber of Minerals and Energy has been forced to pull an anti-mining tax television advertisement after one of the participants complained he had been misrepresented.
Topics: industry, advertising, mining-industry, perth-6000, geraldton-6530
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On this episode: Dick Smith continues to feature in Australia's twitter trends; significant snow in Canada has caused traffic chaos in Montreal.
Topics: internet-culture
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The Australian dollar fell today but not because of the Reserve Bank's interest rate decision. It had more to do with new data which suggested tomorrow's GDP figure could be negative.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, currency, melbourne-3000, australia
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One Nation Senator Rod Culleton won't confirm if he plans to stay in the party, after leader Pauline Hanson publicly attacked his performance.
Topics: political-parties, government-and-politics, federal-parliament, minor-parties, political-parties, australia
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Car loan provider BMW Finance has been hit with a record compensation claim over irresponsible lending.
Topics: consumer-finance, consumer-protection, business-economics-and-finance, australia
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Host: John Barron
Panel: Lenore Taylor, Rebecca Huntley and Kate Carnell
Interview with: Danny Price
The panel discusses the backlash from backbenchers over the climate change policy review, Dick Smith announcing his support for Pauline Hanson and the Government’s backtrack on establishing a banking tribunal.
Topics: environment, government-and-politics, business-economics-and-finance, australia, united-states
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One of Australia's pioneering dual sportswomen, Emma Kearney, says cricket is "threatened" by the AFL.
Topics: cricket, sport, australian-football-league, melbourne-3000, australia
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Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says she has an 'ironclad guarantee' there will be no 457 visas for Adani coal mine project.
Topics: coal, mining-industry, james-cook-university-townsville-4811
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| UpdatedA man has been struck by lightning on the summit of Mount Warning, in NSW's Tweed Range, during an unexpected morning storm.
Topics: death, storm-disaster, qld, nsw, murwillumbah-2484
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Refugee camps are filling up fast as Iraqi forces advance on Mosul, forces Islamic State fighters to retreat.
Topics: refugees, unrest-conflict-and-war, iraq
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Mission Australia CEO Catherine Yeomans says the latest survey of Australia's teenagers has found a growing concern for mental health.
Topics: mental-health, youth, australia
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Energy Networks Australia CEO John Bradley says there are opportunities to leverage the renewable energy Australian households are generating.
Topics: industry, electricity-energy-and-utilities, environment, environmental-policy, australia
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Violence inside Perth's Banksia Hill Detention Centre is probably the result of boredom and drugs, according to inmates.
Topics: youth, crime, prisons-and-punishment, perth-7300
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| UpdatedBeverley O'Connor speaks to the Lowy Institute's Aaron Connelly about simmering tensions between US President-elect Donald Trump and China.
Topics: foreign-affairs, world-politics, trade, government-and-politics, united-states, china, asia
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On the 10-year anniversary of Fiji's 2006 military coup, Beverley O'Connor speaks to Fijian-born historian and academic, Professor Brij Lal, who himself was expelled from the Pacific nation.
Topics: government-and-politics, world-politics, defence-forces, fiji, pacific
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At least 11 people were killed and 30 others injured, including Pakistani cricket players, as a fire tore through a Karachi hotel.
Topics: fires, disasters-and-accidents, emergency-incidents, pakistan
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On this episode: the shock resignation announcement from New Zealand's Prime Minister has been generating interest online, and Green Army has been featuring in trends.
Topics: internet-culture