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With the festive season fast approaching, cyber safety experts are urging parents to take control of mobile phones before putting them under the tree for their children.
Topics: mobile-phones, computers-and-technology, parenting, lifestyle-and-leisure, australia, wa
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| UpdatedMaddison Elliott and Dylan Alcott have won Australian Paralympic Awards after starring in the nation's Rio Games campaign.
Topics: sport, paralympics, sydney-2000, nsw, australia
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Markets in the United States and Europe gain ground, despite a surprise move by the European Central Bank to trim its asset purchasing program.
Topics: stockmarket, money-and-monetary-policy, currency, futures, markets, european-union, united-states, united-kingdom, australia
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| UpdatedThe Federal Government extends funding for homelessness services by one year after the sector warned a funding cut could prompt a human and economic disaster.
Topics: homelessness, community-and-society, domestic-violence, federal-government, government-and-politics, canberra-2600, act, australia
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Insiders host Barrie Cassidy looks at recent developments in climate policy and the political reaction to the economy shrinking.
Topics: government-and-politics, australia
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In a year that has constantly appalled us with its ugliness, sport has often been the saviour by dealing up 12 months of crazy joy.
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| UpdatedMany people with disabilities are still working for less than $3 an hour almost four years after Australia's High Court ruled they were being underpaid at Government-supported workshops.
Topics: disabilities, work, community-and-society, government-and-politics, australia
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A movement of musicians and venues in Victoria is leading a campaign to stop sexual harassment at live music gigs, writes Denham Sadler.
Topics: music, men, women, assault, sexual-offences, internet-culture, australia
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| UpdatedA leaked report into the country's electricity market says Australia is not on track to meet the Paris climate change commitments and that investment in the sector has stalled because there is no long-term Government policy to reduce carbon emissions.
Topics: climate-change, environment, electricity-energy-and-utilities, federal-government, australia
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The New York Stock Exchange hit a record high last night and swept the Australian market along with it.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, stockmarket, currency, world-politics, melbourne-3000, australia
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| UpdatedAustralia would be "hopeless" if it cannot make the most of a burgeoning middle class in Asia over the next 20 years, says Dr Ken Henry, NAB's chairman and a former Treasury secretary.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, economic-trends, banking, markets, money-and-monetary-policy, australia
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| UpdatedTwo women who turned to running to help deal with depression and anxiety are taking on 14 marathons across Tasmania in 15 days in a bid to raise $30,000 for mental health organisations.
Topics: mental-health, health, anxiety, depression, diseases-and-disorders, marathon, tas, australia
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| UpdatedMost participants in the remote work-for-the-dole Community Development Program were fined for breaching the conditions of the scheme the last financial year new figures reveal.
Topics: federal-government, unemployment, welfare, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, australia, nt
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Australia's first simulated cyber security "game" kicks off at the National Security College of the Australian National University.
Topics: security-intelligence, defence-and-national-security, hacking, computers-and-technology, canberra-2600, act, australia
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Host: Julia Baird
Panel: Jim Molan, Kate Mills and Tony Wright
Interview with: John Myburgh
The panel discusses SA’s call for states to lead a national emissions trading scheme, Julian Assange going public & Victoria's euthanasia bill.
Topics: government-and-politics, health, australia
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| UpdatedAustralia's electricity industry has issued a strongly worded plea to federal and state governments to quickly decide on ways to transform Australia's ageing energy grid, saying a national, market-based carbon price is the best option.
Topics: electricity-energy-and-utilities, climate-change, australia
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Twenty-first century technology like CT scans is shedding light on the lives of six ancient Egyptians, including a temple singer, a priest and a child, who were mummified as long as 3,000 years ago.
Topics: archaeology, science-and-technology, history, library-museum-and-gallery, arts-and-entertainment, sydney-2000, nsw, australia
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After her Olympic dream was shattered by a broken leg, pole vaulter Liz Parnov is back jumping and already focussing on Tokyo 2020.
Topics: athletics, sport, perth-6000, australia
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South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill will call on state and territory leaders to establish an emissions trading scheme without federal leadership at a COAG meeting on Friday.
Topics: federal---state-issues, government-and-politics, federal-parliament, electricity-energy-and-utilities, environment, climate-change, sa, australia
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Tensions between the ACT's Chief Magistrate Lorraine Walker and the Director of Public Prosecutions get worse, after she delivers a stinging criticism of the DPP's handling of Industrial Court matters.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, canberra-2600, act, australia
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| UpdatedThe key decision makers — and award winners — in the Australian film industry are still overwhelmingly male, writes WIFT president Sophie Mathisen.
Topics: film-movies, television, women, work, social-media, sydney-2000, australia
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The role of private tuition plays a part in the overall success of students in Singapore, with around 80 per cent of primary school children having at least three hours of private tuition a week.
Topics: schools, government-and-politics, education, youth, singapore, asia, australia
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| UpdatedThe rift within One Nation grows increasingly public with party leader Pauline Hanson criticising Rod Culleton's lack of experience and calling for him to listen to her and other party senators.
Topics: government-and-politics, tax, political-parties, australia
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Time is running out to eradicate the deadly red fire ant that is plaguing south-east Queensland and could potentially spread across Australia, a report has found.
Topics: animal-science, invertebrates---insects-and-arachnids, animal-science, science-and-technology, government-and-politics, federal---state-issues, federal-government, qld, australia, ipswich-4305
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A new report finds that corporations have launched 50 lawsuits, worth at least $US31 billion, using secret international arbitration tribunals against 11 countries in the Asian region.
Topics: trade, agreements-and-treaties, multinationals, regulation, regional-development, business-economics-and-finance, asia, australia