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The Federal Government extends funding for homelessness services by one year after the sector warned a funding cut could prompt a human and economic disaster.
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A 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.
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Exquisitely preserved bones and feathers from a baby dinosaur's tail have been discovered in a piece of 99-million-year-old amber, found by a palaeontologist hunting for fossils in a South-East Asian market.
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The green light is given for the construction of Adelaide's tallest tower, a 134-metre-high hotel and apartment building on Frome Street in the East End.
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The Syrian regime and the Russian Government ignore calls for urgent humanitarian evacuations from Aleppo, as terrified civilians trapped inside the city send out desperate calls for help.
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A man who allegedly crashed into a police motorcycle and then led police on a chase through Adelaide's northern suburbs is arrested and charged.
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Cameras are being strapped to feral cats outside Roxby Downs, in South Australia, as researchers monitor their eating habits amid fears the felines will turn to eating native animals after the release of the newest strain of rabbit calicivirus.
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Many 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.
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John Glenn, who became one of the 20th century's greatest explorers as the first American to orbit Earth and later as the world's oldest astronaut, dies at the age of 95.
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A truck driver who claims he had a coughing fit and blacked out moments before a fatal crash at Murray Bridge told his doctor he had crashed his vehicle twice before the 2015 accident for the same reason, a court hears.
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Another 250 students with disabilities will be given access to special educational services in South Australia under a State Government funding boost.
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With the release of the second part of a report into systematic doping in Russia just hours away, USADA chief Travis Tygart warns athletes will not stand for lack of action.
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Solomon Islands police say there are no reports of damage yet after a magnitude-7.8 earthquake strikes near the country's capital, briefly prompting tsunami warnings.
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Rolling Stones frontman Sir Mick Jagger becomes a father for the eighth time at the age of 73 — two years after the birth of his great-grandchild.
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Wanted man Conan Taylor, who allegedly threatened police with a gun in rural South Australia, is arrested at Blakeview, in Adelaide's north.
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US President-elect Donald Trump is set to nominate Scott Pruitt, a critic of federal environmental regulation, to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, a choice that has enraged conservationists and cheered the oil industry.
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More than 11,000 people are left homeless in the Indonesian province of Aceh by this week's magnitude-6.5 earthquake, which killed at least 102 people and injured hundreds more.
