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Treasurer Scott Morrison approves the sale of the S Kidman and Co empire, which runs a herd of up to 185,000 cattle, to mining magnate Gina Rinehart and a Chinese consortium.
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Parts of the Logan and Albert rivers, south of Brisbane, are locked down to some fishers as authorities struggle to contain an outbreak of white spot disease that has spread from farms to wild prawns.
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More than a third of large public and private companies paid no tax in 2014-15, according to data from the Australian Taxation Office.
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612 ABC Brisbane announces Craig Zonca as Spencer Howson's replacement on the popular Breakfast radio program for 2017.
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Colin Rogan's younger brother was allegedly stripped with a knife and left in isolation for days at Don Dale, now he is calling for fresh charges against guards at the centre.
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Omar Al-Kutobi and Mohammad Kiad, who were arrested last year minutes after recording a video with a home made Islamic State flag in the background, are sentenced to 20 years' jail for preparing to commit a terrorist attack.
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While most Queenslanders sheltered inside during the past week of severe storms, a breed of professional photographers known as storm chasers were outside, braving the danger to get the best possible shot, and they say it is a science.
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As the Chinese winter sets in, "fake fur" coats made of Australian wool are in hot demand, and driving the Australian wool price.
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Australian Story host Caroline Jones announces she will step aside from her role after 20 years with the program and more than 50 at the ABC.
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Queensland's corruption watchdog finds a police fraud squad initiative that raised hundreds of thousands of dollars from the private sector exposed the state's police service to a serious fraud risk.
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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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Paris makes all public transport, residential parking and the Velib' bicycle and Autolib' electric car schemes free for the third consecutive day to combat high levels of smog in the city.
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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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Interest rates on investor loans are already rising, as are a range of fixed-term rates, and banks are now eyeing whether to put up variable rates across all home loans.
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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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Photographs of weather phenomena around Australia, some of them capturing rare events, have been chosen for the 2017 Australian Weather Calendar.
