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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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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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| UpdatedThe latest count of platypus in the Upper Murrumbidgee Catchment suggests numbers are increasing as the health of waterways improves.
Topics: endangered-and-protected-species, water-pollution, water-management, animal-behaviour, animals, conservation, act, cooma-2630, nsw, canberra-2600
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The recipient of the inaugural Australian Mental Health Prize, nurse and advocate Kim Ryan, says more needs to be done to address the links between physical and mental healthcare.
Topics: mental-health, health, awards-and-prizes, community-and-society, university-of-new-south-wales-2052, sydney-2000, nsw, canberra-2600, act, australia
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The cost of bushfires to NSW and the ACT is likely to more than double by 2050, a Climate Council report finds.
Topics: bushfire, fires, disasters-and-accidents, emergency-planning, climate-change, nsw, act, australia
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| UpdatedThere is "only a small window of opportunity left" to wipe out the insect that has the potential to be the worst invasive species to ever cross Australia's borders, according to a report obtained by the ABC.
Topics: invertebrates---insects-and-arachnids, animal-science, science-and-technology, government-and-politics, federal---state-issues, federal-government, ipswich-4305, qld, australia, nsw
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| UpdatedMel Gibson is awarded the best direction gong at the AACTA Awards for his World War II drama Hacksaw Ridge, which picks up the best film prize.
Topics: film-movies, awards-and-prizes, arts-and-entertainment, sydney-2000, australia, nsw
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| UpdatedThe Catholic Church defrocks a priest for having a "long-term inappropriate sexual relationship" with a woman, in what is believed to be an Australian first.
Topics: sexual-offences, law-crime-and-justice, catholic, religion-and-beliefs, community-and-society, chatswood-2067, nsw, australia
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A Newcastle family twice impacted by breast cancer is fundraising to better support others affected by the disease.
Topics: breast-cancer, diseases-and-disorders, health, women, community-and-society, family-and-children, newcastle-2300, nsw
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An independent review is underway in New South Wales into the use of force and isolation in juvenile detention, after it emerged some detainees have been locked in their rooms for extended periods.
Topics: children, law-crime-and-justice, nsw
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The High Court is hearing the challenge to the election of One Nation senator Rod Culleton in Canberra today — but what is it all about?
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, one-nation, australia, nsw
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| UpdatedThe NSW community of Collarenebri has been devastated by the deaths of three Indigenous members who died after drinking toxic moonshine — a substance secretly supplied by a local shop owner. Family members speak of their heartache for the first time.
Topics: alcohol, health, death, collarenebri-2833, nsw
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Topics: education, educational-resources, schools, primary-schools, public-schools, state-parliament, secondary-schools, nsw
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| UpdatedA Sydney school where running at recess is banned because of overcrowding is told the State Government is scaling back a promised expansion, which means students will not get extra play space.
Topics: education, educational-resources, schools, primary-schools, public-schools, state-parliament, secondary-schools, artarmon-2064, nsw
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Former deputy police commissioner Nick Kaldas is seeking a Supreme Court injunction to prevent the NSW ombudsman from publishing his report into the long-running police-bugging scandal.
Topics: police, law-crime-and-justice, nsw, sydney-2000
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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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| UpdatedThe feud between Wallabies coach Michael Cheika and England counterpart Eddie Jones is over.
Topics: rugby-union, sport, sydney-2000, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedA tourist from overseas dies and a woman is injured after being hit by lightning while camping at Mt Warning, on the NSW north coast, police say.
Topics: weather, storm-event, emergency-incidents, murwillumbah-2484, nsw
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| UpdatedFour suspected murders during the 1990s are being linked by South Australian police, who think three victims were shot and buried and a fourth was dumped at sea.
Topics: crime, murder-and-manslaughter, law-crime-and-justice, adelaide-5000, sa, nsw
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| UpdatedA year away from its final report, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse begins the process of re-examining some of the institutions it has scrutinised over the past three years, as victims express their need for justice.
Topics: royal-commissions, law-crime-and-justice, child-abuse, sexual-offences, community-and-society, catholic, religion-and-beliefs, australia, nsw
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| Updated"This is a little bit of a wake-up call for us, isn't it?" says Mission Australia's chief, with a third of young people experiencing race-based discrimination according to the charity's survey.
Topics: discrimination, community-and-society, human, australia, nsw
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Topics: land-management, environmental-policy, environmentally-sustainable-business, environmental-impact, volunteers, environment, environmental-management, community-organisations, pests, federal-government, rural, agribusiness, agricultural-policy, agricultural-chemicals, community-development, farm-labour, pest-management, sustainable-and-alternative-farming, canberra-2600, sydney-2000, nsw
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| UpdatedA young ballet dancer is set to be catapulted from rural New South Wales to one of the world's most prestigious dance schools, if a fundraising campaign pulls through.
Topics: dance, arts-and-entertainment, lifestyle-and-leisure, travel-and-tourism, community-and-society, bowral-2576, nsw
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| UpdatedOne hundred years after she breathed life into the iconic Gumnut Babies, the work of one of Australia's best-loved authors May Gibbs is celebrated at the State Library of NSW in Sydney.
Topics: books-literature, arts-and-entertainment, art-history, library-museum-and-gallery, neutral-bay-2089, nsw
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| UpdatedFewer than 10 scientists at the nation's pesticide and animal medicines regulator will move from Canberra to Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce's electorate.
Topics: federal-government, government-and-politics, public-sector, animal-science, science-and-technology, canberra-2600, act, australia, armidale-2350, nsw