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A new WADA report into systematic Russian doping details a wide-ranging "institutional conspiracy" that involved more than 1,000 athletes across more than 30 sports, including evidence corroborating large-scale sample swapping at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.
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Nationals senator Bridget McKenzie is urging state MPs to vote against the heavy restrictions on the seven-shot Adler shotgun, saying they are not based on evidence.
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Dreamworld reopens today but "big thrill' rides will not be operating and the Thunder River Rapids ride that claimed four lives in October has been decommissioned and will be shielded from public view.
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Australian photographer Hugh Brown risks his life to document the men, women and children who mine precious minerals by hand. He's encountered the "coal mafia", braved the "mountain that eats men" and been interrogated over terrorist links — and he isn't done yet.
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The brother of a boy who was allegedly stripped of his clothes with a knife and left in isolation at the Don Dale youth detention centre wants fresh charges laid against guards.
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The Syrian army presses on with its operation to retake all of Aleppo's besieged rebel-held east as military sources report that 85 per cent of the area has been recaptured.
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A Supreme Court jury has taken just over three hours to unanimously find Darren Ashley guilty of murdering his former partner who died after being stabbed more than 27 times in Alice Springs in May 2012.
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The number of people displaced by this week's earthquake in the Indonesian province of Aceh has risen to more than 22,000 — double previous figures.
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The world's first project to mine the seabed for minerals is expected to begin operations in Papua New Guinea in early 2019, amid concerns about the affect on the environment.
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US President Barack Obama orders intelligence agencies to review cyber attacks and foreign intervention in the 2016 election and deliver a report before he leaves office on January 20, homeland security adviser Lisa Monaco says.
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The Times of London's Nairobi correspondent Jerome Starkey is detained in Kenya and fears it may be an attempt to intimidate the press.
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Australia completes a three-game clean sweep of its ODI series against New Zealand with a 117-run win at the MCG on the back of David Warner's second-straight ton.
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The Northern Territory's abortion laws are being brought into line with the rest of the country, as the Government moves to legalise use of abortion drugs outside hospitals along with a suite of other changes that are being heralded as respecting women's choices.
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An Indigenous woman who unsuccessfully sued three Queensland university students for alleged racism on Facebook is ordered to pay the men's legal fees, which could exceed $100,000.
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A witness who says he was held at gun point in a car used in the fatal shooting of Darwin man Fabian Brock has been accused of lying in court.
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Ron McLean and Marye Louise Daniels, the married couple behind Pauline Hanson's Western Australian operation, say they have been inundated with applications from potential candidates for next year's state election.
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A Darwin youth worker who designed a t-shirt after three cousins took their own lives in just 10 days, calls for more to be done to address devastating Indigenous suicide rates.
