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| UpdatedMichael Grant makes a rare public statement in defence of the NT judiciary following news reports linking low numbers of youths in detention to a recent spike in property crime.
Topics: youth, prisons-and-punishment, judges-and-legal-profession, child-abuse, crime, royal-commissions, law-crime-and-justice, darwin-0800, nt
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Relations between China and Taiwan this year will be "even more complex and grim" and Beijing will resolutely oppose any form of separatist activity, a senior Chinese official says.
Topics: world-politics, china, taiwan, united-states, asia
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A man dies and another four people are rescued after being swept off rocks at Tathra on the far south coast of New South Wales.
Topics: accidents, tathra-2550
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Team BMC's Richie Porte remains unstoppable on Willunga Hill, taking the Tour Down Under stage for fourth straight year and all but seals victory.
Topics: sport, cycling, adelaide-5000, willunga-5172, sa, australia
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Defeated US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton received a standing ovation on inauguration day, but it wasn't the one that the former secretary of state had been looking forward to.
Topics: us-elections, world-politics, united-states
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Tennis legend Andre Agassi says Nick Kyrgios's next coach must accept the mercurial young star warts and all and delve deep into his tortured soul.
Topics: tennis, sport, canberra-2600, act, australia, united-states
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New South Wales police say despite a number of reports of possible sightings of missing Tasmanian Bernard Gore they have not been able to find the 71-year-old and they are increasingly concerned for his welfare.
Topics: missing-person, community-and-society, tas
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Two of Australia's national galleries welcome hundreds of dogs to their grounds, allowing art-lovers the chance to involve their furry friends in two major exhibitions.
Topics: animals, human-interest, library-museum-and-gallery, arts-and-entertainment, canberra-2600, act, australia
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| UpdatedVictoria's chief of police defends the force's handling of a car pursuit which ended with a man driving into a Melbourne mall yesterday, killing four people and injuring 30 others.
Topics: police, crime, law-crime-and-justice, state-parliament, government-and-politics, community-and-society, disasters-and-accidents, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedThe new US administration of President Donald Trump says its trade strategy to protect American jobs would start with withdrawal from the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade pact.
Topics: government-and-politics, world-politics, united-states, asia, australia, japan, china
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| UpdatedPost-inauguration women's marches in Australia and New Zealand launch a global human rights event expected to attract over 2 million people worldwide.
Topics: community-and-society, human-interest, human, world-politics, new-zealand, australia, sydney-2000, united-states
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| UpdatedSerena Williams sees off fellow American Nicole Gibbs in straight sets to book her spot in the Australian Open fourth round.
Topics: sport, tennis, australian-open, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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Tourists are flocking to Queensland's southern Darling Downs where vast, golden fields of sunflowers are proving the perfect subject for amateur and professional photographers.
Topics: people, human-interest, travel-and-tourism, photography, visual-art, allora-4362, toowoomba-4350, qld
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| UpdatedA bird is strangled and used to threaten groups of people walking through Brisbane's CBD this morning, police say.
Topics: animals, animal-welfare, law-crime-and-justice, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedThe family of a chef who first sounded the alarm after a massive avalanche struck an Italian hotel two days ago, is reunited after rescuers pulled his daughter alive from the rubble.
Topics: avalanche, disasters-and-accidents, death, earthquake, community-and-society, italy
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| UpdatedScientists have mapped out newly-discovered parts of the coral reef system in Moreton Bay, off the south-east Queensland coast, with the hopes it will help inform decisions to protect the small but diverse system.
Topics: oceans-and-reefs, environment, marine-biology, biology, science-and-technology, cape-moreton-4025, brisbane-4000, qld
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| UpdatedFar-right activist Richard Spencer has been punched during an interview with the ABC at an anti-Donald Trump protest in Washington DC.
Topics: us-elections, activism-and-lobbying, world-politics, united-states
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| UpdatedThe US Government asks South Korea to arrest a brother of former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on charges that he engaged in a bribery scheme to carry out the sale of a Vietnamese building complex.
Topics: corruption, foreign-affairs, korea-republic-of, united-states, asia
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| UpdatedA jazz cabaret which pays tribute to female spies who risked their lives during World War II, and is performed by West Australian university students, will feature at Perth's Fringe Festival next month.
Topics: theatre, community-and-multicultural-festivals, perth-6000
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| UpdatedIn an unusually forceful and combative inaugural address, the new US President makes it clear he will bring the radical change he brought to the campaign trail to life in the White House.
Topics: world-politics, us-elections, united-states
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| UpdatedAdelaide's main arterial route is set to remain closed for at least another day but in the meantime, one plucky pair take advantage of the situation by turning the strip into their own private tennis court.
Topics: states-and-territories, government-and-politics, road-transport, community-and-society, adelaide-5000, sa, glandore-5037
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| UpdatedEnvironmental groups accuse Sydney Festival of breaching its sustainable event policy with its attraction The Beach at the Cutaway, which is made up of more than a million plastic balls.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, environmental-impact, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedThe Gambia's Yahya Jammeh, who led his country for 22 years but refused to accept his election defeat last month, agrees to step down and go into exile.
Topics: world-politics, gambia, senegal
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| UpdatedAshleigh Barty wants the media to move beyond talk of comebacks, as the former code-swapper reflects on a solid Australian Open run.
Topics: sport, tennis, australian-open, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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| UpdatedA new emergency situation has been declared on the Sunshine Coast where firefighters fear a change in weather conditions this afternoon will a cause a large bushfire at Coolum to flare up again.
Topics: bushfire, fires, emergency-incidents, disasters-and-accidents, coolum-beach-4573, maroochydore-4558