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| UpdatedFar-right populist leaders from Germany, France, Italy and the Netherlands are meeting in the German city of Koblenz to present their vision for "a free Europe".
Topics: political-parties, world-politics, forms-of-government, germany
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| UpdatedDonald Trump says his son-in-law Jared Kushner will be a "tremendous asset" to his White House team after naming the businessman as a senior adviser who will be focussed on the Middle East and trade.
Topics: us-elections, security-intelligence, hacking, forms-of-government, crime, united-states
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| UpdatedUS President-elect Donald Trump nominates Dan Coats, a politician turned lobbyist, as the person he wants as the new national intelligence director.
Topics: us-elections, security-intelligence, hacking, forms-of-government, crime, united-states, russian-federation
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| UpdatedUS President-elect Donald Trump says the presidential election result was "absolutely" not influenced by cyber attacks, after intelligence agencies briefed him on their conclusion that Russia sought to intervene in the campaign.
Topics: us-elections, hacking, forms-of-government, crime, united-states, china, russian-federation
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| UpdatedUS Vice-President Joe Biden tells Donald Trump to "be an adult" in regard to his attacks on the US intelligence community, as officials prepare to make their most persuasive case yet to the President-elect.
Topics: us-elections, hacking, forms-of-government, crime, united-states
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| UpdatedThe top US intelligence official tells Congress he is "even more resolute" in his belief that Russia staged cyber attacks on Democrats in the 2016 election campaign, rebuking persistent scepticism from Republican President-elect Donald Trump about whether Moscow was involved.
Topics: us-elections, hacking, forms-of-government, crime, united-states, russian-federation
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| UpdatedThe Australian Koala Foundation is scathing of an independent review into NSW's dwindling koala population saying it has overstated remaining numbers.
Topics: animals, environmental-policy, federal-government, forms-of-government, wollongong-2500
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| UpdatedMyanmar has agreed to grant "necessary humanitarian access" to the troubled Rakhine State, after a rare intervention from South-East Asian countries.
Topics: government-and-politics, world-politics, forms-of-government, unrest-conflict-and-war, burma, asia
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| UpdatedAs support for democracy as a desirable political system appears to be waning worldwide, the Pacific faces a more complex situation.
Topics: forms-of-government, pacific
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| UpdatedFlag-waving Cubans lean from windows and line the streets as Fidel Castro's ashes arrive in the eastern city of Santiago, ending a four-day journey across Cuba.
Topics: world-politics, government-and-politics, communism, forms-of-government, cuba, united-states
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| UpdatedCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, whose family's ties with the late Cuban leader Fidel Castro go back decades, mourns the loss of a "remarkable leader", sparking a flurry of criticism and humour at his favourable tone.
Topics: death, communism, forms-of-government, government-and-politics, canada, cuba
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Topics: road-transport, road, forms-of-government, wollongong-2500, bulli-2516, mount-ousley-2519
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Plans for a 24-7 closure of a major Wollongong road next year could be dumped following traffic chaos in the region.
Topics: road-transport, road, forms-of-government, bulli-2516, wollongong-2500, mount-ousley-2519
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Topics: us-elections, forms-of-government, university-of-wollongong-2522
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While family dynasties aren't unique in world history, what's unusual about the North Korea's Kims is that they are still in power.
Topics: government-and-politics, forms-of-government, history, 20th-century, korea-democratic-people-s-republic-of
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| UpdatedWest Australian Agriculture Minister Mark Lewis has met with the three dairy farmers in the state's south-west who do not have anywhere to send their milk after being dumped by processor Brownes.
Topics: dairy-production, agribusiness, forms-of-government, perth-6000
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The Gambian Government says it will withdraw from the International Criminal Court, accusing the world body of ignoring the "war crimes" of Western nations and seeking only to prosecute Africans.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, international-law, colonialism, forms-of-government, government-and-politics, gambia
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| UpdatedLaw professor George Williams says Governor Kate Warner can recover from criticism of One Nation's Pauline Hanson but should now be cautious.
Topics: government-and-politics, forms-of-government, governors-general-and-state-governors, tas
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| UpdatedThree prisoners from the Maryborough Correctional Centre are taken to hospital in a week, prompting calls to address overcrowding.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, forms-of-government, government-and-politics, bundaberg-4670, maryborough-4650
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The NSW Opposition has given a $50m commitment to build the state's second biggest convention centre in Wollongong.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, forms-of-government, wollongong-2500
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Labor denies its promise of tax breaks and $10,000 grants for small community clubs is in response to Clubs ACT's vocal anti-Labor campaign
Topics: tax, government-and-politics, forms-of-government, elections, clubs-and-associations, gambling, canberra-2600, act, australia
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| UpdatedThe Chinese-backed company developing stage two of the Ord River Irrigation Area in Western Australia says it is unfazed by a scathing report into the project.
Topics: agribusiness, community-development, forms-of-government, federal-government, rural, regional-development, kununurra-6743
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The Federal Government's long-awaited farm ownership register would be more helpful if it looked at land value, rather than size CBRE Agribusiness regional director says.
Topics: forms-of-government, beef-cattle, sheep-production, pasture, agricultural-policy, agricultural-crops, agricultural-prices, wool, perth-6000
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AgForce Cattle president Bim Struss prepared to work with tick management 'Option Three' but initial maps unsatisfactory and make it hard to identify new zones and changes.
Topics: pest-management, agricultural-policy, livestock, forms-of-government, brisbane-4000
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Dr Martin Drum, ass. prof, Notre Dame University, Perth. Although federal parties making election promises in relation to mining, oil and gas, most of the issues lie within state government jurisdiction.
Topics: mining-rural, state-parliament, states-and-territories, oil-and-gas, nationals, liberals, coal, water-management, alp, greens, forms-of-government, federal-government, federal-elections, mining-industry, perth-6000