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Incoming New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian has paid tribute to Mike Baird after being elected unopposed to replace him.
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| UpdatedA Senate committee is urged to ensure civil celebrants cannot refuse services to same-sex couples due to religious or conscientious objections.
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New South Wales Premier-elect Gladys Berejiklian is widely known for her hard work and diligence, but her ongoing success may hinge on whether the intensely private MP can open up to the public.
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| UpdatedSouth Australian Senator Nick Xenophon's call for a nationwide review of bail laws after Melbourne's deadly car attack is dismissed by the Law Society of South Australia.
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| UpdatedThe Northern Territory's economy is losing momentum and slipping in rankings against other Australian jurisdictions according to the latest State of the States report.
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| UpdatedUncertainty surrounds Queensland's nightclub lockout laws ahead of the first meeting of Cabinet for the year, with some ministers wanting the Government to back away from a 1:00am lockout scheduled to begin next week.
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An early job for US President Donald Trump will be to nominate a new Supreme Court justice. Who he picks, along with any future nominations, could set the course of the court — and the lives of Americans — for a generation to come.
Topics: us-elections, government-and-politics, elections, world-politics, united-states
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| UpdatedGladys Berejiklian outlines priorities and praises her Armenian migrant parents, saying she "will be governing for everyone", as she gives her first speech as Premier-elect of NSW.
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| UpdatedNew South Wales' new premier supports same-sex marriage and helped initiate WestConnex and the light rail to Randwick, but what else does she stand for?
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| UpdatedAdelaide's South Road is open again to road traffic this morning but traffic management staff will be stationed at the tram overpass to help cyclists and pedestrians find safe crossing points.
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Bruce Springsteen takes time out from his Australian tour to talk Donald Trump.
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| UpdatedGladys Berejiklian is expected to become the 45th Premier of New South Wales during a Liberal partyroom meeting this morning.
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| UpdatedUS President Donald Trump offers a scattershot response to the sweeping protests against his new administration, undermining the public opposition and then defending demonstrators' rights a short time later.
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| UpdatedBritish Prime Minister Theresa May says she will not be afraid to tell Donald Trump when she finds something he has said "unacceptable", ahead of a meeting with him in Washington this week.
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Bus drivers want assaults on them to be treated as seriously as those on health and emergency workers, with dozens of attacks recorded this year already, including two caught on camera and shared exclusively with the ABC.
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| UpdatedAt least 39 people are killed and 50 injured after nine coaches of a passenger train derail in eastern India, police say, in the latest disaster to hit the vast and accident-prone state railways.
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Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews will not be drawn on a likely overhaul of the bail system following a special meeting of the Government's emergency and security subcommittee today, in response to Friday's Bourke Street tragedy.
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| UpdatedAdelaide's main arterial route, South Road, is reopened to traffic, five days after a damaged tram overpass forced the closure of a 1.6-kilometre section used by up to 45,000 drivers a day.
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| UpdatedPresident Donald Trump moves to mend his tumultuous relationship with the United States' spy agencies, travelling to CIA headquarters on his first full day in office and assuring officials, "I am so behind you".
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| UpdatedUS President Donald Trump's first full day in office is coming to a close. So, after a lengthy and fiery campaign based around lots of "day one" promises, what did he actually do?
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Turkey's parliament approves a constitutional reform bill that includes strengthening the powers of the presidency, a move that paves the way for a referendum this year that could see President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in office until 2029.
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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.
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