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Venus Williams beats Pavlyuchenkova to reach Aus Open semis
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Venus Williams beats Russia's Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova to reach the Australian Open semi-finals for the first time since 2003.
Topics: sport, tennis, australian-open, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
Disability service fears grow in regional SA
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Concern is growing in regional South Australia that people with a disability will miss out on the support they need despite the roll out of the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
Topics: disabilities, health, community-and-society, port-pirie-5540, kadina-5554, moonta-5558, sa
Turnbull declares cyber security 'the new frontier of warfare'
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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull declares cyber security "the new frontier of warfare" and espionage, while announcing new measures to protect Australian democracy from foreign interference.
Topics: defence-and-national-security, information-and-communication, hacking, federal-government, government-and-politics, australia
Can't sleep when it's hot? Here's why
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The reason you find it difficult to get a good night's sleep on hot summer nights is all about the thermal-neutral zone.
Topics: health, weather, human-interest, sydney-2000
Prison guard hurt in 'serious' incident with inmate at ACT jail
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Police are investigating what a union official has described as a "serious" incident at Canberra's jail, which left at least one prison guard injured.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, canberra-2600, act, australia
Bob Day's lawyers tell High Court to reject evidence from witnesses
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Lawyers for former Family First senator Bob Day urge the High Court to reject evidence from two witnesses as the court considers whether he was validly elected.
Topics: courts-and-trials, government-and-politics, melbourne-3000, vic, act, canberra-2600
Trans-Pacific Partnership cannot be salvaged, time to move on, says Heather Ridout
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Reserve Bank board member Heather Ridout says the Trans-Pacific Partnership cannot be salvaged and the Government needs to move on to other regional trade deals.
Topics: trade, economic-trends, australia
Hundreds of fish, crabs die after extreme Queensland weather
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Eighty fish wash up dead in south-west Queensland and hundreds of crabs also perish on a south-east island after extreme conditions.
Topics: human-interest, animals, environmental-management, environment, charleville-4470, qld, bribie-island-4507, toowoomba-4350, brisbane-4000
Union documents missing in Kathy Jackson case, lawyer says
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The lawyer for former Health Services Union boss Kathy Jackson tells the Melbourne Magistrates Court that if it was not for a significant number of missing documents, his client would be exonerated.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, melbourne-3000
New Royal Adelaide Hospital plagued with issues from the start
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There is still no firm completion date for the new Royal Adelaide Hospital after years of delays and legal disputes. Take a look back at the history of the hospital.
Topics: health, healthcare-facilities, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, adelaide-5000, sa
Developers making waves over planned Perth surf park
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A proposed wave park on Perth's Swan River that would be one of the biggest ever built in Australia has sparked the ire of local residents, who say the surrounding environment will be irreversibly damaged and foreshore access cut.
Topics: urban-development-and-planning, wa, alfred-cove-6154
Crocs, floods, and food drops as NT braces for more heavy rainfall
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The Top End is in for more wild weather as the Katherine River reaches flood levels, and a crocodile is spotted attacking a suburban bin and escaping into a street drain.
Topics: weather, floods, storm-event, nt, darwin-0800, palmerston-0830
Former LNP MP to lead One Nation in Queensland
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Sunshine Coast MP Steve Dickson is announced as the leader for One Nation in Queensland, less than two weeks after he defected to the party from the LNP.
Topics: government-and-politics, political-parties, state-parliament, parliament, buderim-4556, qld
Police pursuits: when does the end justify the means? Opinion
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In the wake of the Bourke St deaths, Victoria Police's pursuit policy needs to be examined, and their argument against releasing it is infantile.
Topics: police, melbourne-3000
Breast cancer prevention efforts boosted by discovery by Adelaide researchers
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Adelaide researchers may have found a better way to use anti-inflammatory drugs to prevent breast cancer.
Topics: breast-cancer, diseases-and-disorders, science-and-technology, breakthroughs, medical-research, adelaide-5000, sa, australia
Australia's most expensive building: What you need to know
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As construction continues on the often-delayed new Royal Adelaide Hospital, the ABC looks at the big questions surrounding the costly project.
Topics: healthcare-facilities, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, health, health-policy, adelaide-5000, sa
How Trump has become the single biggest global market influence Analysis
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You can be sure that when vast amounts of money move in a particular direction, somewhere, somehow, a powerful person, or group of powerful people, have made an important decision about something.
Topics: stockmarket, markets, currency, business-economics-and-finance, economic-trends, futures, trade, government-and-politics, united-states, australia
Hopes of saving orange-bellied parrot hang on foster baby
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A captive-bred orange-bellied parrot chick survives its first week with an adoptive mother in the wild, in a world-first trial of fostering as a strategy to boost the endangered species in the wild. But there are no guarantees of success.
Topics: endangered-and-protected-species, science-and-technology, birds, animal-science, environment, tas, australia
Mike Pompeo announced as CIA director despite torture concerns
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The US Senate confirms Mike Pompeo to be President Donald Trump's Central Intelligence Agency director, despite some politicians' concerns he might expand surveillance or allow the use of Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, which are widely considered to be torture.
Topics: us-elections, government-and-politics, world-politics, united-states
Government scrambles after Trump pulls US out of TPP
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The Government is scrambling to rethink the Trans-Pacific Partnership after Donald Trump pulled the US out of the Asian trade deal, with Malcolm Turnbull hoping the remaining 11 countries can salvage the pact.
Topics: federal-government, world-politics, government-and-politics, trade, australia, united-states
Trump declares his inauguration day National Day of Patriotic Devotion
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US President Donald Trump officially declares the day of his inauguration the National Day of Patriotic Devotion as one of his first executive orders.
Topics: world-politics, us-elections, united-states
Can Gladys Berejiklian stare down the glass cliff and win? Opinion
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The elevation of Gladys Berejiklian as NSW Premier is the latest example of women being handed the reins in a time of crisis. When will we stop turning to female leaders only when we need a janitor?
Topics: feminism, women, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, nsw
'Severely unaffordable': Sydney's housing nightmare laid bare in new survey
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Sydney's housing is rated less affordable than global metropolises New York and London in a report that paints a dire picture for the city's middle-income earners.
Topics: housing-industry, housing, government-and-politics, community-and-society, work, sydney-2000, tweed-heads-2485, moss-vale-2577, mittagong-2575, bowral-2576
Nearly $700K raised for victims of Bourke St tragedy
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Members of the public donate almost $500,000 to go with $200,000 from the federal and Victorian governments to help the victims of last week's tragedy in Melbourne.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, road, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
Surfer found 6km off beach 'wanted to watch the Moon, didn't need rescue'
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A Japanese surfer who was found 6 kilometres off the coast of Australia a fortnight ago after floating on a surfboard overnight for 16 hours says he was trying to commune with nature.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, bulli-2516
