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Donald Trump hails his sweeping ban on people from seven Muslim-majority nations entering the United States as several travellers are detained and others barred from boarding US-bound flights.
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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull speaks with Donald Trump for the first time since the businessman was sworn in, with the future of the US refugee resettlement deal likely on the agenda.
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A 17-year-old girl falls to her death from a high cliff at Blackmans Bay, south of Hobart, after apparently attending a nearby party.
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Tasmanians are being prescribed morphine-based medications more than any other state and it directly relates to long wait lists for elective surgery, says the peak body representing family doctors.
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The Federal Government considers introducing compulsory phonics, literacy and numeracy testing for Year One students following reports that Australia's education performance is plateauing.
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Venus Williams describes her sister Serena's Australian Open victory as a "beautiful thing" and believes her younger sibling will add more major singles titles to her tally of 23.
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A day after threatening to suspend the Glenorchy City Council, the Minister for Local Government Peter Gutwein details his reasoning behind the suspension, in a confidential letter obtained by the ABC.
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New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian axes some of the most experienced ministers from her front bench as part of a Cabinet reshuffle to be unveiled this morning.
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Four days into a new century, Marc Mietus left Melbourne to move to Queensland to begin a new life, but his family never saw him again and still don't know what happened.
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The mayor of a town on the outskirts of Palermo in Sicily says at first he thought it was a joke when he was told a tiger had escaped from a circus and was roaming the streets.
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A Burnie man overcomes incredible setbacks, fulfils a long-held dream and raises thousands for motor neurone disease, inspired by his mate's diagnosis.
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Tasmania's tourism industry wants an overhaul of parks and reserves legislation, saying stakeholders are mired in conflict without a proper management framework.
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Communities in the NT's Daly River region are mourning the deaths of three people who drowned after a four-wheel drive carrying 20 people was swept into a fast-flowing river.
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For many years, Australian parents of infants diagnosed with an extremely rare and devastating genetic disease have been left with little hope, however that could change with a new treatment dubbed "ground-breaking".
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NASA marks the 50th anniversary of its Moon program's fatal Apollo launch pad fire with the first public display of the scorched hatch that trapped three astronauts inside their spaceship during a routine pre-launch test.
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Most tennis fans have a soft spot for the battle for supremacy between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, who will clash in the Australian Open final. Look back at five matches that tell the tale of their historic rivalry.
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Country music singers Travis Collins, Sara Storer and Troy Cassar-Daley are among the artists recognised at this year's Golden Guitar Awards in Tamworth, which also acknowledged the powerful track F U Cancer.
