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A 17-year-old girl has fallen to her death from a cliff at Blackmans Bay south of Hobart.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, death, blackmans-bay-7052
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Twenty people were washed into a river in their packed four-wheel drive while attempting to cross a river in the Daly River region.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, death, wadeye-0822
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| UpdatedA "mistake of youth" is how Tasmanian police are describing a 17-year-old's fatal fall from a high cliff at Blackmans Bay, south of Hobart, after attending a party nearby.
Topics: death, law-crime-and-justice, blackmans-bay-7052, richmond-7025
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Topics: police, death, darwin-0800
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British actor John Hurt, whose careered spanned more than 50 years and included roles in Harry Potter, The Elephant Man, Alien, and Australian film The Proposition, has died.
Topics: film-movies, actor, death, united-kingdom
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| UpdatedVeteran actor Sir John Hurt, famous for his roles in Alien, Harry Potter and The Elephant Man dies aged 77.
Topics: death, film-movies, actor, theatre, united-kingdom
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| UpdatedThe bodies of a woman and two men are recovered after their troop carrier trying to cross a flooded causeway south-west of Darwin is swept off the road with 20 people on board, police confirm.
Topics: floods, road, death, peppimenarti-0822, nt
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| UpdatedMary Tyler Moore, who helped change the way women were portrayed on TV — from suburban housewife to independent career woman — dies at the age of 80.
Topics: television, arts-and-entertainment, death, actor, united-states
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| UpdatedA ninth person dies of thunderstorm asthma after the freak weather events in Victoria last November, which saw 8,500 people seek hospital treatment.
Topics: death, asthma, health, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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| UpdatedA four-year-old boy dies after being struck by a car in the West Australian town of Derby, with police launching an investigation.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, road, death, derby-6728
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Film armourer John Bowring discusses the safety precautions used on film sets, what might have gone wrong in the Bliss n Eso music video shooting, and how the industry could improve safety.
Topics: death, film-movies, occupational-health-and-safety, australia, melbourne-3000
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Speaking to a vigil for the five who died in the Bourke Street attack, Henry Dow describes how he rushed to help administer CPR, seeing around him the love and sense of community that makes Melbourne such a great city.
Topics: death, community-and-society, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedThe man fatally shot in Brisbane was an actor in a music video that features several firearms, Detective Inspector Tom Armitt says.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, death, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedThe man accused of killing five people and injuring dozens of pedestrians during a rampage through Melbourne's CBD is charged with five counts of murder.
Topics: police, law-crime-and-justice, crime, disasters-and-accidents, community-and-society, death, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedThe Victorian Government will establish a night court for magistrates to hear after-hours bail requests, as part of a big shake-up of the system following Melbourne's Bourke Street tragedy.
Topics: police, law-crime-and-justice, crime, disasters-and-accidents, community-and-society, death, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedDaniel Andrews says it is his job to address the "anger and frustration" Victorians feel in the wake of the Melbourne car attack on Friday, but refuses to be drawn on how bail laws might be reformed.
Topics: police, law-crime-and-justice, crime, disasters-and-accidents, community-and-society, death, melbourne-3000
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Topics: accidents, death, tathra-2550, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedItalian firefighters pulled out three children from the avalanche-hit Rigopiano Hotel on Friday evening, who were later taken to Pescara Hospital.
Topics: avalanche, disasters-and-accidents, death, earthquake, community-and-society, italy
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| UpdatedThe family of a chef who first sounded the alarm after a massive avalanche struck an Italian hotel, 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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| UpdatedTen people are found alive beneath the rubble of a luxury mountain hotel in central Italy which was crushed by a massive avalanche two days earlier.
Topics: avalanche, disasters-and-accidents, death, earthquake, italy
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A 15-year-old boy who stole a car and caused a fiery crash on the Southern Expressway, which killed a woman, should be sentenced as an adult, an Adelaide youth court is told.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, death, community-and-society, adelaide-5000, bedford-park-5042, sa
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| UpdatedShirley Brifman was born in far north Queensland in 1935 and became embroiled in the corrupt world of police and politics in two states before her untimely death. Look back on her colourful life.
Topics: death, law-crime-and-justice, corruption, history, qld, nsw, brisbane-4000, clayfield-4011, atherton-4883, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedA man is dead after slipping and falling 10-metres from a cliff at Sceale Bay in South Australia's far west coast.
Topics: accidents, disasters-and-accidents, death, community-and-society, streaky-bay-5680, sa
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South Australia has the highest rate of hospitalisations and deaths caused by anaphylaxis from bee stings per capita in Australia.
Topics: invertebrates---insects-and-arachnids, death, health, animal-behaviour, mount-gambier-5290
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| UpdatedMore Australians are killed by horses than all the country's venomous creatures put together, a new study by Melbourne researchers finds.
Topics: animal-attacks, invertebrates---insects-and-arachnids, human-interest, animal-behaviour, health, death, community-and-society, australia, melbourne-3000