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Queenslanders will be able to buy bulk meat on Sundays and hardware supplies from 6am Sundays under streamlined new trading hours laws which are to be considered by Cabinet in coming weeks.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, trade, food-and-beverage, government-and-politics, qld
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A man who was found not criminally responsible for beheading and cannibalising a fellow passenger on a Canadian bus is given an absolute discharge.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, canada
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| UpdatedAustralia's oldest micro-nation officially has a new leader who says he hopes to significantly grow its population under his reign.
Topics: human-interest, wa
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Melbourne City's second-stringers show their wares, earning a point with a gritty comeback to draw 2-2 with the Roar in Brisbane.
Topics: a-league, soccer, sport, melbourne-3000, vic, brisbane-4000, qld, australia
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After leading by 19 points at half-time, Collingwood goes scoreless in the second half as Melbourne wins at Princes Park.
Topics: australian-football-league, sport, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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| UpdatedA new pod of 240 whales beaches itself on a remote New Zealand beach just hours after weary volunteers managed to re-float a different group of whales following an earlier mass stranding.
Topics: mammals---whales, conservation, new-zealand
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Dramatic video has captured the moment strong winds caused a truck driving down a US highway to topple over onto a patrol car.
Topics: accidents, united-states
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| UpdatedA helicopter rescues about 15 people trapped by floodwaters on Western Australia's south coast, after torrential rain swells waterways.
Topics: floods, storm-event, storm-disaster, ravensthorpe-6346
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At least six people are dead and more than 120 are injured after a powerful earthquake strikes in the southern Philippines overnight, damaging buildings and an airport and knocking out power.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, earthquake, philippines, asia, pacific
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| UpdatedWA Labor says it will set aside 50 per cent of iron ore royalties to pay down state debt, but it has not ruled out increasing taxes.
Topics: elections, wa, perth-6000
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Carlton is unbeaten after two rounds of the AFL Women's season, coming home with a wet sail to beat GWS by 13 points.
Topics: australian-football-league, sport, carlton-3053, vic, australia
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The WA Greens say polling shows 33 per cent of Liberal voters will not support the party if it does a preferences deal with One Nation.
Topics: greens, one-nation, polls, government-and-politics, elections, liberals, wa
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How do you cope with the heat when you're in one of the hottest towns in Australia?
Topics: weather, community-and-society, ivanhoe-2878, wilcannia-2836
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| UpdatedVictoria wicketkeeper Sam Harper heads to hospital for scans after being hit in the head by South Australian Jake Lehmann's bat during a Sheffield Shield match at Adelaide Oval.
Topics: cricket, sport, adelaide-5000, vic, australia
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| Updated"You will not outrun these fires", says the NSW fire chief, warning people to avoid or leave the bush before Sunday as the state gears up for catastrophic fire ratings worse than the Black Saturday conditions in 2009.
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| UpdatedIt's hot, and residents in some parts of the country are doing everything they can to escape the heat. Here's some of the best photos of how Aussies are spending the day.
Topics: weather, community-and-society, australia
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| UpdatedA 52-year-old man is arrested over the alleged abduction and sexual assault of a European backpacker in South Australia's Murray Mallee region.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, murray-bridge-5253, meningie-5264, adelaide-5000, sa
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A luxury cruise ship being towed back to Melbourne after it broke down off Victoria's coast with more than 3,000 passengers and crew on board also experienced a problem with its propulsion system a fortnight ago, the company reveals.
Topics: maritime, melbourne-3000, sydney-2000, new-zealand
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| UpdatedAGL Energy is preparing to shut down the Tomago Aluminium Smelter for the second day running to curtail electricity and prevent blackouts across the state.
Topics: electricity-energy-and-utilities, industry, nsw
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New low-emission buses are about to go into service in Adelaide, with dozens more to be built to fill interstate orders, as part of manufacturing efforts to fill the jobs hole when Holden closes in northern Adelaide.
Topics: programs-and-initiatives, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, work, community-and-society, manufacturing, industry, business-economics-and-finance, sa, adelaide-5000
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Western Australia's peak environmental lobby group claims uranium miner Cameco is unlikely to prioritise development of its projects in the state in the wake of a quarterly profit that was lower than expected.
Topics: uranium-mining, business-economics-and-finance, wa, kalgoorlie-6430
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| UpdatedThe Northern Territory's royal commission into youth detention travels to New Zealand to look at alternative approaches to youth justice that appear to be achieving results.
Topics: youth, law-crime-and-justice, nt
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A man is rushed to hospital after an explosion and fire at a hair loss treatment salon at North Adelaide.
Topics: fires, industrial-fires, emergency-incidents, disasters-and-accidents, north-adelaide-5006, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedA "perfect storm" party of teenagers, heat, drugs and alcohol forces the closure of the Pacific Highway at Lake Macquarie in NSW overnight, police say, after hundreds of drunken partygoers spill onto the streets fighting, throwing bottles and cans.
Topics: assault, crime, charlestown-2290, newcastle-2300
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An environmental group is warning water quality in Macquarie Harbour is threatening the survival of an ancient skate species.
Topics: endangered-and-protected-species, fishing-aquaculture, environmental-management, environmental-impact, strahan-7468