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Monday, 13 February 2017

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Beverley O'Connor speaks to Seong Hyon Lee of the Sejong Institute in Seoul on the reaction in the region to the North Korean launch.

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Q&A panellists Yassmin Abdel-Magied and Jacqui Lambie had a fiery exchange over sharia law.

Outspoken independent senator Jacqui Lambie gets into a shouting match over sharia law with Yassmin Abdel-Magied, a former Queensland Young Australian of the Year, on Q&A.

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Exiled Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy tells Beverley O'Connor he stepped down to save his party from dissolution.

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In this update, Some residents have returned to their homes in NSW to find nothing left after bushfires engulfed parts of the state; Northern Territory police are planning the next stage of their search for a German woman, who disappeared in remote central Australia; Several One Nation candidates are threatening to boycott a preference deal with the West Australian Liberals ahead of march's state election; Evacuation orders remains in force for almost two hundred thousand people amid fears part of America's tallest dam could collapse.

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In this update, Some residents have returned to their homes in NSW to find nothing left after bushfires engulfed parts of the state; Northern Territory police are planning the next stage of their search for a German woman, who disappeared in remote central Australia; Several One Nation candidates are threatening to boycott a preference deal with the West Australian Liberals ahead of march's state election; Evacuation orders remains in force for almost two hundred thousand people amid fears part of America's tallest dam could collapse.

The Northern Territory Government is failing to follow its own laws that recommend at-risk Indigenous children be placed within their families and communities as a priority, Yingiya Mark Guyula says.

The fate of $60,000 of gold stolen from a West Australian mine site by three men is set to be decided by a Kalgoorlie court, with police due to apply for it to be forfeited to the state.

The leaking of documents on Twitter prompts Seven West Media's Jeff Kennett to engage in Twitter battle.

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In this update, The New South Wales Rural Fire Service says nineteen homes were destroyed in the weekend bushfires amidst catastrophic fire conditions; Northern Territory police have found a body in the search for two German tourists who disappeared on Friday; Several One Nation candidates are threatening to boycott a preference deal with the West Australian liberals ahead of March's state election; And Winx has re-written the racing books equaling Phar Lap's winning streak.

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In this update, The New South Wales Rural Fire Service says nineteen homes were destroyed in the weekend bushfires amidst catastrophic fire conditions; Northern Territory police have found a body in the search for two German tourists who disappeared on Friday; Several One Nation candidates are threatening to boycott a preference deal with the West Australian liberals ahead of March's state election; And Winx has re-written the racing books equaling Phar Lap's winning streak.

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Did you know a bushfire can create its own weather system?

The NT Children's Commissioner says there are times when police should be able to taser young people if the situation justifies it.

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One of the country's largest owner of coal-fired power stations, Energy Australia, has taken out a full page ad in a national broadsheet, declaring its support for a non-partisan push for clean energy. The managing director of Energy Australia, Catherine Tanna, speaks to Elysse.

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Haulage company Aurizon, which moves millions of tonnes of coal and iron ore between mines and ports, has returned to profitability thanks to major cost cuts - which included shedding 500 workers. Aurizon CEO, Andrew Harding speaks to Elysse.

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The local sharemarket rallied today thanks to higher commodity prices. CMC Markets' Michael McCarthy speaks to Elysse.

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CCTV footage shows the men filling a car before driving off, and being involved in a fatal crash.

Darwin police lacked clear objectives and resolution strategies to deal with an ice-fuelled group crime spree and subsequent car crash that killed a teenager in 2015, a coronial inquest hears.

Former prime minister Tony Abbott says it is disappointing Malcolm Turnbull has not spent a week each year in a remote Aboriginal or Torres Strait community.

Tasmania's Anglican Bishop takes disciplinary action against Philip Newell — a bishop in Tasmania for 18 years — who was found to have allowed a man he knew had sexually abused boys to stay in the church.

Geelong defender Harry Taylor becomes the second high-profile AFL player to raise concerns about the prevalence of gambling advertisements, saying he is worried about the impact it has on children.

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The local share market rose strongly today, thanks to spirited buying of mining stocks.

A former NSW Rural Fire Service volunteer is refused bail after being charged for lighting two fires north-west of Forster, a crime the RFS Commissioner slams as "heinous".

A shaky-looking preference deal, criticism of Labor's debt strategy and a knife threat to the Opposition Leader's son were key talking points on the campaign trail on Monday.

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The Gulf country community of Georgetown has lost a leader and a woman whose heart was almost as big as the country she loved and represented so well. Noeline Ikin lost a battle against an aggressive brain tumour on Saturday. Georgetown was a community she adopted when she began working with the Northern Gulf Natural Resource Management (NRM) group. But it didn't take long for Noeline to make it her own, as her friend, colleague and mentor Barry Hughes recalls.

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