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Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove praises the courage of Australia's veterans and prisoners of war during a commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the seminal moment when Singapore fell to the Japanese in 1942.
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One Nation candidates in the WA election are threatening to disobey their own party on the controversial preference deal struck with the Liberal Party.
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| UpdatedRetired Government MP Jillian Skinner is thought to be missing in action by colleagues after failing to turn up to New South Wales Parliament today.
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Onkaparinga councillors will discuss if its chief executive should pay back almost $7,000 for an elite golf membership at its next meeting, which the Mayor claims was used to foster Chinese business relations.
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| UpdatedThe Federal Government warns they may have to raise taxes to help pay for the National Disability Insurance Scheme if the Senate continues to block its omnibus saving bill.
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| UpdatedSchool principal Paul Browning says the education system is crushing creativity, so he's on a mission to convince the Federal Government to take a closer look at the issue.
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| UpdatedVictoria's career CFA firefighters will receive a $3,000 bonus and a boost to their allowances as a stopgap measure while a bitter pay dispute drags into a fourth year.
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Dr Leonid Petrov from the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific says it's not immediately clear who was behind the death of Kim Jong-un's half-brother Kim Jong-nam in a Malaysian airport.
Topics: foreign-affairs, government-and-politics, death, korea-republic-of, australia
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| UpdatedThe March state election will be the first fought under fresh electoral boundaries drawn in a 2015 redistribution — so what does it mean for the parties, their candidates and for you?
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| UpdatedThe Director of Human and Social Services in American Samoa who was at the centre of an extraordinary outburst against his own staff has kept his job, but he's still facing action for sex discrimination in the courts.
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| UpdatedAustralia's political leaders swap insults as they continue to debate how to fund the National Disability Insurance Scheme, with Malcolm Turnbull criticising Bill Shorten's "triple train wreck of an interview" on the ABC's AM program. Follow live.
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| UpdatedDonald Trump was informed in late January that Mr Flynn had not told Vice-President Mike Pence the whole truth about conversations he had with Russia's ambassador to the US before Mr Trump took office, White House spokesman Sean Spicer says.
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| UpdatedSexist, obscene and other offensive slogans on vans and vehicles, found on holiday hire vehicles such as controversial Wicked Campers, are being made illegal in Queensland.
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| UpdatedFinancial distress is affecting a huge number of Australians and the slightest wind could spell catastrophe for households, David Taylor writes.
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The election for governor of Jakarta will be held under a cloud of religious, racial and legal tension that has Indonesia's police chief worried about the intimidation of voters.
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| UpdatedOngoing job cuts in Airservices Australia leave the network at "breaking point" and senior managers express fears the new regime is "a huge risk to public safety", an ABC investigation reveals.
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| UpdatedThe half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is dead after being reportedly assassinated by two chemical-wielding female North Korean agents in Kuala Lumpur airport.
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Beverley O'Connor speaks to Khaled Beydoun of the University of Detroit Mercy Law School about the implications of Michael Flynn's resignation.
Topics: government-and-politics, world-politics, defence-and-national-security, security-intelligence, united-states
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| UpdatedAmongst the litany of miserable statistics in this year's Closing the Gap report, there is a standout exception: 30,000 Indigenous university graduates who have erased their employment gap. These are the success stories of the quiet revolution, writes Stan Grant.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, federal-government, government-and-politics, community-and-society, australia
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An audit puts the spotlight on the Federal Government's $3.5 billion commitment to Sydney's WestConnex project, finding the money was handed over without following process.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, federal---state-issues, sydney-2000
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Host: John Barron
Panel: Chris Sarra, Osman Faruqi, Tracy Howe and Jacinta Price
The panel discusses the ninth Closing the Gap report and Coles’ new 12-item limit on self-checkouts.
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How the fall of Singapore changed three Australian prisoners of war, sharing their stories on its 75th anniversary.
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