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The Fregon Anangu School in South Australia's Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands improves its 2013 attendance rate by 30 per cent, attracting praise from Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
Topics: access-to-education, fregon-872
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| UpdatedThe family of champion swimmer Grant Hackett are pleading with him to make contact after revealing he has not been seen since checking out of a Gold Coast hotel this morning, a day after he was arrested over a disturbance at his parents' house.
Topics: olympics-summer, missing-person, mental-health, southport-4215
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| UpdatedThe ACT Government announces plans to install an oversight agency in Canberra's jail, acknowledging it "must do more" to improve the care of prisoners after the death of inmate Steven Freeman.
Topics: states-and-territories, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, black-deaths-in-custody, canberra-2600, act
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North-west Tasmanian farmers say they have not been properly consulted about an irrigation pipeline that will be built on their properties.
Topics: irrigation, smithton-7330
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The path of US singer-songwriter Ryan Adams has taken many unexpected turns and that is a testimony to the role music plays in his life, writes Mark Bannerman.
Topics: bands-and-artists, guitar, rock, australia
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| UpdatedHollywood actor and tech investor Ashton Kutcher tells a US Senate committee about the children his anti-trafficking organisation has rescued, saying "I've seen things no person should ever see".
Topics: actor, arts-and-entertainment, human-trafficking, law-crime-and-justice, crime-prevention, crime, child-abuse, united-states
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| UpdatedKim Jong-nam's death earlier this week came years after pleas for his life to be spared went unheard by his younger sibling Kim Jong-il — and years after an unsuccessful assassination attempt.
Topics: world-politics, royal-and-imperial-matters, korea-democratic-people-s-republic-of
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| UpdatedFrom parrots served at weddings to ox tail for afternoon tea, Queensland's dining past has been filled with creatures great and small.
Topics: food-and-cooking, history, community-and-society, human-interest, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedA "wickedly manipulative" serial paedophile priest is sentenced to stay behind bars until at least 2026 for the sexual abuse of boys at St Stanislaus College in Bathurst in central west NSW.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, sexual-offences, religion-and-beliefs, catholic, sydney-2000, bathurst-2795
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Slater & Gordon and Ten Network have upset investors with profit warnings, while South32 shares fell despite a return to profitability.
Topics: company-news, stockmarket, mining-industry, media, australia
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| UpdatedHe is part of the furniture at Arsenal, but Arsene Wenger's 20-year reign as Gunners manager surely has to come to a sad end following a 5-1 loss to Bayern Munich.
Topics: english-premier, champions-league, soccer, sport, england
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| UpdatedAn Indigenous organisation that provides services to town camps welcomes the announcement of an audit into a controversial management contract in Alice Springs.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, housing, government-and-politics, alice-springs-0870
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| UpdatedTwo popular cafes in Canberra are forced to close after an unknown number of people are hospitalised with food poisoning.
Topics: food-poisoning, food-safety, health, diseases-and-disorders, food-and-beverage, jamison-centre-2614, macquarie-2614, belconnen-2617, gungahlin-2912, canberra-2600, act, australia
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| UpdatedThe installation of a new gas-fired generator and the establishment of a solar thermal power plant are the most likely short-term solutions to electricity shortages in South Australia, the director of the Australian Industrial Transformation Institute says.
Topics: electricity-energy-and-utilities, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, federal-government, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedMalaysian police arrest second woman in connection with the murder of Kim Jong-nam, the half brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, state media reports.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, world-politics, korea-democratic-people-s-republic-of, korea-republic-of, malaysia
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Two police officers are charged over an alleged assault on a female former police officer in custody at the Ballarat police station two years ago.
Topics: police, crime, law-crime-and-justice, ballarat-3350, vic
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Larry Buttrose was hired to write the story of Saroo Brierley, the Indian boy whose life journey inspired the Hollywood film Lion.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, books-literature, film-movies, human-interest, sydney-2000
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Tasmania's biggest salmon producer is set to lose its key sustainability certificate and there are fears for the local tourism industry over the poor health of Macquarie Harbour on the state's west coast.
Topics: fishing-aquaculture, regulation, tas
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| UpdatedClose to 4,500 people made claims for alleged incidents of child sexual abuse between January 1980 and February 2015 but the earliest incidents reported to a claim were in the 1920s, the child abuse royal commission hears.
Topics: royal-commissions, law-crime-and-justice, child-abuse, sexual-offences, catholic, religion-and-beliefs, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedA man uses his robotic exoskeleton to walk onto the soccer pitch. A woman sees the world using her bionic eye. Sound like science fiction? No, these are all real stories.
Topics: biotechnology, science-and-technology, neuroscience, robots-and-artificial-intelligence, disabilities, health, australia, germany, sweden
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| UpdatedA senior member of Victoria's community-based firefighting organisation, the CFA, is stood aside after an unauthorised security camera is found in a shed where volunteers change their clothes.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, community-and-society, fires, bendigo-3550, vic
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| UpdatedThe Indigenous Aurukun primary school run in partnership with Noel Pearson's Good to Great Schools organisation routinely overstated enrolments because there was a misunderstanding of policy, netting up to $815,000 in extra payments, a report finds.
Topics: education, access-to-education, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, aboriginal, activism-and-lobbying, schools, public-sector, aurukun-4871, qld, cairns-4870, townsville-4810, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedOfficials are racing to drain more water from a lake behind the battered Oroville Dam, as new storms begin rolling into Northern California.
Topics: dams-and-reservoirs, disasters-and-accidents, united-states
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Not all charities spend your donated dollars equally and we should take a more rigorous approach to who we support, according to global social movement that is starting an Australian chapter.
Topics: charities, charities-and-community-organisations, community-and-society, australia
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| UpdatedA man who said he pulled his pants down in front of police in anticipation of a strip-search is banned from driving and fined.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, hobart-7000