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A mutiny is brewing on Norfolk Island following the Australian takeover.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, states-and-territories, norfolk-island, australia
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| UpdatedIt may be a lonely speck in the South Pacific, but the Australian takeover of Norfolk Island is sparking criticism from the other side of the world and exposing deep divisions within the small community.
Topics: federal-parliament, state-parliament, parliament, government-and-politics, norfolk-island, australia
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| UpdatedA team of high school students from Norfolk Island are making final preparations ahead of the Premier's debating challenge finals tomorrow.
Topics: schools, children, sydney-2000, norfolk-island
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| UpdatedBritish backbencher Andrew Rosindell launches a scathing attack on the Federal Government, accusing it of colonising and annexing Norfolk Island.
Topics: federal-government, government-and-politics, australia, norfolk-island, united-kingdom
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| UpdatedA fact-finding delegation of British MPs are in Norfolk Island to investigate the way Australia has cancelled the island's self-governing status.
Topics: local-government, colonialism, pacific, norfolk-island, united-kingdom, australia
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| UpdatedFor the first time ever, Norfolk Islanders will be counted in the Australian census.
Topics: population-and-demographics, pacific, norfolk-island-2899, norfolk-island
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Topics: norfolk-island-2899, norfolk-island
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| UpdatedA group opposed to Australia fully integrating Norfolk Island into the rest of the country says it's being censored.
Topics: speech, media, pacific, norfolk-island
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The Federal Government is accused of ignoring the wishes of Norfolk Island residents as it pushes ahead with a plan to replace the island's government with a regional council.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, local-government, norfolk-island, australia
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| UpdatedMedical cannabis will eventually be legalised in Australia and opposition is based on "faith, not logic", the chairman of a business granted permission to grow crops on Norfolk Island says.
Topics: cannabis, perth-6000, norfolk-island
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Fiercely independent Norfolk Island will soon lose its self-governing powers and fall under Canberra's rule.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, local-government, community-and-society, norfolk-island
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| UpdatedIndependent senator Nick Xenophon will introduce a private member's bill into Parliament which will seek to protect the rights of plane crash survivors to be compensated for psychological trauma.
Topics: air-and-space, disasters-and-accidents, accidents, laws, international-law, law-crime-and-justice, mental-health, norfolk-island-2899, norfolk-island
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| UpdatedNorfolk Island residents will have to pay income tax and their parliament will be replaced with a local council under a $136 million plan signed off on by Federal Cabinet.
Topics: federal-government, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, norfolk-island, norfolk-island-2899, dubbo-2830, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedFamily and friends of Colleen McCullough brave the rain to pay tribute to the late Australian author at her funeral service on Norfolk Island.
Topics: books-literature, arts-and-entertainment, death, norfolk-island, australia
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Internationally acclaimed Australian author Colleen McCullough has died in hospital on Norfolk Island, aged 77.
Topics: death, arts-and-entertainment, human-interest, australia, norfolk-island
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| UpdatedInternationally acclaimed author Colleen McCullough has died in hospital on Norfolk Island aged 77. McCullough's novel The Thorn Birds was an international bestseller, and was turned into a popular television series in 1983.
Topics: human-interest, norfolk-island, australia
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| UpdatedThe Federal Government is likely to scrap Norfolk Island's parliament early next year but residents are vowing to fight a return to "colonial style" rule.
Topics: states-and-territories, government-and-politics, territorial-disputes, australia, norfolk-island
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| UpdatedA Senate Committee inquiry has cast serious doubt on the standard of Australia's air safety regulators, warning of systemic failures.
Topics: air-and-space, accidents, disasters-and-accidents, air-transport, norfolk-island, australia, canberra-2600
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| UpdatedTwo local fishermen saved 18 people on board a yacht caught in rough seas off Norfolk Island last night.
Topics: maritime, accidents, disasters-and-accidents, norfolk-island
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See how the world's population has grown through the centuries.
Topics: population-and-demographics, afghanistan, albania, algeria, american-samoa, andorra, angola, anguilla, antarctica, antigua-and-barbuda, argentina, armenia, aruba, asia, australia, austria, azerbaijan, bahamas, bahrain, bangladesh, barbados, belarus, belgium, belize, benin, bermuda, bhutan, bolivia, bosnia-and-herzegovina, botswana, bouvet-island, brazil, british-indian-ocean-territory, brunei-darussalam, bulgaria, burkina-faso, burma, burundi, cambodia, cameroon, canada, cape-verde, cayman-islands, central-african-republic, chad, chile, easter-island, china, christmas-island, cocos-keeling-islands, colombia, comoros, congo, congo-the-democratic-republic-of-the, cook-islands, costa-rica, croatia, cuba, cyprus, czech-republic, denmark, djibouti, dominica, dominican-republic, east-timor, ecuador, egypt, el-salvador, equatorial-guinea, eritrea, estonia, ethiopia, european-union, falkland-islands-malvinas, faroe-islands, fiji, finland, france, french-guiana, french-polynesia, french-southern-territories, gabon, gambia, georgia, germany, ghana, gibraltar, greece, greenland, grenada, guadeloupe, guam, guatemala, guinea, guinea-bissau, guyana, haiti, heard-island-and-mcdonald-islands, holy-see-vatican-city-state, honduras, hong-kong, hungary, iceland, india, jammu-and-kashmir, indonesia, aceh, bali, java, kalimantan, lombok, maluku, papua, sulawesi, sumatra, west-timor, iran-islamic-republic-of, iraq, kurdistan, ireland, israel, italy, ivory-coast, jamaica, japan, jordan, kazakhstan, kenya, kiribati, korea-democratic-people-s-republic-of, korea-republic-of, kuwait, kyrgyzstan, lao-people-s-democratic-republic, latvia, lebanon, lesotho, liberia, libyan-arab-jamahiriya, liechtenstein, lithuania, luxembourg, macao, macedonia-the-former-yugoslav-republic-of, madagascar, malawi, malaysia, maldives, mali, malta, marshall-islands, martinique, mauritania, mauritius, mayotte, mexico, micronesia-federated-states-of, moldova-republic-of, monaco, mongolia, montserrat, morocco, mozambique, namibia, nauru, nepal, netherlands, netherlands-antilles, new-caledonia, new-zealand, nicaragua, niger, nigeria, niue, norfolk-island, northern-mariana-islands, norway, oman, pacific, pakistan, palau, palestinian-territory-occupied, panama, papua-new-guinea, bougainville, paraguay, peru, philippines, pitcairn, poland, portugal, puerto-rico, qatar, reunion, romania, russian-federation, chechnya, rwanda, saint-helena, saint-kitts-and-nevis, saint-lucia, saint-pierre-and-miquelon, saint-vincent-and-the-grenadines, samoa, san-marino, sao-tome-and-principe, saudi-arabia, senegal, seychelles, sierra-leone, singapore, slovakia, slovenia, solomon-islands, guadalcanal, malaita, somalia, south-africa, south-georgia-and-the-south-sandwich-islands, spain, sri-lanka, sudan, suriname, svalbard-and-jan-mayen, swaziland, sweden, switzerland, syrian-arab-republic, taiwan, tajikistan, tanzania-united-republic-of, thailand, togo, tokelau, tonga, torres-strait-islands, trinidad-and-tobago, tunisia, turkey, turkmenistan, turks-and-caicos-islands, tuvalu, uganda, ukraine, united-arab-emirates, united-kingdom, england, northern-ireland, scotland, wales, united-states, hawaii, united-states-minor-outlying-islands, uruguay, uzbekistan, vanuatu, venezuela, vietnam, virgin-islands-british, virgin-islands-us, wallis-and-futuna, western-sahara, yemen, yugoslavia, kosovo, montenegro, serbia, zambia, zimbabwe
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| UpdatedThe only known shipwreck from the First Fleet has been added to the National Heritage List.
Topics: 18th-century, community-and-society, history, norfolk-island, australia, sydney-2000, nsw
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| UpdatedA New Zealand documentary maker is calling on the Australian Federal Police to reopen the murder case of Australian woman Janelle Patton who died on Norfolk Island in 2002.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, arts-and-entertainment, film-movies, documentary, law-crime-and-justice, crime, norfolk-island-2899, nsw, norfolk-island
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| UpdatedNew Zealand documentary maker is calling on the Australian Federal Police to reopen the murder case of Australian woman Janelle Patton who died on Norfolk Island in 2002.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, norfolk-island, norfolk-island-2899
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| UpdatedA survivor of a medivac flight which ditched into the sea off Norfolk Island on Wednesday night has praised the crew for their handling of the emergency.
Topics: air-and-space, accidents, disasters-and-accidents, sydney-2000, australia, nsw, norfolk-island
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| UpdatedThe pilot of a CareFlight jet is being hailed a hero after he safely ditched the plane into the Pacific Ocean.
Topics: air-and-space, accidents, disasters-and-accidents, norfolk-island