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One Nation leader Pauline Hanson and new Queensland recruit Steve Dickson are interrupted during a media conference at a Sunshine Coast shopping centre and told to leave the "private property".
Topics: government-and-politics, states-and-territories, one-nation, liberal-national-party-queensland, pauline-hanson, nambour-4560
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| UpdatedThe Queensland Government declares an expanded "investigation zone" after the discovery of flammable levels of hydrogen in soil on the western Darling Downs.
Topics: oil-and-gas, electricity-energy-and-utilities, energy, environment, states-and-territories, hopeland-4413, chinchilla-4413, qld
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| UpdatedPeople with disabilities, including Adelaide man Nick Schumi, say it is hard to land a job when you head to an interview only to find the building cannot accommodate your wheelchair.
Topics: disabilities, activism-and-lobbying, states-and-territories, work, community-and-society, government-and-politics, adelaide-5000, sa
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Canberra lawyers launch a scathing attack on the ACT Government accusing it of "wilfully" hiding the fact several people may have been sent to jail illegally, because of a glitch.
Topics: states-and-territories, canberra-2600, act
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Labor clears the path for Peter Malinauskas, seen by some as a potential future ALP leader, to switch houses at the next South Australian election, which is just over a year away.
Topics: states-and-territories, alp, political-parties, government-and-politics, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedSunshine Coast independent MP and the Speaker of the Queensland Parliament Peter Wellington drops a political bombshell by announcing he will not run in his seat of Nicklin at the next state election.
Topics: government-and-politics, state-parliament, people, states-and-territories, brisbane-4000, nambour-4560
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| UpdatedIn light of the Victorian Government's move to overhaul Melbourne's bus network, we take a look at some of the innovative systems other cities have in place and what Melbourne could learn from them.
Topics: states-and-territories, parliament, government-and-politics, community-and-society, urban-development-and-planning, melbourne-3000, vic
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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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| 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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| UpdatedA lockdown of South Australian prisons ends as the union representing prison staff and the State Government head to the Industrial Relations Commission.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, unions, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, murray-bridge-5253, adelaide-5000, port-augusta-5700, mount-gambier-5290, cadell-5321, sa
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| UpdatedThe South Australian Labor Party is set for more infighting over preselections, with a group of left-wing industrial unions backing their own candidate for a vacancy in the Upper House.
Topics: political-parties, parliament, state-parliament, states-and-territories, adelaide-5000
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| UpdatedThe Australian Energy Market Operator says it can't give a guarantee that it will not order load shedding, of the kind that left 90,000 properties without power during a recent heatwave in South Australia, again.
Topics: government-and-politics, electricity-energy-and-utilities, states-and-territories, adelaide-5000, sa, vic
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| UpdatedDecades-old bus contracts are holding back the ability to run more services in Melbourne and revamp the declining network, so the system will be overhauled, the Victorian Government says.
Topics: urban-development-and-planning, community-and-society, states-and-territories, melbourne-3000, vic
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| UpdatedA re-elected Barnett Government would take a hard line on reforming the public sector and launch a push towards privatising more services to help restore the budget to surplus, the WA Treasurer reveals.
Topics: elections, states-and-territories, state-parliament, perth-6000, wa
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| UpdatedThe former Labor leader and ambassador to the US says Pauline Hanson's One Nation is a threat to Australia's national security and prosperity.
Topics: federal-government, government-and-politics, federal---state-issues, states-and-territories, one-nation, world-politics, australia, wa
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| UpdatedElectricity load shedding in South Australia last week, which affected 90,000 customers, was three times the level ordered by the Australian Energy Market Operator, a report into the blackouts finds.
Topics: government-and-politics, states-and-territories, sa, adelaide-5000
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| UpdatedPauline Hanson strikes back at One Nation's WA candidates who are complaining about a controversial preference deal with the Liberal Party, telling them if they're not happy with it, "don't stand under my name".
Topics: government-and-politics, elections, state-parliament, one-nation, states-and-territories, wa
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| UpdatedA union places inmates in all South Australian prisons in lockdown over what it says is a failing by the Corrections Department to address overcrowding concerns.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, unions, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, murray-bridge-5253, sa, adelaide-5000, port-augusta-5700, mount-gambier-5290, cadell-5321
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| UpdatedOne Nation candidates in the WA election are threatening to disobey their own party on the controversial preference deal struck with the Liberal Party.
Topics: government-and-politics, elections, state-parliament, one-nation, states-and-territories, bullying, wa
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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.
Topics: state-parliament, parliament, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, liberals, political-parties, north-sydney-2060
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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.
Topics: bushfire, states-and-territories, federal-government, federal---state-issues, government-and-politics, vic
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| UpdatedA RSL club faces an extraordinary attack from Bec Cody over toilet wall tiles which depict Indigenous men — criticism the club says is "ridiculous" and "out of order".
Topics: states-and-territories, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, canberra-2600, act, jervis-bay-2540, nsw, bega-2550
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| UpdatedIndependent senator Jacqui Lambie says she is considering fielding candidates for her own political party at the next Tasmanian election if nothing is done to fix the state's health system.
Topics: government-and-politics, immigration, refugees, states-and-territories, health-policy, elections, tas
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Tougher laws, more drug-driving tests and greater search powers for police are all options on the table as South Australia sets up a taskforce to urgently tackle growing use of the drug ice.
Topics: states-and-territories, government-and-politics, drug-offences, drug-use, health, drugs-and-substance-abuse, community-and-society, sa
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| UpdatedThere are fears the new Royal Adelaide Hospital will struggle to cope with its first winter flu season after the current hospital hits capacity during summer.
Topics: health, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, healthcare-facilities, adelaide-5000, sa