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Fundraising for a good cause can be fraught with financial and legal pitfalls, so make sure you know the rules.
Topics: charities-and-community-organisations, laws, human-interest, perth-6000
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| UpdatedBoth major parties bring out retired, successful leaders to boost their image as they campaign ahead of the March state election.
Topics: elections, perth-6000
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| UpdatedThe recent test-firing of a missile towards Japan is a reminder that North Korea is "convinced that war is imminent", warns one of the world's leading experts on the reclusive regime.
Topics: world-politics, unrest-conflict-and-war, korea-democratic-people-s-republic-of
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Home detention bail is granted to a man charged over a two-year-old boy's death in an alleged hit-run at Dover Gardens in Adelaide.
Topics: courts-and-trials, traffic-offences, crime, law-crime-and-justice, dover-gardens-5048, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedThe authors of a new fairtyale book about two men falling in love are hoping to shift cultural attitudes towards the LGBTI community and prevent homophobic bullying that can lead to teens taking their own lives.
Topics: gays-and-lesbians, community-and-society, author, books-literature, arts-and-entertainment, suicide, new-zealand
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The rise of FIFO workers in one of the Northern Territory's last surviving mining towns has led unionists to call for drastic measures, however some experts say a golden era is clearly over.
Topics: mining-industry, mining-rural, regional-development, people, community-and-society, nt, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedOne 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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Same-sex couples can now legally adopt children in South Australia, with new laws coming into effect today.
Topics: adoption, family-and-children, gays-and-lesbians, laws, sa
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Victorians are again being warned to protect themselves from mosquito bites with reported cases of Ross River virus continuing to "rise significantly".
Topics: ross-river-fever, diseases-and-disorders, health, vic, melbourne-3000
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Carbon pricing, new LNG supplies from US shale gas, and coal demand are all on BP's radar as the world moves towards decarbonisation.
Topics: mining-rural, mining-industry, business-economics-and-finance, oil-and-gas, perth-6000
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A top female lawyer says even she is not immune to gender biases — including associating women with child-rearing and men with work — as she launches courses for lawyers to tackle the men's club mentality in law.
Topics: judges-and-legal-profession, feminism, women, men, discrimination, australia
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The head of Medibank Private defends its health insurance premium increases, while also delivering a disappointing half-year profit for shareholders.
Topics: company-news, health-insurance, australia
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The man who discovered the body of a truck driver in Western Australia's outback more than two years says he is staggered WorkSafe has not released its findings into the death.
Topics: death, workplace, occupational-health-and-safety, meekatharra-6642
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Santos improves its loss to $1.4 billion, while Virgin Australia dives back into the red.
Topics: company-news, air-transport, oil-and-gas, australia, sa
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A hastily-made press conference, some big love-ins and a round of golf made for another big week in the White House, ABC Washington bureau chief Zoe Daniel writes.
Topics: foreign-affairs, world-politics, united-states
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| UpdatedA potentially lethal drug that can "bring down elephants" and is 10,000 times more potent than morphine is discovered at a Brisbane mail centre, sparking urgent police warnings.
Topics: drug-offences, crime, drug-use, brisbane-4000, qld, australia
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| UpdatedA man is sentenced to 12 years in prison for a series of attacks described in court as "terrifying" and "brutal" on young women in Western Australia in the early 1990s.
Topics: sexual-offences, child-abuse, police, gosnells-6110, albany-6330, perth-6000
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| UpdatedThe housing affordability debate is increasingly becoming the home of dangerous ideas that would do little to help first home buyers and much to destroy the Australian economy, writes Michael Janda.
Topics: housing-industry, consumer-finance, economic-trends, australia
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| UpdatedSevere thunderstorms hit greater Sydney, with damaging winds and two-centimetre hailstones reported in Penrith.
Topics: weather, storm-event, sydney-2000, penrith-2750, newcastle-2300, wollongong-2500
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John Merrick spent 20 years helping grieving people identify and deal with the loss of their loved ones at a Sydney city morgue. And the experience taught him a lot about life and death.
Topics: death, community-and-society, counselling, australia
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| UpdatedWests Tigers back Tim Simona faces being banned from rugby league after becoming embroiled in an NRL betting scandal.
Topics: nrl, rugby-league, sport, balmain-2041, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedAt least six homes have been lost in a fast-moving, out-of-control grassfire burning near Queanbeyan in southern New South Wales.
Topics: fires, disasters-and-accidents, queanbeyan-2620, nsw
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| UpdatedThe Hobart crypt is ready to receive a religious pioneer who, 151 years after his death, will have his life's wish to return to Tasmania finally fulfilled.
Topics: religion-and-beliefs, history, community-and-society, hobart-7000
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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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| UpdatedThe State Opposition accuses the Government of backtracking on a promise to provide light rail to Sydney Olympic Park in the first stage of construction, amid concerns it will eventually be dropped from the plan altogether.
Topics: government-and-politics, community-and-society, parramatta-2150, nsw, sydney-2000