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| UpdatedWA Labor says it expects the Prime Minister will back down on a threat to prevent $1.2 billion in Perth Freight Link funding being diverted to the party's flagship transport project Metronet.
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| UpdatedJohaan Kaa, who lost both his legs and arms to meningococcal in 2014, hopes Queensland parents will take up a new $6-million State Government program to provide free vaccines to all 15 to 19-year-olds.
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| UpdatedOutdated trams are being considered at an inflated price by the South Australian Government just so they can be in use before the state election next year, the Opposition says.
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| UpdatedThe State Government moves to ban super trawlers from Tasmanian waters and wants the Federal Government to follow suit.
Topics: fishing-aquaculture, government-and-politics, tas, ulverstone-7315
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| UpdatedUS President Donald Trump's new travel ban executive order will exclude green card residency holders, Secretary for Homeland Security John Kelly says.
Topics: world-politics, immigration, donald-trump, government-and-politics, united-states
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The WA Liberal Party denies its surge in the polls is due to a preference deal with Pauline Hanson's One Nation, instead attributing the gain to a growing lack of faith in the Labor Party.
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| UpdatedThe Barnett Government makes a pitch to the third of the state who fish, offering to create artificial reefs and invest more money boosting stocks if it wins re-election.
Topics: fish, elections, government-and-politics, rural, fishing-aquaculture, environment, wa
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The new roof at Kingston Soldiers' Memorial Hospital cost a private donor $900,000.
Topics: community-and-society, health, healthcare-facilities, government-and-politics, kingston-se-5275
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A public hospital in country South Australia is forced to rely upon a private donor to fix a badly leaking roof after the State Government ignored repeated requests to replace it.
Topics: health, healthcare-facilities, community-and-society, government-and-politics, kingston-se-5275, sa, adelaide-5000
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Donald Trump has promised to boost US manufacturing and punish companies for moving jobs overseas, during a visit to a South Carolina Boeing factory to celebrate the unveiling of the company's latest Dreamliner jet.
Topics: world-politics, business-economics-and-finance, industry, us-elections, government-and-politics, united-states
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Some public sector radiologists are threatening to cut back their services, saying their skills are not being recognised by SA health authorities.
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| UpdatedA $400-million science and technology precinct for Hobart's CBD is now a step closer to becoming a reality after being given approval from Australia's peak infrastructure advisory body.
Topics: science-and-technology, university-and-further-education, education, government-and-politics, hobart-7000, tas
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| UpdatedWith the year getting off to a wild start, we asked a range of experts what they're most excited about for the rest of 2017— and what they're most worried about.
Topics: government-and-politics, environment, science-and-technology, australia
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| UpdatedMidnight Oil is back from their long break and ready to address the tumultuous political climate, dominated by the likes of Donald Trump, in their upcoming world tour, lead singer Peter Garrett says.
Topics: music, arts-and-entertainment, rock, government-and-politics, australia
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| UpdatedTassal says it will comply with all required conditions to develop a salmon farm on Tasmania's east coast as it says it is not proud of its role in polluting Macquarie Harbour.
Topics: fishing-aquaculture, government-and-politics, triabunna-7190, strahan-7468, tas
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Host: Ellen Fanning
Panel: Nick Cater, Georgina Dent & Tory Shepherd
Interview with: Steve Hambleton
The panel discusses the Australian Medical Association's latest public hospital report card & Labor’s backtrack on its renewable energy target.
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Pauline Hanson and her One Nation colleagues are asked to move their press conference from private property, February 17, 2017.
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Another week, another round of bluff and bluster in the halls of Parliament House. Are the Liberals cosying up with One Nation? Have the wheels fallen off the Omnibus? What do former politicians entitlements have to do with Nazi Germany? Matthew Doran and Stephen Dziedzic try to make sense of the week that was.
Topics: government-and-politics, elections, federal-elections, australia, parliament-house-2600
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The Chaser's Chas Licciardello and the ABC's John Barron set out to discover the real America – its politics and its people – with US and Australian experts coming along for the ride!
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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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| UpdatedPauline Hanson and her One Nation colleagues are asked to move their press conference from private property, February 17, 2017.
Topics: political-parties, media, government-and-politics, one-nation, qld
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| UpdatedThe row between New Zealand and Tokelau over the purchase of two helicopters underlines the unique and at times conflicting roles of New Zealand and the Pacific nations it has a constitutional role in.
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