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A review of Adelaide's Late Night Code has been edited to make the city's 3:00am lockout appear more successful, a group representing licensed venues says.
Topics: parliament, government-and-politics, alcohol, states-and-territories, crime, law-crime-and-justice, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedGastric band surgery should be made more widely available, researchers say, after a study found the procedure had major benefits to overweight people with type-two diabetes.
Topics: health, diet-and-nutrition, diabetes, obesity, melbourne-3000, vic
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| UpdatedIt's been a month since the deadly attack in the heart of Melbourne's CBD. So how exactly will the victims of this tragedy be compensated?
Topics: crime, community-and-society, disasters-and-accidents, mental-health, melbourne-3000
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Some abortion services currently available at the Adelaide Women's and Children's Hospital could be moved to a different location as the hospital confirms a review.
Topics: health, womens-health, healthcare-facilities, pregnancy-and-childbirth, reproduction-and-contraception, north-adelaide-5006, adelaide-5000, woodville-5011, sa
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| UpdatedHomes in the community of Borroloola on the Gulf of Carpentaria are evacuated, with 74 residents sheltering elsewhere while waiting for Cyclone Alfred to make landfall.
Topics: weather, cyclone, cyclones, disasters-and-accidents, borroloola-0854, burketown-4830, doomadgee-4830, darwin-0800, cairns-4870, townsville-4810, qld, nt
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| UpdatedCronulla coach Shane Flanagan has no complaints about the referee following his side's 22-6 World Club Challenge defeat to Wigan despite the Sharks having two tries disallowed.
Topics: rugby-league, sport, england, united-kingdom, australia, cronulla-2230
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Renovations to police holding cells in the coming months could cause further overcrowding in South Australian prisons, the Opposition warns.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, elizabeth-5112, port-adelaide-5015, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedSheep racing is part of a unique attempt to draw a crowd to a tiny Tasmanian town an hour's drive north of Hobart.
Topics: lifestyle-and-leisure, travel-and-tourism, rural-tourism, kempton-7030, tas
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A new helpline is being launched in Australia today to support parents of troubled Muslim youths, and will address everything from bullying to drug abuse and even radicalisation.
Topics: community-and-society, religion-and-beliefs, australia
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Another last-ball Twenty20 loss ensures more debate about the Australian cricket team's schedule.
Topics: twenty20, cricket, sport, geelong-3220, vic, australia
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Don't believe anyone who claims they have an easy and painless way to make housing affordable; it just doesn't exist, writes the ABC's business editor Ian Verrender.
Topics: housing-industry, business-economics-and-finance, government-and-politics, housing, tax, australia
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A car bomb at a marketplace in Mogadishu leaves at least 34 people dead and another 52 injured, a police officer says.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, somalia
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| UpdatedA SpaceX Falcon rocket blasts off from a historic NASA launch pad at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, from which astronauts flew to the moon nearly a half-century ago.
Topics: science-and-technology, astronomy-space, spacecraft, united-states
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| UpdatedAn incredulous Nathan Lyon gets loud and lippy after being trumped by a tailender in Mumbai, according to India A's double-centurion Shreyas Iyer.
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| UpdatedTreasurer Peter Gutwein calls a meeting for Friday, declaring "it's not good enough" that 25 Tasmanian towns continue to have unsafe drinking water.
Topics: water-management, government-and-politics, tas
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| UpdatedThe battle for Mosul is street-by-street, with Islamic State suicide bombers and snipers a constant threat as the fighting rages. Correspondent Matt Brown and cameraman Aaron Hollett journeyed to the front line to experience the fighting firsthand.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, iraq
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The Anzac Park buildings in Campbell are a subject of fascination for many Canberrans. A first glance they look like a matching pair — but a closer examination shows this isn't quite correct.
Topics: urban-development-and-planning, public-sector, canberra-2600, act, australia
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As locals on Melbourne's south-western fringe fight plans for a youth justice centre in their suburb, the ABC speaks to residents of Ararat, in Victoria's west, about what it it is like to live near a prison.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, community-and-society, regional, law-crime-and-justice, crime, ararat-3377, vic, melbourne-3000, werribee-3030
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| UpdatedThe ABC obtains a raft of Cabinet briefing documents prepared for the Newman government's razor gang showing it axed Ecofund despite being told it was a "profitable, cash flow positive and standalone entity".
Topics: climate-change, environment, state-parliament, parliament, government-and-politics, qld, australia
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| UpdatedInternet giant Google is about to launch a hiring raid for Australia's best and brightest hackers in a move likely to exacerbate a major IT skills shortage in government agencies.
Topics: science-and-technology, computers-and-technology, internet-technology, security-intelligence, australia, nsw, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedNationally acclaimed singer-songwriter Melody Pool reveals she will be stepping back from music after battling crippling depression — a decision made at a time when the 25-year-old's career is just taking off.
Topics: music, country, depression, relationships, mental-health, kurri-kurri-2327, tamworth-2340, melbourne-3000
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Is year 12 really worth all the stress, and does it prepare you for the real world? Students who self-documented their entire final year for the ABC give their verdicts.
Topics: secondary-schools, schools, education, australia, wa, vic, tas, sa, qld, nt, nsw, act, kununurra-6743
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| UpdatedA day after falsely suggesting there was an immigration-related security incident in Sweden, President Donald Trump says his comment was based on a television report he had seen.
Topics: terrorism, government-and-politics, donald-trump, world-politics, immigration, us-elections, sweden, united-states
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| UpdatedThe Government is considering lifting a ban on allowing the Clean Energy Finance Corporation to invest in carbon capture and storage, as well as low-emission coal-fired plants, but Labor says there will not be any support from the market.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, environmental-policy, environment, energy, climate-change
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| UpdatedThe Australian Taxation Office admits its working hours do not meet community expectations, but staff respond with a backlash when asked to work an extra nine minutes a day to boost productivity.
Topics: public-sector, tax, government-and-politics, australia