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| UpdatedTroubled swimming champion Grant Hackett says he will seek help for mental health issues both in Australia and overseas, days after his arrest over a disturbance at his parents' Gold Coast home.
Topics: olympics-summer, swimming, mental-health, sport, surfers-paradise-4217
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| UpdatedAmid a massive spike in heroin overdose deaths, families who have lost loved ones are pleading with the Victorian Government to introduce a safe injecting room.
Topics: heroin, drugs-and-substance-abuse, richmond-3121
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Workers at Adelaide's Coca-Cola production factory have had their shifts cancelled and a meeting has been called for Wednesday morning leaving about 150 jobs in doubt, the union says.
Topics: unemployment, community-and-society, company-news, thebarton-5031, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedThe first national survey of housing tenants has revealed renters in Australia lack the power to demand standard property maintenance. Here's just some of the experiences Australian renters have faced.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, house-and-home, lifestyle, community-and-society, australia
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Vegetable growers in rural areas around Perth fear bankruptcy after a quarantine lock-down following the discovery of the tomato potato psyllid.
Topics: rural, pest-management, quarantine, perth-6000
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WA Labor says it will not impose any new taxes or tax increases on West Australians if it wins government in next month's state election, while the Premier holds on to hope for action on GST distribution.
Topics: elections, government-and-politics, tax, wa
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| UpdatedA royal commission will quiz senior government officials about the Commonwealth's response to a report into the sexual abuse of children in immigration detention centres.
Topics: royal-commissions, law-crime-and-justice, child-abuse, immigration, community-and-society, sydney-2000
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The Australian Taxation Office is ordered to refund more than $1 million it took from failed South Australian company Penrice, after being sued by the company's liquidators.
Topics: tax, government-and-politics, company-news, osborne-5017, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedIf you get to work early, stay back late, or put in extra hours at home you are not alone, and experts say workplace culture is driving fulltime workers to do more than 5 unpaid hours every week.
Topics: work, unemployment, community-and-society, australia
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| UpdatedThe company behind a $100-million solar plant with battery storage says its project could solve South Australia's energy woes as the Federal Government announces a $445,000 investment into a pumped hydro-station for the state.
Topics: solar-energy, alternative-energy, environment, states-and-territories, state-parliament, federal---state-issues, government-and-politics, hydro-energy, geothermal-energy, port-augusta-5700, adelaide-5000, sa
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Former world number three surfer Owen Wright makes a triumphant return to competition in Newcastle, 15 months on from a serious head injury.
Topics: surfing, sport, brain-and-nervous-system, newcastle-2300
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Wildlife carers, already overwhelmed by bushfires in southern New South Wales in January, are expecting hundreds of injured kangaroos from the Carwoola blaze over the coming weeks.
Topics: animals, livestock, rural, queanbeyan-2620, captains-flat-2623, nsw, act, canberra-2600
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An American man who was among five people killed when a plane crashed into a Melbourne shopping centre was on a "once in a lifetime" trip in Australia, his family says.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, accidents, air-and-space, essendon-3040, melbourne-3000, united-states, vic
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| UpdatedVictoria Police confirm human remains found at Mount Macedon yesterday are that of missing Avondale Heights woman Karen Ristevski.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, mount-macedon-3441, avondale-heights-3034
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Gordon Wood is suing the state of NSW for malicious prosecution and wrongful imprisonment over the death of Caroline Byrne, so what does he need to prove?
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, prisons-and-punishment, crime, murder-and-manslaughter, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedBHP Billiton swings from loss to profit for the first half of the 2017 financial year thanks to a surge in commodity prices.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, company-news, economic-trends, iron-ore, coal, mining-industry, australia
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Police seize more than 70 illegal weapons including knuckle dusters, machetes and metal throwing stars in a series of raids targeting the Lone Wolf bikie gang at Lismore in northern New South Wales.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, lismore-3324, nsw
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The federal Attorney-General approves the prosecution launched against protesters who broke into top-secret military base, Pine Gap.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, defence-and-national-security, alice-springs-0870
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The Palestinian territories' top envoy to Australia urges Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten to press Benjamin Netanyahu on West Bank settlements when they meet the Israeli Prime Minister this week.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, world-politics, australia, israel, palestinian-territory-occupied
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| UpdatedWalking away from the United States alliance could force Australia to ramp up defence spending by tens of billions of dollars, Australia's former defence chief says.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, world-politics, security-intelligence, defence-and-national-security, australia, united-states, china
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The death of a Cairns pensioner, who lived with a disability, is being treated as suspicious after his body was found in his bedroom up to three days after he died.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, mooroobool-4870, qld, cairns-4870
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| UpdatedBritish music legend Sir Elton John will perform in Cairns and Mackay as the only two Queensland stops of his four-date Australian tour — Once in a Lifetime.
Topics: pop, rock, state-parliament, tourism, regional, mackay-4740, cairns-4870
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| UpdatedEnvironmental lawyers and the mining industry are calling for greater transparency over the Northern Territory Government's handling of millions of dollars collected through the legacy mine levy.
Topics: mining-industry, mining-environmental-issues, nt
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| UpdatedA Perth boy is to undergo another psychological assessment to ensure his plea is valid, before he can be sentenced for sexually penetrating a younger boy and threatening to kill him.
Topics: primary-schools, sexual-offences, children, perth-6000, wa
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Not everyone is happy about a newly-opened cafe on Mount Wellington in Tasmania, located at the site of the historic chalet that burnt down in the 1967 Black Tuesday fires.
Topics: travel-and-tourism, lifestyle-and-leisure, hobart-7000, tas