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Will the Government crack down on mortgage broker commissions?
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The Federal Government is facing pressure to ban lucrative mortgage broker commissions, which consumer groups say encourage bad behaviour and are contributing to record household debt.
Topics: consumer-protection, banking, australia
Lloyd Rayney's fitness to practise law to be challenged again
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Perth barrister Lloyd Rayney is dealt a blow on the eve of the hearing of his multi-million-dollar defamation case against the state of WA, with WA's highest court ruling a hearing examining whether he should be allowed to keep practising law can go ahead.
Topics: government-and-politics, political-parties, wa
Video shows Harrison Ford in near miss with passenger jet
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Video shows a plane piloted by Star Wars and Indiana Jones star Harrison Ford suddenly and mistakenly fly low over a passenger jet with 110 people aboard at a Southern California airport.
Topics: accidents, actor, air-and-space, united-states
Woman thrown 80m in fatal hit-and-run, Melbourne court told
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A young woman was thrown 80 metres when she was hit and killed by a speeding drunk driver, travelling at 152 kilometres per hour through a pedestrian crossing against a red light in West Melbourne last July, a court hears.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, west-melbourne-3003, melbourne-3000, new-zealand, sydney-2000
Crashed Essendon plane recently underwent maintenance check
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A plane that crashed near Essendon Airport, killing five people, had been through a maintenance check only last month, it is revealed, as investigators continue to gather evidence at the scene.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, accidents, air-and-space, essendon-3040
Pharmacist fights for licence after fake drugs found at children's hospital
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Thousands of counterfeit prescription pills made their way into Australia's official supply chain in 2010, ending up at a children's hospital in Sydney. Now the pharmacist who supplied the fakes is fighting the cancellation of his licence.
Topics: chemicals-and-pharmaceuticals, health, pharmaceuticals, healthcare-facilities, sydney-2000
Tarkine's ancient history 'should qualify area as national park'
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Thirty-five new sites of Aboriginal heritage significance are discovered on Tasmania's Tarkine coastline, renewing calls for the area to be declared a national park.
Topics: indigenous-culture, environmental-impact, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, environmental-management, government-and-politics, arthur-river-7330, tas
Man accused of donning Kylo Ren mask, stripping stepdaughter naked, refused bail
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A man who allegedly pretended to be a police officer to pull over his stepdaughter before blindfolding her, driving her to a deserted bush area and stripping her naked and photographing her is refused bail.
Topics: sexual-offences, law-crime-and-justice, collie-6225, wa
Australia v Sri Lanka: Live scores, stats and commentary
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Follow all the stats and commentary from the third and final Twenty20 between Australia and Sri Lanka at the Adelaide Oval in our live scorecentre.
Topics: twenty20, cricket, sport, adelaide-5000, sa, australia, sri-lanka
Ex-racing greyhounds cheaper to put down than re-home in Tasmania
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It is much cheaper to destroy a greyhound in Tasmania than re-home a dog through an industry-run program - a situation that is angering animal rights activists.
Topics: animal-welfare, animals, tas
Live exports, hospital funding and Muslim votes on the election trail today
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Money was at the heart of a lot of the debate on the WA election hustings today, with barbs traded over hospital funding, the sale of Western Power and the spending of taxpayers' money in general.
Topics: elections, political-parties, livestock, islam, wa
Australia should lead world in 'clean coal', International Energy Agency says
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The executive director of the International Energy Agency calls on Australia to become a world leader in carbon capture and storage technology.
Topics: alternative-energy, energy, coal, australia
'Heroes' recognised for courage, skill in emergencies
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The emergency services workers who saved the life of a paramedic critically injured and trapped in an ambulance that was crushed in a head-on crash, are among the winners of St John Community Heroes Awards.
Topics: awards-and-prizes, community-and-society, wa
Aussies weighing up spin options for opening India Test
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Australia captain Steve Smith is not ruling out playing three spinners in the opening Test against India starting in Pune on Thursday.
Power plant outages 'contributed to overloading scare during NSW heatwave'
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Australia's energy operator finds power plant failures contributed to the unprecedented pressure on the New South Wales electricity grid during this month's heatwave.
Medicinal cannabis rules a 'step in the right direction'
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The Federal Government has moved to loosen importation laws on medicinal cannabis, and people who use it say they are cautiously optimistic.
Topics: cannabis, health-policy, federal-government, health, australia
Ross River virus could become global epidemic, researchers say
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Australia's Ross River virus has the potential to become a global epidemic, similar to the Zika virus, researchers say.
Topics: ross-river-fever, diseases-and-disorders, health, canberra-2600, adelaide-5000, australian-national-university-0200, adelaide-university-5005, sa, act
Union fights testing of current SA child protection staff
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A union questions how psychological testing of current child protection workers in South Australia will be done and what will happen to any staff who fail.
Topics: government-and-politics, states-and-territories, children, family-and-children, child-abuse, community-and-society, child-health-and-behaviour, law-crime-and-justice, adelaide-5000, sa
North Korean diplomat among suspects in Kim Jong-nam murder
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Malaysian police say they are now seeking a North Korean diplomat in connection with the fatal attack on Kim Jong-nam, as they release more details about the murder.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, murder-and-manslaughter, police, malaysia, korea-republic-of
Is there more to the Antarctic's melting glaciers than just warmer temperatures?
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An Australian team of international scientists is hoping to discover whether meltwater is speeding up the disintegration of the Antarctic's glaciers.
Topics: climate-change, environmental-impact, earth-sciences, research, antarctica
Mandatory life jacket plans for reef trips
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Tourists may be forced to wear life jackets while snorkelling on the Great Barrier Reef, under a plan being considered by the Queensland Government following a spike in deaths.
Topics: great-barrier-reef, emergency-incidents, disasters-and-accidents, emergency-planning, cairns-4870, qld, townsville-4810
NT Government non-committal on calls for watchdog to investigate utilities staff blowout
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The Territory Government resists calls to have an independent watchdog investigate the three NT utilities corporations at the centre of a multi-million-dollar staffing blowout.
Topics: government-and-politics, nt
Catholic brothers' secrecy culture hid child sex abuse: royal commission
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A secrecy culture of "don't ask, don't tell" could explain allegations of child sex abuse within a religious order with one of the highest numbers of alleged abusers, the royal commission is told.
Topics: royal-commissions, child-abuse, sexual-offences, catholic, beaudesert-4285, sydney-2000
Ex-Hong Kong leader Donald Tsang gets 20 months in jail for misconduct
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Former Hong Kong leader Donald Tsang is sentenced to 20 months in prison for misconduct after failing to disclose plans to rent a luxury apartment for his retirement from a businessman applying for a broadcasting licence.
Topics: world-politics, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, hong-kong, pacific, asia, china
Coke's exit from SA after more than 75 years 'a blow' for Thebarton
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For the people of Thebarton, the closure of Coca-Cola's bottling plant in Adelaide will be like having "your heart ripped out", a local historian says, who remembers touring the newly opened factory in 1951 as a child.
Topics: unemployment, community-and-society, company-news, thebarton-5031, adelaide-5000, sa
