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Tasmania's Premier hoses down claims he is picking a fight with councils, as his Resources Minister warns he will "fight in the trenches" to get controversial forestry legislation through the first session of Parliament.
Topics: government-and-politics, environmental-policy, tas
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Adelaide's Fringe Festival Parade attracted tens of thousands of people to the city.
Topics: community-and-society, arts-and-entertainment, government-and-politics, adelaide-5000
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| UpdatedA $1 billion social housing growth fund will be set up as part of a Victorian Government package to tackle homelessness and increase the state's social housing stock as more than 33,000 people wait for public housing.
Topics: homelessness, state-parliament, parliament, government-and-politics, melbourne-3000, vic
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| UpdatedThe move to slash Sunday penalty rates could face a legal and political battle, with Opposition Leader Bill Shorten vowing to stop the cuts.
Topics: work, government-and-politics, unions, hospitality, retail, business-economics-and-finance, australia
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| UpdatedAustralia Post director Ahmed Fahour resigns just weeks after his $5.6 million was revealed by a Senate committee, which dismissed calls for it to be concealed from the public.
Topics: public-sector, government-and-politics, australia
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| UpdatedVictoria's Parliamentary Speaker promises to repay an allowance of almost $40,000 he claimed for living in the seaside town of Queenscliff, more than 80 kilometres from Melbourne.
Topics: states-and-territories, government-and-politics, queenscliff-3225, tarneit-3029, melbourne-3000, vic
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| UpdatedFormer federal treasury head Ken Henry lashes out at the political and media dysfunction that he says has led to reform paralysis, saying over the last decade almost every major infrastructure project had turned into a fight.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, australia
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A man facing serious assault charges is on the run from police after the courts allowed him to attend the Mundine-Green boxing match at Adelaide Oval despite his strict bail conditions, the Corrections Minister says.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedFair Work Commission president Iain Ross announces the Commissions' findings on Sunday and public holiday penalty rates which will be reduced for hospitality, retail and fast food workers
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, government-and-politics, work, australia
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| UpdatedVoters will now be able to see how much has been donated to political parties and candidates within a week of money changing hands, in a move the Queensland Government says should be adopted nationally.
Topics: political-parties, elections, government-and-politics, liberal-national-party-queensland, one-nation, minor-parties, state-parliament, parliament, alp, activism-and-lobbying, brisbane-4000, qld
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| UpdatedWorkers in the hospitality, retail and fast-food industries will be paid less for working on Sundays and on public holidays after the Fair Work Commission decided to cut penalty rates today.
Topics: government-and-politics, business-economics-and-finance, work, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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| UpdatedPeople with an incapacity or disability that makes it difficult for them to vote at ballot boxes will be able to have their say at the March state election via the internet, a first for Western Australia.
Topics: computers-and-technology, internet-technology, elections, government-and-politics, wa, perth-6000
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| UpdatedFrontline services will be impacted as jobs are slashed from the federal Health Department, the public sector union warns.
Topics: public-sector, government-and-politics, health-policy, health-administration, australia, act, nsw, vic, tas, sa, qld, nt, wa
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| UpdatedHundreds of workers walk off the job at Adelaide shipbuilder ASC over an ongoing enterprise bargaining dispute that has spanned two years.
Topics: unions, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, federal---state-issues, manufacturing, industry, osborne-5017, adelaide-5000, sa
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Foreign Minister Julie Bishop meets with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to discuss global security and how the two nations will prepare for foreign fighters attempting to return if Mosul is successfully liberated.
Topics: foreign-affairs, government-and-politics, unrest-conflict-and-war, united-states, australia, iraq
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Beverley O'Connor speaks to the Crawford Fund's John Anderson about the importance of food security to regional and political stability.
Topics: diet-and-nutrition, government-and-politics, defence-and-national-security, australia
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| UpdatedWith the Fair Work Commission's long-awaited decision on weekend penalty rates handed down, a fierce political fight is reignited between Labor and the Coalition.
Topics: industrial-relations, work, unemployment, hospitality, government-and-politics, australia
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With just over two weeks to polling day, WA's political leaders clash in a televised debate over debt, experience and political promises, with each trying to "aggressively" undermine the other's credibility.
Topics: government-and-politics, elections, wa
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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
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| UpdatedThirty-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
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Host: Ellen Fanning
Panel: Chip Rolley, Mark Di Stefano and Daisy Cousens
Interview with: Jamie Hyams & Amin Saikal
The panel discusses the Israeli PM’s visit, Milo Yiannopoulos’ book cancellation & Dimmi’s restaurant booking site blacklisting no-shows.
Topics: government-and-politics, community-and-society, information-and-communication, australia, israel, palestinian-territory-occupied
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Planned changes to the South Australian Ambulance Service will not cost jobs, chief executive Jason Killens promises.
Topics: healthcare-facilities, health, health-policy, government-and-politics, community-and-society, regional, mount-gambier-5290, adelaide-5000, port-pirie-5540, port-augusta-5700, port-lincoln-5606, renmark-5341
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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
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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
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More than 500 university students would move into a 16-storey tower at Redfern's The Block under new plans lodged by the Aboriginal Housing Company.
Topics: housing, government-and-politics, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, indigenous-policy, redfern-2016