Simon Elvery is a developer with ABC News' Interactive Digital Storytelling Unit, based in Brisbane. You can follow Simon on Twitter.
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| UpdatedThe Fair Work Commission has cut Sunday and public holiday penalty rates for some workers. Use our calculator to find out the impact on you.
Topics: industrial-relations, federal-government, federal-parliament, australia
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| UpdatedCompanies arguably make political donations for one reason only: to influence Australian politics. ABC News has mapped the flow of money to find out which industries are using their riches in a bid to buy influence.
Topics: federal-government, federal-parliament, australia
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| UpdatedThe Australian Catholic Church releases "grim" data revealing 7 per cent of priests, working between 1950 and 2009, have been accused of child sex crimes. Here's what you need to know.
Topics: royal-commissions, sexual-offences, religion-and-beliefs, catholic, australia
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| UpdatedNew data reveals how much political parties' associated entities received in 2015-16. Search the full dataset.
Topics: political-parties, federal-government, australia
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| UpdatedNew data reveals how much political parties received from big donors in 2015-16. Search the full dataset.
Topics: political-parties, federal-government, australia
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| UpdatedYou've answered our quiz questions more than 21 millions times this year. Here are the 15 questions most people answered correctly.
Topics: human-interest, australia
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| UpdatedThis year we've asked you more than 1,500 quiz questions and you've answered them a whopping 21 million times. Here are the 15 hardest questions from 2016's ABC News quizzes.
Topics: human-interest, australia
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| UpdatedA Four Corners investigation into residential group homes has found some of the country's most damaged children are being placed in serious danger.
Topics: child-abuse, community-and-society, family-and-children, australia, newcastle-2300
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| UpdatedThe Australian Taxation Office has started refusing freedom of information requests submitted via open-government website Right To Know, citing safety and privacy concerns for its staff.
Topics: federal-government, charities, public-sector, tax, australia
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| UpdatedCould our Olympic swimmers keep up with a penguin? Could long jumpers leap the length of a humpback whale? Get a sense of how Olympians' feats measure up.
Topics: olympics-summer, brazil
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| UpdatedThe big day is upon us and ABC NewsBot is gearing up to deliver you election results quick as a flash.
Topics: federal-elections, australia
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During an election campaign, a handful of slogans or manners of speech tend to stick in the public consciousness. What are the phrases the leaders keep repeating this year?
Topics: federal-elections, australia
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Thirty-seven people called David are running for office this weekend. What else does an analysis of the candidates' names reveal?
Topics: federal-elections, australia
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In Australia, all votes are created equal but some are worth more than others.
Topics: federal-elections, federal-government, federal-parliament, australia
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| UpdatedWe launch a news bot to answer some of your election questions on Twitter and Facebook.
Topics: federal-elections, federal-government, federal-parliament, australia
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| UpdatedOver the past decade, treasurers' forecasts have been consistently, drastically, and optimistically wrong. How wrong? Well if the forecasts in Tuesday's budget are similarly poor, Australia's budget deficit will be bigger in 2019-20 than it is today.
Topics: budget, federal-government, australia
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| UpdatedFind out who scores and who misses out in Scott Morrison's first budget.
Topics: budget, federal-government, federal-parliament, australia
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| UpdatedExplore an interactive breakdown of where the Government gets its money, how it's being spent, and what's changed since last year.
Topics: budget, federal-government, australia
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| UpdatedAre civil rights too important to be decided by a popular vote or is it an assault on our democracy if the voice of the people is not heard on this issue? Kevin Donnelly and David van Mill debate the merits of holding an expensive plebiscite on same-sex marriage.
Topics: federal-government, gays-and-lesbians, marriage, government-and-politics, federal---state-issues, australia
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| UpdatedWomen make up just one-third of today's Australia Day honours recipients, the same as they have every year for the past two decades.
Topics: awards-and-prizes, australia
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| UpdatedDrought is spreading across southern and eastern Australia, affecting more of Queensland than ever previously recorded. Use our interactive images to explore its impact on the landscape.
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| UpdatedIn the lead-up to the release of new Star Wars movie The Force Awakens, we logged and charted every scene from every Star Wars movie. (Yes, we even watched the prequels.)
Topics: film-movies, united-states
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| UpdatedThese Australian women all died this year. What they have in common is police have laid charges against their partners or ex-partners. Here, the women's families and friends share the stories of their lives.
Topics: community-and-society, australia
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| UpdatedOur virtual race was on the money last year as Protectionist was pipped in a photo finish. Scroll through to see how the 2015 field compares to all previous Melbourne Cup winners across a range of metrics.
Topics: horse-racing, australia, melbourne-3000, flemington-3031, vic
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| UpdatedNew research from the ANU shows there are five social classes in Australia. Take our questionnaire to find out where you fit.
Topics: community-and-society, social-sciences