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| UpdatedTwo teenage brothers from Canberra remain behind bars over an alleged social media blackmail scam that police say lured in victims on Grindr and Facebook.
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| UpdatedThe way you walk is almost as unique as your fingerprint, and a researcher at the University of Canberra hopes tracking the way older people move could be used to prevent potentially fatal falls.
Topics: older-people, health, medical-research, university-of-canberra-2617, canberra-2600, act, australia
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A Canberra man who grabbed his partner by the throat and choked her three years ago is resentenced and handed more jail time, after an error was made during the original sentencing.
Topics: assault, crime, law-crime-and-justice, calwell-2905, canberra-2600, act, australia
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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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| UpdatedTwo giant American air tankers, known as Southern Belle and Thor, have proven themselves yet again this bushfire season, the NSW RFS says.
Topics: bushfire, emergency-planning, queanbeyan-2620, canberra-2600, act, nsw, captains-flat-2623
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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
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Dozens of street signs in a South Australian town a forming a unique "open access" war memorial — the only one of its kind in Australia.
Topics: world-war-2, history, human-interest, people, local-government, regional, community-and-society, defence-forces, loxton-5333, vietnam, indonesia, egypt, act
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Lawyer and former US Congressman Bob Inglis addresses the National Press Club in Canberra on how conservatives can lead on climate action in the age of Donald Trump.
Topics: climate-change, government-and-politics, canberra-2600, act, australia
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| UpdatedAs the Australian National University opens its new $53-million student accommodation block, other students say they are being locked out of the rental market by exorbitant pricing.
Topics: housing, university-and-further-education, australian-national-university-0200, canberra-2600, act, australia
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The personal stories of homeowners caught up in Canberra's long-running Mr Fluffy saga are captured in a new photographic book.
Topics: asbestos, people, photography, act, canberra-2600
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| UpdatedA car has smashed through the entrance of a supermarket at Charnwood in Canberra's north.
Topics: accidents, disasters-and-accidents, charnwood-2615, act, australia
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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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| UpdatedA woman who was defrauded of $25,000 by a Canberra lawyer representing her son says she "ran herself into the ground" to afford the dishonest fees.
Topics: courts-and-trials, canberra-2600, act
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Earlier this month two men allegedly stormed a Gordon home shooting a man and woman in the backside and arm.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, courts-and-trials, gordon-2906, canberra-2600, act, australia
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As if riding a unicycle wasn't hard enough, try riding one up and down a mountain.
Topics: lifestyle-and-leisure, offbeat, human-interest, sport, act, canberra-2600
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| UpdatedThere are plans to wipe out one in five of Australia's remaining feral rabbits with a new strain of the calicivirus to be released next week.
Topics: animals, human-interest, rural, animal-science, animal-welfare, australia, act, wa, qld, tas, nt, nsw, sa
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| UpdatedThe mother of a man who died after a police pursuit in Canberra's south tells a coronial inquest that while her son was "no innocent", his death had been devastating for their family.
Topics: courts-and-trials, canberra-2600, act
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The dean of the ANU's medical school is supporting a new campaign to stem bullying and harassment in the medical profession, saying she herself was a victim as a junior doctor.
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| UpdatedA 22-year-old motorcyclist dies after his bike collides with a car in Weetangera, in Canberra's north.
Topics: road, accidents, disasters-and-accidents, weetangera-2614, canberra-2600, act, australia