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Employment centres in Sydney's west are out-performing the city's east and the CBD on the time it takes for people to commute to work, Opal Card data reveals.
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For Aboriginal teenager Tarni Rigney, who is about to start a teaching degree, the education outcomes for Indigenous Australians is distressing.
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| UpdatedSexual abuse in Australia's Catholic schools didn't come from nowhere. It took hold in systems where violence was not just condoned, but encouraged.
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Masig Island residents mourn the loss of a giant fig tree planted in honour of Queen Elizabeth II's meeting with Torres Strait Islanders in 1954.
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Adelaide's Fringe Festival Parade attracted tens of thousands of people to the city.
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The State Government is being called on to reveal the progress of its discussions to excise parts of a mining title on the Liverpool Plains in northern New South Wales.
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The Nationals MP representing the area covered by the proposed Narrabri Gas Project has expressed confidence that CSG company Santos will pass the relevant checks.
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| UpdatedKim Chance, who was an MP for 17 years and built Australia's biggest commercial camel dairy that transformed outback ferals into calm milking machines, dies at the age of 70.
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| UpdatedCatholic Archbishops fronting the royal commission into child sex abuse admit the Church's response was a failure in leadership and culture, asking "what can possibly have gone wrong" to have led to so many offences. See how their first day of testimony unfolded in our blog.
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| UpdatedA remarkable film from 1901 of former Test cricketers KS Ranjitsinhji and CB Fry is painstakingly restored by the National Film and Sound Archive.
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| UpdatedKristy Steenhuis and Jane Fitzgibbon would not recognise each other on the street, but they share the kind of bond you would not wish on your worst enemy. Suicide.
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Lawyers have finalised an $8 million compensation payout for landholders affected by the 2014 Jack River bushfire in Gippsland.
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The Babes Project is crowdfunding to launch a collection of empowering stories of women experiencing crisis pregnancies through to parenthood.
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| UpdatedCricket is not just Australia versus England. There are many teams playing without Test status, many from developing countries and all with a passion for the game.
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| UpdatedPresident Donald Trump's administration revokes landmark guidance issued to public schools in defence of transgender student rights, reversing course on a signature initiative of former Democratic president Barack Obama.
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