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How are you affected by Queensland's shifting electoral boundaries?
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Find out what the Queensland Redistribution Commission's proposed boundary changes mean for your electorate, and where the lines and names are changing.
Topics: elections, state-parliament, brisbane-4000, qld
Mother seeks mercy over death of 4yo in freeway crash
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A lawyer for an Adelaide mother who was high on methylamphetamine when she caused the death of her four-year-old daughter in a freeway crash asks a sentencing judge for "mercy and compassion".
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, adelaide-5000, mount-barker-5251, sa
New Zealander remanded in custody over 'child abuse network'
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A New Zealand man faces a Brisbane court after being extradited for allegedly abusing a boy offered by his fathers.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, brisbane-4000, qld
Ben Cousins charged with drug, stalking offences
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Former AFL footballer Ben Cousins is arrested in Perth and charged with a number of drug and stalking violence offences, including seven counts of breaching a violence restraining order.
Topics: drug-offences, domestic-violence, bicton-6157, armadale-6112
Trees on Adelaide housing development saved for now
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More than 80 trees, some of which are claimed to be up to hundreds of years old and were set to be removed as part of an Adelaide housing development still in the planning stages, are given a stay of execution.
Topics: environment, urban-development-and-planning, community-and-society, glenside-5065, adelaide-5000
Has Abbott kept his 'no undermining and no sniping' vow?
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When Tony Abbott lost power one of the first things he did was promise the waiting throng of journalists there would be "no undermining" — so how has the former prime minister fared?
Topics: abbott-tony, federal-government, government-and-politics, australia
Tara Costigan's murder 'changed the fabric of Canberra' Analysis
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The violent murder of Tara Costigan at the hands of her former partner Marcus Rappel shocked and devastated Canberra. But what has changed in the years since her death?
Topics: domestic-violence, murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, canberra-2600, act, australia
Logging of Tasmanian forests won't target wilderness areas, Guy Barnett says
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Logging in order to "rebuild the state's forest industry" will happen, the Tasmanian Government says despite environmentalists warning wilderness areas will be lost under the plan to end the "Peace Deal" moratorium.
Topics: environmental-management, environmental-impact, environmental-policy, tas
Tara Costigan's killer sentenced to 32 years' jail
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A judge describes the actions of Marcus Rappel, who killed his ex-partner Tara Costigan with an axe in her Canberra home while she held their week-old daughter, as being in the "worst category".
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, law-crime-and-justice, crime, domestic-violence, canberra-2600, act, australia
Are the days of the iconic Carnaby's cockatoo numbered in Perth?
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Western Australia's iconic Carnaby's cockatoo could be lost from the Perth metropolitan area if pine plantation clearing in the city's north is not halted, WWF Australia warns.
Topics: birds, environment, animal-behaviour, animal-science, perth-6000, wa
Amazon may be coming to Australia, so what does that mean for you?
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With many predicting Amazon will soon set up warehousing and distribution in Australia, what does that mean for consumers?
Topics: company-news, business-economics-and-finance, consumer-protection, consumer-electronics, information-and-communication, australia
Children thought 'God's representative' sexually abused them, archbishops told
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The Australian Catholic Church's most senior archbishops face the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse and are told of the "immense" impact abuse had on victims.
Topics: royal-commissions, sexual-offences, catholic, child-abuse, sydney-2000
High-tech uni medical sciences building opens, complete with robots
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Adelaide medical students will study surgical procedures and simulate operations on computerised mannequins at a new $246 million facility.
Topics: university-and-further-education, health, doctors-and-medical-professionals, human-interest, healthcare-facilities, medical-research, adelaide-5000
Test your news knowledge on earth-sized planets and Ned Kelly's mum
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Why did earth-sized planets, penalty rates and Ned Kelly's mum all make headlines this week? Test your knowledge with our new quiz.
RBA governor takes aim at negative gearing, questions global race to cut corporate taxes
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Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe questions the wisdom of the global race to cut corporate taxes while taking aim at tax incentives driving Australian real estate prices higher.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, company-news, economic-trends, money-and-monetary-policy, markets, government-and-politics, australia, canberra-2600
VX nerve agent used in murder of Kim Jong-nam, Malaysia says
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A preliminary report shows the murder of Kim Jong-nam was carried out with a highly toxic chemical known as VX nerve agent, Malaysian police say.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, world-politics, crime, malaysia, korea-democratic-people-s-republic-of
Autumn unlikely to let up on hot weather for Australia
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Although autumn is on the way, the Bureau of Meteorology warns the hot weather is likely to continue, with warmer than average temperatures forecast for most of southern and eastern Australia.
'Threat of famine looming' in Yemen amid import blockade
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The UN World Food Program says more than 20 million people in Yemen, north Nigeria, Somalia and South Sudan are at risk of dying from starvation within six months.
Topics: famine, disasters-and-accidents, unrest-conflict-and-war, world-politics, yemen
Melbourne developers charged over demolition of Irish pub
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More than a dozen charges are laid against those involved in the alleged illegal demolition of a 159-year-old Irish pub, the Corkman, in Carlton.
Topics: courts-and-trials, local-government, melbourne-3000, vic
Charges dropped against brothers accused of raping 14yo in Geelong
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Prosecutors tell the Supreme Court they will not proceed with their case against three brothers who were accused of raping a girl in a park in 2015.
Topics: sexual-offences, law-crime-and-justice, geelong-3220, melbourne-3000
Indonesian teens jailed in Australia over people smuggling 'deserve compensation'
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Indonesia's Child Protection Commission demands the Australian Government pay compensation to a group of Indonesians allegedly jailed in adult prisons while they were minors.
Topics: courts-and-trials, immigration, world-politics, indonesia, australia
AFL boss denies misleading Bombers over supplement investigation
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AFL boss Gillon McLachlan says the league never misled Essendon over the doping scandal, as a recording emerges of angry senior Bombers officials accusing AFL of lying to them.
Topics: sport, australian-football-league, melbourne-3000, vic
Media won't give back America without a fight, Trump's strategist says
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Donald Trump's chief strategist Steve Bannon makes a rare public appearance, slamming the media and urging Republicans to get behind their President.
Topics: world-politics, united-states
Abattoir accused of 'poor form' as workers stood down again
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The Meatworkers Union slams a northern Tasmanian abattoir run by JBS Australia for standing down workers for a second time in six months.
Topics: livestock, rural, industry, longford-7301, tas
Plane evacuated after landing gear collapses
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A plane carrying 59 passengers is evacuated after its landing gear collapses during touchdown in Amsterdam, causing its right side to scrape along the runway.
Topics: accidents, netherlands, united-kingdom
