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WA's criminal offender rate surges 8 per cent, bucking a nationwide decline, with police suggesting the spike could be related to the high rate of ice use in the state.
Topics: crime, police, perth-6000, wa
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Dutch police don't just arrest any citizen — but they make an exception for 99-year-old Annie to help her cross off a rather unusual item from her bucket list.
Topics: offbeat, police, human-interest, netherlands
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| UpdatedRefugees on Manus Island and Nauru have not yet been through vetting processes to determine whether they can resettle in the US, the Immigration Department tells a Senate committee.
Topics: refugees, immigration, world-politics, government-and-politics, federal-government, federal-parliament, australia, united-states
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Australia can build an affordable and secure electricity network with 100 per cent renewable energy, using existing technologies, according to research by the Australian National University.
Topics: energy, alternative-energy, electricity-energy-and-utilities, australia, australian-national-university-0200
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| UpdatedPlenty of stars have walked the Oscars red carpet wearing a blue ribbon. It's actually a Donald Trump protest. Here's what you need to know.
Topics: donald-trump, event, academy-awards-oscars, united-states
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| UpdatedWestpac, one of Australia's big four banks, investigates a major outage that has hit services at branches around the country.
Topics: banking, consumer-finance, money-and-monetary-policy, australia
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Kate Sheahan accepts her AFLW career could be over after just one minute on the field following a knee injury during her first game for Collingwood.
Topics: sport, australian-football-league, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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| UpdatedMelbourne avoids any scorching 40-degree days this summer, but forecasters say it was warmer than average and the heat will continue into autumn.
Topics: weather, melbourne-3000, vic
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Transgender teenager Mack Beggs wins a Texas state championship wrestling competition for females, after being forced to compete outside his gender because of a policy passed in the state last year.
Topics: rights, sport, wrestling, united-states
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| UpdatedGordon Wood was paranoid police would try to "stitch him up again" after he was acquitted of murdering his former girlfriend Caroline Byrne, the Supreme Court is told.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, murder-and-manslaughter, suicide, sydney-2000, nsw
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| UpdatedPrime Minister Malcolm Turnbull blames poor polling on an "outburst" by his predecessor Tony Abbott late last week, which is being roundly condemned by cabinet ministers.
Topics: government-and-politics, abbott-tony, political-parties, liberals, polls, turnbull-malcolm, australia
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Nearly 200 storm chasers pay tribute to late actor Bill Paxton by spelling out his initials using GPS coordinates on a map depicting the heart of Tornado Alley.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, united-states
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| UpdatedLabor's Environment Minister Steven Miles plans to relocate to the electorate of Murrumba to contest the next election because of boundary changes that will see his current seat of Mt Coot-tha merge with the LNP-held seat of Indooroopilly.
Topics: elections, alp, liberal-national-party-queensland, state-parliament, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedVenezuela's Adrian Solano achieves social media fame for his hapless runs at the Nordic Ski world titles, but he is still delighted with his adventure.
Topics: sport, winter-sports, nordic-skiing, venezuela
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The black box is been credited with saving hundreds of lives, yet little is known about its inventor.
Topics: inventions, science-and-technology, air-and-space, accidents, disasters-and-accidents, defence-and-national-security, defence-industry, australia
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| UpdatedActivists call for the Syrian Government to engage in serious talks on political transition and for the United Nations to strengthen the fragile ceasefire as violence continues to engulf the country.
Topics: world-politics, syrian-arab-republic
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Troubled law firm Slater and Gordon admits it is effectively broke and operating at the mercy of its lenders.
Topics: company-news, law-crime-and-justice, australia
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| UpdatedFormer Bandido bikie Lionel Patea pleads guilty to murder after running his ex-partner's car off the road and bashing her with a metal plate while she was trapped in the wreckage.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, murder-and-manslaughter, crime, domestic-violence, brisbane-4000, qld, australia, molendinar-4214, southport-4215
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| UpdatedHere's what Hollywood's best and brightest are wearing at the Academy Awards.
Topics: film-movies, arts-and-entertainment, human-interest, community-and-society, united-states
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| UpdatedThe 89th Academy Awards are underway in Hollywood, with musical favourite La La Land tipped to dominate on a night that could see the stars get political. Follow live.
Topics: academy-awards-oscars, event, arts-and-entertainment, film-movies, actor, united-states
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Insurer QBE reports a 23 per cent rise in profit to $US844 million ($1.1 billion) and plans to hand it back to shareholders through a billion-dollar share buyback.
Topics: insurance, company-news, australia
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| UpdatedThe Hobart City Council is investigating after a heritage-listed house in the city's northern suburbs was partially demolished without a permit.
Topics: urban-development-and-planning, community-and-society, mount-stuart-7000
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| UpdatedA royal commission should be held to examine the approvals processes for the Roe 8 stage of the Perth Freight Link, the Conservation Council of WA says, as critics of the project hold a rally in Fremantle.
Topics: states-and-territories, elections, environmental-policy, environmental-impact, fremantle-6160, beeliar-6164, perth-6000, wa
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| UpdatedA search resumes for a kayaker who is missing and feared drowned in a remote part of the Murchison River in Western Australia's Mid West region.
Topics: missing-person, emergency-incidents, police, ajana-6532, kalbarri-6536, wa
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| UpdatedMelbourne taxis crawl into the city at 5 kilometres per hour to again protest against industry reforms, causing havoc for morning motorists.
Topics: states-and-territories, government-and-politics, melbourne-3000, vic