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Sawmill boss warns against return to Tasmanian 'forest wars'
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The head of Tasmania's largest native sawmill warns no-one in the industry wants a return to the "forest wars" and says wood from forests the Government is proposing to reopen to logging may go unclaimed.
Topics: forestry, environmental-management, environmental-policy, tas
La La Land mistakenly named best picture winner
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The most coveted award of the Oscars descends into chaos, with La La Land mistakenly named the best picture winner, instead of Moonlight.
Topics: academy-awards-oscars, event, arts-and-entertainment, film-movies, human-interest, awards-and-prizes, actor, united-states
Canberra inmate choked after taking methadone behind bars, inquest hears
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An inquest into the death in custody of Indigenous man Steven Freeman hears he took a toxic level of methadone, which was given to him inside prison despite a lack of evidence he was addicted to opioids.
Topics: black-deaths-in-custody, prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, canberra-2600, act, australia
Some women's sports reaching new heights, but others are languishing
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This year is shaping up to be a memorable year for women in sport — depending on which sport you play.
Topics: australian-football-league, netball, rugby-7, sport, darwin-0800, australia
Lionel Patea gets life sentence for Tara Brown's murder
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Supreme Court Justice Debra Mullins sentences former Bandido bikie Lionel Patea to life in jail for the bashing murder of his ex-partner Tara Brown on the Gold Coast.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, courts-and-trials, domestic-violence, brisbane-4000
Jimmy Kimmel's best moments from the Oscars
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Jimmy Kimmel singles out some of Hollywood's elite while hosting the 88th annual Academy Awards. We take a look at some of the highlights from his Oscars debut.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, film-movies, comedy-humour, human-interest, united-states
Universities 'take plagiarism more seriously than rape', advocacy group says
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With thousands of new students starting university this week, an advocacy group claims violence against women is rife on Australian campuses, and there is a culture of covering up claims.
Topics: university-and-further-education, sexual-offences, crime-prevention, law-crime-and-justice, education, sydney-2000, the-university-of-sydney-2006, nsw, australia
Horvat blasts indisciplined Melbourne City and Fornaroli
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Former Socceroo Steve Horvat slams Melbourne City's decision to appoint Bruno Fornaroli as captain this season and decries the lack of discipline and leadership in the A-League club.
Topics: a-league, soccer, sport, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
Immigration Department criticised for plans to spend $255m moving staff
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The Immigration Department is under fire over plans to spend a quarter-of-a-billion dollars to move public servants to a new office nine kilometres away.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, tax, immigration, community-and-society, canberra-2600
Company profits surge as wages fall
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Official data show wages going backwards while company profits surge, with mining and construction leading the trend.
Topics: economic-trends, business-economics-and-finance, australia
BMX champion Willoughby on road to recovery as fundraising efforts get a boost
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Olympian Sam Willoughby is making good progress with his rehabilitation from a serious spinal injury, according to his father, as the SA Government auctions off a hot lap at the Clipsal 500 in his honour.
Topics: community-and-society, sport, olympics-summer, adelaide-5000, sa
Homemade bomb detonated in capital of West Java
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A suspect is shot by police after a homemade bomb is detonated near a local school in Bandung, the capital of West Java in Indonesia.
Gordon Wood: From Caroline Byrne murder conviction to suing the state of NSW
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As Gordon Wood takes the stand in his case against the state of NSW, take a look back at the main events which led to his conviction and later acquittal of the murder of Caroline Byrne.
Topics: courts-and-trials, murder-and-manslaughter, sydney-2000
Home care funding changes set to help older Australians (photos)
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Florence Northern has been using home care for three years after suffering a fall while getting out of bed — and now changes to the way it is funded could benefit her and thousands of other older Australians.
Topics: aged-care, federal-government, perth-6000, wa, australia
Universities accused of covering up sexual assaults to protect reputations
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Australian universities have been accused by advocacy group End Rape on Campus of covering up sexual assaults to protect their reputations as destinations for foreign students.
Topics: sexual-offences, university-and-further-education, australia
Merging our brains with machines won't stop the rise of the robots Opinion
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Elon Musk has suggested we merge with machines so we're not replaced by them — but that might only delay the inevitable, writes Michael Milford from QUT.
Topics: robots-and-artificial-intelligence, science-and-technology, australia
Cybercrime victims 'on their own' as police fail to follow up cases
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If you get scammed online it is likely you will never hear from police, let alone see justice done to the culprits, according to the head of Australia and New Zealand's cybercrime helpline.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime-prevention, fraud-and-corporate-crime, computers-and-technology, australia
Adelaide man who stabbed brother cradled him as he died, court told
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An Adelaide man was stabbed in the neck and killed by his brother after intervening in a domestic violence incident, a Supreme Court trial is told.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, gilles-plains-5086, adelaide-5000, sa
Australian Border Force investigating extent of PTSD in workforce
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There is "significant anecdotal evidence" of trauma to frontline personnel caused by having to retrieve bodies of asylum seekers killed trying to reach Australia by boat, the Border Force chief tells a Senate estimates hearing.
Topics: depression, defence-and-national-security, mental-health, suicide, refugees, federal-government, australia
More than $1 million of meth seized from Kalgoorlie streets
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A three-month drug investigation results in detectives jailing 13 alleged traffickers and testing the city's sewerage for drugs.
Topics: drug-offences, drugs-and-substance-abuse, kalgoorlie-6430, esperance-6450
Oscars get political over Trump's 'inhumane' travel ban
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The Iranian winner of best foreign language film condemns Donald Trump's "inhumane" US travel ban, after boycotting the awards "out of respect for the people of my country".
Topics: academy-awards-oscars, event, arts-and-entertainment, film-movies, human-interest, awards-and-prizes, actor, united-states
These are the emotional traps to watch out for in scams
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From love bombing and ether states, these are the emotional traps scammers are using against us.
Topics: crime, crime-prevention, law-crime-and-justice, fraud-and-corporate-crime, computers-and-technology, australia
Roe 9 funding not yet approved, Senate committee told
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Two weeks from the state election, the Barnett Government is yet to submit its full business case or receive any of the promised Commonwealth funding for its priority road project, the $1.9-billion Perth Freight Link.
Topics: elections, road-transport, urban-development-and-planning, fremantle-6160, melville-6156, beeliar-6164
Australians aren't as Islamophobic as we're led to believe Opinion
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While there are pockets of antipathy towards Muslims, an overwhelming majority of Australians don't share it, writes Professor Riaz Hassan from Flinders University.
Topics: islam, religion-and-beliefs, community-and-society, multiculturalism, australia
Classmates 'reeling' after death of two 15yo boys in Darwin crash
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Police continue to investigate the circumstances that led to two teenage boys being struck and killed as they walked along the Stuart Highway in the early hours of Saturday.
Topics: accidents---other, death, youth, darwin-0800
