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An elegant 19th-century billboard tea poster has been found and restored by the National Archives.
Topics: 19th-century, history, graphic, tea-coffee, human-interest, canberra-2600
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A media war is set to break out between the union movement and employer groups in the wake of last week's decision to lower Sunday penalty rates for some workers.
Topics: government-and-politics, business-economics-and-finance, work, unions, australia
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| UpdatedThe Catholic Church confirms it removed a NSW parish priest amidst allegations of inappropriate conduct towards children, but continues to house him on property neighbouring two Canberra schools.
Topics: child-abuse, catholic, religion-and-beliefs, community-and-society, canberra-2600, act, tumut-2720, nsw, australia
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Jonathon Patton signs on with the GWS Giants to remain at the AFL expansion club through to the 2020 season.
Topics: australian-football-league, sport, blacktown-2148, nsw, australia, sydney-2000
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A new strategy for school canteens in NSW will ensure fruits, vegetables, sandwiches, pastas and stir fries make up at least 75 per cent of menus, with "occasional foods" like sausage rolls limited to the remaining 25 per cent.
Topics: schools, states-and-territories, diet-and-nutrition, nsw
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A 19-year-old Tasmanian man who is charged over a crash that killed his teenage girlfriend and their baby faces the Burnie Magistrates Court.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, burnie-7320, tas
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| UpdatedSteven Freeman took part in a practice in which prisoners in a methadone program at the jail where he died would swallow the drug, then later vomit it up to share with other inmates, a coronial inquest hears.
Topics: black-deaths-in-custody, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, canberra-2600, act, australia
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South Australia names senior Aboriginal community leader Roger Thomas as the state's treaty commissioner, to draft a proposed framework after negotiating with Indigenous communities.
Topics: indigenous-policy, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, law-crime-and-justice, adelaide-5000, sa
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The number of syphilis cases reported in the NT jumps from 14 in 2012 to 229 last year, with doctors warning with young people and pregnant women are most at risk.
Topics: sexual-health, youth, reproduction-and-contraception, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, nt
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Senior Brothers 4 Life gang members Mumtaz and Farhad Qaumi refuse to enter the dock as a judge finds them guilty of the 2013 shooting murder of a standover man in western Sydney.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, crime, murder-and-manslaughter, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedThe rebel MP tells the ABC he spoke with colleagues about his decision to resign from the role last night, citing the need to speak freely on policy.
Topics: government-and-politics, nationals, federal-government, canberra-2600
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Nationals MP Andrew Broad and Labor MP Pat Conroy are launching a new inquiry into modernising the power grid.
Topics: electricity-energy-and-utilities, industry, business-economics-and-finance, federal-parliament, parliament, government-and-politics, australia
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New Canberra residents are warned not to go mushroom picking, as the ACT enters death cap season.
Topics: food-poisoning, health, canberra-2600, act, australia
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| UpdatedMange is not the only threat facing Tasmania's wombats, as more than 50 permits are issued in the past year to cull the protected mammals on farming properties.
Topics: animals, human-interest, tas
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| UpdatedThe Government's privacy watchdog wants answers from bureaucrats who leaked a Centrelink client's personal details to a journalist in a bid to counter her public criticisms.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, information-and-communication, welfare, community-and-society, australia
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| UpdatedA failure of the National Broadband Network's Sky Muster satellite leaves about 65,000 consumers across regional, rural and remote Australia without internet access just one day before a secondary satellite is decommissioned.
Topics: internet-technology, telecommunications, regional, rural, brisbane-4000, qld
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| UpdatedTwo tourists are paying SpaceX an undisclosed sum to take a trip around the Moon in 2018, in what would be the first privately funded space flight beyond the International Space Station.
Topics: space-exploration, astronomy-space, united-states
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| UpdatedParks Australia is accused of burying its head in the sand regarding the management of a contentious 12,000-hectare buffalo farm in the World Heritage-listed Kakadu National Park.
Topics: sustainable-and-alternative-farming, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, national-parks, government-and-politics, nt
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| UpdatedThe Queensland Government scraps its appeal against a Federal Court ruling that police were racist in their response to riots sparked by the death in custody of Cameron Doomadgee on Palm Island in 2004.
Topics: state-parliament, parliament, courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, public-sector, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, brisbane-4000, qld, australia, palm-island-4815, townsville-4810
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Muhammad Ali's son and former partner speak out about being detained by airport officials in Florida, describing it as religious profiling and "the kind of wrong" the boxing great fought against.
Topics: immigration, community-and-society, united-states
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| UpdatedThe Victorian Government announces plans to rezone 100,000 housing blocks and create 17 new suburbs in Melbourne's key growth zones in an effort to tackle housing affordability.
Topics: housing, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, state-parliament, kalkallo-3064, vic, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedMany Australians suffering from lung cancer are wrongfully accused of being long-term smokers and say they shy away from talking about their illness because they are afraid of being judged.
Topics: lung-cancer, diseases-and-disorders, health, smoking, medical-research, people, human-interest, brisbane-4000, qld, australia
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Australian politics has extremely low levels of female participation compared to other developed democracies, but one program is aiming to change this.
Topics: women, government-and-politics, university-and-further-education, local-government, state-parliament, federal-parliament, parliament, human-interest, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedAlmost 1,000 English Bulldogs — and their owners — come together in Mexico City in an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the largest number of the breed concentrated in one place.
Topics: human-interest, animals, mexico
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A host of Australian sports stars throw their voices behind a new campaign to stamp out poor sideline behaviour that is turning kids away from weekend games.
Topics: sport, family-and-children, parenting, australia