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Giant panda Fu Ni goes into fake labour at Adelaide Zoo
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Adelaide Zoo confirms its female giant panda Fu Ni was not pregnant over the last few months despite her behaviour strongly suggesting she went into labour over the weekend.
Topics: zoos, animal-science, animals, human-interest, adelaide-5000, sa, china
Lions embrace finals-like AFLW clash with Crows
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Brisbane coach Craig Starcevich is not shying away from the magnitude of the Lions's AFLW clash against Adelaide.
Topics: sport, australian-football-league, brisbane-4000, qld, adelaide-5000, sa, australia
ASIC grilled over investigation into Cash Converters payday loans
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ASIC executives are quizzed over its decision to investigate Cash Converters' lending practices to online customers but not those who sought loans in store, during a Senate estimates committee hearing today.
Topics: corporate-governance, business-economics-and-finance, australia
Hugh Jackman delivers in X-Men swansong Logan
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Hugh Jackman's X-Men swansong Logan reminds us that comic book franchises can aspire to deeper emotions and more complex relationships.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, film-movies, united-states
Tassal trading halted while $100m in capital raised
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Tasmania's largest salmon producer Tassal reveals major expansion plans, flagging a $270 million investment in capital expenditure over the next five years.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, fishing-aquaculture, tas
Queensland Energy Minister vows to restart private email account amid probe into usage
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Energy Minister Mark Bailey says he will reactivate a private email account he controversially closed after revelations it was used for official business, and while the Opposition has referred him to the corruption watchdog, he says LNP MPs are doing the same.
Topics: state-parliament, computers-and-technology, internet-culture, brisbane-4000
Snapchat's parent company is worth more than $30b (for the next 24 hours)
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Snap passes its first major test on Wall Street, with the company pricing its initial public offering of 200 million non-voting shares at $17 each.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, science-and-technology, computers-and-technology, internet-culture, information-and-communication, united-states
Reporting crime in Tasmania goes online
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Tasmanians are now able to report crime at the click of a button after the launch of a local Crime Stoppers website, with the potential for video to be uploaded down the track.
Topics: police, crime, law-crime-and-justice, tas
One Nation surge spooks LNP into holding emergency meeting
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The Queensland Liberal National Party is to hold an unprecedented meeting of its state and federal MPs this weekend to discuss ways of countering a resurgent One Nation.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, federal-parliament, state-parliament, liberal-national-party-queensland, one-nation, qld
Pocket-sized chemical lab developed by Tassie researchers
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An Australian researcher is turning bulky chemical labs into portable devices that can be carried around in your pocket.
Topics: research, computers-and-technology, chemistry, mobile-phones, human-interest, hobart-7000
'Thoroughly dishonest' lawyer jailed after billing client's mother in Legal Aid case
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A Canberra lawyer "motivated by greed" is given a three-year jail term for charging private fees of more than $25,000 in a Legal Aid case.
Topics: fraud-and-corporate-crime, corruption, law-crime-and-justice, canberra-2600, act, australia
Holsworthy Army Barracks driver not guilty over fatal truck crash
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Former trainee soldier Alexander Gall is found not guilty of dangerous driving causing the death of a colleague during a training exercise at Sydney's Holsworthy Barracks in 2012.
Topics: army, defence-forces, courts-and-trials, holsworthy-2173, sydney-2000, nsw
Disney's Beauty and the Beast to feature first openly gay character
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It's a tale as old as time, but in a major first for Disney, the new live-action adaption of Beauty and the Beast will feature an openly gay character and love scene, director Bill Condon says.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, gays-and-lesbians, community-and-society, film-movies, united-states
Discontent in knife-edge WA seat sees locals look to independents
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Taking in WA's coal mining heartland, green stretches of the south-west popular with hippies and tree-changers, farmland, and parts of Bunbury and Australind, the diverse seat of Collie Preston will be a close race.
Topics: government-and-politics, elections, collie-6225, bunbury-6230, australind-6233, eaton-6232
Stretching after exercise unlikely to prevent sore muscles
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How important is stretching when you exercise and does it prevent injuries? It might depend who you ask.
Topics: health, exercise-and-fitness, australia
Kyrgios ignores negative attention to win through in Acapulco
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Nick Kyrgios puts his most recent on-court incident to the side to beat Donald Young in the second round of the ATP World Tour event in Acapulco.
DHS defends releasing personal information of Centrelink critic
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The Department of Human Services secretary tells senate estimates the department was within its rights to release the personal details of a blogger who criticised Centrelink's debt recovery scheme.
Topics: welfare, community-and-society, federal-government, government-and-politics, australia
Christian Brother Robert Best sentenced to 10 years' jail
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Convicted paedophile and Christian Brother Robert Best is sentenced to 10 years and five months in jail after admitting to the sexual abuse of a further 20 boys in his care.
Topics: sexual-offences, law-crime-and-justice, melbourne-3000, ballarat-3350, geelong-3220, essendon-3040
Can you use FOI laws to read Malcolm Turnbull's text messages?
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Journalists frequently refer to freedom of information investigations in news stories, but not many people realise anyone can learn to use the legislation successfully.
Topics: laws, information-and-communication, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, journalism, federal-government, australia
'Monkey bike' rider pleads guilty to killing Melbourne mother
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Caleb Jakobsson pleads guilty to hitting and killing a mother-of-two with his mini-motorbike at a Melbourne shopping centre.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, carrum-downs-3201, vic, melbourne-3000
Households face uncertain future as Hazelwood closure looms
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Hundreds of Latrobe Valley households are wondering if they will be able to afford to make mortgage repayments after the Hazelwood power station closes.
Topics: electricity-energy-and-utilities, community-and-society, regional, morwell-3840
Syrian Government behind deadly humanitarian convoy bombing: UN
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Assad Government forces were behind a "deliberate" air strike on a humanitarian convoy that killed 14 aid workers and halted relief operations in Aleppo, a new UN report finds.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, syrian-arab-republic, russian-federation
Are ravenous rats eating our cars?
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"They've eaten through the wiring. They've eaten through the middle seat belt." Have rats acquired a taste for car parts manufactured using soy-based products?
Topics: pests, offbeat, automobile-enthusiasm, melbourne-3000
Accountants blamed for Oscars blunder blocked from working at ceremony again
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The two PricewaterhouseCoopers accountants behind the Best Picture mix up at the Oscars are barred from tabulating votes and handing out envelopes containing winners' names at future ceremonies, the organisers of the Academy Awards say.
Topics: academy-awards-oscars, arts-and-entertainment, film-movies, community-and-society, united-states
Fireball erupts at scrap metal yard in northern Adelaide
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Firefighters tackle a huge blaze at a scrap metal and recycling yard at Wingfield in northern Adelaide, and think an excavator moving crushed vehicles sparked the explosion leaving its driver with burns.
Topics: fires, crime, industrial-fires, disasters-and-accidents, wingfield-5013, adelaide-5000, sa
