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SA facing further blackouts across festival weekend
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As Adelaide prepares for one of its busiest weekends with the Festival, Fringe and motor racing events crowding the city, South Australians are warned of an increased risk of load shedding blackouts.
Topics: electricity-energy-and-utilities, industry, emergency-planning, adelaide-5000, sa, australia
Minister promises next stage of Nepean Hospital upgrade to start by 2019
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The State Government assures doctors the next stage of a $550 million upgrade to Nepean Hospital in Sydney's west will begin within two years.
Topics: health, government-and-politics, state-parliament, parliament, hornsby-2077, nsw, sydney-2000
Man jailed over crash that killed mother, injured kids
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A man who killed a woman in a head-on crash and injured her two young children while over the legal blood alcohol limit is jailed for four and a half years.
Topics: courts-and-trials, road, landsdale-6065
Regular sex benefits your mental health, too Opinion
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Everyone has probably heard about the physical benefits of having sex, but are you aware of the long list of psychological benefits?
Topics: sexuality, community-and-society, health, australia
Why do pregnancies end early? Artificial mouse 'embryo' may hold answer
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For the first time, scientists create a structure resembling a mouse embryo, using a 3D scaffold and two types of stem cells, in research they say could help explain why two-thirds of human pregnancies fail during the early stages.
Topics: science-and-technology, reproduction-and-contraception, biology, stem-cells, pregnancy-and-childbirth, medical-research, research, united-kingdom
Senate concerned about 'chilling' impact of DHS information releases
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The Senate clerk recognises concerns the DHS's release of personal information to a journalist could have a "chilling" impact on sources in the Centrelink investigation.
Topics: welfare, community-and-society, government-and-politics, federal-government, australia
Australia is 'killing terrorists': PM adopts tough language on IS
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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is using blunt language to describe the fight against the Islamic State group, declaring Australia is "destroying Daesh" in the Middle East as he marks the arrival of the first Joint Strike Fighter in Australia.
Topics: federal-government, terrorism, unrest-conflict-and-war, defence-forces, turnbull-malcolm, australia
Tasmanian Minister accused of lying over ABC's Right to Information request
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The Tasmanian Opposition says the Human Services Minister "lied to the public" after she was forced to correct the record about her knowledge of a Right to Information request.
Topics: state-parliament, welfare, government-and-politics, hobart-7000, launceston-7250
Remote work-for-the-dole participants hit with 55,000 fines in three months
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The Prime Minister's department confirms 54,997 penalty notices were issued from July 1 to September 30 last year for participants in the Community Development Programme.
Topics: unemployment, community-and-society, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, community-development, rural, nt, australia
10yo with disability left locked in bus at depot for hours before being found
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A boy with a disability spends hours locked in a school bus at a depot south of Wollongong before being discovered by transport company workers, sparking an investigation into the incident.
Topics: schools, warilla-2528, wollongong-2500
Amber Harrison could have 'scandalous material' against Seven West Media
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Amber Harrison's planned counter claim against Seven West Media could contain "scurrilous and scandalous material", the NSW Supreme Court is told.
Topics: media, industry, business-economics-and-finance, courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, nsw
'Are you living in the real world?': NAB boss grilled over financial planning arm
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NAB chief executive Andrew Thorburn faces tough questions over the bank's financial planning arm and its practises.
Topics: banking, business-economics-and-finance, company-news, government-and-politics, australia
Tasmania introduces tougher evade police laws after tragic crash
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New Tasmanian laws amending the Police Powers Act will allow officers to arrest anyone who they "reasonably believe" has evaded police, following calls for change after the tragic death of young mother Sarah Paino in 2016.
Topics: laws, human-interest, hobart-7000, launceston-7250
The lesson of Hansonism? It's the economy, stupid
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The economy may be the best avenue for the Right and the Left to take as they try to tackle the emergence of One Nation and other political alternatives.
Topics: political-parties, government-and-politics, australia
Nanny assaulted in car park dies in Poland as alleged attacker appears in Brisbane court
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A 24-year-old nanny sexually assaulted in Brisbane last year has died in a traffic incident in Poland, in the same week her alleged attacker appeared in court, Queensland police say.
Topics: courts-and-trials, sexual-offences, brisbane-4000, qld, australia, poland
Eels suspend Edwards for seven NRL matches
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Kenny Edwards is suspended for the NRL season's first seven matches and fined a hefty $60,000 by Parramatta for domestic violence.
Topics: sport, rugby-league, nrl, domestic-violence, parramatta-2150, nsw, australia
Man in hospital after home invasion 'fist fight'
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A woman and two children witnessed a fist-fight between a man and two intruders.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, mount-pleasant-5235
South American water weed spreading near Gloucester
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An invasive exotic weed, thought to have been tipped into the river from an aquarium, is spreading along Manning River banks.
Topics: weeds, environmental-management, regional, rural, gloucester-2422, coffs-harbour-2450, port-macquarie-2444
Proposal for Aboriginal Upper House seat rejected by Tasmanian Government
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The State Government and some Aboriginal groups reject a push for a separate Upper House electorate for Tasmania's Indigenous community.
Topics: government-and-politics, aboriginal, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, launceston-7250, tas
Abbott, Armidale Maccas, penalty rates: The week's winners and losers
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Fran Kelly and Patricia Karvelas, hosts of the Party Room, choose their winners and losers from the week in federal politics.
Topics: federal-government, government-and-politics, canberra-2600
Aboriginal land claims removed to make way for cemetery expansion
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The trust that operates Sydney's sprawling Botany Cemetery negotiates a deal that will allow the park to expand onto land significant to Aboriginal people.
Topics: aboriginal, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, botany-2019, nsw
Ipswich Hospital shuts down ICU over mould outbreak
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Ipswich Hospital managers shut down the intensive care unit so they can remove the source of a mould outbreak that could be a threat to patients with compromised immune systems.
Topics: healthcare-facilities, health-administration, ipswich-4305, brisbane-4000
NDIS enrolments surging, but at what expense?
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The number of people joining the National Disability Insurance Scheme is rising dramatically, according to official figures, but disability advocates say in the race to meet enrolment targets, people entering the NDIS are losing out.
Topics: disabilities, health, health-policy, health-insurance, federal-government, government-and-politics, australia
Former Tasmanian MP appointed Norfolk Island administrator
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A former federal MP who held Tasmania's largest electorate is headed to a new island, and this time he will be running the whole show.
Topics: government-and-politics, tas, norfolk-island
Young track rider dies after 'tragic accident' at Canberra's racecourse
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A 22-year-old woman dies after being seriously injured in a horse riding accident at Canberra's Thoroughbred Park on Tuesday.
Topics: horse-racing, accidents, canberra-2600, act, australia
