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| UpdatedSteve Smith credits the extreme focus he was able to draw upon during his vital century in Pune to help Australia to a 1-0 Test series lead over India.
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| UpdatedNew South Wales police say they have taken 2.4 million hits of ice off the street in one of the state's largest drug busts.
Topics: drug-offences, australia
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| UpdatedFollow the live stats that matter as the Bulldogs take on the Storm before the South Sydney Rabbitohs face off against the Wests Tigers.
Topics: nrl, rugby-league, sport, canterbury-2193, balmain-2041, sydney-2000, sydney-south-2000, nsw, australia, melbourne-3000, vic
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Australia and Russia have been in a state of frozen disagreement for the past three years, reaching a new low with the downing of MH17. But Russia's ambassador to Australia says slowly but surely, things are looking better.
Topics: foreign-affairs, world-politics, unrest-conflict-and-war, government-and-politics, federal-government, bishop-julie, australia, russian-federation
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| UpdatedIn a scene straight out of Hogwarts, South Australia's Lower House transforms into a Chamber of Secrets, with a Labor MP repeatedly refusing to say the name of a new colleague and political rival.
Topics: state-parliament, parliament, government-and-politics, adelaide-5000, sa, australia
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NAB chief executive Andrew Thorburn faces tough questions over the bank's financial planning arm and its practises.
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A Nepalese asylum seeker says he is now in hiding fearing he could be killed, after being "involuntarily removed" from Manus Island.
Topics: immigration, refugees, papua-new-guinea, nepal, australia
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October will mark 75th anniversary of diplomatic ties between Australia and Russia, but relations have often been frosty.
Topics: world-politics, russian-federation, australia
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Orthopaedic patients at the new South East Regional Hospital are in the dark about when they will be operated on, as surgeons walk away in support of their colleague whose contract has not been renewed.
Topics: doctors-and-medical-professionals, health, bega-2550, nsw, australia
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Global miner BHP Billiton calls for "short-to-medium term" incentives to build new baseload power generation in South Australia.
Topics: electricity-energy-and-utilities, industry, business-economics-and-finance, mining-industry, coal, australia, sa
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| UpdatedSydney Roosters coach Trent Robinson says he expects Mitchell Pearce to show on-field improvement in 2017 to match the improvements off-field since his NRL suspension.
Topics: sport, rugby-league, nrl, sydney-2000, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedPlanned work on a Victorian transmission line will be delayed following SA's power station fire.
Topics: electricity-energy-and-utilities, industry, emergency-planning, adelaide-5000, sa, australia
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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
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| UpdatedThe 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
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| UpdatedPrime 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 "whether they have a bomb in their hand or are in the back office planning an attack".
Topics: federal-government, terrorism, unrest-conflict-and-war, defence-forces, turnbull-malcolm, australia
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| UpdatedThe 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
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| UpdatedNAB chief executive Andrew Thorburn faces tough questions over the bank's financial planning arm and its practices.
Topics: banking, business-economics-and-finance, company-news, government-and-politics, australia
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| UpdatedThe 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
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| UpdatedDetective Superintendent Michael O'Dowd confirms that in a "sad set of circumstances" a 24-year-old nanny sexually assaulted in Brisbane last year has died in a traffic incident in Poland days before her alleged attacker has appeared in court.
Topics: courts-and-trials, sexual-offences, brisbane-4000, qld, australia, poland
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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
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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
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| UpdatedA 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
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| UpdatedUS President Donald Trump has created a more volatile global security situation, which could spell trouble for Australia's energy supplies, experts say.
Topics: oil-and-gas, trade, defence-and-national-security, foreign-affairs, world-politics, government-and-politics, australia, united-states, china
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| UpdatedPolice allege the 24-year-old shot his brother before turning himself in at a nearby police station.
Topics: willunga-5172, sa, australia
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Two Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II fighters will fly at Victoria's Avalon air show this weekend, but questions remain about the aircraft's effectiveness and operational readiness.
Topics: defence-forces, defence-and-national-security, defence-industry, australia, melbourne-3000, geelong-3220, vic