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| UpdatedWorkers in the hospitality, retail and fast-food industries will be paid less for working on Sundays and on public holidays after the Fair Work Commission decided to cut penalty rates.
Topics: government-and-politics, business-economics-and-finance, work, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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| UpdatedPeople with an incapacity or disability that makes it difficult for them to vote at ballot boxes will be able to have their say at the March state election via the internet, a first for Western Australia.
Topics: computers-and-technology, internet-technology, elections, government-and-politics, wa, perth-6000
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| UpdatedFrontline services will be impacted as jobs are slashed from the federal Health Department, the public sector union warns.
Topics: public-sector, government-and-politics, health-policy, health-administration, australia, act, nsw, vic, tas, sa, qld, nt, wa
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| UpdatedHundreds of workers walk off the job at Adelaide shipbuilder ASC over an ongoing enterprise bargaining dispute that has spanned two years.
Topics: unions, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, federal---state-issues, manufacturing, industry, osborne-5017, adelaide-5000, sa
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Foreign Minister Julie Bishop meets with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to discuss global security and how the two nations will prepare for foreign fighters attempting to return if Mosul is successfully liberated.
Topics: foreign-affairs, government-and-politics, unrest-conflict-and-war, united-states, australia, iraq
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Beverley O'Connor speaks to the Crawford Fund's John Anderson about the importance of food security to regional and political stability.
Topics: diet-and-nutrition, government-and-politics, defence-and-national-security, australia
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| UpdatedWith the Fair Work Commission's long-awaited decision on weekend penalty rates handed down, a fierce political fight is reignited between Labor and the Coalition.
Topics: industrial-relations, work, unemployment, hospitality, government-and-politics, australia
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With just over two weeks to polling day, WA's political leaders clash in a televised debate over debt, experience and political promises, with each trying to "aggressively" undermine the other's credibility.
Topics: government-and-politics, elections, wa
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Perth barrister Lloyd Rayney is dealt a blow on the eve of the hearing of his multi-million-dollar defamation case against the state of WA, with WA's highest court ruling a hearing examining whether he should be allowed to keep practising law can go ahead.
Topics: government-and-politics, political-parties, wa
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| UpdatedThirty-five new sites of Aboriginal heritage significance are discovered on Tasmania's Tarkine coastline, renewing calls for the area to be declared a national park.
Topics: indigenous-culture, environmental-impact, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, environmental-management, government-and-politics, arthur-river-7330, tas
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Host: Ellen Fanning
Panel: Chip Rolley, Mark Di Stefano and Daisy Cousens
Interview with: Jamie Hyams & Amin Saikal
The panel discusses the Israeli PM’s visit, Milo Yiannopoulos’ book cancellation & Dimmi’s restaurant booking site blacklisting no-shows.
Topics: government-and-politics, community-and-society, information-and-communication, australia, israel, palestinian-territory-occupied
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Planned changes to the South Australian Ambulance Service will not cost jobs, chief executive Jason Killens promises.
Topics: healthcare-facilities, health, health-policy, government-and-politics, community-and-society, regional, mount-gambier-5290, adelaide-5000, port-pirie-5540, port-augusta-5700, port-lincoln-5606, renmark-5341
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A union questions how psychological testing of current child protection workers in South Australia will be done and what will happen to any staff who fail.
Topics: government-and-politics, states-and-territories, children, family-and-children, child-abuse, community-and-society, child-health-and-behaviour, law-crime-and-justice, adelaide-5000, sa
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The Territory Government resists calls to have an independent watchdog investigate the three NT utilities corporations at the centre of a multi-million-dollar staffing blowout.
Topics: government-and-politics, nt
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More than 500 university students would move into a 16-storey tower at Redfern's The Block under new plans lodged by the Aboriginal Housing Company.
Topics: housing, government-and-politics, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, indigenous-policy, redfern-2016
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Lawyer and former US Congressman Bob Inglis addresses the National Press Club in Canberra on how conservatives can lead on climate action in the age of Donald Trump.
Topics: climate-change, government-and-politics, canberra-2600, act, australia
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| UpdatedBob Inglis was a Republican Congressman who once thought climate change was "nonsense" for the "other tribe". Now, he's on a mission in Australia to convince conservatives to fight for the environment.
Topics: environment, environmental-policy, government-and-politics, alternative-energy, energy, australia, united-states
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| UpdatedIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praises his Australian counterpart Malcolm Turnbull for calling out the "hypocrisy" of the United Nations.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, foreign-affairs, australia, israel
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Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Malcolm Turnbull discuss a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Topics: world-politics, government-and-politics, religion-and-beliefs, israel, australia
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| UpdatedThe United States are not calling on Australia to increase its military presence in Iraq and Syria, Julie Bishop says after meeting with Vice-President Mike Pence.
Topics: foreign-affairs, donald-trump, government-and-politics, world-politics, united-states
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| UpdatedPolice have seized cars, computers, phones, and loose change out of the purses of people suspected of working in the sex industry, a South Australian parliamentary committee hears.
Topics: community-and-society, states-and-territories, state-parliament, parliament, government-and-politics, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedMalcolm Turnbull rebukes the United Nations for adopting "one-sided resolutions" critical of Israel, as Benjamin Netanyahu arrives in Australia for the first official visit by an Israeli prime minister.
Topics: government-and-politics, religion-and-beliefs, australia, israel
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| UpdatedIsraeli Prime Miniser Benjamin Netanyahu has touched down in Sydney, becoming his country's first serving leader to visit Australia. He spoke to media at the airport.
Topics: world-politics, government-and-politics, sydney-2000, australia, israel
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Former prime minister Kevin Rudd is calling for the Federal Opposition to make the formal recognition of Palestinian statehood official policy before the next election.
Topics: federal-government, government-and-politics, world-politics, alp, rudd-kevin, australia