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| UpdatedSydney's Catholic Archbishop says reporting abuse to authorities that he heard about during a confession would be like "bugging the confessional".
Topics: royal-commissions, sexual-offences, catholic, child-abuse, sydney-2000, adelaide-5000, melbourne-3000, brisbane-4000, perth-6000
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| UpdatedPatients are getting stuck in emergency rooms and elective surgery wait times are the longest they have been in 15 years, an Australian Medical Association report shows, labelling the system virtually stagnant and "woeful".
Topics: healthcare-facilities, health, doctors-and-medical-professionals, health-policy, health-administration, australia
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| UpdatedLin family killer Robert Xie, who murdered five members of his family, is given five life sentences without the possibility of parole, while his wife says he is innocent and a "scapegoat" for the crimes.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, murder-and-manslaughter, family-and-children, courts-and-trials, epping-2121, sydney-2000, nsw
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| Updated"You will not outrun these fires", says the NSW fire chief, warning people to avoid or leave the bush before Sunday as the state gears up for catastrophic fire ratings worse than the Black Saturday conditions in 2009.
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| UpdatedA "perfect storm" party of teenagers, heat, drugs and alcohol forces the closure of the Pacific Highway at Lake Macquarie in NSW overnight, police say, after hundreds of drunken partygoers spill onto the streets fighting, throwing bottles and cans.
Topics: assault, crime, charlestown-2290, newcastle-2300
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| UpdatedThe Australian Catholic Church releases "grim" data revealing 7 per cent of priests, working between 1950 and 2009, have been accused of child sex crimes. Here's what you need to know.
Topics: royal-commissions, sexual-offences, religion-and-beliefs, catholic, australia
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| UpdatedTelstra says all voice services have been restored as repair work continues on its mobile network after customers reported outages across the country.
Topics: telecommunications, australia
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| UpdatedNSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione will be retiring a couple of months earlier than expected, with no replacement in sight and only two months to go, leaving many scratching their heads about the timing of the announcement.
Topics: police, state-parliament, nsw
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| UpdatedA judge says Sydney siege gunman's girlfriend, Amirah Droudis, adopted "evil" Man Haron Monis's "foul beliefs" when handing down a 44-year murder sentence for the stabbing death of his ex-wife.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, sydney-2000, nsw
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| UpdatedA Japanese surfer who was found 6 kilometres off the coast of Australia a fortnight ago after floating on a surfboard overnight for 16 hours says he was trying to commune with nature.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, bulli-2516
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| UpdatedGladys Berejiklian outlines her priorities and praises her Armenian migrant parents, saying she "will be governing for everyone", as she gives her first speech after being voted as the new leader in NSW.
Topics: state-parliament, parliament, government-and-politics, liberals, nsw
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| UpdatedFrom tweeting reality TV, the greyhound racing ban, lockout laws and everything in between, these are some of the things departing NSW Premier will be remembered for.
Topics: government-and-politics, state-parliament, parliament, nsw
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| UpdatedRetrace the journey from the Blue Mountains, underneath the Granville Bridge, and all the way to Central Station with ABC reporter Clare Blumer, who this morning travelled the line 40 years after the Granville train disaster.
Topics: community-and-society, emergency-incidents, disasters-and-accidents, granville-2142, nsw, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedNo, you did not imagine it — Friday night was ridiculously hot — because it was the hottest Sydney night in January since city weather records began.
Topics: weather, sydney-2000, penrith-2750
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| UpdatedA tourist catches a lucky break when he is spotted drifting on a surfboard off the Australian coast nearly 6 kilometres offshore, after spending 16 hours in the water.
Topics: accidents, accidents---other, sea-transport, surf-life-saving, surfing, bulli-2516, wollongong-2500
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| UpdatedFires continue to burn in New South Wales bushland, as crews strengthen containment lines at an out-of-control blaze in the state's Central West.
Topics: bushfire, fires, wellington-2820, mudgee-2850, morisset-2264
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| UpdatedThe Central Coast and Newcastle train line has reopened after fires crossed the tracks, as serious conditions continue at another fire burning out of control in hilly country near Wuuluman between Wellington and Mudgee.
Topics: bushfire, wellington-2820, morisset-2264, harden-2587, murrumburrah-2587, orange-2800
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| UpdatedFifteen people have lost their lives in NSW after getting into trouble in water since Christmas, leaving rescue workers to warn it is the "season of distractions" that can quickly prove fatal.
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| UpdatedA 23-month-old boy dies two days after his twin sister, and nine days after they were both found unconscious in a backyard pool in Sydney's north-west.
Topics: accidents, death, kellyville-ridge-2155
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| UpdatedState government agencies activate a heatwave action plan, with soaring temperatures across most of New South Wales set to cap off 2016.
Topics: weather, sydney-2000, walgett-2832, moree-2400
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| UpdatedThis year could be Australia's fifth warmest on record, and New South Wales will feel it with a heatwave over much of the eastern coast for the final days of 2016.
Topics: weather, sydney-2000, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedA Japanese rocket containing 100 experiments created by Australian high school students for astronauts from NASA to test is on its way to the International Space Station.
Topics: space-exploration, spacecraft, astronomy-space, science, mathematics, computers-and-technology, sydney-2000, australia, japan
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| UpdatedA global report on educational performance shows Australian 15-year-olds are getting worse at maths, science and reading.
Topics: education, educational-resources, australia
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| UpdatedThe people of Bundanoon, at the edge of the Kangaroo Valley west of Kiama, are rewinding the environmental clock and marking their small town's 150th birthday by trying to save a threatened species.
Topics: birds, conservation, environmental-management, environmental-impact, community-development, national-parks, bundanoon-2578, kangaroo-valley-2577, kiama-2533, wollongong-2500
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| UpdatedWith final votes counted and preferences distributed, Shooters, Fishers and Farmers candidate looks to win the NSW seat of Orange in the NSW by-election held last weekend — but the Nationals have asked for a re-count.
Topics: elections, political-parties, orange-2800