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| UpdatedAs Sydney celebrates Mardi Gras, elsewhere in the world gay and lesbian people can struggle to simply stay out of jail.
Topics: gays-and-lesbians, law-crime-and-justice, discrimination, australia, sydney-2000, singapore, uganda, south-africa, iran-islamic-republic-of, saudi-arabia, european-union
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| UpdatedWith the year getting off to a wild start, we asked a range of experts what they're most excited about for the rest of 2017— and what they're most worried about.
Topics: government-and-politics, environment, science-and-technology, australia
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| UpdatedSurprisingly, not that much for now. But in the longer term, it does make things more complicated.
Topics: federal-government, federal-parliament, australia
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| UpdatedA Four Corners investigation into residential group homes has found some of the country's most damaged children are being placed in serious danger.
Topics: child-abuse, community-and-society, family-and-children, australia, newcastle-2300
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| UpdatedWas it Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton? Test your political smarts with our presidential debate quiz — it's harder than you might think.
Topics: us-elections, united-states
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| UpdatedWas it Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton? Test your political smarts with our presidential debate quiz — it's harder than you might think.
Topics: us-elections, united-states
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| UpdatedThe banks' interest rates decisions are putting more of your money in their coffers — use our calculator to find out how much.
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| UpdatedIt's not going to be easy for the Government to get its agenda through the new Senate. Here's why.
Topics: federal-government, federal-parliament, australia
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Explore our interactive before and after images to see the scale of "the worst natural disaster to strike the US since Superstorm Sandy".
Topics: floods, united-states
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| UpdatedCould our Olympic swimmers keep up with a penguin? Could long jumpers leap the length of a humpback whale? Get a sense of how Olympians' feats measure up.
Topics: olympics-summer, brazil
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| UpdatedThe fate of the election hinges on a few thousand votes scattered across six marginal seats around the nation. See how the final votes could fall.
Topics: federal-elections, government-and-politics, federal-government, federal-parliament, australia, brisbane-4000, townsville-4810, batemans-bay-2536, melbourne-3000, adelaide-5000, whyalla-5600, perth-6000
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| UpdatedAustralia is starting the week without a winner after Saturday's federal election delivered no result. How did we get here?
Topics: federal-elections, federal-government, australia
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| UpdatedThe question remains: Has Antony Green called the election yet?
Topics: federal-elections, federal-government, federal-parliament, australia
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| UpdatedWe asked for your predictions on how the key battles will pan out. Check back as the results come in to see how you went.
Topics: federal-elections, elections, government-and-politics, australia
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| UpdatedDo you know where Coalition, Labor and Greens voters stand on 10 key election issues? Take our quiz, but be warned: it's hard.
Topics: federal-elections, federal-government, federal-parliament, australia
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| UpdatedWhat do the opinion polls tell us about the possible range of results on Saturday night, and in particular the most important election battlegrounds?
Topics: federal-elections, polls, alp, liberals, liberal-national-party-queensland, nationals, greens, australia
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| UpdatedIs there a generation gap in Australian politics? Take our quiz to see whether you know where older and younger people stand on 10 key election issues.
Topics: federal-elections, federal-government, federal-parliament, australia
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In Australia, all votes are created equal but some are worth more than others.
Topics: federal-elections, federal-government, federal-parliament, australia
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| UpdatedCan you guess where men and women stand on 10 key election issues? Warning: it's hard.
Topics: federal-elections, federal-government, federal-parliament, australia
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| UpdatedQueensland is home to nine of Australia's top 10 most right-leaning seats, while Victoria is the country's most progressive state, Vote Compass data suggests.
Topics: political-parties, federal-parliament, federal-government, federal-elections, australia
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| UpdatedThe Islamic State group dominates global headlines but do we really understand where it started - or what it's trying to achieve?
Topics: terrorism, iraq, syrian-arab-republic
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| UpdatedWas it Opposition Leader Bill Shorten or Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull? Test your political smarts with our election debate quiz — it's more fun than the contest itself.
Topics: federal-elections, federal-election, federal-government, federal-parliament, australia
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| UpdatedHave a look at the key areas in which the Coalition, Labor, and the Greens hold different policies, including negative gearing, same-sex marriage, and climate change.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-elections, australia
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| UpdatedHere's what you need to know about how the parties' policies stack up on the economy, tax cuts and more.
Topics: federal-election, federal-elections, federal-government, federal-parliament, australia
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| Updated11 key questions you need answered to understand Treasurer Scott Morrison's first budget.
Topics: budget, federal-government, australia