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After lengthy construction delays and legal bickering, the doors of the new Royal Adelaide Hospital have been thrown open for a first look at the facility.
Topics: health, healthcare-facilities, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedSenior doctors at The Tweed Hospital on the NSW far north coast say patients are being forced to go across the border to Queensland because the facility is at breaking point.
Topics: doctors-and-medical-professionals, cancer, diseases-and-disorders, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, health, healthcare-facilities, tweed-heads-south-2486
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| UpdatedWe've been here before ... the Victorian Government is cutting stamp duty for first time buyers to give them a leg up, but this has been tried there and elsewhere and it just doesn't work.
Topics: housing-industry, tax, states-and-territories, australia
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Victoria's move to abolish stamp duty for first home buyers purchasing a property valued below $600,000 will not work unless more homes are built, Treasurer Scott Morrison says
Topics: housing, government-and-politics, state-parliament, states-and-territories, vic, australia
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| UpdatedBusinesses and residents around part of Melbourne's St Kilda Road are nervous about the impact of the city's Metro rail project, which will see trees ripped out, trams re-routed and a giant construction pit dug in the ground.
Topics: states-and-territories, state-parliament, community-and-society, urban-development-and-planning, st-kilda-road-melbourne-3004, south-melbourne-3205, south-yarra-3141, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedOne Nation leader Pauline Hanson says there is a "sheer hatred" of Western Australian Premier Colin Barnett among voters, but defends a preference deal with the state's Liberals as a necessity to win seats in the upcoming state election.
Topics: pauline-hanson, elections, state-parliament, states-and-territories, perth-6000, wa
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Former Labor prime minister Bob Hawke urges WA Labor leader Mark McGowan to hold a summit to unite business, unions and the community behind the effort to balance WA's budget and revive economic growth.
Topics: elections, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, state-parliament, perth-6000
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| UpdatedStamp duty for first home buyers will be abolished in Victoria for homes under $600,000 and there will be concessions on homes up to $750,000 as part of a suite of changes to make housing more affordable.
Topics: housing, government-and-politics, state-parliament, states-and-territories, melbourne-3000, vic
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Senator Nick Xenophon is promising to give the major parties "a run for their money" at the next South Australian election with the creation of his new party, SA Best.
Topics: political-parties, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, state-parliament, parliament, elections, sa
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A dispute about funding for asbestos removal in Northern Territory remote communities is underway, prompted by the recent exposure of material in Central Australia.
Topics: asbestos, health, rural, community-and-society, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, government-and-politics, federal-government, states-and-territories, federal---state-issues, yuendumu-0872, nt, australia
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| UpdatedDoubling the grant offered to people buying their first home in regional Victoria will help push house prices down, Premier Daniel Andrews says.
Topics: states-and-territories, government-and-politics, community-and-society, business-economics-and-finance, industry, housing, housing-industry, vic
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| UpdatedJournalists frequently refer to freedom of information investigations in news stories, but not many people realise anyone can learn to use the legislation successfully.
Topics: laws, information-and-communication, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, journalism, federal-government, australia
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A plan which could force more gas into South Australia's energy market to put downward pressure on power costs and improve reliability is flagged by Premier Jay Weatherill.
Topics: states-and-territories, federal---state-issues, government-and-politics, environment, electricity-energy-and-utilities, adelaide-5000, sa
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Demolition of Pirtek Stadium to make way for 30,000 Western Sydney Stadium.
Topics: community-and-society, sport, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, urban-development-and-planning, parramatta-2150, sydney-2000
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The demolition of Parramatta Stadium begins, with drone footage showing seats ripped out, stands torn down and the site almost levelled to make way for Sydney's "future home of sport".
Topics: sport, states-and-territories, parramatta-2150
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| UpdatedThe WA Nationals leader declares only his party has a viable plan to repair the deficit and debt plaguing the state's finances, labelling the major political parties' budget strategies flawed and doomed to fail.
Topics: government-and-politics, states-and-territories, federal---state-issues, elections, mining-industry, wa
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| UpdatedThe national energy regulator takes the highly unusual step of reassuring South Australians that it is not forecasting supply shortfalls as temperatures reach the high 30s over the next four days.
Topics: electricity-energy-and-utilities, industry, states-and-territories, parliament, federal---state-issues, government-and-politics, alternative-energy, environment, sa, adelaide-5000
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| UpdatedWA Liberals say candidate Lily Chen did the wrong thing by handing out free bottles of wine while doorknocking for next month's state election, but say she did so "in recognition of Chinese New Year".
Topics: elections, political-parties, liberals, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, mirrabooka-6061
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A new strategy for school canteens in NSW will ensure fruits, vegetables, sandwiches, pastas and stir fries make up at least 75 per cent of menus, with "occasional foods" like sausage rolls limited to the remaining 25 per cent.
Topics: schools, states-and-territories, diet-and-nutrition, nsw
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| UpdatedSouth Australia names senior Aboriginal community leader Roger Thomas as the state's treaty commissioner, to draft a proposed framework after negotiating with Indigenous communities.
Topics: indigenous-policy, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, law-crime-and-justice, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedThe Victorian Government announces plans to rezone 100,000 housing blocks and create 17 new suburbs in Melbourne's key growth zones in an effort to tackle housing affordability.
Topics: housing, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, state-parliament, kalkallo-3064, vic, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedFormer New South Wales premier Mike Baird is moving back to banking, as the National Australia Bank's chief customer officer for corporate and institutional banking.
Topics: banking, management, corporate-governance, business-economics-and-finance, states-and-territories, australia, nsw
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A drug trafficker is awarded $100,000 in compensation after he says his diabetes worsened while in prison, but crime victims and lawyers might get all of that money.
Topics: government-and-politics, law-crime-and-justice, prisons-and-punishment, states-and-territories, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedSome $140 million will be spent on flood mitigation in Adelaide's inner-south and south-west over the next 20 years after an agreement was met between the State Government and five local councils.
Topics: floods, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, local-government, unley-5061, adelaide-5000, mitcham-5062, burnside-5066, sa
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| UpdatedThree health staff are suspended amid an independent review into the treatment of an aged care patient at a mental health facility run by the South Australian Government.
Topics: mental-health, health, states-and-territories, state-parliament, parliament, federal---state-issues, government-and-politics, health-administration, healthcare-facilities, oakden-5086, adelaide-5000, sa