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A man will face charges including causing death by dangerous driving after an Adelaide pedestrian dies in hospital, two days after an alleged hit-and-run in the CBD.
Topics: road, accidents, disasters-and-accidents, traffic-offences, crime, law-crime-and-justice, adelaide-5000, parkside-5063, sa
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| UpdatedA health and safety organisation said it may be time to consider mandatory laws around the wearing of helmets on quad bikes
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, rural, federal---state-issues, occupational-health-and-safety, community-and-society, tamworth-2340, narrabri-2390
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| UpdatedAn Australian man, believed to be a father-of-two from Melbourne, dies after reportedly falling ill on his descent from the Mount Everest Base Camp in Nepal.
Topics: accidents---other, accidents, disasters-and-accidents, nepal, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedA 3D printing company is providing much-needed medical supplies to remote areas of earthquake-recovering Nepal, where basic tools such as tweezers and otoscopes are next to impossible to source.
Topics: earthquake, disasters-and-accidents, relief-and-aid-organisations, health, doctors-and-medical-professionals, nepal, asia
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| UpdatedVictoria's emergency system is being put under unnecessary pressure by 95,000 non-urgent calls a year, including one from a person who could not pass wind for 24 hours.
Topics: emergency-incidents, disasters-and-accidents, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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| UpdatedA man received non-life threatening injuries when a light plane experienced engine failure and crashed shortly after take-off on Saturday afternoon, March 5, 2017.
Topics: air-and-space, disasters-and-accidents, tumut-2720, nsw
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| UpdatedA pilot is recovering in hospital after his self-made plane experienced engine failure, crashing into a field at Tumut, west of Canberra, on Saturday afternoon.
Topics: accidents---other, accidents, disasters-and-accidents, tumut-2720, nsw, canberra-2600, act, australia
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| UpdatedSomalia's Prime Minister says 110 people have died from hunger in the past 48 hours in a single region — the first death toll announced in a severe drought threatening millions of people across the country.
Topics: drought, famine, relief-and-aid-organisations, disasters-and-accidents, diseases-and-disorders, somalia
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| UpdatedA stunt bike rider is in hospital after sustaining spinal injuries during a demonstration at Adelaide's Clipsal 500 motor race event.
Topics: accidents, disasters-and-accidents, sport, motor-sports, adelaide-5000, sa
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A driver is charged after allegedly fleeing the scene of a hit-and-run accident which left a man is in a critical condition in hospital.
Topics: accidents, crime, disasters-and-accidents, adelaide-5000, sa
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Ambulance Tasmania is warning attacks on their equipment could cost a life, after a tyre was deflated while an ambulance was parked outside a patient's house.
Topics: crime, disasters-and-accidents, tas
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| UpdatedWorst disasters in history, emergency response, cloud formations and total fire bans. So show us what you know about weather and emergencies in Australia. Good luck!
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, emergency-incidents, emergency-planning, weather, cyclone, rainfall, storm-event, bushfire, cyclones, earthquake, fires, floods, storm-disaster, australia, act, nsw, nt, qld, sa, tas, vic, wa
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Somalia is expected to be the next nation to declare a state of famine as several other countries across eastern Africa face severe food shortages, an aid agency says.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, famine, somalia, south-sudan, kenya, nigeria, ethiopia
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| UpdatedA large crowd gathers at a joint funeral for teenagers Rhys Simlesa and Rhys Walters, who were fatally struck by a car while leaving a party in Darwin a week ago.
Topics: death, youth, disasters-and-accidents, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedAfter fire destroyed the historic Kandanga pub, locals made sure the small Queensland town was not without a meeting place where anyone was welcome to have "a beer and a yarn".
Topics: community-and-society, fires, disasters-and-accidents, people, human-interest, kandanga-4570, qld, maroochydore-4558
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| UpdatedForeign aid spending is at its lowest level in eight years under the Turnbull Government and charities are calling for an urgent increase amid warnings of famine across the Middle East and North Africa.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, relief-and-aid-organisations, disasters-and-accidents, yemen, somalia, south-sudan
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| UpdatedFirefighters tackle a huge blaze at a scrap metal and recycling yard at Wingfield in northern Adelaide, and think an excavator moving crushed vehicles sparked the explosion leaving its driver with burns.
Topics: fires, crime, industrial-fires, disasters-and-accidents, wingfield-5013, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedThree people have been killed in an overnight fire at an abandoned factory in Melbourne's west.
Topics: industrial-fires, disasters-and-accidents, footscray-3011, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedA man is killed after being struck with a metal beam on a New South Wales Government construction site at Barangaroo, near Sydney's Darling Harbour.
Topics: workplace, disasters-and-accidents, accidents, work, death, police, millers-point-2000, sydney-2000
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Children's art turned into placemats is one way the Dunedoo community in western NSW is thanking volunteers in the bushfire-ravaged region.
Topics: women-in-agriculture, disasters-and-accidents, bushfire, human-interest, food-and-cooking, community-and-society, dunedoo-2844, dubbo-2830, orange-2800
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| UpdatedA police sharpshooter injures two people after accidentally opening fire during a speech given by French President Francois Hollande in the south-west of France, a police source says.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, france
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Federal police say a man who blew up a van out the front of the Australian Christian Lobby building in Canberra last year was most likely trying to take his own life.
Topics: suicide, christianity, community-and-society, religion-and-beliefs, disasters-and-accidents, deakin-2600, canberra-2600, act, australia
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| UpdatedA Carwoola man says authorities left him with no option but to run towards an out-of-control bushfire to save his home and family.
Topics: fires, emergency-incidents, emergency-planning, disasters-and-accidents, queanbeyan-2620, queanbeyan-east-2620, nsw, act, australia
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A section of Constitution Avenue that recently underwent a multi-million-dollar redesign may be closed for some time after a large water pipe burst and flooded the road.
Topics: road, disasters-and-accidents, water-management, accidents, reid-2612, campbell-2612, act, australia
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Topics: floods, disasters-and-accidents, water, water-supply, water-management, reid-2612, campbell-2612, act, australia