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Coalition backbenchers vow to continue their fight to change section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act, even if it means defying a Cabinet decision to retain the wording of the section.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, community-and-society, race-relations, australia
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The service of a former member of Australia's elite SAS is formally recognised following an eight-year legal battle with Defence.
Topics: defence-and-national-security, army, australia
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| UpdatedMark your calendars — Britain's Government will begin the process of leaving the European Union in just over a week, starting the clock on the two years it has to complete the most important negotiation for a generation.
Topics: world-politics, united-kingdom, european-union
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US President Donald Trump accuses Democrats of making up allegations Russia interfered in last year's election, and says Congress and the FBI should be going after media leaks instead.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, world-politics, hacking, donald-trump, united-states
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For many Australians, times are tough. So our ABC audience sent through their best tips on getting innovative to save cash.
Topics: money-and-monetary-policy, consumer-finance, australia
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| UpdatedFake news, alternative facts, echo chambers and an "information war"; journalists love a bit of navel-gazing and Monday's Q&A panel, packed with representatives from the media, was always going to focus heavily on such issues.
Topics: journalism, information-and-communication, australia
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The Christian Youth Camps organisation is fined $13,000 after accidentally leaving a young boy alone on a bus for half an hour on a hot day in Perth.
Topics: courts-and-trials, child-care, baldivis-6171, perth-6000, rockingham-6168
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| UpdatedPeter Handscomb and Shaun Marsh put on a defensive masterclass on day five to grind out a draw in the third Test against India.
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| UpdatedFour batches of life-saving anti-allergy device EpiPens are recalled because they may fail to activate or require increased force — with potentially deadly consequences.
Topics: health, pharmaceuticals, allergies, diseases-and-disorders, australia
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Long-running kids' TV show Sesame Street is introducing a new character in its 47th season: a muppet named Julia who happens to have autism.
Topics: autism-spectrum-disorder, arts-and-entertainment, television, family-and-children, children---toddlers, children---preschoolers, united-states
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| UpdatedLGBTQI vloggers hit back at YouTube after discovering some of their content is being restricted on the video-sharing site.
Topics: social-media, internet-culture, community-and-society, gays-and-lesbians
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Lloyd Rayney's defamation case is taken inside the investigation into his wife's death, with recordings of discussions between police and forensic experts investigating the murder played to WA's Supreme Court.
Topics: courts-and-trials, perth-6000
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| UpdatedFormer Olympian Danni Roche is challenging John Coates for Australian Olympic Committee power and things already look set to get nasty, writes Mary Gearin.
Topics: olympics-summer, sport, australia
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| UpdatedStaff at one of Australia's busiest airports have been setting up camp and sleeping at work, which they say is because they cannot afford to go home between shifts.
Topics: work, unions, sydney-international-airport-2020
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Cyber attacks pose a growing threat to the global financial system, with many services now delivered over the internet, and more needs to be done to cope with the new risks, financial regulators say.
Topics: international-financial-crisis, regulation, business-economics-and-finance, markets, australia, singapore
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| UpdatedA Perth father who doused two of his children with petrol and set one alight was a heavy drinker who had smoked cannabis throughout the day of the offences, the WA Supreme Court hears.
Topics: courts-and-trials, doubleview-6018
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| UpdatedThe five-year-old daughter of a woman stabbed to death in Canberra confided in family members about what unfolded on the night of her mother's death, a court hears.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, gordon-2906, canberra-2600, act, australia
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The board of a popular Victorian alpine resort faces the sack for spending $85,000 of taxpayers' money on family trips overseas, entertaining friends, bonuses and extravagant staff prizes.
Topics: parliament, state-parliament, corruption, law-crime-and-justice, melbourne-3000, vic, mount-buller-3723
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| UpdatedAdelaide Oval management is not ruling out the need for extra electricity generation at the stadium, as it proceeds with an $8 million upgrade of its light and sound equipment.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, events, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedSouth Australia has led the way on equal access to justice for those with a disability, so why is momentum to make the reforms national now slowing?
Topics: disabilities, judges-and-legal-profession, australia
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The alleged victim in an indecent assault case dating back to the 1980s rejects suggestions he may have been wrong about who attacked him.
Topics: sexual-offences, law-crime-and-justice, canberra-2600, act, australia
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The Government has no plan to allow first home buyers access to their superannuation to fund a deposit, Treasurer Scott Morrison says.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, housing, business-economics-and-finance, housing-industry, superannuation, australia
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| UpdatedThe widow of a UK war veteran killed while working at a Tasmanian mine says she wants answers from the ADF, and that her husband only took the mining job because of delays getting a transfer to the Australian Army.
Topics: workplace, accidents, savage-river-7321
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NSW hospital patients whose private medical records were found in a public carpark and on a footpath were not informed of the privacy breach, documents reveal.
Topics: health, health-administration, gosford-2250
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Severe storms are on the way for Melbourne and parts of Victoria, as humidity in the city soars to levels more familiar to residents of Brisbane or Sydney.
Topics: weather, community-and-society, environment, climate-change, melbourne-3000, vic