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| UpdatedTasmania's Health Minister dismisses calls by Opposition Leader Rebecca White for an inquiry into bed shortages at Royal Hobart Hospital, asking "Is this the best she can come up with?"
Topics: healthcare-facilities, government-and-politics, tas, hobart-7000
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| UpdatedMelbourne is planning for hundreds of new apartments in the inner city, and more than a dozen new suburbs in the outer sprawl. So how does family life in the booming centre compare to the expanding fringes?
Topics: urban-development-and-planning, community-and-society, family-and-children, family, southbank-3006, mernda-3754, melbourne-3000, vic
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Residents in the small farming village of Dalton, north of Canberra, are picking up the fight against plans for a gas-fired power station they thought had been scrapped.
Topics: oil-and-gas, electricity-energy-and-utilities, rural, dalton-2581, nsw, canberra-2600, act, australia
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A hundred years ago people with an intellectual disability were locked up in "lunatic asylums". Today they're still locked away it's just behind the walls of suburbia, writes Alison Branley.
Topics: disabilities, health, health-administration, carers, community-and-society, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedForeign Correspondent travelled to the drought-stricken Bundelkhand region in central India to film underworld criminals at work, stealing sand — a resource that's now so valuable it's been dubbed "India's gold".
Topics: mineral-sands, crime, environment, india
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A day after Hong Kong picked a new Beijing-backed leader, police launch a fresh round of arrests of student leaders and other prominent figures involved with the huge 2014 Umbrella Movement pro-democracy protests.
Topics: elections, government-and-politics, activism-and-lobbying, unrest-conflict-and-war, world-politics, hong-kong, china, asia
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| UpdatedTropical Cyclone Debbie is maintaining its intensity as it moves towards the Queensland coast, with meteorologists predicting it will make landfall about midday on Tuesday. Follow live.
Topics: cyclone, weather, cyclones, disasters-and-accidents, emergency-planning, emergency-incidents, bowen-4805, mackay-4740, ayr-4807, townsville-4810, qld, australia
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| UpdatedCyclone Debbie is just hours away from making landfall in north Queensland, possibly as a category five storm, with winds of up to 190kph already battering the Whitsunday Islands and power cut to thousands of homes in Airlie Beach.
Topics: cyclones, disasters-and-accidents, cyclone, weather, emergency-incidents, emergency-planning, qld, mackay-4740, townsville-4810, ayr-4807, bowen-4805, proserpine-4800
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Last week's terror attack in London, Islam and the proposed changes to the Racial Discrimination Act were the hot topics for this week's Q&A panel.
Topics: terrorism, race-relations, television, australia
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Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny is handed a 15-day jail sentence for his part in an anti-government protest in Moscow which buoyed the liberal opposition's morale a year before a presidential election.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, unrest-conflict-and-war, government-and-politics, world-politics, russian-federation
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| UpdatedEngineers are frantically working to solve engine problems on the Royal Australian Navy's two largest ships, with fears the Landing Helicopter Docks could be out of action for several weeks — ruling them out for any support efforts in the wake of Tropical Cyclone Debbie.
Topics: defence-and-national-security, defence-forces, defence-industry, storm-disaster, disasters-and-accidents, garden-island-2011
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The Labor Party will use its numbers to block the Australia-China extradition treaty in the Senate, joining the Greens and crossbenchers to vote against the agreement being ratified.
Topics: federal-government, government-and-politics, world-politics, australia, china
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| UpdatedOutspoken British political figure Nigel Farage says he does not agree with comments made about Islam by One Nation leader Pauline Hanson, saying it would be a mistake to outlaw Islam.
Topics: federal-government, government-and-politics, world-politics, religion-and-beliefs, united-kingdom
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A lawyer for University of Technology Sydney Professor Chongyi Feng believes the Australian permanent residency holder will likely not be able to leave China and return to Sydney "in the short term".
Topics: university-and-further-education, education, government-and-politics, law-crime-and-justice, university-of-technology-sydney-2007
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| UpdatedAn Australian woman dies in Bali after drinking almost 30 shots of vodka during a three-hour drinking session with friends.
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The world's first commercially viable clear, solar glass is developed in Western Australia, and is being viewed as a game changer for the renewable energy industry.
Topics: environment, science-and-technology, perth-6000
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| UpdatedA top-order batting collapse is set to cost Australia any chance of a rare series win in India, with the hosts on the verge of victory in the fourth Test in Dharamsala.
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| UpdatedWhen a corporate dispute involves a drug-dealer turned businessman, a standover man, a Mafioso and a key targets of the Trade Union Royal Commission, it's likely it will end badly.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, murder-and-manslaughter, sydney-2000
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The Princess of Jordan and wife of Dubai's Emir says the Middle East is in chaos and a political solution is needed to respond to the global refugee crisis.
Topics: royal-and-imperial-matters, world-politics, unrest-conflict-and-war, relief-and-aid-organisations, charities, jordan, united-arab-emirates
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Pastor and Aboriginal activist Geoffrey Stokes tells a Kalgoorlie court he was defending a culturally significant location when he fired a rifle during a confrontation at a northern Goldfields mine site.
Topics: courts-and-trials, aboriginal, kalgoorlie-6430, laverton-6440
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| UpdatedSouth Australia faces a massive challenge if it is to win the Sheffield Shield final after Victoria dominated day two in the Alice Springs heat.
Topics: cricket, sport, alice-springs-0870
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Senior Government ministers move to quell backbench unease over the Coalition's contentious Australia-China extradition treaty, while Labor is yet to confirm its position.
Topics: government-and-politics, world-politics, federal-government, parliament, federal-parliament, laws, australia, china
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Police charge a 22-year-old Gosnells man over an incident in which a transit officer was allegedly threatened with a handgun after asking to see the man's ticket at a train station in Perth's east.
Topics: police, crime, perth-6000, carlisle-6101
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Last week, all of the big four banks raised interest rates. According to one analyst, it wasn't because of the increased cost of borrowing on the wholesale market.
Topics: banking, industry, business-economics-and-finance, australia
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Perth's public transport authority is logging tens of thousands of people's travel patterns in an ever-growing database, in a move that has raised concerns from privacy advocates.
Topics: government-and-politics, transport, public-sector, perth-6000, wa