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| UpdatedExperts fear a coming glut of problem buildings that cannot keep the rain out will trap many buyers in legal limbo.
Topics: housing-industry, building-and-construction, industry, business-economics-and-finance, laws, law-crime-and-justice, newington-2127, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedCat owners who do not de-sex their animals may no longer be able to escape the long arm of the law, if a new draft strategy released today is implemented by the ACT Government.
Topics: animals, laws, canberra-2600, act, australia
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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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| UpdatedThe private member's bill comes after the death of Teresa Bradford, who was killed by her estranged husband inside her Gold Coast home in January.
Topics: domestic-violence, community-and-society, state-parliament, parliament, government-and-politics, laws, law-crime-and-justice, family-law, qld, brisbane-4000, australia
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A public policy expert says a Queensland Crime and Corruption Commission hearing into the Gold Coast City Council election is designed to flush out evidence.
Topics: local-government, elections, laws, southport-4215
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There are renewed calls for SA's gay panic defence to be scrapped, with the state now the only one in Australia to still have it on the books — but not everyone agrees.
Topics: gays-and-lesbians, laws, judges-and-legal-profession, law-crime-and-justice, murder-and-manslaughter, states-and-territories, sa, adelaide-5000
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Banks will not be allowed to foreclose on struggling Queensland farmers without first offering them debt mediation under new laws passed in State Parliament.
Topics: state-parliament, parliament, government-and-politics, law-crime-and-justice, laws, rural, agribusiness, agricultural-crops, community-development, regional, brisbane-4000, qld, australia
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| UpdatedQueensland's move to ditch a "homophobic, archaic law" that allowed gay panic as a partial defence for murder is welcomed by a Catholic priest who has been fighting for change since Wayne Ruks (pictured) was bashed to death in July 2008.
Topics: state-parliament, gays-and-lesbians, murder-and-manslaughter, laws, courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, brisbane-4000
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Transport for New South Wales is told to give Sydney's 2018 train timetables, which are expected to detail major disruptions for commuters, to the ABC after a three-year legal battle.
Topics: government-and-politics, law-crime-and-justice, laws, courts-and-trials, information-and-communication, transport, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedA badly written law could cost a US company $13 million, after a judge ruled that a comma missing from a statute meant 75 truck drivers were owed four years of unpaid overtime wages.
Topics: english, subjects, education, laws, united-states, australia
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The restrictions placed on a worker's right to strike place Australia at odds with international conventions, and the ACTU's new leadership will be pursuing sweeping reforms, writes Stephen Long.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, law-crime-and-justice, laws, trade, business-economics-and-finance, australia
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A growing number of councils and local government departments are introducing by-laws to restrict where drones can be flown.
Topics: human-interest, laws, local-government, adelaide-5000
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| UpdatedACTU secretary Sally McManus defends her comments about breaking the law as Christopher Pyne and other Coalition frontbenchers respond with heavy criticism.
Topics: unions, government-and-politics, laws, law-crime-and-justice, australia
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| UpdatedA Brisbane grandmother who has lived in Australia for 50 years is set to be deported after the Assistant Minister for Immigration denied her permission to stay.
Topics: drug-offences, crime, law-crime-and-justice, immigration, community-and-society, laws, prisons-and-punishment, villawood-2163, brisbane-4000, qld, australia, nsw, croatia
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Tasmanians would be able to take disputes with neighbours over trees and hedges to the Planning Appeals Tribunal under proposed new laws.
Topics: laws, community-and-society, tas
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| UpdatedAre you brave enough to confront your own mortality? The Australian Medical Association of Queensland challenges people to tackle it head on and put wishes about end-of-life care — and last drinks — on the record.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, laws, death, community-and-society, aged-care, brisbane-4000, qld, australia
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| UpdatedAn opposition MP in Fiji says a return to by laws governing traditional iTaukei villages would be a good thing.
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| UpdatedThe former Northern Territory public trustee who sold the copyright to Indigenous artist Albert Namatjira's life's work for just $8,500 in 1983 says the sale was a mistake.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, art-history, law-crime-and-justice, laws, information-and-communication, copyright, hermannsburg-0872, nt, australia
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| UpdatedMonitoring devices should be considered as one measure to increase community safety and confidence, the police association says, as Tasmania looks to strengthen bail laws.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, laws, crime, crime-prevention, tas
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A non-profit group working to reduce harm caused by alcohol hopes to renew a push for 3:00am last drinks in Canberra once the results of a new study on emergency ward visits are known.
Topics: alcohol, healthcare-facilities, laws, states-and-territories, canberra-2600, act, australia
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| UpdatedProposed new bylaws affecting people living in traditional iTaukei villages in Fiji may be at odds with the country's Bill of Rights.
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| UpdatedNew Tasmanian laws amending the Police Powers Act will allow officers to arrest anyone who they "reasonably believe" has evaded police, following calls for change after the tragic death of young mother Sarah Paino in 2016.
Topics: laws, human-interest, hobart-7000, launceston-7250
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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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This woman has shaky hands caused by Parkinson's disease. She wants legal access to medicinal cannabis.
Topics: cannabis, alternative-medicine, laws, sa
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| UpdatedEnergy Minister Mark Bailey says he deleted a personal Yahoo email account that had received emails from a union boss because he thought the Premier wanted him to.
Topics: state-parliament, government-and-politics, laws, brisbane-4000, qld