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Foreigners have long mined Indonesia, but now there's an outcry

A Papuan activist in traditional headwear protests against US mining giant Freeport-McMoRan which activists say is ...

Crowned with spiky feathered headdresses and daubed with face paint, scores of protesters gathered outside the Jakarta offices of an American mining giant last week, chanting, waving signs and throwing uncertainty into global commodities markets.

Birchall out for about a month with jaw injury

Premiership Hawk Grant Birchall.

Four-time Hawthorn premiership defender Grant Birchall will miss around a month of football after scans confirmed he suffered a fractured jaw early in his side's loss to Adelaide on Saturday.

Suspicious fire destroys ute

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A man was seen running from a ute shortly after the vehicle's interior caught fire and was later destroyed in the blaze.