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Comedians aren’t immune from the obligation to be a decent person, but that doesn’t mean we can’t cross the PC line with glee every now and then
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Marye Daniels says Pauline Hanson and James Ashby met with Michaelia Cash and Mathias Cormann before WA preference deal
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Helle Thorning-Schmidt discusses how her country managed to achieve such a high percentage of power from renewable sources
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Thousands of Hazara protesters have descended on Government House in Canberra where Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani is meeting with governor general Peter Cosgrove. The protesters, many of whom travelled from interstate, demanded Australia and Afghanistan revisit a 2011 deal to send Afghan asylum seekers back
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Parks and Wildlife and Indigenous land and ranger groups have observed huge numbers of birds, including the banded stilt, flocking to inland lakes after rain
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A house on the Gold Coast in Queensland floats away minutes after emergency workers pulled four people and two dogs to safety
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Swollen rivers flood entire towns along Australia’s east coast on Friday
After the flood: 'No tourists please. Help welcome'