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Ruling means vacancy will be filled via recount of election’s votes, which will likely return second Family First candidate
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Afghan president Ashraf Ghani says the return of Hazaras needs to be considered in a broader context
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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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The New South Wales government promises that Sydney’s $16.8bn WestConnex motorway project will dramatically ease the city’s dire congestion problems, but critics say it is a damaging waste of money
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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
'Irreversible consequences': Adani coalmine granted unlimited water access for 60 years