The most recent 250 top stories.
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| UpdatedThe Federal Government says it has received information to suggest terrorists may seek to target Anzac Day commemorations on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey.
Topics: terrorism, anzac-day, unrest-conflict-and-war, defence-and-national-security, turkey
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| UpdatedThe detective who named Lloyd Rayney as the "prime" and "only" suspect in his wife's murder has denied being bitter and using his evidence at the barrister's defamation case to continue to attack him.
Topics: police, courts-and-trials, perth-6000, wa
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Police raid the offices of TV news program A Current Affair at Channel 9's Sydney headquarters during an inquiry into an employee at the station.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, broadcasting, television-broadcasting, information-and-communication, television, willoughby-2068
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| UpdatedThe first major outbreak of measles in Sydney in five years is sparked by a traveller who contracted it in Indonesia then spread it to others in western Sydney, NSW health authorities say.
Topics: health, infectious-diseases-other, vaccines-and-immunity, auburn-2144, blacktown-2148
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Hospitality venues are often left scrambling to find staff at short notice, but a new app aims to change that by allowing hospitality venues to post jobs on demand.
Topics: industry, business-economics-and-finance, hospitality, perth-6000
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Two Canberra brothel owners with bikie links are awarded half a million dollars, after the NSW Court of Appeal found their insurer should have expected bikies to be involved in the sex industry.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, canberra-2600, act, australia
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Collingwood coach Nathan Buckley is under decidedly different scrutiny to some of his peers — such is life in charge of a struggling team.
Topics: australian-football-league, sport, collingwood-3066, vic, melbourne-3000, australia
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Five decades ago, a group of Australian university students convinced NASA to launch the first amateur radio satellite into space.
Topics: spacecraft, science-and-technology, astronomy-space, human-interest, adelaide-5000, melbourne-3000
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Coking coal prices experience their biggest one-day price surge on record as rail outages block up to half the world's export shipments.
Topics: coal, mining-industry, rail-transport, cyclones, business-economics-and-finance, australia, qld, sarina-4737
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Arson is suspected a the home of a Tasmanian man who allegedly drove at two teenagers riding his stolen motorbike, police say.
Topics: crime, courts-and-trials, claremont-7011
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| UpdatedThe Fitzroy River in Rockhampton peaks this afternoon at 8.75 metres, the local disaster management group says, down from a predicted 9 metres.
Topics: floods, emergency-incidents, emergency-planning, disasters-and-accidents, rockhampton-4700, qld, australia
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| UpdatedPolice on the NSW South Coast charge a 69-year-old man, who they allege befriended a 15-year-old boy and had sex with him multiple times.
Topics: sexual-offences, law-crime-and-justice, police, crime, shoalhaven-heads-2535
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Big business has a reputation problem and needs to step up and sell itself to the Australian community, declares federal Treasurer Scott Morrison.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, tax, scott-morrison, business-economics-and-finance, australia
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| UpdatedThe Liberal candidate vying to be the next state member for North Shore at this weekend's by-election apologises for wrongly claiming to have lived in the electorate for a decade.
Topics: elections, local-government, nsw
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| UpdatedA Victorian Labor state election candidate quits numerous regional boards after being outed as a Twitter troll.
Topics: government-and-politics, social-media, state-parliament, sale-3850, bunyip-3815
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Aerospace company Boeing is creating 250 technical and advanced research jobs in Adelaide, after being lured with funding from a South Australian Government agency.
Topics: company-news, business-economics-and-finance, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedThousands of people at the top of New Zealand's North Island are told to evacuate as the tail end of Cyclone Debbie batters the island, bringing heavy rainfall and major flooding.
Topics: cyclones, cyclone, floods, new-zealand, pacific, australia
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| UpdatedA man who discovered his three-year-old daughter dead in his lounge room is sentenced to nine years in jail.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, murder-and-manslaughter, crime, brisbane-4000, qld, australia
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It could take up to two years for communities devastated by Tropical Cyclone Debbie to fully recover, Juliette Wright of GIVIT says, which has so far matched 17,000 donations to those most in need in north Queensland.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, cyclones, storm-disaster, emergency-incidents, charities-and-community-organisations, community-and-society, community-organisations, airlie-beach-4802, cannonvale-4802, proserpine-4800, rockhampton-4700, qld
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Gemma Arterton stars as a young Welsh copywriter in Their Finest, a sentimental story of filmmaking during the London blitz.
Topics: film-movies, arts-and-entertainment, history, community-and-society, world-war-2, england, united-kingdom
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Long before smartphones, selfie sticks and one-swipe filters, having your "perfect" picture taken still took lots of practice, preparation and plenty of posing.
Topics: photography, visual-art, fine-art-photography, arts-and-entertainment, history, human-interest, brisbane-4000
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In a bid to keep low-level offenders out of jail, elders and police in Yuendumu trial a new restorative justice program.
Topics: youth, crime-prevention, crime, community-development, community-organisations, yuendumu-0872
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| UpdatedAt least nine Victorian tourist attractions are hit by a credit card scam targeting Chinese visitors, costing the industry hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost revenue.
Topics: tourism, fraud-and-corporate-crime, law-crime-and-justice, crime, melbourne-3000, vic, china
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A jump in the number of new flu strains means health authorities need to increase preparations for a pandemic, researchers warn.
Topics: health, avian-influenza, influenza, swine-influenza, diseases-and-disorders, animal-diseases-and-disorders---equine-influenza, epidemiology---epidemics-and-pandemics, australia
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| UpdatedPepsi removes an advertisement from YouTube featuring reality TV star Kendall Jenner, after it was widely mocked and criticised for appearing to trivialise protests for social justice causes.
Topics: social-media, race-relations, united-states