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The departing Secretary of Defence Dennis Richardson accuses China of spying and exerting "unreasonable" influence over Chinese communities and media in Australia.
Topics: defence-and-national-security, security-intelligence, world-politics, foreign-affairs, australia, china
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The West Coast Eagles will be hoping to avenge their elimination final loss to the Western Bulldogs in this Friday night blockbuster. Get live stats, scores and streams in our ScoreCentre.
Topics: australian-football-league, sport, perth-6000, wa, australia
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In a first, a team of scientists is preparing to survey the darkest depths off the coast of Australia to learn more about biodiversity on the sea floor.
Topics: oceans-and-reefs, fish, marine-biology, australia
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Controversial vocational education broker Acquire Learning, chaired by former AFL head Andrew Demetriou, goes into voluntary administration.
Topics: vocational, access-to-education, corporate-governance, consumer-protection, australia
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| UpdatedBy choosing to play an "alternative" anthem during its Indigenous round, the NRL has opted to play politics, writes The Link's Stan Grant.
Topics: community-and-society, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, nrl, sport, australia
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| UpdatedAustralia's richest businesswoman Gina Rinehart is looking for a managing director to take the Kidman cattle empire into a new era, after managing director Greg Campbell retires.
Topics: livestock, rural, business-economics-and-finance, government-and-politics, australia, nt, sa, qld, wa
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The Australian Federal Police helps Filipino authorities rescue four girls and arrest three women for allegedly livestreaming explicit videos of children to men in Australia and the United States.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, science-and-technology, internet-technology, philippines, australia, united-states
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| UpdatedThe Australian Tax Office's blanket ban on processing Freedom of Information requests submitted via the Right to Know website is ruled invalid by Australia's Information Commissioner.
Topics: federal-government, charities, tax, information-and-communication, australia
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| UpdatedMoney from a not-for-profit women's service was accidentally used as a deposit to buy Eman Sharobeem's husband a Mercedes in late 2014, the former Australian of the Year finalist tells a corruption inquiry.
Topics: corruption, law-crime-and-justice, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedRobbie Farah's Rabbitohs are taking on the Tigers after the Dragons surrendered second spot on the ladder to the Sharks. Follow all the live scores, stats and commentary in our ScoreCentre.
Topics: nrl, rugby-league, sport, kogarah-2217, nsw, sydney-2000, australia
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| UpdatedSeven years of tumult over paid parental leave ends in a whimper as the Federal Government abandons plans to make any changes to the existing scheme.
Topics: tax, federal-government, budget, parenting, australia
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For many people, treating sleep problems before treating symptoms of anxiety and depression is less stigmatising and might encourage people to seek further help.
Topics: sleep-disorders, diseases-and-disorders, sleep, health, anxiety, depression, australia
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Decades of sending messages and images into space would present an odd picture of earth.
Topics: science-and-technology, astronomy-space, space-exploration, australia
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Delayed laws to ban the Australian cosmetics industry from selling products tested on animals may still allow ingredients which have been tested on animals to be imported, say animal welfare groups.
Topics: animal-welfare, science-and-technology, animal-science, chemicals-and-pharmaceuticals, australia
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| UpdatedWhat happens to the 20 to 40 per cent of Australian produce rejected by supermarkets every year?
Topics: fruits, agricultural-crops, food-processing, australia, mannum-5238, carnarvon-6701, maroochydore-4558
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Bill Shorten has proven much more adept than Malcolm Turnbull at recasting the political battle, whether that be about values, fairness or social equity, Andrew Probyn writes.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, budget, political-parties, australia
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| UpdatedA Senate inquiry examining gas and oil exploration in the Great Australian Bight ends in deadlock, with chairwoman Sarah Hanson-Young accused of being too biased and one Labor senator voting against his colleagues.
Topics: environment, environmental-management, mining-environmental-issues, port-lincoln-5606, adelaide-5000, sa, australia
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It’s the biggest week of the year in Canberra (at least when there’s no election), and the one big take out from #Budget2017 is that there is no avocado tax. In this bumper edition, join Matthew Doran, Lucy Barbour, Anna Vidot, Will Ockenden, Yasmin Parry, Shalailah Medhora and Sabra Lane as they try to cut through the spin, explain the creative accounting techniques, and in a non-Budget twist deal with the revelation there’s Landcare speed dating.
Topics: government-and-politics, elections, federal-elections, australia, parliament-house-2600
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This week saw a seismic shift in Australian politics with a budget that was both audacious and clever. It also showed that Newspolls will now matter more to the Government than the deficit, says Barrie Cassidy.
Topics: government-and-politics, budget, australia
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Being an air hostess in the 1960s was a sought after job. But bodies were carefully policed: at Qantas, if a hostess put on too much weight she could be rostered off until she'd lost it.
Topics: community-and-society, women, history, australia
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Recent headlines are wrong. Not all creatures take exactly the same amount of time to poo, but they come pretty close — and now we know why.
Topics: science-and-technology, mammals, animal-science, australia
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| UpdatedThe leadership of Queensland Police Commissioner Ian Stewart is praised by the Premier after a scathing attack on the force's senior management by the Queensland Police Union.
Topics: police, law-crime-and-justice, unions, public-sector, government-and-politics, activism-and-lobbying, brisbane-4000, qld, australia
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| UpdatedYou know Mark Colvin for his unflinching journalism, but he was an advocate for the absurd side of audio too.
Topics: abc, broadcasting, information-and-communication, australia
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Prime Minister Malcom Turnbull says a plan to drug test welfare recipients and potentially manage their spending is a sensible, rational and compassionate policy that is "based on love".
Topics: welfare, community-and-society, government-and-politics, federal-government, budget, drug-use, health, australia
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| UpdatedIsaiah Firebrace sings Don't Come Easy at the 2017 Eurovision semi-final