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A sex offender who remains at large after escaping a correctional facility was charged with intent to rape during another escape in 2014.

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League to finally reveal to all clubs next week the prosperous new pay agreement with players that will increase salary caps by close to a total $40 million in 2017.

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US President Donald Trump has raved about his relationship with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, although he still thinks the refugee deal is "ridiculous".

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A bumper grains crop and optimism of another good year ahead helped push GrainCorp shares sharply higher

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Good morning, there's a little haze in the cold, cold air but then it's pretty much all clear as we round the corner for the end of the working week.

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Injured veterans look set to be hurt further and is chocolate addiction a bigger problem than gambling?

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The NRL has made a major blunder in choosing to play the national anthem and an alternative during a round when many Aboriginal people do not want to hear it.

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President Donald Trump signed an executive setting up a commission to review his disputed allegations of widespread voter fraud.

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Up to 20 per cent of the ATO's workforce now non-public servants, union says.

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An unemployed man from western Sydney is $50 million richer after winning Powerball's division one prize pool.

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The Bank of England said it may need to raise interest rates before the late 2019 date that markets had been expecting.

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Al Qaeda has started reaching out for recruits in Yemen by handing out quiz sheets, with an AK-47 assault rifle as top prize.

The script should be familiar by now. President Donald Trump takes action that stuns the country. Then blames resulting outrage on unfair treatment by the left.

President Donald Trump has contradicted the White House's earlier explanation for the dismissal.

The boy was hit in the hip by a bullet as he was playing with his sister in a bedroom.

China's metals bulls are taking a pause rather than sounding the retreat.

Noble Group reported a quarterly loss that pummelled its shares, stoking survival worries for the commodity trader.

​Barclays reshuffled its senior global investment bank management and is seeking to hire between 50 to 100 people.

​Iron ore futures in China fell to a four-month low on Thursday before recovering at the close, pressured by lean demand.

The draft was leaked to newspapers ahead of its official release.

Was it a joke? Or another example of Trump exaggerating his own achievements?

Bali police say 'possibly there was an act of violence' behind the grisly death of Stephen Richardson.

The most experienced player on the Brumbies roster is confident the players can end a losing streak.

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This is the most glaring and under-appreciated fact of internet-age capitalism: We are, all of us, in inescapable thrall to the handful of American companies that now dominate much of the global economy.

Myer boss hit backs at claims that Amazon will devastate its business, saying it was not clear what the online retail juggernaut would offer in Australia.

Traffic lights at a busy Civic intersection were changed three days before a collision there.

Des Hasler refused to blame a contentious obstruction call inside the first three minutes for the Bulldogs' limp loss to a Johnathan Thurston-less Cowboys.

Canberra man jailed in US after overstaying visa for 90 minutes allowed home.

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It's been a big week for budgets with endless analysis after the event and daily leaks during the run up.

People posting on Facebook and blogs are facing hundreds of thousands in costs and damages.

Liz Lea is a Canberra performer and producer with a passion for dance. Liz talks us through some of her Canberra favourites.

Next stage of $1.54 billion Brisbane Metro 'thrown into question'.

An Aldi in Melbourne's west tries to stop sweet-toothed thieves from stealing jars of honey.

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Foreign aid reductions to see Australia tumble down OECD ranks of donor countries.

Audio recordings and billboards could be used to keep tourists safe while driving on Queensland roads.

One of Queensland's leading economists outlines the potential impact of the president's protectionist policies on Australia's economy – and it could spell disaster for the country.

Exhibition also shows publications deemed too rude, including The Little Red Schoolbook, a book about sex education that was banned by the government in 1972.

Two teenagers have been taken to hospital after they were stabbed in Sydney's south west on Thursday night.

After sitting for more than 150 years, the NSW parliament has, in 2017, acquired a parents' room.

Restless NRL clubs have floated the idea of mirroring an AFL style "soft" salary cap which wouldn't punish minor breaches of a notional figure for player payments in 2018 should Collective Bargaining Agreement negotiations drag on.

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An exhibition by photographer Rennie Ellis on show at Mossgreen Gallery in Sydney showcases the lost glory of Kings Cross in the early 1970s.

Federal opposition remains determined to try to win political argument about budget fairness.

Further charges have been laid against a 14-year-old boy over a series of indecent assaults against women in a town south of Perth.

The ASX reversed strong early gains to finish flat, as a dip in Chinese commodities futures triggered a round of selling in the miners.

The ACT Opposition will fight changes to the territory's liquor laws.

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Scott Morrison succumbed to hubris before Bill Shorten's budget reply, asserting that only two groups seemed to be unhappy with his audacious budget reset: the big banks and the Labor Party.

Chief Minister Andrew Barr says the rise makes the territory's taxation system "fairer".

Canberra roads will receive almost $43 million worth of upgrades in next month's ACT budget.