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'We certainly see an increase in people asking for mental health assistance.'

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The Turnbull government should lobby the United States to reconsider its exit from the Paris climate agreement, Labor's foreign affairs spokeswoman Penny Wong has said ahead of a key bilateral meeting of the two allies.

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The Federal Reserve plans to give lenders an advance look at how they might fare in the annual tests it conducts on them.

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We live in times of extraordinary and abrupt change, not just in the climate.

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Futures fell after gaining as much as 1.7 per cent in New York, amid a rethink on the outlook for US crude inventories.

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One chief executive after another tweeted their dismay at Trump's decision to exit the Paris climate agreement despite their last-ditch efforts to dissuade him.

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Port Adelaide's eye-catching form isn't linked to the amount of uncontracted players at the AFL club, coach Ken Hinkley says.

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Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has faced sharp criticism during the company's annual shareholders meeting about how the company operates, deals with violence and handles fake news.

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Shares have their most positive set-up in a while after Wall St records solid gains to hit new records after upbeat economic data buoyed investors.

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Maroons antagonist Nate Myles, who caused a stir with what looked like an eye gouge on Jarryd Hayne, has warned State of Origin runs the risk of losing its aura if players are punished for pushing the boundaries.

• 49 mins ago

Expert urges public to 'ask harder questions' on what could represent a 'system collapse'.

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Eddie Jones has urged England's new breed to give the established stars something to think about on their flight home from New Zealand.

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Alarming footage has emerged of a near-miss between a truck and a school bus in Sydney.

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After sinking to a record low, Hawthorn coach Alastair Clarkson concedes his once-mighty club has fallen from AFL premiership contention.

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Nigel Farage rejected the report, branding such an accusation "hysterical".

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The disturbance was heard at a complex that includes hotels, casinos, clubs and a shopping centre.

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Queensland researchers find way to kill virus.

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The ACT Brumbies have finished a worldwide search for Stephen Larkham's successor.

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Good morning, it's the end of the working week and the weather gods are treating us more than fairly (see proper definition of "fair" below).

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SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk said he plans to quit two presidential councils after President Donald Trump announced the United States would pull out of the Paris Climate Accord.

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The leads from Wall Street suggest we close out the week on a more positive note, with the S&P; 500 and NASDAQ 100 pushing to new all-time highs and the Dow looking like it needs a good payrolls report tonight to join this camp.

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It will largely be up to airlines to decide if the man allegedly at the centre of the Malaysia Airlines bomb scare can board an aircraft again.

World leaders have pledged to keep up the fight against global warming as Trump announced he was pulling out of the Paris climate accord.

A robotic policeman which can help identify wanted criminals and collect evidence has joined Dubai's police force and will patrol busy areas in the city, as part of a government programme aimed at replacing some human crime-fighters with machines.

Carried by industrial, consumer and tech companies, the Dow Jones Industrial Average circled back to record territory.

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Some of the key point you need to know about Paris and a withdrawal of the US by President Trump

The American financier and philanthropist George Soros criticised the country's right-wing prime minister, Viktor Orban, saying he has presided over a "mafia state."

• ANALYSIS

That Donald Trump's decision was widely anticipated does little to moderate its impact.

US President Donald Trump has announced that the US will exit the Paris climate accord and begin investigating a new agreement with fairer terms for the US.

Australia's shrinking yield advantage over the US has stirred the Aussie dollar bears, but the currency is deemed unlikely to plunge hard.

Three men are dead and another four are in hospital after a bad night on Queensland roads.

Houses out of reach to first home buyers, a death near Yass and a lovely romance.

The Treasurer has begun preparing the ground for weak or negative economic growth in the March quarter.

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US factory activity ticked up in May after slowing for two straight months and private employers stepped up hiring.

Maxine Horne gave Aussie investors another master class in how to play the stock market this week.

After a miserable May, iron ore opened the new month on the back foot.

Mr Putin's previous position was that Russia played no role whatsoever in hacking the DNC.

Reports the AFP did not tell Victoria Police the incident had occurred until six minutes after the plane had landed.

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Khalid Al Harbiya saw his daughter's lifeless body sprawled in the morgue after she was killed in a bombing by Islamic State terrorists.

The group of migrants were making their way to Libya.

Winter masterpieces exhibition draws more than 150,000 visitors to the National Gallery of Victoria in five weeks.

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The decision to defer a major reform challenges Gladys Berejiklian's claim that she can 'get things done'.

Pauline Hanson has told the Turnbull government to build the billion-dollar Galilee Basin coal line itself, announcing she would oppose a "foreign multi-national" from owning the crucial infrastructure.

The federal government expects United States President Donald Trump to walk away from the Paris climate agreement, but Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and his senior ministers insist Australia will not follow suit – despite pressure from the Coalition backbench.

A 22-year-old man who allegedly bashed surgeon is withdrawing from a drug dependence, court hears.

Unemployed draftsman Michael Dempsey wants a piece of the multibillion-dollar infrastructure boom that's happening around him, and he's making himself impossible to ignore.

Personal trainer James Blatch was all too happy to flex his muscles for the camera.

Hackers reportedly threatened to publish tech company's data online unless Bitcoin were paid.