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Local government leaders back a push to consider changing the date of Australia Day and will now lobby the Federal Government for a national debate.
Topics: australia-day, aboriginal, local-government, government-and-politics, australia, hobart-7000, canberra-2600
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Soldiers training at North Head used to brag about bashing gay men and treated it as "fun and games", a witness tells the inquest into Scott Johnson's death.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, sexuality, death, manly-2095
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A 32-year-old man who sparked one of Perth's biggest ever police searches after stealing a car containing a three-year-old boy sleeping in the back is jailed.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, perth-6000
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| UpdatedThe troubled Islamic College of South Australia could reopen as soon as Thursday after being sold to a West Australian-based organisation.
Topics: education, religion-and-beliefs, community-and-society, croydon-5008, sa, australia
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| UpdatedSafe Pathways, a business that runs group homes for children unable to be placed in foster families, charged the NT Government the same monthly amount despite fluctuations in the number of children, a royal commission hears.
Topics: royal-commissions, law-crime-and-justice, youth, child-care, child-abuse, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedA Liberal-dominated parliamentary committee has postponed scheduled evidence from two of the nation's chief justices, amid ongoing concern about criticism of the judiciary by politicians.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, australia, vic
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Tasmania's Energy Minister warns time is running out for the two parties negotiating a gas supply contract, saying they may face arbitration.
Topics: oil-and-gas, states-and-territories, tas
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| UpdatedIn a hidden room in a house near Argentina's capital, police believe they've found the biggest collection of Nazi artefacts in the country's history, including toys experts believe were used to indoctrinate children.
Topics: history, law-crime-and-justice, world-war-2, human-interest, argentina
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| Updated"Disturbing gaps" in the management of drugs at two major public hospitals in Perth resulted in the theft of significant quantities of highly addictive narcotics, a Corruption and Crime Commission investigation finds.
Topics: drug-use, healthcare-facilities, health-administration, pharmaceuticals, wa
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| UpdatedAn Australian woman working as a field nurse in Mosul says 90 per cent of the injuries the team treats are caused as a direct result of the conflict — but few of them in critical condition are soldiers.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, foreign-affairs, iraq
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The Bangarra Dance Theatre prepares for its newest challenge — portraying the life of Woollarawarre Bennelong, the first Indigenous man to travel to Europe and return.
Topics: dance, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedAFL players will receive a 20 per cent pay rise this season after agreeing to a new six-year deal with the league worth $1.84 billion that ties their wages to competition revenue for the first time.
Topics: australian-football-league, sport, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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| UpdatedA new study from the Centres of Disease Control and Prevention finds approximately 19 children killed or wounded from gunshots in the US every day.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, law-crime-and-justice, death, children, united-states
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| UpdatedAFL Tasmania and the State Government are not closing the door on the idea of North Melbourne relocating to Tasmania beyond 2021.
Topics: australian-football-league, sport, tas
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| UpdatedUranium mining will be banned in WA as the McGowan Government moves to honour its election commitment, but four already-approved projects will be allowed to proceed.
Topics: uranium-mining, government-and-politics, wa
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| UpdatedIf you're having a bad day, spare a thought for Mr Flea. A 300 gram ball of gunk has been removed from his penis. The vet who removed the "huge ball of smegma" says it might be the biggest ever found.
Topics: equine-production, veterinary-medicine, weird-and-wonderful, animals, offbeat, clermont-4721
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| UpdatedShopping centres and entertainment complexes across NSW conduct urgent fire safety checks to investigate whether they contain flammable aluminium cladding, similar to the kind thought to have been used in the tragic London Grenfell fire.
Topics: building-and-construction, fires, disasters-and-accidents, lidcombe-2141, chatswood-2067, england, nsw
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| UpdatedIranian woman Mojgan Shamsalipoor has been living in Brisbane for the past nine months after being released from immigration detention. But she says her future in Australia has been "destroyed" after being told she could face deportation by the end of the year.
Topics: refugees, immigration, human-interest, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedRosalind Croucher will replace Gillian Triggs as the new President of the Human Rights Commission, and while many have welcomed the choice, one group has lashed out at the "Triggs-lite appointment".
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, rights, human, australia
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| UpdatedIn a bid to boost security the Perth Mint considers a ban on all clothing containing metal, including underwire bras, but a union says such a move unfairly targets women.
Topics: industrial-relations, community-and-society, perth-6000
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Regional communities are being touted as winners in this year's New South Wales budget, crowned by a Regional Growth Fund of more than $1 billion for projects to promote economic advancement outside of cities.
Topics: budget, government-and-politics, health, federal---state-issues, state-parliament, states-and-territories, lismore-2480, tweed-heads-2485, lightning-ridge-2834, tamworth-2340, inverell-2360, newcastle-2300, wollongong-2500, coffs-harbour-2450, warnervale-2259, the-entrance-2261, gosford-2250, orange-2800, bathurst-2795, lithgow-2790, port-macquarie-2444, broken-hill-2880, dubbo-2830, scone-2337, walgett-2832, bourke-2840, muswellbrook-2333, maitland-2320, nowra-2541, cessnock-2325, kempsey-2440, nambucca-heads-2448, lord-howe-island-2898, deniliquin-2710, queanbeyan-2620, goulburn-2580, bowral-2576, cooma-2630
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| UpdatedOne woman is dead and 12 others are injured in a crash between a mini-bus and a taxi at Ardmona, near Shepparton, in northern Victoria.
Topics: road, accidents, disasters-and-accidents, ardmona-3629, vic
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| UpdatedThe man who allegedly shouted "I want to kill more Muslims" after driving a van into worshippers outside Finsbury Park is described by friends and neighbours as someone who kept to himself but was, seemingly, a "normal bloke".
Topics: terrorism, law-crime-and-justice, united-kingdom
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| UpdatedFormer mayor of Ipswich Paul Pisasale is charged with extortion and two other offences after being questioned by the Crime and Corruption Commission.
Topics: local-government, government-and-politics, courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, ipswich-4305, qld
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Logan City councillors Darren Power and Lisa Bradley tape their mouths shut and dramatically walk out of a council meeting in protest over what they say is censorship.
Topics: government-and-politics, local-government, logan-central-4114, qld