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| UpdatedHow often do you eat lunch at your desk or skip the meal altogether? If you are anything like a lawyer, the answer might be all the time.
Topics: eating-disorders, law-crime-and-justice, stress, australia
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| UpdatedAustralian property prices continue to fall, led by steeper declines in Sydney prices, which are now down for a fifth straight month.
Topics: housing-industry, economic-trends, business-economics-and-finance, australia
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| UpdatedF1 decides the long-standing practice of having grid girls on the track before the start of a race is no longer appropriate, and says they won't be used at any more Formula One events. But women who have worked as grid girls say they've been put out of a job by feminists.
Topics: motor-sports, sport, women, community-and-society, human-interest, australia
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| UpdatedThe rise of populist leaders like Donald Trump, Xi Jinping and Rodrigo Duterte is a blowback to globalisation, the revenge of those who feel left out. But recent depictions of the brilliant orator Winston Churchill give hope, writes Stan Grant.
Topics: government-and-politics, unrest-conflict-and-war, world-politics, donald-trump, australia
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| UpdatedA Queensland bus driver who was sacked after leaving a five-year-old girl locked in a coach for four hours on her first day back at school says he had no idea she had hopped on.
Topics: police, primary-schools, schools, community-and-society, human-interest, children, jimboomba-4280, qld, australia
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| UpdatedNominated for a swag of Oscars this year, Phantom Thread comes close to landing flat on its face — but ends up a breathtaking experience.
Topics: film-movies, romance-films, australia
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| UpdatedAt Janet Yellen's final meeting as the Fed chair, the US central bank takes a more hawkish stance on inflation.
Topics: stockmarket, company-news, economic-trends, currency, australia
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| UpdatedSupersonic jets and windowless cabins where every surface is a screen — these four trends will revolutionise flying, writes Chrystal Zhang.
Topics: science-and-technology, tourism, travel-and-tourism, lifestyle-and-leisure, internet-technology, australia
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| UpdatedEmbattled tennis player Bernard Tomic has told Network 10's The Project he doesn't care what Lleyton Hewitt's comments and says he wants to play for Australia in the future.
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| UpdatedA 49-year-old is arrested and charged with the murder of Bobby Stuart Allan, who died on his neighbour's doorstep while believed to be seeking help after an assault.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, canberra-2600, act, australia
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| UpdatedASIO officers moved to secure the thousands of top secret and classified Cabinet files obtained by the ABC, in early morning operations in Canberra and Brisbane.
Topics: government-and-politics, political-parties, defence-and-national-security, security-intelligence, australia, parliament-house-2600, south-brisbane-4101
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| UpdatedA lunar trifecta — a rare convergence of a blue moon, supermoon and total lunar eclipse — graces skies around the world on Wednesday for the first time in 35 years.
Topics: astronomy-space, science-and-technology, asia, australia, canada, united-states, russian-federation
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| UpdatedRudd-era cabinet documents predicting huge private investor interest in the NBN show Labor was "in a fantasy land" and made "rushed and flawed" decisions, the Government says.
Topics: government-and-politics, telecommunications, information-and-communication, australia
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| UpdatedA new paper describes the idea of "genetic nurture", where parents' genes, even those not passed on to their child, have major effects on kids' health and educational attainment.
Topics: genetics, science-and-technology, australia
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| UpdatedBrisbane residents are being asked to join a global movement called Love Food Hate Waste, where they are cut the amount of good food they throw away by participating in a six-week challenge.
Topics: recycling-and-waste-management, environment, activism-and-lobbying, people, human-interest, brisbane-4000, qld, australia
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| UpdatedAustralia's elite track cyclists are testing their limits as they train for a place on the team for the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games in April.
Topics: cycling, sport, people, human-interest, commonwealth-games, brisbane-4000, qld, australia, southport-4215
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| UpdatedThe blood test would make diagnosis easier, cheaper and more broadly available than the current invasive and expensive options. But will people want to know years out that they will one day suffer from Alzheimer's disease?
Topics: brain-and-nervous-system, medical-research, science-and-technology, research, diseases-and-disorders, alzheimers-and-dementia, health, brisbane-4000, qld, australia
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| UpdatedWhile it may have a reputation for narcissism, Instagram is being embraced by the art world, with Insta-friendly works and exhibitions.
Topics: visual-art, arts-and-entertainment, internet-technology, australia
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In a bold pitch, state and territory governments are calling for every three-year-old child in Australia to have access to 15 hours per week week of early childhood education. A review, released today, says childcare should be more focused on learning rather than just making it easy for parents to work.
Topics: child-care, children---preschoolers, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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| UpdatedThe gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous students staying on until year 12 has been closed for the first time in any state or territory, but NAPLAN results show a divide between the two groups.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, education, secondary-schools, schools, act, canberra-2600, australia
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| UpdatedEleven-year-old kart-racing gun Sebastian Ruiz can start his path to emulating Mark Webber on what is now a world-class track bearing the former F1 star's name.
Topics: motor-sports, sport, canberra-2600, act, australia
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| UpdatedFor the first time there's evidence that disability, renal failure and diabetes are causing high levels of psychological distress in older Indigenous Australians.
Topics: community-and-society, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, government-and-politics, health, older-people, australia
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| UpdatedThe proposal is laid out in a research report that has canvassed the possibility of Catholic and independent schools collecting the tax-file numbers of parents.
Topics: primary-schools, secondary-schools, public-schools, education, schools, access-to-education, australia
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| UpdatedReal estate sales companies are using big commissions to tempt mortgage brokers, financial planners and accountants to sell overpriced properties to unsuspecting clients.
Topics: housing-industry, consumer-finance, consumer-protection, accounting, australia
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| UpdatedIn early morning operations in Canberra and Brisbane, ASIO officers move to secure the thousands of top secret and classified cabinet files obtained by the ABC.
Topics: politics-and-government, political-parties, defence-and-national-security, security-intelligence, australia