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The vicious sell-off continues with the Dow Jones index plunging as Wall Street starts worrying its post-Trump party could be over.
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The founder of a circus based in the Blue Mountains is among seven people charged with 127 offences over the alleged sexual and physical abuse of three boys between 2014 and 2016.
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The Tasmanian Greens and the state Labor Party could face $47,700 penalties for failing to remove campaign ads which feature candidates from social media after the issuing of writs.
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One of Tasmania's most successful football clubs, the Burnie Dockers, withdraws from the Tasmanian State League because it does not have the numbers to field a team.
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When a Queensland man says he has been locked out of work for 208 days, Q&A panel members are left discussing strike action and its place in modern Australia.
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Elon Musk is about to try to send one of his own Teslas towards Mars. But the significance of the mission goes well beyond stunts.
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New data reveals home values have plunged by up to 25 per cent in real terms across five of Australia's eight capital cities in the past decade, putting paid to the old adage that property doubles in value every 10 years.
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Protesters hold up logging operations for three hours in the first forestry conflict since the High Court shot down the state's tough workplace protection laws.
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The backlash to Marvel's Black Panther film shows we live in an age where black heroes, both fictional and real, are met with fierce resistance, writes Paul Verhoeven.
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A Tasmanian tomato producer says "it's only a matter of time" before his business suffers because of the state's fruit fly outbreak.
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A tiny arachnid discovered in 100-million-year-old amber fills a critical gap between today's spiders and spider-like arachnids that lived before dinosaurs.
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Wall Street Exchange, one of the largest money remitters in the Middle East, is identified by the AFP as a major hub for the movement of drug profits and terrorism finance as more is revealed about the activities of the elusive "money man" Altaf Khanani.
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A Brisbane high school that has been cracking down on uniform violations issues hundreds of students with detention notices, a parent says, in a move that has divided the school community.
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A man in his 40s is taken to hospital after crashing his car into a cemetery in Sydney's east early this morning, destroying a number of tombstones.
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Ten years after the court case that forced asbestos manufacturer James Hardie to face up to the consequences of its deadly product, the company is accused of again playing hardball with victims.
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Trisha Squires, a former Young Australian of the Year for her work following the Boxing Day tsunami, takes on the top job at AFL Tasmania, saying she'll be working hard for a "bright and prosperous future" for the code in the state.
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Thousands of women diagnosed with ovarian cancer will be tested to see if they are hidden carriers of BRCA gene mutations, which can cause the deadly disease.
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Electric vehicles are good for the environment and cheap to run, but rapid technological advances and plummeting battery prices are shaping up as the industry's Achilles' heel when it comes to resale.
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Why are Australian technology companies hiring workers from overseas, or else basing themselves offshore to attract talent? Quite simply because in many other countries, mathematics matters more, writes David van Gogh.
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Melbourne is in need of a new lord mayor after Robert Doyle announced his resignation over the weekend. But it will be months before the city will be able to sort this out.
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A Japanese military helicopter crashes into a house in south-western Japan, killing one of its two crew members and ripping the top floor off the house and setting it on fire, officials say.
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Esmond Bradley-Martin, a leading American investigator into the illegal ivory and rhino horn trade, has been found stabbed to death in his home, Kenyan police and officials have said.
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Ricky Muir, the knockabout former Victorian senator, is on the brink of a political comeback with a tilt at the state seat of Morwell in this November's election.
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Locals tried in vain to save their possessions as the king tide banged at their front door in a flood that has left 16 homeless and reignited calls for a new seawall to prevent future disasters.
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Former US Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar is sentenced to an additional 40 to 125 years in prison for molesting young female gymnasts, capping weeks of horrifying testimony from nearly 200 victims about his decades of abuse.
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Philadelphia is cleaning up after pockets of Super Bowl victory celebrations turned unruly overnight, with rowdy Eagles fans smashing department store windows, looting a gas station convenience store and toppling a number of the city's famously greased light poles.
