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Perth-based company Emanuel Exports, the country's largest live sheep exporter, has its export licence suspended by the Agriculture Department.
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Officials in the United States are reportedly making arrangements to house about 20,000 migrant children on four military bases, as Donald Trump tells Republicans to "stop wasting time on" immigration legislation.
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An urgent review is ordered into the Queensland Heart Valve Bank, after the Health Department reveals four patients, including three babies, were given tissue from a donor who had brain cancer.
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The Darling Range by-election campaign draws to an end with One Nation candidate Rod Caddies entering the fray astride a horse named Fiasco — an appropriate finish for a race littered with bizarre moments and triggered by a tangled web of lies and deceit, writes Jessica Strutt.
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Residents are abandoning Australia at record levels, but experts are unsure about exactly what is causing the increase.
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A West Australian Supreme Court judge warns people against taking justice into their own hands, as she jails two men for the hit-and-run of an Indigenous teenager in WA's remote Pilbara region.
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A food fight erupts in Canberra over a "Trojan horse" made from plants and vegetables being stocked in the meat aisle.
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A man is charged with the abduction and rape of a woman who was allegedly sexually assaulted after night out in Melbourne.
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The Power leapfrog the Demons into the AFL top four with a courageous come-from-behind 10-point win over the Demons at Adelaide Oval on Friday night.
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A Chinese station takes over the shortwave radio frequencies once used by the ABC in the Pacific region, following the broadcaster's decision to end shortwave services.
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It was a pretty weird week in Washington, according to Washington bureau chief Zoe Daniel. There was flip flopping, fibbing and fiddly talk. But none could beat #jacketgate.
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Brazil gets its first win of the World Cup with two goals in injury time to beat Costa Rica 2-0, after having Neymar's shouts for a penalty at first awarded and then taken away by the VAR.
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The RSPCA returns 19 seized pomeranian dogs after they were found living among rotting carcasses, bones and faeces, while the South Australian breeder is still facing court.
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Ernest Fisher was looking forward to seeing the Western Bulldogs and Sydney Swans face off in the 2016 AFL grand final. But there was one thing he decided to do before leaving the house — fatally stab his son Matthew.
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As computer games get evermore sophisticated and realistic, and their dangers become more apparent, a nostalgia-fuelled boom in retro games is gaining pace — and younger gamers are some of the biggest adopters.
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Former Auburn deputy mayor Salim Mehajer is refused bail while he awaits his appeal against an 11-month jail sentence for electoral fraud for rigging a 2012 local government election.
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The family of two of the victims from the Dreamworld tragedy say the death of their loved ones have "throttled" them and they hold Dreamworld "totally responsible".
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In a new social experiment, 15 Australian teenagers are given total control of the family finances for a month. What could go wrong?
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Vanuatu's Prime Minister is expected to ask Australia to help fund a multi-million-dollar internet cable project when he meets Malcolm Turnbull next week.
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Time's latest cover draws on the immigration crisis on the US-Mexico border and features the President looking down over the crying two-year-old who was captured in a photo with her mother that went viral earlier this week.
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New research shows a 40 per cent increase on average in domestic assault on State of Origin nights, and about a 70 per cent increase in non-domestic assaults.
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When a video went viral this week of French President Emmanuel Macron insisting that a cheeky teenager address him as "Mr President" and not "Manu", many felt such deference to history and respect for office could not come soon enough, writes Anne Bagamery.
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A planned student protest about bullying at a school in south-east NSW is scrapped amidst a media storm over the alleged attack on a 13-year-old girl by another student in the school's stairwell.
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Morwell woman Bonnie Sawyer-Thompson, jailed for 10 years for the brutal killing of 23-year-old Jack Nankervis in Victoria's Latrobe Valley in 2014, has had her sentence reduced on appeal.
