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Jaquelline with some of her Perth-based family. Rebecca is in the centre, Luke is to the right.
Australian Border Force

Minutes away from his mum's birthday, police knocked on Luke's front door

Jaquelline Satie was called to interview asylum seekers on Christmas Island shortly after she returned from sick leave. Days later, she was dead.

  • by Hannah Barry
An unvaccinated child was one of two people recently diagnosed in Sydney with measles.
Healthcare

Unvaccinated primary student and backpacker catch measles in Sydney

  • by Kate Aubusson
RSPCA seized almost 40 animals from Storybook Farm - Sacred Animal Garden Rescue in north Brisbane after they were found with diseases and living in urine and faeces.
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RSPCA Australia

RSPCA condemns rescue group with animals in 'horrendous conditions'

  • by Jocelyn Garcia
Ralph Cerminara in a still from an online video posted to Facebook.
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Courts

Ex-head of Australian right-wing group posted anti-Islamic material online in breach of court order

  • by Angus Thompson
Demolition work is seen underway at Allianz Stadium in Sydney, Thursday, March 14, 2019. NSW Labor leader Michael Daley has written to NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian calling for hard demolition works at Allianz Stadium to stop until the state election. (AAP Image/Dan Himbrechts) NO ARCHIVING
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NSW votes

Stadium could have been refurbished for $18 million, secret report shows

  • by Alexandra Smith

Healthcare

QUT Associate Professor Chamindie Punyadeera, centre, is developing a mouthwash test for oral cancer and heart disease.
World Science Festival

The Queensland scientists pushing the bounds of the impossible

Working in STEM can be a challenging road, but the World Science Festival Brisbane has shone the spotlight on Queensland scientists pushing the envelope.

  • by Stuart Layt
Isa Islam recovered sufficiently from his hunger strike to barricade himself in a Canberra hospital room.
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Crime

Feeling better now: hunger striker Isa Islam has parole revoked

Record-breaking hunger striker Isa Islam is now back in the custody of Corrective Services after breaching his parole.

  • by Peter Brewer
An unvaccinated child was one of two people recently diagnosed in Sydney with measles.
Healthcare

Unvaccinated primary student and backpacker catch measles in Sydney

  • by Kate Aubusson
Adjunct Professor and Aboriginal psychologist Tracy Westerman
Healthcare

Leaders urged to declare Aboriginal child suicides a 'national crisis'

  • by Kate Aubusson
The ANAQ says pill testing could save lives
Drugs

Queensland doctors backs calls for pill testing at festivals

  • by Stuart Layt
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Environment

Barrels of waste dumped at one of the Epping warehouses.
Waste

EPA faces probe over alleged failure to act on toxic waste warnings

  • by Chris Vedelago and Sumeyya Ilanbey
Suspected chemical waste found in warehouses in Epping in 2018.
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Waste

Authorities failed to act on potential toxic waste disaster two years ago

  • by Chris Vedelago and Sumeyya Ilanbey
A Brown Trout in Lake Eildon.
Global warming

Climate change to blame for mass Jindabyne fish death: water ecologist

  • by Finbar O'Mallon
Authorities were faced with a wall of containers filled with toxic waste when they discovered the Epping and Campbellfield warehouses in late December.
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Waste

Up to 19 million litres of toxic waste dumped in eight suburban warehouses

  • by Noel Towell, Chris Vedelago and Sumeyya Ilanbey

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Political donations

Experts fear lobbyists can get around donor ban to political parties

  • by Nigel Gladstone
Courts

Wollongong priest charged with historical indecent assaults on boy

  • by Cydonee Mardon

Victoria

CCTV footage of gunmen at the Epping panel beater shop owned by Ali El Nasher.
Crime

Panel beaters owned by Kensington shooting suspect stormed by gunmen

  • by Paul Sakkal
Crime

Sexual assault rates against children hit 10-year high in Victoria

  • by Craig Butt and Tammy Mills
Renewables

Conduct code to weed out dodgy solar panel retailers

  • by Benjamin Preiss

Queensland

The reason for concern regarding the stability of Townsville's Suncorp Bank building.
Emergency services

Exclusion zone revoked after fears of unstable Suncorp Bank building

  • by Jocelyn Garcia
City council

State defers Mt Coot-tha zipline decision until after court appeal

  • by Lucy Stone
World Science Festival

The Queensland scientists pushing the bounds of the impossible

  • by Stuart Layt

Western Australia

James disappeared from his house in Toodyay on Sunday.
Missing person

'James, we await your return': A father's plea for his missing son

  • by staff writers
Crime

Drivers may be able to help police in Kalgoorlie death investigation

  • by staff writers
Accident

Rhys Palmer thanks RPH staff, family and friends after motorbike crash

  • by staff writers

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