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Sitting with the elders of Swan Hill felt a world away from the politics of Canberra.These are the people we don't see; the voices we don't hear, writes Stan Grant.
Topics: government-and-politics, world-politics, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, australia
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The Coalition's election victory was born in a "sliding doors" moment almost 12 months ago when a matter of votes could have swayed May's election outcome, writes Tom Iggulden.
Topics: government-and-politics, political-parties, scott-morrison, bill-shorten, federal-election, federal-elections, anthony-albanese, australia
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Just as they had resigned themselves to a future of renting, a radio advert stopped the Glenncross family in their tracks. More than a decade on they remain one of the thousands of success stories from the WA Government's Keystart program.
Topics: housing, housing-industry, industry, government-and-politics, business-economics-and-finance, perth-6000, wa, australia
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Tuesday marks the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre — a bloody crackdown on a pro-democracy movement erased from history in China, but still remembered by the people who witnessed the chaos that swept Beijing.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, history, world-politics, government-and-politics, china, asia
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| UpdatedFake blood, simulated gunfire and barricades. Two Australian men were horrified by how American schools prepare children for a massacre. Now their ad is shaking up the country.
Topics: schools, disaster-prevention, government-and-politics, children, child-health-and-behaviour, social-media, mental-health, united-states
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Topics: swimming, sport, indigenous-culture, indigenous-policy, government-and-politics, community-and-society, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, regional, regional-development, rural-youth, youth, griffith-2680
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The speed limit on the road to one of Australia's most famous national parks is put under review following a series of deadly crashes. But speed has long been a contentious subject in the Territory, and the move has polarised residents.
Topics: road, disasters-and-accidents, tourism, police, government-and-politics, jabiru-0886, darwin-0800, nt
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| UpdatedThe Pentagon's acting chief, Patrick Shanahan, says he never authorised attempts to make sure US President Donald Trump would not see the USS John S McCain at its home port in Japan.
Topics: government-and-politics, world-politics, donald-trump, defence-forces, navy, united-states
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| UpdatedOn Sunday Scott Morrison will become the first Australian Prime Minister to visit Honiara in more than a decade. And though the visit is being framed in the Pacific tug-of-war with China, it goes deeper than that, writes Nick Sas.
Topics: international-aid-and-trade, government-and-politics, foreign-affairs, foreign-aid, australia, solomon-islands
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Australia's newly minted Minister for Women has been advocating behind the scenes for women in the Liberal Party for decades. But Marise Payne has her work cut out for her in this new job.
Topics: government-and-politics, political-parties, politics-and-government, women, womens-status, community-and-society, domestic-violence, australia
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| UpdatedAfter a stranger's powerful words helped Natasha Young turn her life around, she started tying laminated notes with message of hope on the bridge. But Brisbane City Council is taking them down.
Topics: suicide, community-and-society, people, human-interest, health, mental-health, local-government, activism-and-lobbying, government-and-politics, anxiety, depression, diseases-and-disorders, brisbane-4000, qld, australia
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| UpdatedIf Scott Morrison's job in this term of the Parliament is to run a better government, it is Anthony Albanese's job to switch the political focus on to the Coalition, writes Laura Tingle.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, australia
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| UpdatedAustralian Naim Aziz Abbas spent 18 months in an Abu Dhabi prison after being found guilty of spying, but returns home after being pardoned by the United Arab Emirates as part of Ramadan festivities.
Topics: security-intelligence, government-and-politics, world-politics, united-arab-emirates, sydney-2000, sydney-airport-2020, qatar
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A final decision is yet to be made over whether a strain of the herpes virus will be released to control carp numbers in the Murray-Darling, as irrigators utilise a matured water market to help them negotiate low allocations.
Topics: fish, animal-science, pest-management, government-and-politics, pest-control, control-methods, pests-diseases-and-control-methods, pests, environment, rivers, water-management, water, water-supply, drought, australia, sydney-2000, nsw, brisbane-4000, qld, sa, adelaide-5000
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Andrew Barr is setting up next week's budget as a good news story for Canberra — but a $45 million surplus is masking a forecast deficit for the coming financial year.
Topics: government-and-politics, politics-and-government, governance, states-and-territories, local-government, budget, canberra-2600, act
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| UpdatedIn 2015 the ABC aired The Killing Season, a warts-and-all documentary series about the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd years. Now following Labor's latest election loss, satirists Mark Humphries and Evan Williams bring us an exclusive first look at the follow-up series.
Topics: alp, comedy-humour, government-and-politics, australia, canberra-2600
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| UpdatedIn Britain several contenders are jostling for leadership of the Conservative Party. The frontrunner is Boris Johnson, but as chief foreign correspondent Phil Williams explains, no matter who becomes prime minister they face the unenviable task of sorting out Brexit.
Topics: world-politics, government-and-politics, foreign-affairs, political-parties, united-kingdom, england, northern-ireland, wales
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| UpdatedIn his first public statement since taking on the investigation, Robert Mueller made it plain that his report did not clear President Trump of committing a crime.
Topics: world-politics, government-and-politics, united-states
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| UpdatedAdani needs just one more environmental approval before it can start building one of the country's biggest coal mines after the Queensland Government approves a crucial plan to protect an endangered bird.
Topics: coal, regional-development, environmental-policy, company-news, government-and-politics, mining-rural, environment, business-economics-and-finance, industry, activism-and-lobbying, community-development, mining-industry, rural, mining-environmental-issues, mackay-4740, townsville-4810, clermont-4721, brisbane-4000, australia, rockhampton-4700, qld
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| UpdatedPresident Donald Trump says the United States will impose a 5 per cent tariff on all goods coming from Mexico from June 10 and they will increase until the "illegal immigration problem is remedied".
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, trade, international-aid-and-trade, world-politics, government-and-politics, united-states, mexico
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| UpdatedLabor this week has looked like a routed army forced to regroup while it is still bandaging wounds and burying its dead. Can its former general, Bill Shorten, survive the changing of the guard? writes Michelle Grattan.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, federal-parliament, anthony-albanese, bill-shorten, australia
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| UpdatedChildren sleeping at home have been woken and arrested in Alice Springs, according to lawyers dismayed at a potential government back down on the use of arrest as a last resort.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, government-and-politics, federal-government, state-parliament, youth, community-and-society, darwin-0800, alice-springs-0870, nt
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An election-eve email urging Pentecostal church members to vote for the Prime Minister is criticised by a religious commentator, who says the message presented a "narrow view of Christianity".
Topics: religion-and-beliefs, political-parties, liberals, scott-morrison, christianity, federal-elections, federal-government, government-and-politics, human-interest, adelaide-5000, paradise-5075, canberra-2600, australia
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A record field of Democrats have announced they'll run for president in 2020. With debates only a month away, lets run through the crowd who are seeking the White House.
Topics: world-politics, government-and-politics, us-elections, united-states
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| UpdatedMORNING BRIEFING: A Hobart church is planning an arty response to Dark Mofo's inverted crosses, as a trio who allegedly bashed an elderly man appear in court.
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