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Amenities, wheelchair access and conservation work top the list of requests by visitors to Litchfield National Park if an access fee is introduced.
Topics: national-parks, conservation, environment, travel-and-tourism, states-and-territories, human-interest, darwin-0800
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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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Two Labor MPs are still waiting to get offices within their electorates more than a year after the state election, with one labelling the delay as a "clamp down on democracy".
Topics: state-parliament, parliament, states-and-territories, alp, sa, adelaide-5000, kingscote-5223, brahma-lodge-5109, aldinga-beach-5173
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Julie Bishop's sister says the former foreign affairs minister would have done an "amazing job" as South Australia's next governor, but has "another career ahead of her" outside of politics.
Topics: government-and-politics, governors-general-and-state-governors, states-and-territories, liberals, australia, adelaide-5000, sa, perth-6000, wa, canberra-2600
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Young hospitality workers fear incoming changes to liquor licensing fees will cut jobs and ruin the nightlife and bar scene they have worked hard to build in Adelaide.
Topics: states-and-territories, state-parliament, parliament, laws, community-and-society, adelaide-5000, sa, australia
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| UpdatedThat slow, rhythmic, thunking noise you can hear is David Hynes's head hitting his desk. WA's Public Transport Authority spokesman has just learned yet another truck has crashed into Perth's infamous traffic bridge.
Topics: road, urban-development-and-planning, rail, community-and-society, states-and-territories, perth-6000, melbourne-3000, bayswater-6053, sydney-2000, wa
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| UpdatedWestern Australia is facing a diminished role in the next federal election, with population estimates putting the state in serious danger of losing one of its seats in Federal Parliament — a move that could reduce the attention major parties pay to the state.
Topics: state-parliament, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, federal-elections, perth-6000, wa, australia
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| UpdatedA large building site in Canberra's north is shut down after authorities discovered work had begun without development or building approvals.
Topics: states-and-territories, urban-development-and-planning, bruce-2617, canberra-2600, act
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| UpdatedPremier Daniel Andrews defends his plan to double the state's debt to fund major rail and road projects, comparing criticisms of the Government's borrowing with the suggestion that a person should not buy a house until they have saved enough to pay for it in cash.
Topics: government-and-politics, budget, federal---state-issues, parliament, state-parliament, states-and-territories, melbourne-3000, parliament-house-3002, vic
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| UpdatedTasmania's health system is failing to meet the growing demand for emergency department care and is severely compromising patient safety, according to a scathing report handed down by the state's auditor-general.
Topics: health, health-administration, health-policy, healthcare-facilities, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, hobart-7000, launceston-7250, tas
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South Australia's peak doctors' union says it has taken its most "drastic action" ever by referring the state's health department to the Australian Human Rights Commission over "cruel" treatment of mental health patients.
Topics: health, mental-health, doctors-and-medical-professionals, health-administration, health-policy, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, human, rights, unions, human-rights, adelaide-5000, sa, australia
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| UpdatedForeign property investors, luxury car buyers and public servants will bear the brunt of a steep decline in stamp duty revenue, as the Andrews Government delivers its election commitments amid the sharpest 12-month fall in house prices in Victorian history.
Topics: budget, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, state-parliament, parliament, parliament-house-3002, vic, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedNigel Farage's Brexit Party storms to victory in the European elections, and results elsewhere are mixed with pro-EU parties as well as far-right and nationalist groups doing well.
Topics: government-and-politics, elections, parliament, states-and-territories, european-union, united-kingdom
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| UpdatedAs Europe stands at the precipice of further integration or a stark return to the supremacy of nation states, one member — Hungary — is showing what might happen if the latter route is chosen.
Topics: states-and-territories, refugees, censorship, print-media, media, information-and-communication, world-politics, globalisation---economy, globalisation---society, immigration-policy, immigration, european-union, hungary
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State-owned power provider Synergy may need to borrow $140 million over the next four years as it grapples with the WA Government's move to limit power price rises and an onslaught of renewable energy.
Topics: electricity-energy-and-utilities, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, perth-6000, wa
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The WA Government has released a fresh video of the architectural design for the new inner city high school being built in Subiaco, coinciding with the announcement it will be named Bob Hawke College.
Topics: secondary-schools, schools, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, subiaco-6008, perth-6000
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| UpdatedThe school being built on what was Kitchener Park next to Subiaco Oval will be named after the late former prime minister who grew up and went to school nearby.
Topics: education, secondary-schools, secondary, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, perth-6000, wa, subiaco-6008
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| UpdatedLabor's poor federal election result was in stark contrast to its landslide win at the 2017 state election. Anything resembling a repeat of this in 2021 would spell absolute disaster for Mark McGowan, writes Jacob Kagi.
Topics: state-parliament, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, federal-election, state-elections, federal-elections, perth-6000, wa
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| UpdatedNationals leader Michael McCormack couldn't help but gloat as the election results came rolling in. But looking at their dire showing in WA, the Nationals have far less reason to crow, writes Jacob Kagi.
Topics: state-parliament, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, political-parties, federal-elections, federal-election, perth-6000, wa
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Theresa May, known for her doggedness and steely determination, cast a very lonely shadow outside of 10 Downing Street as she announced she would be leaving the job it had been "the honour of her life to hold", writes Europe correspondent Samantha Hawley.
Topics: states-and-territories, territorial-disputes, world-politics, leadership, government-and-politics, united-kingdom
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It has taken almost 20 years of campaigning from farmers and today the first post of a new $11 million wild dog fence in WA has been driven into the ground.
Topics: agriculture, pests, sheep-production, federal-government, regional-development, regional, pest-management, states-and-territories, federal---state-issues, environmental-impact, environmental-management, conservation, local-government, esperance-6450, salmon-gums-6445, grass-patch-6446, north-cascade-6445, parliament-house-4000, boyatup-6450, israelite-bay-6452, adelaide-5000, cascade-6450, ravensthorpe-6346, kalbarri-6536
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| UpdatedThe South Australian Government announces increases to a raft of fees, fines and charges ahead of next month's state budget.
Topics: government-and-politics, state-parliament, states-and-territories, automobile-enthusiasm, adelaide-5000, port-pirie-5540, port-lincoln-5606, mount-gambier-5290, renmark-5341, sa
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| UpdatedIt's a budget being touted as all about "maintaining the momentum in Tasmania and investing for growth". Find out what Peter Gutwein's 2019 Budget means for you.
Topics: government-and-politics, states-and-territories, budget, community-and-society, business-economics-and-finance, tas, hobart-7000, launceston-7250
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| UpdatedTasmania's Treasurer says he has made a tough decision in the 2019 Budget, choosing to go into net debt instead of cutting infrastructure spending.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, budget, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, tas, hobart-7000, launceston-7250
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While Northern Irish voters are currently participating in the European parliamentary elections, the region has a democratic deficit back home, having gone without a government for more than two years.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, states-and-territories, territorial-disputes, government-and-politics, world-politics, protestant, catholic, history, united-kingdom, northern-ireland, ireland