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The football coach behind the Matildas' World Cup drive — Ante Milicic Analysis
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Little is known — but a lot is expected — of Australia's current women's football coach, Ante Milicic. Ahead of the FIFA World Cup in France, the former Socceroo speaks exclusively to the ABC about his passion for the game and what it means to lead the Matildas on the game's biggest stage.
Topics: sport, soccer, soccer-world-cup, socceroos, sydney-2000, nsw, brisbane-4000, qld, melbourne-3000, vic, australia, france
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Alzheimer's diagnosis with a simple eye test? World-first clinical trials to start
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Funding from a group of philanthropists including Bill Gates and MacKenzie Bezos will allow researchers in Melbourne to begin clinical trials of a cheap and easy eye test to detect Alzheimer's disease before the symptoms appear.
Topics: alzheimers-and-dementia, diseases-and-disorders, health, eyes, medical-procedures, melbourne-3000, vic
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Walters steals victory again for Dockers, Cats continue winning streak
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A Michael Walters goal inside the final minute sees the Dockers pip the Magpies, while the Cats defeat the Swans, and the Crows, Lions and Giants also post wins.
Topics: australian-football-league, sport, australia, nt, darwin-0800, vic, melbourne-3000, collingwood-3066, geelong-3220, hawthorn-3122, wa, fremantle-6160, nsw, homebush-2140, qld, brisbane-4000, sa, adelaide-5000, sydney-2000
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Renters enlist the help of tenants' agents to find a place to live
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The barriers to finding a rental home have become so taxing that some tenants are forced to enlist outside help.
Topics: housing, business-economics-and-finance, industry, housing-industry, australia, act, sa, wa, nsw, nt, qld, tas, vic, newcastle-2300, sydney-2000
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Topics: sport, cricket, onedayseries, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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Meet the first Aussie woman to run 800m in under two minutes in a decade
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She suffered through an eating disorder, anxiety and depression in her late teens and early 20s, but Catriona Bisset has overcome it all to become our fastest 800m women's runner in years. Now, she's setting her sights on next year's Tokyo Olympics.
Topics: sport, athletics, mental-health, health, melbourne-3000, vic
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Kangaroos begin life after Brad Scott with win over Tigers
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Less than a week after Brad Scott departed as coach, the Kangaroos produce a commanding performance to beat the Tigers by 37 points in Rhyce Shaw's first match in charge.
Topics: australian-football-league, sport, australia, vic, docklands-3008, north-melbourne-3051, richmond-3121
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'A very distressing way to die': Man jailed after threesome turns to murder
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Jason Considine is sentenced to 21 years' jail after admitting to strangling Ashley Phillips and dumping his body in a wheelie bin in Melbourne's north following a night of sex and cannabis smoking.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, preston-3072, melbourne-3000, vic
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The mid-season AFL draft looks set to cause an 'unmanageable situation' for state leagues Analysis
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The premise of an AFL mid-season draft seemed honourable, but the reality is it has created an unmanageable situation for clubs at lower levels.
Topics: sport, sports-organisations, australian-football-league, sanfl, victorian-football-league-vfl, wafl, adelaide-5000, sa, melbourne-3000, vic, wa, perth-6000
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Church's astonishing defence seems to airbrush history on notorious paedophile priest Analysis
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It felt as if the winds of change were blowing through the Catholic Church after the royal commission. But a new defence has rejected some of its key findings in relation to one of its most notorious paedophile priests, writes Louise Milligan.
Topics: sexual-offences, law-crime-and-justice, catholic, community-and-society, royal-commissions, ballarat-3350, vic, australia
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Grieving mum pleads for action as road safety boss calls for ban on 'bombs'
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Victorian mother Chris Latimer has dealt with an unimaginable level of grief. She is sharing her story as the State Government holds a summit to address a sharp increase in road deaths and injuries.
Topics: road, disasters-and-accidents, melbourne-3000, vic
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Snake on a train: Passenger spotted with python, but are pets allowed? Explainer
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This week, an Adelaide rail passenger was spotted with a snake on a suburban train — but what are the rules around taking animals on public transport?
Topics: animals, offbeat, human-interest, reptiles, adelaide-5000, gawler-5118, sa, sydney-2000, nsw, brisbane-4000, qld, melbourne-3000, vic, perth-6000, wa, nt
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Vegan activists vow to rage against the farming machine
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Animal activists who brought central Melbourne to a standstill recently have vowed to step up their campaign of civil disobedience and raids on abattoirs and farms.
Topics: animal-welfare, law-crime-and-justice, livestock, rural, livestock-welfare, miscellaneous-animal-production, melbourne-3000, australia, vic, canberra-2600, act
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A government office hacked Victorian hospitals. Here's what it found
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Victoria's Auditor-General hacks into some of the state's biggest health databases, exposing serious weaknesses in cybersecurity. It is now sounding a warning on a "significant and present risk" to patient data and hospital services.
Topics: health, information-technology, hacking, computers-and-technology, personal-data-collection-policy, melbourne-3000, vic
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Historic pub demolished illegally by 'cowboy developers' unlikely to be rebuilt
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Melbourne's historic Corkman Pub will be turned into a temporary park after the State Government fails in its bid to force developers to rebuild the 19th-century watering hole.
Topics: urban-development-and-planning, history, courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, 19th-century, architecture, community-and-society, human-interest, carlton-3053, melbourne-3000, vic
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Alex de Minaur of Australia reacts during a match against Rafael Nadal of Spain on day five of the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne, Friday, January 18, 2019.
Topics: sport, tennis, australia, vic, melbourne-3000
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Growers back 'slow flower movement' amid chemical use concerns
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The movement to buy sustainably grown flowers is rising as many growers and florists in Australia voice their concerns about the effect chemicals have on the environment and workers' health.
Topics: horticulture, agricultural-crops, flowers, rural, flower-foliage, gardening, lifestyle-and-leisure, pests-diseases-and-control-methods, pests---horticulture, chemicals-and-pharmaceuticals, agricultural-chemicals, ballarat-3350, vic, daylesford-3460, kyneton-3444, belgium, kenya, ecuador
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'Cut along the line': Shortly after this photo, chunks of a man's brain were removed
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Go behind the scenes with one of Australia's leading neurosurgeons as she opens a man's skull and excises a large mass lodged in his brain. WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT
Topics: medical-procedures, doctors-and-medical-professionals, brain-tumor, brain-and-nervous-system, medical-research, people, diseases-and-disorders, health, human-interest, melbourne-3000, vic, parkville-3052
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'Dishonesty is dishonesty': AMP super fund holders launch court action to claw back lost money
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Scandal-plagued wealth management firm AMP faces another class action, this time from its customers, who are hoping to claw back hundreds of millions of dollars lost after their super funds were allegedly eroded by fees.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, royal-commissions, company-news, business-economics-and-finance, superannuation, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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'You're not an enforcer': Prison attack on Tony Mokbel came after media report (photos)
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Drug lord Tony Mokbel was spoken to by concerned prison officials about a newspaper story that referred to him as a "prison big wig" and "enforcer" shortly before he was brutally assaulted and left fighting for his life, a prosecution document reveals.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, prisons-and-punishment, courts-and-trials, vic, lara-3212
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Parkinson admits he 'rarely made friends' from interviews ahead of national farewell tour
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Sir Michael Parkinson announces a tour of Australia in October, and reflects on his "thousands" of interviews, admitting some of his best guests have been people he "wouldn't wish to invite to dinner".
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, television, television-broadcasting, adelaide-5000, sa, melbourne-3000, vic, brisbane-4000, qld, perth-6000, wa, sydney-2000, nsw, australia, england, united-kingdom
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Making sense of lives from fish kill epicentre to mouth of River Murray
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Locals at the heart of a devastating fish kill say politicians lack the vision or intent to overcome water management deficiencies, as the ABC visits towns from Goolwa to Menindee to find out who, if anyone, is in control of the Murray-Darling Basin.
Topics: murray-darling-basin, water, rivers, drought, environmental-impact, environmental-management, land-management, dams-and-reservoirs, water-management, water-supply, community-and-society, environment, agribusiness, irrigation, fish, federal-government, government-and-politics, agricultural-policy, rural, australia, menindee-2879, broken-hill-2880, qld, vic, adelaide-5000, sa, pooncarie-2648, nsw, wentworth-2648
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Inside the social media 'war' between animal activists and farmers
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Australian farmers and animal activists alike are being targeted with online threats of violence and death, an ABC investigation finds. One cyberspace expert describes it as "cyberhate" and "a new kind of workplace bullying".
Topics: social-media, internet-culture, information-and-communication, rural, livestock, animal-welfare, law-crime-and-justice, psychology, nsw, australia, qld, melbourne-3000, vic
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Who tried to kill Kelvin? Police offer $500k reward as they hunt cyclist's shooter (photos)
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After two years, police in Victoria still do not know why someone shot Kelvin Tennant while he was cycling on the Myrtleford-Everton Rail Trail in 2017. They are offering a $500,000 reward to find the person responsible.
Topics: police, crime, law-crime-and-justice, cycling, sport, myrtleford-3737, vic, bright-3741
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Think you know the road rules? You may want to check this
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As Victoria's road toll surges well above what it was this time a year ago, we look at some of the state's most misunderstood traffic rules.
Topics: road, community-and-society, urban-development-and-planning, safety, accidents, human-interest, vic, melbourne-3000, swan-hill-3585, warrnambool-3280, horsham-3400, mildura-3500, echuca-3564, wodonga-3690, shepparton-3630, bendigo-3550, ballarat-3350, geelong-3220