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To his parishioners he's 'Father Justel', but to his gym mates he's just 'Tel'. This 29-year-old busts just about every priest stereotype, and hopes his generation can restore the Catholic church's "tarnished brand".
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Residents of a 10-storey building in Mascot are evacuated "as a precaution" after movement and cracks were detected, Fire and Rescue NSW says.
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A West Australian volleyball coach facing a possible jail term for having sex with a teenage girl who was under his care — including at his family home — did not know it was against the law, a Perth court is told.
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Residents of a small Victorian town are up in arms over the relocation of their heritage-listed former police station, which they say "quietly disappeared" on a truck overnight.
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A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for a group of Aboriginal women to exhibit their work in Europe has almost been derailed by a lack of identification records that would have left the artists unable to obtain a passport to travel to Paris.
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A blaze at Upper Mt Gravatt State School, south of Brisbane, is under control after it "fully engulfed" the top floor of a two-storey school block.
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ABC TV weather presenter Jenny Woodward describes the moment she thought she was having a heart attack, a rare condition brought on by a virus that inflamed her heart. She hopes sharing her story will convince others to dial triple-0, with paramedics saying no-one ever died of embarrassment.
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More than seven months after she was killed on a Far North Queensland beach, Toyah Cordingley's birthday is a moment of sad reflection for friends and family.
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Senior Hong Kong police officers say "a significant number" of officers blame the city's chief executive Carrie Lam for violent clashes with Hongkongers protesting against contentious extradition laws.
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Bob Dylan and Martin Scorsese are offering us an utterly contemporary film, tackling issues that go to the heart of modern life in the era of Trump, writes Mark Bannerman.
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The US military releases a video it says depicts members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard taking an unexploded mine from the side of one of the oil tankers hit by explosions in the Gulf of Oman.
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The best historical dramas work as fables and as an allegory for our times, Chernobyl couldn't be more fitting. We ought to heed this warning, writes Cameron Williams.
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Beijing has long maintained its rise to power will be "peaceful" despite its soaring economic and military growth being seen as a "threat".
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Last year, our Government gave itself sweeping powers to stop foreign countries wielding influence in Australia. How it is choosing to use that power is deeply concerning, writes Tom Iggulden.
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Funeral homes are seeing a noticeable shift towards more creative ceremonies as mourners seek personal connections to their dearly departed.
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The founder of one of Australia's most notorious doomsday cults, in which children were tortured after being stolen through adoption scams, dies in a Melbourne nursing home.
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In Bruce Hutton's line of work, one mistake could cause a piece of history to be lost. In a workshop in Melbourne, his team is painstakingly restoring windows for a 19th-century church.
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The family of a woman who was sexually assaulted in aged care calls for better protection of vulnerable nursing home patients, as a former aged care worker is sentenced to one month in jail.
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Video shows the moment a landslide buries a road in the Fujian province of China trapping a man in his car. Nationwide, 83 people have died or gone missing since the start of this year's flood season.
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The 32 ancient towers of Ghazni have stood through centuries of war and upheaval, but the collapse of one of them raises fears that neglect may prove more dangerous to the monuments than the shells and bombs of rival armies.
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Australia's largest integrated battery and solar farm in Victoria's north can power 16,000 homes. It was officially opened today.
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Energy Australia finds a unit controller at the Yallourn power station, Graeme Edwards, 54, was doing nothing wrong when he was fatally injured performing a routine task in November last year.
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Luke Greensill was eating meat he'd prepared on his barbie when he felt something in his throat which he thought was a chicken bone — he was wrong.