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A social welfare advocate says without the Federal Government's support, poorer Tasmanians without housing will be "left behind", dismissing the State Government's latest efforts for short-term accommodation solutions.
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Australia's working holiday visa will be extended to a third year from July 1, but experts and former backpackers are warning there could be an increased risk of exploitation and abuse.
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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman stokes tensions in the Middle East, blaming Iran for attacks on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman and saying his kingdom will not hesitate to deal with any threat to its interests.
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Senator Lisa Singh says fourth place on the Labor ticket was "a bridge too far to cross", and wants Labor to get rid of any intimidatory preselection processes.
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Amanda Knox, who was cleared of murdering her British flatmate Meredith Kercher, returns to Italy to speak of her eight-year ordeal of trials and imprisonment and the media frenzy it prompted around the world.
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Multi-million dollar wind farms are springing to life in Tasmania, and there are billions of dollars more in the pipeline. How will that affect the power security of the state or even Australia?
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Michele and Georges Meffre sold their belongings in France, spent 20 years sailing around the world — adopting two Chilean children along the way — before calling Tasmania home.
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Railton is full of topiary — with hedges cleverly clipped into animals, words and objects — but there are hopes it can reinvent itself and boost its economy like the north-east town of Derby on the back of newly-opened mountain bike tracks.
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Central banks appear to have painted themselves into a corner and will have to keep cutting, given the expectations they have raised.
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There had been a feeling Aaron Finch was building towards a dominant performance with the bat at the Cricket World Cup, and against Sri Lanka the Australian skipper delivered in spades, writes Geoff Lemon.
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The mass, which commemorates the cathedral's consecration as a place of worship, is held in a side-chapel left undamaged by the April 15 fire, with attendance limited to about 30 people wearing protective headgear.
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A hotel owner is charged with causing death due to negligence after six workers follow a missing worker into a septic tank.
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Amid the post-match euphoria of the Matildas' win against Brazil, captain Sam Kerr made a powerful statement about sexism and homophobia. It needs to go down in sporting folklore, writes Kate O'Halloran.
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The "involuntary celibate" are going to extreme lengths to physically embody the male ideal, but all the surgery in the world will not make misogyny attractive, Emma Jane writes.
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When the daytime temperature gets above 50 degrees Celsius, living in the cool underground holds huge appeal.
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Hong Kong's Chief Executive faces one of the biggest challenges to her authority after she backed down on controversial plans to pass an extradition bill with the mainland — a plan that brought out one in seven Hongkongers in protest.
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How do you put your life back together after surviving a mass shooting? For Ambreen, the first step is learning to drive.
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A team of Australians are digitising "cigar-like" ancient texts that pre-date other Buddhist relics by more than a millennium.
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Many in Hong Kong fear the reach of Beijing's clutches despite their promised right to protest, and are hiding their faces so if the extradition bill passes, they will not be marked by police.
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Radiohead fans are obsessed with Pyramid Song. It's not the vocals or lyrics that hook them in, it's the rhythm. So what's so extraordinary about this song?
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It's been a "surreal" homecoming for multi-award-winning author Holden Sheppard whose young adult novel Invisible Boys is about growing up as a young gay man in country Western Australia.
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Hidden in a top secret location within a national park near Sydney, is one of the oldest and rarest trees on earth — the Wollemi Pine. The tree is critically endangered but a new research project is mapping its genome for the first time, in the hope of securing its future.
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Melbourne pharmacists prepare to visit homes across the state, where they will deliver guidance and lethal drugs to eligible Victorians who want to use voluntary assisted dying laws to end their lives.
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A luxury tourism retreat on the edge of East Arnhem Land is facing an uphill battle as waves of plastic trash wash upon its shores, and its owners are doing everything they can to try to limit the environmental impact, and stem the loss of tourists.