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| UpdatedLegal history has been made in Queensland, with what's believed to be the state's biggest-ever personal injury insurance settlement. Chrys Barker, 32, has been awarded more than $20 million in damages and compensation.
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| UpdatedHBO's chilling mini-series Chernobyl tracks the minutes, hours, days and weeks that followed the devastating explosion at the nuclear power plant. But was the series true to actual events?
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The company's CEO, Dennis Muilenburg, says Boeing made a "mistake" in handling a problematic cockpit warning system in its 737 MAX jets before two fatal crashes that killed more than 300 people.
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| UpdatedA Perth woman sustains burns to 30 per cent of her body and is taken to hospital in a critical condition after a man allegedly set her alight and then threw a firebomb into a house in Perth's east overnight.
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| UpdatedThe family of a Gold Coast man who died after being hit by a car on Sunday night say they're "absolutely devastated" that a fight between two friends led to him losing his life.
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| UpdatedPriya once dreamed of being Miss Nepal. Now, she is the country's sole female rescue pilot, leading an all-male team to save lives on Mount Everest.
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Queenslander launches campaign to get grey nomads and truckies on the same page, and bring down the road toll.
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| UpdatedFour parachutists were forced to make an emergency jump from a light plane over a popular skydiving region south of Adelaide earlier this year when the engine cut out, according to an Australian Transport Safety Bureau report.
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| UpdatedThe 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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Some residents of a brand-new apartment complex in Canberra's north fear they will sleep through a genuine fire alarm because they cannot hear the emergency tones from inside their homes.
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| UpdatedProducer Vanessa Gorman writes about finding the right tone in telling the story of Marite Norris and Anthony Maslin, who spoke publicly for the first time about life in the five years since "their world ended".
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| UpdatedA "significant" fire has destroyed several classrooms at Upper Mt Gravatt State School on Brisbane's southside, with a crime scene declared and the school shut down.
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One person has been killed and several cars destroyed in a landslide in Eastern China.
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| UpdatedVideo 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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Early bushfires spark community awareness as patrons turn to pubs for emergency refuge.
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An ABC report on the 1990 coronial inquest into the deaths of six mine workers.
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