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Latest news updates (mostly automated) from the Australian Broadcasting Corp. This is an official account.
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#BREAKING: The WA Government has frozen all household fees and charges including electricity, water, public transport fares and motor vehicle charges.
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#BREAKING: For the first day since the pandemic’s peak in Australia, the country has recorded zero new locally acquired cases of coronavirus.
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Dr Dan Suan says everyone should self-isolate at home in order to break person-to-person transmission: "Social isolation is not an act of fear. it's an act of love. The reason you are doing is to protect yourself, your family, your friends and their families."
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#BREAKING: The Oxford University coronavirus vaccine trial has been paused in what drug maker Astra Zeneca described as a "routine" action taken when there is a potentially unexplained illness among participants.
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#BREAKING: Authorities say a man with coronavirus ignored instructions to self-isolate pending test results, instead working several shifts at Hobart's Grand Chancellor Hotel.
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Watch the emotional moment a Syrian refugee is reunited with his four kids and wife in Cambodia after seven years apart
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#BREAKING: Hong Kong citizens or residents currently in Australia on student or temporary work visas will have their visas extended for five years and offered a pathway to permanent residency.
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#BREAKING: A 14-year-old boy has been found alive and well after spending two nights in freezing temperatures at Mount Disappointment, north of Melbourne.
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#BREAKING: A Thai court has ruled an extradition case against Melbourne-based refugee Hakeem al-Araibi be dropped. He will fly back to Australia tonight
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Greta Thunberg “represents the anger of that generation. It might insult a whole lot of middle aged white guys because it’s not the way we'd talk... but when I speak to young people there’s a rising rage that our generation has failed to step up,” tells
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#BREAKING: A NSW police officer has been placed on restricted duties while an internal investigation is carried out into the arrest of an Indigenous teen in Sydney.
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#BREAKNG: The chief executive of Rio Tinto is stepping down in the wake of the destruction of ancient rock shelters in the Pilbara earlier this year.
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#BREAKING: People living in metropolitan Melbourne and Mitchell Shire will now be required to wear face masks outside their home, to protect against coronavirus.
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#BREAKING: Former Manus Island detainee Behrouz Boochani has had his claim for asylum accepted by New Zealand and been granted a visa to stay in the country.
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"Well I'll be buggered, there's a shark in my boat!" Terry Selwood tells us how a 200kg great white shark ended up in his fishing boat.
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#BREAKING: The nation’s medical regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Administration, has approved Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for use in Australia.
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“I've never seen an assault on the media as savage as this… I've never seen a warrant this comprehensive & I'd say scary… The chilling message is not so much for the journalists, but it's also for the public,” head of ABC Investigations tells #auspol
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"Vladimir Putin is effectively a war criminal - this is a guy who should be contained, not engaged" - watch the full interview with 'Putin's number one enemy' tonight on The World's special coverage of the Donald Trump/Vladimir Putin Summit. #ABCTheWorld
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#BREAKING: The Federal Government has announced it will refund $721 million dollars worth of debts it clawed back through its controversial robodebt scheme.
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#BREAKING: The Australian gunman who carried out the March 2019 Christchurch mosque attacks has been sentenced to life without parole, the first time a whole life term has been handed down in New Zealand.
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