| | | | The mayor of one of Australia's biggest local councils appears to have misled the Queensland corruption watchdog over his knowledge of a campaign donor's development at public hearings earlier this year, the ABC can reveal. |
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| | A $3.9 million government helpline set up to fight violent extremism has only received a handful of calls in two months. A source says one was a wrong number, while another was "a parent worried their kid was dating a Muslim". |
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| | Scientists have detected gravitational waves — tiny ripples in the fabric of space-time — for the fourth time, using three detectors in the US and Italy. |
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| | The Navy could be left without a submarine fleet for up to 20 years because of a "wildly ambitious" schedule to replace the ageing Collins Class fleet, an independent report finds. |
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| | A 12-year-old boy is flown to hospital after being shot in the face with a rifle on a property in south-western NSW, in what police believe is an accident. |
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| | Inside the exclusion zone around Bali's Mount Agung, teams of volunteers are racing to rescue hundreds of stray dogs left behind in the volcano's "red zone" before they are claimed by an eruption. |
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| | Many of us would have seen, if not tried, various products claiming to clean the dirt out of our pores. But do we need to? |
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| | Bell Pottinger, a disgraced PR company accused of inciting racial hatred in South Africa, was selected by the Federal Government as a potential advisor on countering extremist violence and sat on a government research panel for four years. |
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| | The anticipated October 26 release of thousands of unseen documents related to John F Kennedy's assassination has scholars buzzing, but those documents will never see the light of day if Donald Trump chooses to block them. |
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| | Over 31? Don't have any British ancestry? Already completed a two-year working visa? Your chances of working in the UK aren't good. But experts say with net migration down in the UK, it's the perfect time for Australia to re-negotiate visa options for its citizens. |
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| | If the play matches the emotion at the MCG on Saturday, we could be in for one of the classics, as Adelaide and Richmond look to end their respective premiership droughts. |
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| | Melbourne Storm lynchpin Cameron Smith clinches a second Dally M Medal, further cementing his place as a rugby league legend after taking out the NRL's highest individual accolade. |
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| | An annual survey of the workforce shows morale and communication have improved, but CSIRO chief executive Larry Marshall says there is still a lot more work to be done, with 68 per cent of staff reporting the senior leadership team is not "responding to feedback". |
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| | A United States Senate primary run-off election in the deep red Republican state of Alabama would not, in normal times, be a big deal. But these are anything but normal times, and it is a big deal, writes John Barron. |
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| | Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi demands Kurdish authorities "cancel" the outcome of their independence referendum in northern Iraq or face the consequences of what is rapidly escalating into a major regional crisis. |
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| | Praised for accepting nearly 500,000 people fleeing violence in Myanmar, poor and crowded Bangladesh is now shouldering the burden for their care. Resentment is growing amongst locals who fear increased crime and begging will drive tourists away. |
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| | Some parents are paying up to $20,000 per year to have their children "coached" by tutors to ace high school, but critics say it undermines the education system and those who cannot afford the fees are being left behind. |
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| | Aerial footage of Vanuatu's Monaro volcano shows plumes of smoke, ash and volcanic rocks erupting from its crater, as 7,000 people flee their homes on Ambae island. |
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| | Forget the fireworks - the RAAF's aerobatics display team the Roulettes are looking to steal the show this weekend with their first performance at the Brisbane event since 2009. |
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