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Arts stars join airline deportations push

Writers and musicians have signed an open letter calling for Australian airlines not to take part in the deportation of asylum seekers.

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Drought even curtails kangaroo cull

The continuing drought across western NSW is having an impact not only on the locals but the local wildlife.

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Landmark $1m for Christian Brothers abuse

A terminally ill WA man has reached a $1 million settlement in his historical child sex abuse case against the Christian Brothers in the 1950s and 60s.

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Landmark $1m for Christian Brothers abuse

A terminally ill WA man has reached a $1 million settlement in his historical child sex abuse case against the Christian Brothers in the 1950s and 60s.

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Gov moves to stamp out image based abuse

Labor MP Clare O’Neil says intimate images are used as blackmail and fuel domestic violence, as the government moves to stamp out image based abuse.

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Perth bureaucrats in ‘shocking’ corruption

Criminal charges may be laid after corruption investigators uncovered shocking bribery and ‘bid-rigging’ within Perth’s North Metropolitan Health Service.

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Jail for poker ace, accountant over fraud

A former professional poker player and a former accountant have been jailed in Melbourne for their role in scamming banks and other finance houses of millions.

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Policies paying off in jobs data: govt

Treasurer Scott Morrison is pleased as punch with new jobs data showing unemployment at its lowest level in almost six years in July.

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NT calls for statehood after senate snub

Territorians are being treated as second-class citizens, says an angry chief minister Michael Gunner, following a failed vote to allow debate on euthanasia.

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Qld tennis coach avoids jail for match-fix

Former tennis pro-turned-coach Isaac Frost has avoided a jail term after pleading guilty to match-fixing in a Brisbane court.

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Coalition won’t get beaten on price

Coalition backbenchers are pushing Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to guarantee lower power prices.

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Question Time in federal parliament

What we learned, heard and were amused by in Question Time on Thursday.

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Chinese family linked to money laundering

A Chinese family of six has allegedly laundered at least $11 million in organised crime money, and smuggled in millions of cigarettes.

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Tobacco smugglers are ‘patriots’: senator

Liberal Democrats senator has railed against the government’s crackdown on illegal tobacco, describing smugglers as patriots.

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Killer review clouds Vic cops’ memorial

The brother of a Victorian police officer killed in the line of duty 20 years ago cannot put the death to bed, as a convicted killer gets a case point reviewed.

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Anning speech has been twisted: Katter

Queensland MP Robbie Katter has defended the speech given by Katter’s Australian Party senator Fraser Anning on Muslim immigration.

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NSW govt stands firm on plastic bag ban

The NSW Greens have introduced draft laws that aim to reduce plastic pollution but the premier believes plastic bags aren’t the biggest cause of litter.

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Aust Post calls on banks to pay more

Australia Post CEO Christine Holgate is calling on the nation’s banks to pay post offices more for providing transaction services to banking customers.

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