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Coalition split over wheat industry deregulation
Canberra :: Australia | 8 months ago
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They have been emboldened in part by Western Australia Nationals MP Tony Crook, who this week announced he would cross the floor and vote with the Government. Labor wants to deregulate the industry in line with the recommendations of the Productivity
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Video game gives taste of war coverage
Kabul :: Afghanistan | over 1 year ago
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Tony Maniaty believes it is vital to teach young journalists how to balance the risks of frontline reporting against the desire to chase the story...In 1975 he told the world of the five Australians who were murdered in the small town of Balibo. He
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On the Seventh Day, he logged off
Perth :: Australia | over 1 year ago
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American writer William Powers, his wife and their son started doing an "internet Sabbath" every weekend more than four years ago. "We basically decided we were being pulled apart from each other by our internet time and our addiction to the screen,"
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Should Australia's legal drinking age be 21?
Perth :: Australia | almost 2 years ago
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00 An inquiry into the impact of Western Australia's booze culture has sparked calls for Australia's legal drinking age to be raised to 21. A West Australian parliamentary committee investigating alcohol and illicit drug problems has urged the state
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Suicides in detention 'a matter of time'
Sydney :: Australia | almost 2 years ago
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Current and former employees of contractor Serco fear soaring asylum seeker self-harm rates, combined with staff who are stretched beyond their capacities, could soon prove fatal at the immigration detention centre...The revelations come as an
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Twitter chats aim to tackle rural suicide
Sydney :: Australia | 2 years ago
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Ms Fairleigh is now involved in a new initiative aiming to provide a space for people across rural Australia to discuss mental health and strategies for improving rural health services. Through fortnightly Twitter chats, Rural Mental Health (RMH)
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Families in the dark as adoption chief quits
Addis Ababa :: Ethiopia | almost 3 years ago
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Earlier in the year ABC News Online revealed allegations by adoptive parents about the program , which until the end of last month was run by Ato Lakew Gebeyehu and his wife Misrak from their transition home for children, Koala House...One family had
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Bishop demands clarity on paedophile priest
Newcastle :: Australia | almost 3 years ago
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The diocese of Maitland-Newcastle, north of Sydney, has been the subject of a major police investigation called Strike Force Georgiana. In recent weeks, a former Catholic school principal and two victims of abuse at the hands of the late McAlinden
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Australians caught in Ethiopian adoption nightmare
Addis Ababa :: Ethiopia | 3 years ago
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The ABC has spoken to several families who claim they have been lied to in the course of their adoption process...One family had to pay a bribe and others found their paperwork falsified with their child's age dramatically altered. The families say
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Scientology insider details 'nightmare' childhood
Cape Town :: South Africa | 3 years ago
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Independent Senator Nick Xenophon has been calling for a full inquiry into the church since revealing claims of forced abortions and other abuses in Parliament last year. Keryn, 54, grew up in the church and has asked the ABC to identify her only by
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