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Federal Health Minister Sussan Ley says she will raise concerns about legal service funding cuts in her electorate with Attorney-General George Brandis.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, government-and-politics, federal-government, broken-hill-2880, australia
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With the Productivity Commission currently looking into Australia's workplace relations system, the future of the way Australians work is again in the spotlight.
The commission's report is due out toward the end of the year, and issues such as the minimum wage and penalty rates are likely to re-emerge in the political debate before the next election.
ABC Fact Check has been looking at the changing face of the Australian workplace.
Topics: industrial-relations, australia
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A senior Victorian police officer denies warning women not to walk through parks alone and to be a "little bit more careful" after the stabbing death of a teenage girl in a Melbourne park.
Topics: crime-prevention, crime, law-crime-and-justice, vic, australia
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| UpdatedAboriginal groups call on both sides of New South Wales state politics to formally recognise cultural fishing rights before the state election, saying without these legal protections Indigenous Australians are going to jail unnecessarily.
Topics: illegal-fishing, law-crime-and-justice, indigenous-culture, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, government-and-politics, indigenous-policy, elections, australia, nsw
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| UpdatedCrossbench senator David Leyonhjelm ramps up the pressure on the Government over same-sex marriage, by pushing for debate on his bill next week.
Topics: gays-and-lesbians, community-and-society, marriage, family-and-children, australia
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| UpdatedThe Palmer United Party accuses its former office manager, Tess Sanders-Lazarus, of refusing to hand over the keys to the party's Canberra office.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, australia
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| UpdatedNew Myer CEO Richard Umbers faces a baptism of fire, and an uphill battle to turn the department store around.
Topics: retail, company-news, australia
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| UpdatedIt will be harder for security agencies to access journalists' phone and internet records, under new measures negotiated by Labor and the Government in their wrangling over contentious data retention laws.
Topics: federal-government, government-and-politics, information-and-communication, journalism, australia
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| UpdatedTwo of the world's biggest credit rating agencies say they currently have no plans to downgrade Fortescue Metals Group's investment ranking despite the failure of a multi-billion-dollar bond sale.
Topics: iron-ore, company-news, australia, wa
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The increase in antibiotic resistant infections, labelled an impending health crisis by the World Health Organisation, is linked to a country's level of government corruption, ANU researchers find.
Topics: infectious-diseases-other, corruption, european-union, australia
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| UpdatedThe first comprehensive evaluation of Australia's ground-breaking plain packaging tobacco laws shows they are working, the Victorian Cancer Council says.
Topics: smoking, health, research, cancer, melbourne-3000, australia
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| UpdatedCabinet Minister Mathias Cormann says he has not been involved in any discussions about the possibility of the Government calling a snap double dissolution election.
Topics: abbott-tony, federal-government, government-and-politics, australia
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| UpdatedTwo Australian children who were abducted by their father and taken to Afghanistan two-and-a-half years ago are returned to their mother in an emotional reunion at Perth Airport.
Topics: family-law, family-and-children, children, community-and-society, law-crime-and-justice, perth-6000, wa, australia, afghanistan
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| UpdatedUS shares and the Australian dollar jump overnight, as Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen hints that the first interest rate rise is still several months off.
Topics: money-and-monetary-policy, stockmarket, currency, markets, futures, united-states, united-kingdom, australia
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| UpdatedA team of 20 Australian medical staff to start treating people injured by Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu's capital of Port Vila today.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, cyclones, emergency-planning, emergency-incidents, relief-and-aid-organisations, vanuatu, solomon-islands, kiribati, tuvalu, pacific, australia
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| UpdatedA category five Tropical Cyclone Nathan "cannot be ruled out" the Bureau of Meteorology says, as favourable conditions could lead to more periods of rapid intensification prior to landfall.
Topics: cyclone, cyclones, emergency-incidents, emergency-planning, cooktown-4895, hope-vale-4871, cairns-4870, qld, australia
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| UpdatedAn Australian known as Abu Jihad Al-Australi, or Suhan Rahman, is killed while fighting in Syria, according to social media reports.
Topics: terrorism, unrest-conflict-and-war, islam, syrian-arab-republic, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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| UpdatedParliament's Human Rights Committee expresses concerns over the Federal Government's data retention bill and recommends it be changed so authorities have to obtain a warrant.
Topics: government-and-politics, information-and-communication, defence-and-national-security, federal-government, australia
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| UpdatedAn Australian man, who was among 19 people killed when gunmen stormed a famed museum in Tunisia's capital, is identified as Javier Camelo.
Topics: terrorism, unrest-conflict-and-war, law-crime-and-justice, tunisia, australia
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| UpdatedTwo Australian drug smugglers on death row in Indonesia may not be executed for "weeks or maybe months", Indonesia's vice-president Jusuf Kalla says, ahead of a hearing today that will challenge the president's refusal to grant clemency.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, death, drug-offences, crime, drugs-and-substance-abuse, foreign-affairs, government-and-politics, indonesia, asia, australia, brazil
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The chairman of the Prime Minister's Indigenous Advisory Council, Warren Mundine, delivers a blunt personal message to Tony Abbott about his comments on remote communities.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, government-and-politics, federal-government, abbott-tony, welfare, australia, wa
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| UpdatedNorfolk Island residents will have to pay income tax and their parliament will be replaced with a local council under a $136 million plan signed off on by Federal Cabinet.
Topics: federal-government, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, norfolk-island, norfolk-island-2899, dubbo-2830, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedVictims of dodgy financial advice from a former National Australia Bank financial planner, say the compensation the bank is paying is not adequate.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, industry, banking, law-crime-and-justice, australia
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| UpdatedThe Federal Government's battles with the Senate have seen the prospect of a double dissolution election discussed among senior ministers.
Topics: abbott-tony, federal-government, government-and-politics, australia
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| UpdatedA study that followed 3,500 newborns over 30 years finds that babies who are breastfed are more intelligent and that the boost in intelligence persists into adulthood.
Topics: breastfeeding, breast-feeding, health, australia, brazil