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| UpdatedA late James Brown goal was enough to see Melbourne City record an away 1-0 win over Sydney FC on Friday night.
Topics: a-league, soccer, sport, sydney-2000, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedCanterbury posted a hard-fought 16-12 win over Manly at Brookvale Oval on Friday evening.
Topics: nrl, rugby-league, sport, brookvale-2100, belmore-2192
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| UpdatedShaun Burgoyne, who captained the Indigenous All Stars, and fellow Hawthorn Football Club players Bradley Hill, Cyril Rioli and Jed Anderson have called for the right of Indigenous people to stay in remote communities.
Topics: community-and-society, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, state-parliament, broome-6725, karratha-6714, geraldton-6530, kalgoorlie-6430, perthville-2795, bunbury-6230, albany-creek-4035
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| UpdatedTrainer Rod Northam will saddle up Hunter Valley-bred Odyssey Moon for the Golden Slipper.
Topics: horse-racing, scone-2337
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A three-year-old girl who was found wandering the street at North Gosford, on the Central Coast, in the early hours of this morning has been re-united with her mother.
Topics: police, gosford-2250
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| UpdatedMental health service MindSpot says its predominantly rural client base may lose access to online support if a funding decision is not made soon.
Topics: mental-health, agricultural-policy, rural-women, health-policy, sydney-2000, townsville-4810
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| UpdatedTen truck drivers have been charged with heavy vehicle offences after a police and Roads and Maritime Services operation in Carrington today.
Topics: road-transport, road, traffic-offences, police, carrington-2294, newcastle-2300
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New South Wales police are appealing to the public for information after a woman was indecently assaulted on a Newcastle bus.
Topics: assault, hamilton-2303
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The State Government says it will block the proposed sale of a petroleum exploration licence on the state's north coast.
Topics: oil-and-gas, elections, lismore-2480
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The Coalition promises a $100 million package to protect endangered species while Labor says it will install solar panels in schools if elected.
Topics: elections, states-and-territories, schools, solar-energy, environmental-policy, nsw
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A generation of voters in the Central Coast seat of Terrigal have only known one local member.
Topics: elections, terrigal-2260
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NSW Irrigators Council is calling on the Federal Government to immediately cap water purchases from irrigators at 1500 gigalitres, under the Murray Darling Basin Plan.
Topics: irrigation, agricultural-prices, agricultural-crops, agricultural-policy, nsw, sydney-2000
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Wagga Wagga police are trying to find a man aged in his mid 50's over approaches on two young girls this week.
Topics: police, community-and-society, family-and-children, crime, wagga-wagga-2650
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Labor's commitment to ban coal seam gas in the Pilliga has received mixed reactions in the region it will most effect.
Topics: rural-women, mining-rural, agricultural-policy, coal, political-parties, elections, narrabri-2390
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| UpdatedMoving a rock from a property just north of Canberra has led to a Stonehenge replica.
Topics: human-interest, druids, community-and-society, history, history-education, canberra-2600, bega-2550
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A Sydney coffee roaster is calling on cafes from Australia and around the world to support the rebuilding of Tanna Island.
Topics: cyclones, tea-coffee, cyclone, crop-harvesting, international-aid-and-trade, vanuatu, mona-vale-2103
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The Newcastle Jets have formally parted ways with players Adrian Madaschi and Billy Celeski who were sacked earlier this year, along with three other players.
Topics: a-league, newcastle-2300, muswellbrook-2333
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| UpdatedQueensland's macadamia harvest is underway, with growers fetching strong prices due to rapidly rising demand from China.
Topics: vegetable-fruit-nuts, fruits, fruit, vegetables, agricultural-marketing, agricultural-prices, maroochydore-4558, bundaberg-4670, mackay-4740, brisbane-4000, port-macquarie-2444
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| UpdatedLabor has promised, if elected next Saturday, it will better consult the Hunter community when it comes to major transport decisions in the region.
Topics: elections, alp, rail-transport, wallsend-2287, newcastle-2300
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| UpdatedTaxpayers could be forced to compensate energy giant Santos if Labor keeps an election promise to ban CSG production in part of north-west NSW, the state's Resources Minister says.
Topics: oil-and-gas, elections, environmental-policy, pilliga-2388
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| UpdatedA pilot project to replace graffiti with mural art will return to Marrickville streets in 2015.
Topics: contemporary-art, street-art, local-government, marrickville-2204
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| UpdatedA fair trade chocolate maker in Vanuatu is very worried about the cocoa farmers on the islands, whose crops were all extensively damaged in Cyclone Pam.
Topics: food-processing, fruit, cyclones, storm-disaster, sydney-2000, vanuatu
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The NSW Resources Minister says more companies could be invited to explore for uranium in New South Wales, after a lukewarm response in the first round.
Topics: uranium-mining, states-and-territories, broken-hill-2880
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| UpdatedThe Conargo community may have lost its one and only pub, but it is not prepared to forfeit its popular Friday night meat raffle.
Topics: community-development, hospitality, fires, conargo-2710
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| UpdatedThe NSW Government's decision to cut the Newcastle inner city rail line at Broadmeadow is a major issue heading into the election.
Topics: elections, federal---state-issues, rail-transport, newcastle-2300, swansea-2281, charlestown-2290