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| UpdatedAcross much of the country there's debate about the balance of power between small-scale mining and farmers. In the Northern Territory, beef producers want mandated access agreements so mining companies have to negotiate with pastoralists before setting foot on pastoral leases. It's estimated 90 per cent of the Territory is now under exploration licence or application and beef producers are expected to step up their campaign at their AGM next week.
Topics: livestock, mining-industry, mining-environmental-issues, mining-rural, nt
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| UpdatedA new study has found that the legal system is not protecting women with a disability from domestic violence, despite them being more at risk. The study, published in the Griffith Law Review, found that nearly a fifth of women with a disability have experienced violence at the hands of their partner.
Topics: domestic-violence, disabilities, australia
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| UpdatedA week after Tropical Cyclone Pam left a path of destruction in Vanuatu, planning's begun to revive the tourism industry. Vanuatu's tourism office says the industry will meet early next week to assess which operators are back in business, and which need more time to rebuild.
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| UpdatedBoarding schools across Australia say they are taking further steps to ensure that child abuse will never happen within their walls again. The associations representing boarding schools are putting the finishing touches on new standards, setting out child protection requirements for thousands of students.
Topics: child-abuse, royal-commissions, australia
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| UpdatedA report by the former integrity commissioner, Philip Moss, has recommended a string of changes to the way the immigration detention centre on Nauru operates. He was investigating allegations of sexual and physical assault on asylum seekers, including children. He's also investigated allegations Save the Children staff encouraged refugees to self-harm or manipulate abuse allegations. The Moss Review says there's no information to prove those allegations.
Topics: immigration, federal-government, nauru, australia
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| UpdatedDavid Manne is the executive director of the Refugee and Immigration Legal Centre. He worked closely with Malcolm Fraser on championing the rights of refugees and counted him as a friend. PM began by asking him about that friendship.
Topics: people, death, liberals, leadership, australia
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| UpdatedAboriginal leaders are mourning the death of the former prime minister Malcolm Fraser. He was the first national leader to enact Aboriginal Land Rights legislation, and they say his commitment to racial equality was a key driver of his policies.
Topics: people, death, liberals, leadership, australia
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| UpdatedAnother towering figure who shaped modern Australia is gone. The former prime minister Malcolm Fraser died today after a short illness. He was 84. Malcolm Fraser is being remembered today for his huge influence on the political landscape.
Topics: people, death, liberals, leadership, australia
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| UpdatedDr Margaret Simons co-authored Malcolm Fraser's political memoirs. She's also the director of the Centre for Advancing Journalism at the University of Melbourne. PM asked her whether Malcolm Fraser ever wavered in his belief that he was in the right in 1975.
Topics: people, death, liberals, leadership, australia
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| UpdatedAfter just two decades, Tasmania's whisky industry is set to rival traditional producers as the best in world. A local distiller has become the first person in the Southern Hemisphere to join the elite Whisky Hall of Fame, while another Tasmanian company has been named best craft distiller outside the UK, at the World Whiskies Awards in London overnight.
Topics: food-and-beverage, tas
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| UpdatedThree months after the Sydney Siege, the cafe where it happened has reopened its doors. Dozens of customers have flocked to the Lindt cafe to show their support. In December, a gunman held a group of customers and staff hostage for 17 hours.
Topics: indigenous-policy, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, work, australia
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| UpdatedTens of thousands of defence force personnel and veterans will commemorate the end of 14 years of combat operations in Afghanistan at parades across the country. As veterans gather to remember their fallen comrades, there are warnings the conflict's legacy will stay with Australia for decades.
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| UpdatedPakistan's president has postponed the execution of a death row prisoner controversially convicted as a teenager, but rights groups fear he still may be in danger of being put to the gallows. At least 49 people have been hanged in Pakistan since the government in Islamabad lifted a six year moratorium on executions three months ago, and rights groups say innocent people are at risk of being put to death.
Topics: death, world-politics, pakistan
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| UpdatedCorporate Australia is being asked to do its bit to close the gap in employment between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. The Federal Minister Nigel Scullion has launched an initiative that will give $10,000 to companies to take on Indigenous workers.
Topics: indigenous-policy, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, work, australia
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| UpdatedFor the first time, Australian boarding schools will have new standards to ensure children are safe. Industry associations have met with Standards Australia for the final tick of approval on a set of national boarding standards after years of meetings and drafts. It comes after a damning public inquiry into sexual abuse at Sydney's Knox Grammar School.
Topics: child-abuse, royal-commissions, australia
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| UpdatedThe Prime Minister has hinted that Australia could soon join a multibillion dollar Asian development fund. Cabinet's national security committee has this week reportedly given in principle support for Australia to sign up to the China-led Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank, despite concerns the United States hasn't joined.
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| UpdatedFormer prime minister Malcolm Fraser has died at the age of 84. The World Today spoke to David Barnett, who was Malcolm Fraser's press secretary. Their working partnership endured during Malcolm Fraser's time as Opposition leader and then as Prime Minister.
Topics: leadership, death, government-and-politics, australia
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| UpdatedPrime Minister Tony Abbott says flags will be at half mast today in honour of the 22nd prime minister Malcolm Fraser, who has died at the age of 84. Former prime ministers from both sides of politics have also paid tribute to Malcolm Fraser. Paul Keating says Mr Fraser's death is a "great loss to Australia". Julia Gillard says his life and work will be remembered with respect.
Topics: leadership, death, government-and-politics, australia
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| UpdatedMalcolm Fraser opened the door to Vietnamese refugees in the late 1970s. Supporting asylum seekers and boosting immigration was a signature belief, and in more recent years it brought him into open conflict with his former Liberal party colleagues, including John Howard.
Topics: leadership, death, government-and-politics, australia
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| UpdatedFormer prime minister Malcolm Fraser has died at the age of 84. The World Today spoke to John Menadue, who was the head of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet under Gough Whitlam and on the day of the dismissal, suddenly found himself working for Malcolm Fraser. John Menadue was asked to stay on in the job and later Malcolm Fraser appointed him as Australian ambassador to Japan and then the head of the Department of Immigration.
Topics: leadership, death, government-and-politics, australia
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| UpdatedFormer prime minister Malcolm Fraser has died after a brief illness at the age of 84. He became Australia's 22nd prime minister at an electrifying time in Australian politics, taking over as caretaker prime minister from Gough Whitlam in 1975.
Topics: leadership, death, government-and-politics, australia
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| UpdatedIn recent years Malcolm Fraser maintained his political positions and his criticism of his former party, tweeting up until last week and constantly engaged in the public debate. In an interview with Saturday AM a month ago, he said the Government's treatment of children in immigration detention must be making even hardliners uncomfortable.
Topics: death, federal-government, parliament, australia
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| UpdatedAfter his retirement, Malcolm Fraser believed Liberal Party had shifted, and that it was no longer the party that he had joined as a young man. He remained engaged in political events, taking what many thought was an increasingly small 'L' liberal view. In 2000 he gave an extensive interview to the ABC's Margaret Throsby where he was asked about his changing political attitudes.
Topics: death, federal-government, parliament, australia
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| UpdatedFormer Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party, and three-time minister under Malcolm Fraser, Fred Chaney told AM he'll remember the former prime minister as a moral compass for Australia, and a wonderful man of principle.
Topics: death, federal-government, parliament, australia
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| UpdatedWhen Malcolm Fraser was elected as Prime Minister for the first time in his own right in 1975, he told reporters he was taking on the job with humility, to govern for all the people in Australia. He took a huge political gamble when he called a snap election eight years later in early 1983; he lost to newly minted Labor leader in Bob Hawke.
Topics: death, federal-government, parliament, australia