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| UpdatedAustralia has chased down Pakistan's total of 213 with relative ease to book a semi-final date with India at the SCG.
Topics: cricket, sport, adelaide-5000, sa, australia
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| UpdatedAustralia's banking regulator APRA says its new 10 per cent limit on annual growth in property investor loans is a trigger, not a cap.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, banking, industry, housing-industry, australia
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| UpdatedThe Australian share market has a late afternoon rally to end at its highest level in seven years, as investors anticipate another Reserve Bank interest rate cut.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, industry, markets, gold, oil-and-gas, australia
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| UpdatedPam and Pamela have suddenly become popular names for new babies in Vanuatu since the country was hit by Cyclone Pam last Friday.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, cyclones, charities, babies, vanuatu, australia
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| UpdatedA long-awaited immigration report into allegations of sexual assault at the refugee detention centre on Nauru recommends a string of changes to the way the centre operates.
Topics: refugees, sexual-offences, charities-and-community-organisations, australia, nauru
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Take a look back at the political career of Australia's 22nd prime minister Malcolm Fraser, who came to office in unprecedented and controversial circumstances but went on to win three elections as Liberal Party leader.
Topics: government-and-politics, australia
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Malcolm Fraser's former staffers reflect on their time working with the former Liberal prime minister following news of his death at the age of 84.
Topics: death, government-and-politics, federal-government, human-interest, australia
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| UpdatedAustralia is into the World Cup semi-finals after chasing down Pakistan's 213.
Topics: cricket, sport, adelaide-5000, sa, australia, pakistan
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| UpdatedThe Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens says the current level of interest rates is not the main thing holding the economy back, but there "might be" a benefit from lowering them further.
Topics: money-and-monetary-policy, economic-trends, australia
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| UpdatedAustralia's 22nd prime minister spoke passionately about the law, human rights and indigenous disadvantage. Here are some of his memorable quotes.
Topics: government-and-politics, indigenous-policy, liberal-national-party-queensland, laws, human, australia
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| UpdatedMalcolm Fraser is remembered as "a great moral compass", "very tough" and "a giant of Australian politics" after his death.
Topics: government-and-politics, community-and-society, federal-parliament, australia
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| UpdatedFormer Liberal prime minister Malcolm Fraser is being remembered as "a giant of Australian politics" and a "great moral compass" following his death early on Friday morning at the age of 84.
Topics: government-and-politics, australia
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| UpdatedAlan Rickman's new film A Little Chaos tackles issues facing women from past to present.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, film-movies, human-interest, people, director, theatre, england, united-kingdom, australia
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The trial of two Al Jazeera journalists in Egypt is adjourned until March 25 after the court orders the creation of a new technical committee to review evidence.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, journalism, information-and-communication, egypt, australia, canada
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| UpdatedTunisia arrests nine people in connection with Wednesday's attack on a museum in the capital Tunis that killed 23 people, including dual Australian-Colombian national Javier Camelo.
Topics: terrorism, unrest-conflict-and-war, crime, tunisia, australia
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| UpdatedBusinesses that employ Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff will be provided with financial sweeteners of up to $10,000 by the Federal Government.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, community-and-society, government-and-politics, federal-government, australia
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| UpdatedCentrelink payments made up almost half of the revenue of white goods leasing market leader Radio Rentals last year.
Topics: welfare, community-and-society, business-economics-and-finance, australia
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| UpdatedThe Prime Minister uses a video message aimed at schoolchildren to speak against cyberbullying, labelling it "hurtful and wrong".
Topics: bullying, abbott-tony, australia
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Vanuatu hits out at aid groups over a lack of coordination that it says has resulted in "precious time" being wasted as the country grapples with the aftermath of Cyclone Pam.
Topics: cyclones, disasters-and-accidents, relief-and-aid-organisations, government-and-politics, vanuatu, pacific, australia
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| UpdatedNearly 250,000 Australians with Hepatitis C hope new drugs to treat the disease will be approved by the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.
Topics: hepatitis, pharmaceuticals, health, health-policy, australia, qld
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| UpdatedLocal stocks and the dollar shoot up after the US Federal Reserve hoses down expectations it plans to imminently raise interest rates.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, markets, currency, australia
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| UpdatedEnvironment minister Greg Hunt says he has begun talks with the crossbench as renewable talks with Opposition have broken down again.
Topics: environment, federal-government, government-and-politics, australia
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| UpdatedFriends of dual Australian-Colombian man Javier Camelo, killed in a terrorist attack in Tunisia, pay tribute to him on social media.
Topics: terrorism, unrest-conflict-and-war, law-crime-and-justice, tunisia, australia
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| UpdatedNew children's e-safety commissioner to have power to fine social media sites up to $17,000 a day for failing to remove offensive material.
Topics: bullying, community-and-society, social-media, law-crime-and-justice, australia
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| UpdatedBillionaire philanthropists Michael Bloomberg and Bill Gates launch a joint fund to help developing countries pass tobacco-control laws in their legal battle with industry giants.
Topics: smoking, laws, australia, united-arab-emirates