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Nine children have drowned on rural Queensland properties since last December and a lack of water safety programs is contributing to the increase in deaths, the drowning awareness group Hannah's Foundation says.
Topics: accidents---other, safety-education, bundaberg-4670, gladstone-4680, longreach-4730, mackay-4740, maroochydore-4558, rockhampton-4700, toowoomba-4350, townsville-4810
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The Barangaroo development on Sydney's harbour would be home to a Australia's first Indigenous cultural centre if the state's voters elect a Labor government next Saturday.
Topics: elections, indigenous-culture, housing, sydney-2000, nsw
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| UpdatedKiwi raider Volkstok'n'barrell has prevailed in a battle of trans-Tasman rivals in the $500,000 Rosehill Guineas in Sydney.
Topics: horse-racing, sport, rosehill-2142, nsw
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The NSW Premier spends the final Saturday before election day pledging more money for hospitals and getting up close and personal with animals.
Topics: elections, healthcare-facilities, animal-welfare, camden-2570, campbelltown-2560, nsw
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| UpdatedA dangerous thunderstorm is moving across Brisbane after earlier hitting the northern Gold Coast and Logan City.
Topics: storm-event, weather, brisbane-4000, southport-4215
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| UpdatedAn annual battle to determine the Head of the River between Adelaide schools draws a strong crowd of thousands at West Lakes.
Topics: education, community-and-society, west-lakes-5021, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedAustralia's Shane Watson and Pakistan's Wahab Riaz are fined for breaching the ICC's code of conduct.
Topics: cricket, sport, adelaide-5000, sa, australia, pakistan
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| UpdatedUS pop singer Pharrell Williams is mobbed by children after addressing the UN General Assembly on the International Day of Happiness.
Topics: happiness, emotions, community-and-society, music, united-states
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| UpdatedThere are claims some Tasmanian schools could be breaching the Anti-Discrimination Act by failing to adequately support students with disabilities.
Topics: disabilities, health, education, access-to-education, discrimination, community-and-society, tas
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| UpdatedContributer is racing's new middle-distance benchmark in Australia after proving a class above his rivals in the Group One Ranvet Stakes (2,000m) at Rosehill.
Topics: horse-racing, sport, rosehill-2142, nsw
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A woman in the US state of Colorado admits she cut an unborn child out of the womb of a stranger after she answered her online advertisement for baby clothes.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, child-abuse, pregnancy-and-childbirth, united-states
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| UpdatedCollingwood's Jack Crisp is under AFL investigation for a bet he allegedly made last year while playing for Brisbane.
Topics: australian-football-league, sport, collingwood-3066, melbourne-3000, vic, brisbane-4000, qld, australia
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Firefighters work to extinguish a fire at a restaurant on Sydney's north shore that sparked an evacuation of nearby businesses.
Topics: fires, crows-nest-2065
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| UpdatedThe United Nations raises the confirmed death toll in Vanuatu in the wake of Cyclone Pam from 11 to 16 with aid now starting to reach some of the worst-hit areas.
Topics: cyclones, disasters-and-accidents, weather, cyclone, relief-and-aid-organisations, vanuatu, pacific
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| UpdatedA public swimming pool in Canberra is currently leaking an estimated 46,000 litres a day, and authorities are at a loss to explain why.
Topics: local-government, canberra-2600, act
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| UpdatedMichael Clarke expects to face a different India in the World Cup semi-final from the one that struggled so badly this summer.
Topics: cricket, sport, adelaide-5000, sa, australia, india, pakistan
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| UpdatedMore than 1,000 people take part in the inaugural Canberra 100 Challenge, seeing competitors walk or run up to 100 kilometres around the city.
Topics: charities, community-and-society, canberra-2600, act, australia
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A trial program is aiming to revive language study in Australian high schools by starting with children at a much earlier age.
Topics: children---preschoolers, secondary-schools, languages, brisbane-4000
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The Indian government approves a proposal to reserve one-third of police posts in Delhi for women, its latest move to address shocking levels of sexual violence against women in the capital.
Topics: police, sexual-offences, community-and-society, india
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| UpdatedA two-year-old girl, who was a passenger in a car involved in a fatal crash at Bedfordale south-east of Perth yesterday, dies in hospital.
Topics: road, bedfordale-6112
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| UpdatedCommunities along the eastern Northern Territory coast are readying for their second major storm event in just over a month, with Cyclone Nathan on course to make landfall early on Sunday.
Topics: cyclone, cyclones, nhulunbuy-0880
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| UpdatedMartin Guptill struck a magnificent double ton as New Zealand posted the West Indies a daunting target.
Topics: cricket, sport, new-zealand, jamaica
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Truck drivers caught by police for driving dangerously or under the influence will be reported to their managers under new regulations drafted by the SA Government.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, accidents, road, government-and-politics, sa
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| UpdatedA former disability commissioner with the Human Rights Commission says the Government's recently released Moss review confirms the criticisms made by Human Rights Commission president Gillian Triggs.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, community-and-society, immigration, refugees, nauru
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Australia's high-tech research ship sails from Hobart on its maiden scientific voyage, hoping to help discover more pieces in the climate change jigsaw.
Topics: science-and-technology, research, research-organisations, tas, antarctica