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Automated technology is now being used with hopes of improving the efficiency and reach of South Australia's recycling efforts.
Topics: recycling-and-waste-management, environment, programs-and-initiatives, states-and-territories, community-organisations, community-and-society, pooraka-5095, adelaide-5000, sa
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Laws to outlaw so-called puppy and kitten farms have unanimously passed the ACT Legislative Assembly.
Topics: animals, animals-and-nature, states-and-territories, canberra-2600, act, australia
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The ACT Court of Appeal is preparing to reconsider a challenge to a controversial new supermarket development at the Giralang shops in Canberra's north.
Topics: urban-development-and-planning, states-and-territories, law-crime-and-justice, giralang-2617, act, canberra-2600
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| UpdatedFormer Howard government minister Jackie Kelly says her decision to direct preferences to Labor in the upcoming NSW election is not an act of betrayal, but a strategy to fight plans for Sydney's second airport.
Topics: elections, states-and-territories, urban-development-and-planning, penrith-2750
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Opponents of an open-cut mining proposal will meet Victoria's Energy and Resources Minister in Stawell, in the state's south-west, today.
Topics: industry, activism-and-lobbying, states-and-territories, stawell-3380, horsham-3400
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| UpdatedAn unexpected holiday for ACT Government workers on the Monday after Anzac Day this year is predicted to cause problems for federal public servants heading to work.
Topics: states-and-territories, public-schools, public-sector, canberra-2600, act
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Victoria's Education Minister has restated his commitment to improving a run-down school for disabled students in Bendigo.
Topics: schools, urban-development-and-planning, states-and-territories, bendigo-3550
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| UpdatedNSW Premier Mike Baird denies meeting with the president of a Chinese Government-owned corporation to discuss the partial privatisation of the state's electricity poles and wires.
Topics: elections, states-and-territories, nsw
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The former New South Wales Premier Barry O'Farrell has apologised to a Hunter Valley mining company over comments that led to defamation action.
Topics: coal, corruption, states-and-territories, maitland-2320, jerrys-plains-2330, singleton-2330
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Residents near a proposed new solar farm at Williamsdale in Canberra's south express concern about the prospect of another site so close to the one at Royalla.
Topics: solar-energy, states-and-territories, urban-development-and-planning, canberra-2600, act, williamsdale-2620, uriarra-2611
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| UpdatedNSW voters are divided on the WestConnex motorway and think the Government should spend more on public transport and cycling projects, according the the ABC's Vote Compass survey.
Topics: elections, states-and-territories, urban-development-and-planning, nsw
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| UpdatedExtensive research was conducted as early as 2010 to identify West Australian remote Aboriginal communities considered unsustainable, a leaked document held by the State Government shows.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, state-parliament, states-and-territories, federal---state-issues, government-and-politics, broome-6725, karratha-6714, geraldton-6530, kalgoorlie-6430, perth-6000, bunbury-6230, albany-6330
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| UpdatedMining will be banned forever in an area of Western Australia's north, paving the way for the creation of Australia's biggest national park.
Topics: environment, conservation, national-parks, bauxite, mining-industry, mining-environmental-issues, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, broome-6725, wa
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| UpdatedProfessional fishers in the Hawkesbury River and Tuggerah Lakes in New South Wales express anger over attempts to make their industry an issue in this weekend's state election.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, illegal-fishing, rural, fishing-aquaculture, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, elections, tuggerah-2259, hawkesbury-heights-2777, lower-hawkesbury-2775, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedVictims of last month's flooding in central Queensland will meet tonight to discuss a possible damages class action.
Topics: floods, cyclones, dams-and-reservoirs, states-and-territories, judges-and-legal-profession, activism-and-lobbying, water-management, programs-and-initiatives, biloela-4715, jambin-4702
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One of Queensland's newest MPs says he will encourage Prime Minister Tony Abbott to visit drought-affected western Queensland again to see conditions first-hand.
Topics: state-parliament, drought, states-and-territories, activism-and-lobbying, political-parties, barcaldine-4725, longreach-4730, mount-isa-4825
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| UpdatedWith four days to go before the election, Luke Foley re-commits to banning CSG activity in parts of the state's north, while Mike Baird backs the Penrith Panthers on a $60 million proposal.
Topics: elections, states-and-territories, bentley-2480, lismore-2480, ballina-2478, nsw, grafton-2460
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Rail services, the future of the Coalition and regional development were on the agenda yesterday as the Victorian Opposition met in Maryborough in central Victoria.
Topics: states-and-territories, regional-development, maryborough-3465, bendigo-3550
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| UpdatedA union campaign against Chinese investment in NSW's electricity assets is racist and puts trade relationships at risk, State Treasurer Andrew Constance says.
Topics: elections, states-and-territories, unions, privatisation-and-deregulation, nsw
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| UpdatedA controversial project to build a solar farm next to the rural village of Uriarra has been dumped by the ACT Government after fierce opposition from local residents.
Topics: solar-energy, urban-development-and-planning, states-and-territories, uriarra-2611, act, canberra-2600
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The builders of one of Canberra's most expensive addresses, the Empire Apartments in Forrest, has lost a court appeal over a rectification order.
Topics: urban-development-and-planning, states-and-territories, forrest-2603, act, canberra-2600
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| UpdatedThe Hunter Valley's thoroughbred breeding and wine tourism industries want a 10km buffer zone to protect them from mining activity.
Topics: viticulture, tourism, equine-production, mining-industry, oil-and-gas, states-and-territories, elections, cessnock-2325, scone-2337, pokolbin-2320
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| UpdatedThe majority of NSW voters support Labor's plan for free walk-in medical clinics staffed by nurses and think elective surgery waiting times are too long, according to the ABC's Vote Compass survey.
Topics: elections, states-and-territories, healthcare-facilities, health-policy, privatisation-and-deregulation, nsw
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| UpdatedTasmanian Upper House MP Ivan Dean rejects suggestions his bid to ban cigarettes sales to anyone born after 2000 is part of his re-election campaign.
Topics: smoking, states-and-territories, tas
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The waste industry suggests crushing the cars used by South Australian businesses to illegally dump materials such as asbestos.
Topics: asbestos, health, law-crime-and-justice, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, adelaide-5000, sa, australia