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A powerful performance by hall of fame inductee Tina Arena proves the show-stopper of the ARIA awards, which were dominated by rockers Tame Impala and also honoured songstress Courtney Barnett.
Topics: music-awards, music, arts-and-entertainment, sydney-2000, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedSydney FC will be ruing a host of missed chances as their A-League clash with Wellington petered out to a 0-0 draw.
Topics: a-league, soccer, sport, sydney-2000, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedA volunteer firefighter dies after a suspected heart attack while fighting a blaze near Cessnock in the New South Wales Hunter Valley.
Topics: emergency-incidents, cessnock-2325
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Mining company Havilah Resources says digging at its Portia gold mine in far eastern South Australia is halfway complete.
Topics: mining-industry, industry, gold, broken-hill-2880, sa
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| UpdatedA major Rural Fire Services training facility for south-west Sydney has been closed due to asbestos contamination concerns from the neighbouring Western Depot in Kemps Creek.
Topics: government-and-politics, local-government, health, asbestos, australia, nsw, liverpool-2170
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| UpdatedFrom threats of violence to being addressed in an assumed language, staff and students of Charles Sturt University have spoken about racism as the educational institution joins a national campaign.
Topics: race-relations, university-and-further-education, relationships, human-interest, human, indigenous-culture, aboriginal, bathurst-2795, albury-2640, wodonga-3690, cobar-2835
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A Coffs Harbour school was placed into lockdown today as police searched for an escaped prisoner.
Topics: crime, prisons-and-punishment, coffs-harbour-2450, port-macquarie-2444, tamworth-2340
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| UpdatedIf you have lamented the growing popularity of Halloween in recent years, get ready to complain some more - Thanksgiving seems to have taken off in Australia, with turkey farmers reporting a surge in sales.
Topics: livestock, community-and-multicultural-festivals, human-interest, sydney-2000, nsw, australia
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Year 10 student, Jade Moxey, has become the first Young Scientist of the Year to hail from the south coast of New South Wales.
Topics: women-in-agriculture, environment-education, rural-youth, science, bega-2550
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| Updated100 years after riding into battle a unique saddle from World War I has been salvaged from a Hunter Valley tip.
Topics: world-war-1, dungog-2420, newcastle-2300
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| UpdatedA fire that fanned flames in the direction of a small village near Nowra, in the Shoalhaven region of New South Wales, started on a nearby Defence training range.
Topics: fires, nowra-2541, nsw, australia, currarong-2540
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| UpdatedDylan Walker's lawyer savages South Sydney for the manner in which they treated the centre before finally releasing him from the last year of his deal.
Topics: nrl, rugby-league, sport, sydney-2000, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedNangua the bright orange Francois' Langur, one of the world's rarest monkeys, is the newest addition to Taronga Zoo.
Topics: animals, sydney-2000
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The New South Wales Government is moving to overhaul the way the police force is held to account.
Topics: police, state-parliament, australia, nsw
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| UpdatedA former Sydney Scout leader is arrested over the alleged sexual abuse of boys in the 1970s and 1980s.
Topics: sexual-offences, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedThe contamination crisis stemming from the Williamtown Air Force base is now impacting on the Hunter's water supply, with Hunter Water losing access to 1.5 billion litres in the Tomago Sandbeds.
Topics: chemicals-and-pharmaceuticals, water-pollution, water-supply, water-management, defence-forces, defence-industry, williamtown-2318, tomago-2322
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Lawyers call on governments to address "a rapid spike" in the incarceration of Indigenous women with improved housing, legal and education services.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, law-crime-and-justice, prisons-and-punishment, women, australia, sydney-2000, nsw
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| UpdatedA bus driver dies and three passengers are injured following a crash in the NSW Southern Highlands.
Topics: accidents, burrawang-2577
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| UpdatedThe NBL says an 83-year-old man who poured beer on Sydney Kings American import Marcus Thornton will not attend any more games this season.
Topics: nbl, basketball, sport, wollongong-2500, sydney-2000, nsw, australia
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Large vegetable processors to have greater voting rights than small growers at first AGM of 'grower owned' horticulture body.
Topics: agricultural-prices, wool, food-processing, beef-cattle, vegetables, dairy-production, sheep-production, rural-youth, sydney-2000
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The South Sydney Rabbitohs fine Dylan Walker and Aaron Gray five per cent of their contracts in relation to their overdose on painkillers.
Topics: nrl, rugby-league, sport, sydney-south-2000, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedA special package from Tamworth in north-west NSW was delivered to the family of a Japanese soldier earlier this month.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, world-war-2, community-and-society, japan, tamworth-2340
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No child in Massachusetts has died in a quad bike accident since a law banning them for children was enacted in 2010.
Topics: rural-youth, farm-labour, occupational-health-and-safety, sydney-2000, holbrook-2644, wollongong-2500
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| UpdatedA Ballina tourism operator says fears generated by the recent spate of shark attacks will cost him more than $50,000 this summer.
Topics: shark, state-parliament, travel-and-tourism, oceans-and-reefs, ballina-2478, lismore-2480
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| UpdatedA New South Wales rural agent who drove a pink tractor for thousands of kilometres to raise money for the McGrath Foundation says losing six kilos was an added bonus.
Topics: rural-women, breast-cancer, cancer, charities-and-community-organisations, mudgee-2850