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| UpdatedThe bulk of the $1.27 million repair costs relate to a riot at Darwin's Don Dale detention centre earlier this month, when an education facility was destroyed by fire and other infrastructure was damaged during an eight-hour rampage costing taxpayers at least $750,000.
Topics: indigenous-policy, indigenous-protocols, prisons-and-punishment, politics-and-government, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedThe MV Jawan, which was forced to off-load thousands of animals in Victoria, is a converted cargo ship that one expert says was fortunate to not "keel over completely".
Topics: livestock-welfare, trade, international-aid-and-trade, politics-and-government, agricultural-policy, political-parties, portland-3305, geelong-3220, canberra-2600
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| UpdatedOutgoing Republican congresswoman Mia Love lashes out at Donald Trump and her party and warns she can now voice, "exactly what is on my mind".
Topics: politics-and-government, world-politics, donald-trump, united-states
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Chinese officials announced they had signed "new agreements" with several Pacific Island nations at the APEC summit, but they refused to answer even basic questions about what was in them. Now the details of those deals are starting to seep out.
Topics: world-politics, foreign-aid, politics-and-government, international-aid-and-trade, defence-and-national-security, china, pacific, papua-new-guinea, australia, asia
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Chief Minister Michael Gunner's leadership faces its biggest challenge as Labor caucus members call for Speaker Kezia Purick to be sacked for her office's attempt to interfere in the establishment of a new political party in the Northern Territory.
Topics: government-and-politics, politics-and-government, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedChinese President Xi Jinping's face was pasted on billboards ahead of last weekend's APEC summit in Papua New Guinea. So how did he end up getting upstaged?
Topics: world-politics, foreign-aid, politics-and-government, international-aid-and-trade, defence-and-national-security, navy, china, pacific, papua-new-guinea, australia, united-states, asia
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| UpdatedA key issue for Australia is that immigrants are more likely to live in large cities than regional areas. The Canadian model shows that giving states and territories a say in immigration policy can help take the pressure off major urban areas, writes Jock Collins.
Topics: immigration, refugees, politics-and-government, government-and-politics, australia, canada
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| UpdatedThe Coalition dubbed Labor's promise this week to subsidise batteries for households "pink batts to pink batteries", seeking to trigger memories of a fatal Rudd policy, proving Scott Morrison's a much better negative campaigner than Malcolm Turnbull ever was, writes Michelle Grattan.
Topics: government-and-politics, politics-and-government, electricity-energy-and-utilities, energy, federal-government, federal-parliament, australia
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Port Lincoln City Councillor Andrea Broadfoot is preselected to represent the Centre Alliance party for Grey in the upcoming federal election.
Topics: politics-and-government, federal-election, port-lincoln-5606
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The closely watched trial illustrates the tensions in the former colony as disaffected democracy activists push back against attempts by Communist Party leaders in Beijing to tighten their grip on the city's freedoms and autonomy.
Topics: government-and-politics, politics-and-government, political-parties, world-politics, unrest-conflict-and-war, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, hong-kong, china, asia
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| UpdatedLow-income taxpayers would be able to access free legal advice and help during tax disputes, under a Federal Opposition plan aimed at helping small business and individual taxpayers who may feel disadvantaged fighting the Australian Taxation Office.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, small-business, tax, politics-and-government, federal-election, federal-government, australia
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| UpdatedVictoria's youth are the political focus of both Premier Daniel Andrews and Opposition Leader Matthew Guy at the start of the final week of the state election campaign.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, political-parties, politics-and-government, government-and-politics, elections, state-elections, melbourne-3000, vic
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An intrepid group of adventurers treks thousands of kilometres across Siberia and faces bears and freezing temperatures in a race against time to preserve a forgotten part of Russia's dark past.
Topics: history, education, history-education, politics-and-government, environment, prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, offbeat, world-war-2, unrest-conflict-and-war, government-and-politics, russian-federation
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Shinzo Abe pays tribute to 80 Japanese soldiers killed off the coast of Darwin during World War II, in a move descendants and historians alike hope will see their story enter mainstream consciousness.
Topics: government-and-politics, politics-and-government, world-war-2, community-and-society, history, nt, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedOne year since the royal commission into youth detention handed down its recommendations to overhaul the youth justice sector, the daily conditions experienced by young people inside Don Dale remain largely unchanged, advocates say.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, crime-prevention, prisons-and-punishment, politics-and-government, nt, darwin-0800, alice-springs-0870
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| UpdatedThe CIA believes Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul, a source familiar with the matter says, complicating Donald Trump's efforts to preserve ties with a key US ally.
Topics: world-politics, politics-and-government, death, murder-and-manslaughter, crime, foreign-affairs, saudi-arabia, turkey
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| UpdatedAs the landscape of Australian politics shifted so significantly it became quicksand, cartoonists rose to the challenge of finding truth in madness.
Topics: politics-and-government, library-museum-and-gallery, canberra-2600, act, australia
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The Shooting Industry Foundation of Australia is seeking to unwind Australia's gun regulations, and knows that state governments are as good a place as any to start. And its tactics will be familiar to anyone who knows the NRA, writes George Rennie.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, community-and-society, government-and-politics, politics-and-government, united-states
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| UpdatedThe Jerusalem question, a religious freedom report, and an inquiry into free speech at universities: Scott Morrison's political predicaments echo those of Billy McMahon, where "for every achievement and move towards new policy there was another fight, another muddle, another problem that should never have been cause for concern", writes Michelle Grattan.
Topics: government-and-politics, politics-and-government, federal-government, foreign-affairs, federal-parliament, australia, indonesia
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Saudi Arabia's top prosecutor recommends the death penalty for five suspects charged with ordering and carrying out the killing of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi, in a case that has sparked a global outcry and opened the kingdom to possible sanctions.
Topics: world-politics, politics-and-government, death, murder-and-manslaughter, crime, foreign-affairs, saudi-arabia, turkey
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| UpdatedChina is splashing out billions of dollars in concessional loans to developing countries, but what happens when these debt-laden nations can't pay Beijing back?
Topics: world-politics, politics-and-government, international-aid-and-trade, foreign-aid, foreign-affairs, china, tonga, fiji, united-states, zambia, montenegro, djibouti, pacific
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| UpdatedCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau becomes the first Western leader to acknowledge his country has heard the recordings of the killing of Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last month.
Topics: world-politics, politics-and-government, death, murder-and-manslaughter, crime, foreign-affairs, saudi-arabia, turkey, canada, united-kingdom, united-states, germany, france
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Topics: world-politics, politics-and-government, government-and-politics, sri-lanka
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High-profile US elections in Florida remain unresolved and the prospect of legal challenges, recounts and ballot reviews are setting the stage for possible weeks of uncertainty.
Topics: us-elections, politics-and-government, world-politics, united-states
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| UpdatedIt's actually heartbreaking the extent to which women who've been sexually harassed, even though they tried to play by the rules, avoid a fuss and protect their professional reputations, now find themselves painfully centre stage in a media and legal circus, writes Annabel Crabb.
Topics: sexual-offences, state-parliament, state-elections, politics-and-government, government-and-politics, australia, nsw