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Opposition Leader Liza Harvey attacked by Chamber of Commerce over Liberal policies

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Published On :: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 18:16:00 +1000

WA's Chamber of Commerce and Industry releases a damning assessment of newly-elected Opposition Leader Liza Harvey's economic policies, saying they put the state's budget repair at risk.


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Shirley Finn murder to remain unsolved as inquest closed and police warned

By www.abc.net.au
Published On :: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 20:24:00 +1000

Coroner Barry King warns police of probable adverse findings against them for their incompetence during the initial investigation into the 1975 killing of Perth brothel madam Shirley Finn, as he closes an inquest into her murder which he says will likely remain unsolved.


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CFMEU Victoria branch threatens to cut financial support to ALP if John Setka is expelled

By www.abc.net.au
Published On :: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 21:44:00 +1000

The Victorian branch of the CFMEU threatens to immediately cease all financial support for the ALP if Labor leader Anthony Albanese's push to expel union leader John Setka goes ahead.


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Victoria Police Assistant Commissioner Chris O'Neill bashed at Toorak's Heyington train station

By www.abc.net.au
Published On :: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 00:08:00 +1000

Police charge two brothers, aged 18 and 20, over an unprovoked attack on an off-duty senior Victorian police officer near a Melbourne train station.


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Questions the AFL must answer before the Behavioural Awareness Officers are unleashed again

By www.abc.net.au
Published On :: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 00:09:00 +1000

The AFL's supporter crackdown is being felt by those in the stands, but without confirmation one way or another from the AFL, the supporters are filling the void with questions of their own.


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Mascot Towers residents told to seek help from Salvation Army if they're homeless

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Published On :: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 00:10:00 +1000

Mascot Towers building management tells residents who were evacuated on Friday night after cracks were found in the Sydney apartment building to seek help from the Salvation Army if they are facing financial hardship.


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Father of missing backpacker appeals to WhatsApp for co-operation in police investigation

By www.abc.net.au
Published On :: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 05:29:00 +1000

Laurent Hayez, father of missing Belgian backpacker Theo Hayez, supported by his sons Godfather JP Hayez and cousin Lisa Hayez.


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Billion-dollar Indigenous-led power station to revive struggling Queensland coal town

By www.abc.net.au
Published On :: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 05:53:00 +1000

A proposed $2 billion Indigenous-led coal-fired power station in Collinsville in North Queensland developed by Brisbane-based Indigenous company Shine Energy and headed by traditional Biri man Ashley Dodd is set to revive one of the country's oldest coal towns.


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Adelaide River crocodile guide Harry Bowman says farewell after 30 years

By www.abc.net.au
Published On :: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 06:15:00 +1000

Harry Bowman has been the face of the Top End's crocodile cruises for more than 30 years, but the time has come for him to say farewell to his toothless old mate Brutus the giant saltwater croc.


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Summernats fraudster stole more than $160,000 from car festival to fund drug, gambling habit

By www.abc.net.au
Published On :: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 06:24:00 +1000

A former finance officer for the Summernats car festival, who stole thousands of dollars from the business to fuel a drug habit, avoids prison time.


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Crazy stunts, crazier storylines professional wrestling hits central Queensland

By www.abc.net.au
Published On :: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 06:24:00 +1000

A Queensland primary school teacher has shocked his students and jumped into a wrestling ring to live out a lifelong dream.


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SA town of Pinnaroo celebrates first good rain in three years

By www.abc.net.au
Published On :: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 06:32:00 +1000

A South Australian farming community has been given a much needed psychological sweetener after a heavy downpour fell in a matter of hours the first good rain in three years.


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Canberra man Eden Waugh murdered in 'cold-blooded plan' to silence him over home invasion, court hears

By www.abc.net.au
Published On :: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 06:41:00 +1000

The 2016 killing of a Canberra man is portrayed as a "cold-blooded plan", designed to silence him over an earlier machete attack, on the first day of an ACT Supreme Court trial.


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Sydney news: State Budget to spend big on education and infrastructure; woman found dead in Zetland

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Published On :: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 06:43:00 +1000

MORNING BRIEFING: Today's State Budget will include funding for extra teachers, health workers and police as well as a public transport boost, while the homicide squad is investigating the death of a woman who was found on a Sydney footpath.


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Man 'tortured, waterboarded and suffocated' over stolen car claims, court hears

By www.abc.net.au
Published On :: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 07:09:00 +1000

The crown alleges Mark Jones waterboarded Bradley Breward with a hand towel, by placing it over his face and pouring water over it, and also put a plastic shopping bag over his head twice for 40 seconds each time.


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As the State of Origin show rolls into WA, one thing stands in the way of an NRL team in Perth

By www.abc.net.au
Published On :: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 07:20:00 +1000

The biggest league match of the year rolling into Perth this week will inevitably trigger discussions about whether WA should have its own NRL side, but that decision depends on something far more important than crowd sizes, writes Tom Wildie.


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'Aggressive' fight over Marrickville Golf Club dividing Sydney's inner west

By www.abc.net.au
Published On :: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 07:34:00 +1000

Plans to carve up the Marrickville Golf Club in Sydney's inner west to create more green space spark "aggressive" debate, as the local council turns to residents to make a final decision.


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Fee-free overdue policy prompts library renaissance among young Tasmanians

By www.abc.net.au
Published On :: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 08:26:00 +1000

Book-loving Tasmanians are bucking the trend and turning to libraries in their thousands, less than a year after the state became the first in Australia to abolish fines and processing fees for overdue books.


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Nearly 100 gene variants that put people at risk of cancer identified in new study

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Published On :: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 09:04:00 +1000

People undergoing genetic testing will have more certainty about whether the variants in their genes risk causing cancer or are completely harmless, after a new international study.


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Train and bus ticketing via phones and plastic to be tested in regional Queensland

By www.abc.net.au
Published On :: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 09:06:00 +1000

It's the system they have in London and Chicago, it's being trialled in New York, and soon it will allow people in Cairns, Mackay and Townsville to pay for trains and buses with their credit cards and mobile phones.


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Sydney apartments in spotlight as developers ramp up incentives to clear oversupply of stock

By www.abc.net.au
Published On :: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 09:20:00 +1000

Sydney property developers are pulling out all stops by offering special deals including to pay the buyer's mortgage for a year in a bid to lure customers and sell a glut of apartment stock in a downturned market.


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Apiarist calls for chemical Fipronil to be banned after millions of bees die in Southern NSW

By www.abc.net.au
Published On :: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 09:20:00 +1000

A chemical used to control pests in agricultural crops and termites in buildings has been blamed for the death of up to 10 million bees in southern New South Wales.


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