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Households cut power bills with 'demand response', but big energy retailers want to keep grip on market

Some families are already taking advantage of "demand response", reducing their bills by cutting their electricity use at peak times. But a move to promote competition in the demand response market has come up against some serious opposition.




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When premature birth leaves mother and baby in neonatal unit far from home

The trauma of premature birth has additional complications for parents who live hundreds of kilometres from their baby's neonatal hospital.




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Grower lathers crops in molasses to protect produce as South Australia endures consecutive frosts

A South Australian citrus grower is lathering his crops in molasses in an attempt to protect the produce from damaging frosts.





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Police find prisoner who escaped from low security SA facility

A prisoner who escaped from a low security prison farm in South Australia has been found "without incident", police say.






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Renmark stabbing victim says she is still best friends with her attacker

A teenager who suffered a punctured lung when she was stabbed by a classmate at Renmark High School tells the District Court they are still best friends and she will continue to support her as she receives treatment for schizophrenia.




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Silo art brightens up rural town with local farm characters Whisky the kelpie, Diamond the sheep

Whisky the kelpie and Diamond the sheep are making a splash at Karoonda in South Australia's Mallee region, after being painted on the town's silos.





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Croquet rebrands and modifies to appeal to wider audience, but clubs still closing

The last few players at this small town's croquet club are forced to close the door after 91 years but the sport isn't finished just yet.





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South Australian man Ryan Chambers immortalised with new mural 13 years after disappearance

Ryan Chambers disappeared 13 years ago. Today his face, frozen in time, adorns the side of a shop in South Australia's Riverland, imploring people not to forget the young man who hasn't been seen or heard from since.




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Renmark student who stabbed best friend is granted supervised day release

Amber Brea Rover was suffering from undiagnosed schizophrenia when she stabbed her friend Zoe Fenn in July last year.




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Elderly man and dog die as fire destroys house in South Australian town of Mount Burr

Fire crews prevent a gas explosion and save neighbouring homes from a blaze that killed an 82-year-old man and his dog at Mount Burr in South Australia's South East.




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Allegations of negligence at Bonney Lodge Hostel following federal audit

Two families say their loved ones suffered neglect at a state-run nursing home in South Australia's Riverland, which has held on to accreditation despite failing 21 out of 44 expected outcomes.





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Crickets are the answer for farming family struggling with drought

A Riverland family farm diversifies its cropping operation to take on crickets.




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Car ripped in half in three-way crash that flung engine through business window

A three-car crash on one of Adelaide's busiest roads leaves a driver in hospital with critical head injuries, with the manager of a nearby business likening the scene to the aftermath of a tornado.




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Australia's enthusiasm for medicinal emu oil takes flight, as producers push to keep up with demand

Australia's emu farmers are trying to ramp up production as the demand for oil increases.




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Loxton bushfire contained after blaze threatened Riverland township

Police investigate the cause of a bushfire that came dangerously close to a Loxton aged care facility in South Australia's Riverland, prompting an evacuation overnight.




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Royal Hotel: Why is it Australia's most common pub name?

The Royal is the most commonly used name for hotels in Australia, but the story behind the popularity of this pub name is a curious mix of colonial communications and aspirational marketing.




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What's with reverse angle parking in so many country towns?

The modern motoring experience is one of self-parking vehicles, multi-storey car parking complexes and stacking systems, but in many Australian country towns, reverse angle parking remains.




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Outback adventures and opportunities lure young people from across Australia to the middle of nowhere

The lure of the outback beckons for young people with a taste for adventure and unique career opportunities.




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Outback taxidermist Cassandra Hall gets creative with dead animals of all shapes and sizes

When taxidermist Cassandra Hall was first asked by a New South Wales wildlife park to skin and stuff a 1.7-tonne American bison, she thought they were joking.




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Australian millet broom factory tries to resist sweeping changes in consumer culture

Sixty years ago it would have been difficult to find a home in Australia without a millet broom. Now, as an industry dies around them, two men are refusing to be brushed aside by the passage of time.




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Drought of 1891 to 1903 reconstructed shows today's conditions likely to have more devastating effects

A CSIRO reconstruction of the Federation drought of 1891 to 1903 finds that if it were to occur again today, its effects would likely be even more devastating.






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Regarn Simbwa wants to box for Australia




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Laura was born into a 'church' called Outreach International. It took her 32 years to leave

Laura Sullivan spent 32 years in an Australian group she now believes is a cult, because of its controlling nature. But she didn't choose that path she was born into it.






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Skinned crocodile found in Murray River in NSW, thousands of kilometres from natural habitat

A Gold Coast electrician fishing on the Murray River on the NSW-Victorian border was startled to find that what he thought was a log, or a dead Murray cod, was in fact a partly-skinned freshwater crocodile, thousands of kilometres from its natural northern Australian habitat.





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Sydney News: Two wanted over Dog on the Tuckerbox vandalism, changes to Opal discounts

MORNING BRIEFING: Police release CCTV footage showing a man and a woman they wish to speak to over the vandalism of the Dog on the Tuckerbox statue, while Opal card travel discounts are extended.




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Friends and family of Naomi Williams




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Naomi Williams inquest concludes, with coroner calling for change at NSW hospital

A coroner finds clear and ongoing inadequacies in the care of a pregnant Indigenous woman, who later died from sepsis, by doctors and staff at Tumut Hospital.




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Charges laid and CCTV considered for iconic Dog on Tuckerbox following vandal attack

As a 28-year-old man is charged, the iconic Dog on the Tuckerbox at Gundagai could soon be under 24-hour watch after a national outcry when it was vandalised on the weekend.




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Family of Naomi Williams rejects apology from local health district after Tumut Hospital death

The family and friends of Naomi Williams, who died, along with her unborn son, after 20 attempts to get help, say the apology they have received via a statement from the health district is not good enough.






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Gundagai's famous Dog on the Tuckerbox returns home to hero's welcome after vandalism attack

Sitting proudly on its pedestal, Gundagai's much-loved pooch is back where it belongs after it was recently vandalised in an attack that left the community outraged.




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Wagga Wagga street sign




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As more fish kills loom this summer, NSW Government plans $10 million rescue and restocking program

The NSW Government has announced a $10 million initiative to combat what the Agriculture Minister has described as a looming "fish Armageddon".






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Dumped gravel and rock blocks environmental water from flowing into Murray-Darling forest

An irrigation channel used to release water into a forest along the Murray River in NSW is filled with earth and rocks, with an irrigator saying it's a sign of frustration boiling over in the area.




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Frog numbers and wetlands surviving drought through 'precise' environmental water flows

Controversial environmental water flows are thought to be the driving force behind the revival of the native southern bell frog, despite the drought.




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Woman and child airlifted to hospital, 26 injured in church group bus crash

A woman is in a serious condition with head injuries, while NSW Ambulance is treating dozens of other patients after a bus crashes near Harden, 125 kilometres north west of Canberra.