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Political reporter Nicolas Perpitch looks at the highlights in Ben Wyatt's third WA Budget






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Labor candidate Jennifer Yang says the Liberal Party posters are 'unethical'

Labor candidate for Chisholm, Jennifer Yang, said Liberal Party posters in purple and white which stated the "correct" way to vote was to put Liberals first were "unethical".







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A suspected meteor lights up the night sky over Melbourne's Port Phillip Bay (Supplied: Martha Cove Owners Corporation)

CCTV footage from Melbourne's Mornington Peninsula captures the moment a meteor lit up the night sky over the bay. (Supplied: Martha Cove Owners Corporation)








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Overnight snowfalls paint Mt Baw Baw white

A fresh dump of snow has painted Victoria's Mt Baw Baw white.





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Workers say minimum wage increase is a good start

Workers say, while they welcome the 3% rise in the minimum wage, it is still not enough with rising costs.






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Police say the gunman was under electronic surveillance

The 45-year-old was on parole after over a year's imprisonment.







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Australians turning natural disaster related-trauma into art





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Queensland Environment Minister Leeanne Enoch announces Adani approval




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'We working to meet every one of those requirements' Adani Australia CEO Lucas Dow




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'We working to meet every one of those requirements' Adani Australia CEO Lucas Dow





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Tributes flow for former Prime Minister Bob Hawke

Friends, colleagues and figures from across the political spectrum came together to remember the former Prime Minister.





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Police raid sex worker's unit in Adelaide

South Australia Police raid a sex worker's unit in Adelaide.




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Environment Minister Leeanne Enoch speaking with an anti-Adani activist on the weekend (Facebook)




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Environment Minister Leeanne Enoch speaking with an anti-Adani activist (Facebook)




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Premier Daniel Andrews says the new laws will boost equality in Victoria

The Victorian Parliament will debate a bill which would allow people to change their gender on their birth certificate without needing to undergo surgery.




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Lisa Millar to replace Virginia Trioli on News Breakfast from August

Finally, the secret's out! Former foreign correspondent Lisa Millar will be joining Michael on the couch permanently from August, replacing Virginia when she moves to ABC Radio Melbourne.




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Twelve-year wait almost over for remote WA desert communities needing new law to build new houses

Three remote Western Australian Indigenous communities say they have been disadvantaged because their homes lie within national park and reserve areas and they want out.




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'Predatory' Gold Coast payday lender accused of targeting vulnerable Aboriginal communities

Hundreds of Indigenous people living in communities across the West Australian desert are being signed up to loans by a Gold Coast-based lender they can neither afford nor understand, advocacy groups say.






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In a far-flung mining town, its basketball team has an unlikely but welcome boost: American players

American college basketballers are increasingly turning to opportunities to play in regional Australian towns, but in Kalgoorlie they have long been a part of the town's rich basketball culture.






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Golden girls of Kalgoorlie's Super Pit represent changing face of Australian mining

When Kalgoorlie's Super Pit gold mine started 30 years ago, there was not a single female employee. Today, the workforce is 30 per cent women, nearly double the mining industry average.




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Aboriginal communities sue Federal Government over 'racially discriminatory' work-for-the-dole scheme

Remote WA Aboriginal communities are suing the Federal Government in a landmark action over its controversial work-for-the-dole scheme which they argue is unlawful.




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Gold is booming but mining towns are failing to cash in as miners' wages fly out

Business is booming for the gold mining industry as the price of the precious metal sets new benchmarks almost every day, but not everyone in mining towns like Kalgoorlie is taking a shine to the recent "mini gold rush".





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Woman charged over 1995 murder of baby boy in the WA mining town of Kambalda

A woman, who was 14 at the time, has been charged with the murder of a baby boy in 1995 in outback Western Australia.




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The Poseidon mining company bubble has left a lasting legacy 50 years on

It is not every day that the rise and fall of an obscure Adelaide mining company mirrors the plot of a deeply trashy 1970s disaster movie but, happily, for this story, the comparison works.




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Standalone solar replaces power lines in remote WA farming community

After a devastating bushfire, one remote WA farming community takes steps towards a solar solution and it's cheaper, safer, and more reliable.




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Hoon avoids jail after fleeing crash scene in mining city's latest case of reckless driving

A 24-year-old Kalgoorlie woman who crashed into an old courthouse building and fled the scene has avoided jail for reckless driving, telling a Magistrate she had "poor recollection" of the incident after hitting her head.