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Activity in Australia's services sector shrank for the fourth month in a row in August, with another slide in retail.
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Two transgender people who lost the right to be considered male will appeal against the decision in the High Court.
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NSW authorities are predicting the worst locust plague in 30 years.
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Divers salvaged the world's oldest drinkable beer from a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea on Thursday, just days after work began to retrieve dozens of bottles of 200-year-old champagne, local officials said.
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Opposition Treasury spokesman Joe Hockey has suggested the Coalition was double-crossed by Tasmanian independent Andrew Wilkie over a controversial $1 billion offer to rebuild the Royal Hobart Hospital.
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The State Emergency Service (SES) is gathering resources from around Victoria to prepare for moderate to major flooding in the state's north-east.
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The Government's decision to compulsorily acquire the land near Broome for a $30 billion gas precinct has polarised the town.
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Students at Curtin University say they are satisfied with the institution's handling of misconduct complaints against a former academic.
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Corrupt Indonesian police provided weapons used by a terrorist cell funded by radical Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, prosecutors claim.
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The family of an African refugee who drowned in the Yarra River this week is questioning why he was placed in state care in the first place.
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An asylum seeker advocate has ridiculed Immigration's explanation over why it moved Afghans who broke out of the Darwin detention centre.
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A 34-year-old man from New South Wales is in a stable condition after being attacked by a shark in the Solomon Islands.
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The Palestinian Authority and Christian leaders have signed an accord to repair the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, on the traditional site of Jesus's birth.
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The clubs industry says Prime Minister Julia Gillard has not properly consulted with the sector over plans to put betting limits on poker machines.
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Key independent MP Bob Katter has published a 20-point wishlist, including a call for more government control of interest rates, as Australia's political limbo drags on.
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One of the latest Australian soldiers to be killed while on duty in Afghanistan will be farewelled at a funeral in Brisbane this morning.
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A new wave of wildfires swept through villages in southern Russia on Thursday, killing at least two people and destroying hundreds of homes, officials and news reports said.
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A fuel tanker has run aground in Canada's far north, carrying 9 million litres of diesel fuel that risks spilling into the Arctic waters, the Canadian Coast Guard said this morning.
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A huge traffic jam stretching at least 120 kilometres has reappeared in northern China, with thousands of cargo trucks stuck in a bottleneck.
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Prince Charles has a woolly idea or two about how vintage clothes, recycling and the fashion industry can help protect the planet.
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Three Pakistan cricketers embroiled in a betting scandal are provisionally suspended by the ICC and charged with various offences.
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The US Coast Guard says there is no sign of an oil slick after another oil platform explosion in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas have spent several hours meeting alone in the first day of direct talks in Washington.
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Germany's central bank is calling on the country's president to fire one of its board members after he called immigrants unproductive and said that Jews had a special "gene."
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The US Justice Department is suing an Arizona sheriff for refusing to cooperate with its investigation into allegations the sheriff discriminates against Hispanics in his program to crack down on illegal immigrants.
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