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Fines in Victoria skyrocket by $12 million as road safety cameras go digital

New red light cameras in Victoria generate more than $12 million in extra fines, catching out thousands more speedsters and red-light runners. Ten intersections in Melbourne and Geelong have proved particularly lucrative.




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Lawyer X scandal has rocked the justice system. What did the top cops know?

The current and former Victoria Police commissioners who knew about and authorised the recruitment of Lawyer X could face criminal charges, according to the state's former chief crown prosecutor.




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Fitzroy River's port past remembered in Rockhampton exhibition

Photographs exploring Rockhampton's long relationship with the Fitzroy River have been unveiled in a new exhibition at the Rockhampton Art Gallery.



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Mackay embraces 20 years of rock and roll

From the outside, the Mackay Senior Citizen's Hall may not look like an overly exciting place. Step inside on a Wednesday night and the flashing lights, twirling bodies and loud music might just prove that wrong. For the past two decades, people of all ages have gathered to learn a thing or two about rock and roll dancing.



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Rockets soar as Space Pilots celebrate 50 years

Toowoomba's Space Pilots club prides itself as the oldest model rocketry club in the world. Past and present members have returned to the paddock where the club has launched many rockets to celebrate 50 years.



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A little bit country, a little bit rock 'n roll at the Gympie Music Muster

The 2015 Gympie Muster has come to a close with some of the biggest acts in Australian country music taking to the stage in sometimes the soaking rain. But with additions of popular acts like Sheppard, is the festival drifting away from its country roots?




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Fashion industry needs budding engineers, mathematicians, according to Frock Club founders

Bright minds are being encouraged to consider jobs in fashion, rather than traditional STEM careers such as engineering and mathematics.




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Farmers in South Australia's Riverland fear they will not survive another year, with water prices skyrocketing

The price of water increases to $980 a megalitre for South Australia, as industry bodies expect prices to reach Millennium Drought levels.




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crockford homeless

A tight rental market and rising cost of living is stretching homelessness services beyond their budgeted capacity.




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Rock legend Little Richard dies aged 87

The American pianist-singer, regarded as the founding father of rock music, dies from unknown causes aged 87.





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Devonport's pocket rocket tall ship, Julie Burgess, is a rare survivor of working sail era

This 83-year-old ketch, Julie Burgess, is the last survivor of more than 100 built by the Burgess family and all were named after Burgess women.








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Daredevil and flat-earther 'Mad' Mike Hughes dies in homemade rocket crash

A self-styled daredevil who taught himself rocket science in a bid to prove the Earth is flat dies after crashing his homemade rocket in California.




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Rock climbers killed in suspected cliff fall in Flinders Ranges

Police are preparing an operation to recover the bodies of two men who are believed to have fallen while rock climbing in a remote part of South Australia's Flinders Ranges.




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Rock-climbing victims identified as architect and researcher after bodies discovered in Flinders Ranges

The bodies of two climbing partners who fell to their deaths from a remote cliff face in South Australia's Flinders Ranges were discovered with the help of an aerial drone, one of the men's friends has revealed.




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Black-footed rock-wallabies making a comeback with the help of rangers despite foxes and cats

In the rocky ranges of central Australia, a group of rangers are fending-off feral cats and foxes to save an increasing population of endangered wallabies.





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Rocky Hill open cut coal mine 'dead in the water' after Gloucester Resources abandons appeal option

The company proposing a coal mine for NSW's Manning Valley, refused by an environment court on the grounds of its contribution to climate change, will not appeal the decision.




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Sexism trumped by tenacity as NSW mid north coast chef cooks a royal treat for Queen and rock and roll royalty

Chef Julie-Anne Booth, after a lifetime sometimes cooking for royalty, is back home sharing her food experiences with regional food producers.




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Rocky outcrops in the Great Sandy Desert




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It survived ice-ages and the rise and fall of oceans how has Indigenous rock art lasted so long?

While the world has lost artworks by Rembrandt, da Vinci, and Van Gogh in just a few hundred years, some Indigenous art has lasted more than 30,000 years. So what is the secret?





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Rock lobster fishers in South Australia concerned over Western Australia's Government quota plans

South Australia's fishing industry is "banding together" to make sure the WA Government's plan to take control of a portion of the rock lobster catch does not also happen in its state.



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Bodies of father and young daughter spotted after they were swept away off rocks on Eyre Peninsula

The search for two people missing off the coast of South Australia's Eyre Peninsula ends tragically as the bodies of a 35-year-old man and his five-year-old daughter are spotted in waters after they were swept from rocks at Cape Carnot.



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Bodies of father and young daughter spotted after they were swept off rocks on Eyre Peninsula



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Eyre Peninsula's Murphy's Haystacks are among the oldest rocks in Australia but they're slowly eroding away

An 'island-rock' formation in South Australian is believed to have formed billions of years ago and while it is eroding, experts say it is not likely to disappear anytime soon.




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Video of SA Police officer hitting wombat with rocks is 'abhorrent' and 'detestable', Commissioner says

South Australia Police are investigating a video that appears to show an off-duty officer badly injuring or killing a wombat by throwing rocks at it, but an Aboriginal elder says it is a local hunting practice.





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NASA creates special copper alloy for 3D printing rocket parts

NASA researchers with the Glenn Research Center (GRC) and Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) teamed up to develop GRCop-42, a copper-based high strength alloy with high conductivity. Using powder bed fusion (PBF) 3D printing, NASA researchers successfully 3D printed near-fully-dense GRCop-42 components that are resistant to deformation and remain strong even at elevated temperatures.



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Auburn receives $5.2M NASA contract to develop 3D printing techniques to boost rocket performance

Auburn University’s Samuel Ginn College of Engineering announced that NASA has awarded a three-year, $5.2 million contract to its National Center for Additive Manufacturing Excellence



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3D printed rocket maker Relativity signs contract with Telesat for launching LEO constellation

Relativity, the Los Angeles-based manufacturer fo 3D printed rockets, has signed its first public commercial contract with Telesat, the renowned global satellite operator



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Federal Government rocked by revelations Barnaby Joyce may not have been validly elected

The Federal Government has been rocked by revelations Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce may not have been validly elected. Barnaby Joyce is the latest to be caught by uncertainty over his citizenship - telling Parliament he may be a dual citizen of New Zealand because his father was born there. Mr Joyce is staying on as Deputy PM while the High Court determines his eligibility, but the Opposition believes he should stand aside immediately. The case could have huge implications for the Coalition, which holds the Lower House with a slim one seat majority.











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National Archives to display Apollo II moon rocks on 50th anniversary of moon landing

Fragments of moon rock and an Australian flag sent into space will go on public display next year to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the lunar landing.




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Water prices in southern Murray-Darling skyrocket as increased water demand 'collides' with dry conditions

New analysis of water prices in the southern Murray-Darling Basin finds water prices sitting at levels only previously seen during the Millennium Drought.





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Mr Fischer's coffin was taken from The Rock in NSW's Riverina to Albury by train.

Commemorating his love for trains, Tim Fischer's coffin was transported by rail to Albury where a state funeral will be held.




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Uluru climb closure 2019: Why these Australians flocked to climb the rock

Despite objections from Aboriginal traditional owners, thousands of Australians have flocked to Uluru to climb the rock before it officially closes this week. We travelled to Uluru to ask a few of them why they decided to make the journey.



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Minion Mountain near Rockhampton