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Cosmetics queen Helena Rubinstein launched international empire from Australia in 1902

Helena Rubinstein began her career in Victoria at the turn of the 20th century, and when she died she left a cosmetics empire, philanthropic foundation and a backstory laced with myth.




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The Australian Boer War hero honoured with scarf crocheted by Queen Victoria

An Australian rifleman who fought in the Boer War was one of eight soldiers awarded a hand-crocheted scarf by Queen Victoria.





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Clifton Hills, the world's second-largest farm sells to Australian pastoralists

A pair of Australian families have bought the world's second-biggest farm, at more than 16,500 square kilometres in size and home to 18,000 cattle.




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Indigenous representation in bush food industry at all time low



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Clive Palmer wrote 'false' entries in notebook to justify cash from Queensland Nickel

Billionaire Clive Palmer is accused of faking entries in a green notebook in a bid to justify draining Queensland Nickel of millions of dollars for anything he wanted before it collapsed in 2016, a court is told.




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Instagram-driven meat sales in Indonesia may harm Australia's live export industry

Indonesian 'mumpreneurs' are cashing-in on an appetite for purchasing cheap beef online, threatening Australia's live cattle trade.





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Australian group buys Queensland's iconic Dunk Island

Australian-owned investment group Mayfair 101 has bought Queensland's Dunk Island for $31.5 million.



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Queensland youth justice staff sacked amid corruption scandal

Six staff members within Queensland's Youth Justice Department are sacked amid dozens of substantiated cases of corruption that include criminal behaviour, inappropriate conduct and using excessive force.




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Australia's world-first floating hotel in dire straits as Kim Jong-un seeks renovations

North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un orders the removal of all "shabby" facilities at the Mount Kumgang tourist site the current resting place of Townsville's former Barrier Reef Floating Resort.




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Outback Queensland town offers water for free just come and get it

While battling its own drought, an outback Queensland town is offering free bore water to communities running out of the precious resource. There's just one catch.




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Proposed NT youth justice reforms reconsidered, as children arrested while asleep at home

Children sleeping at home have been woken and arrested in Alice Springs, according to lawyers dismayed at a potential government back down on the use of arrest as a last resort.



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Pre launch in the middle of the Central Australian Outback, Mr Lim Seng overseas the last minute preparations



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Quantum 1 gets ready for launch in the middle of Australia's outback



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Finke Desert Race to feature newlyweds racing down the aisle in Australia's dustiest 'wedding car'

Darwin newlyweds Jack and Amy Mildwaters set to put their 'wedding car' through its paces at this year's Finke Desert Race.




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NT executives paid top dollar to focus on gas industry, but some experts doubt it will stack up

Four Northern Territory public service executives are being paid more than $200,000 a year to facilitate a planned gas industry that some experts doubt will ever stack up economically, particularly as terminals for importing gas from "wherever's cheapest" secure approval on the nation's east coast.




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Novice cameleers embark on six-month camel trek from Central Australia to the NSW coast

A novice cameleer and three boys are on a six-month trek from the red centre to the east coast and they want to pick up a group of followers along the way.




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The cattle-mustering queen of the North, running a contract crew in the remote outback

Life on a mustering crew in northern Australia means travelling to remote stations to bring in cattle from thousands of kilometres of far-flung bushland.




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Uluru climb closure won't hurt visitor numbers, says Parks Australia

Closing the climb at Uluru won't have a dramatic effect on tourist numbers, according to Parks Australia, who say visitor figures have been steadily increasing over the last six years.




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Indigenous artist from NT wins Australia's richest landscape prize worth $100,000

Carbiene McDonald Tjangala takes his first ever flight to get from the NT to Tasmania to collect Australia's richest landscape prize for his painting representing his father's Dreamtime stories.




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Remote Australians are discovering they are richer by hundreds of thousands of dollars than they realised

There has been laughter and hugs as people in outback Australia discover millions of dollars in superannuation they did not know they had.




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Language app helps renal patients understand dialysis treatment in Central Australia

Software developed with the help of Alice Spring medical staff and Indigenous people from remote communities is set to break down the language barrier and ease the stress of patients undergoing dialysis treatment.




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Uluru custodian says it is time climb closure critics 'learn about the way we see it'

People criticising the decision to close the Uluru climb need to understand how the traditional owners, the Anangu, relate to the site, a senior custodian of Uluru says.



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Corporate watchdog ASIC 'building case' on payday lending practices, may impose ban in August

More payday lending practice stories are coming out of the woodwork as ASIC says it is "building a casebook" for a possible ban.




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Communities 'neglected or ignored for decades' as justice unit tackles Indigenous incarceration

Leanne Liddle has been shot at and seriously assaulted working as a police officer, but none of that compares to the "despair" she felt when consulting across the NT for the Aboriginal Justice Agreement, where whole communities had been "neglected for decades".




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Man dies in car crash after earlier police pursuit, prompting death in custody investigation

A fatal crash following a police pursuit near a community north-east of Alice Springs is being treated as a death in custody, with police declining to say what prompted them to chase the 42-year-old man.




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Central Australian date farmers determined to fight cheap imports as industry grows for sugar substitutes

Date palms in the central desert are a legacy of Afghan cameleers bringing a little bit of home with them. Today, Australian farmers are keen to grow the local date industry to feed the Middle East and the health food sector, while staving off cheap imports.




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Red Centre cattle property Mt Skinner sold to South Australian family for almost $10 million

After three generations on the property, Mt Skinner Station north of Alice Springs has left family hands for the first time in its history.




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Vale Peter Sherwin, one of the cattle kings of northern Australia

At one point Peter Sherwin was the largest private landowner in the country, with about 300,000 head of cattle, spanning 17 cattle stations.





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Yuendumu in Central Australia at 'severe risk' of running out of water

The largest remote Aboriginal community in Central Australia is rapidly running out of drinking water but it is just one of many communities in the region that have been struggling with finite groundwater supplies for many years.




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'Paperless arrests', protective custody left off NT scheme meant to prevent watch-house deaths

The custody notification system, designed to help prevent Aboriginal deaths in custody, has been rolled out in the Northern Territory but there are concerns the people most at risk of harm have been excluded from its operation.




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Man dead after Bootu Creek mine wall collapse, unions call for industrial manslaughter laws

A 59-year-old employee of the company that operates the Bootu Creek mine was killed when a wall of soil and dirt collapsed on him on Saturday afternoon, the Singapore-based parent company says.




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NAPLAN: Northern Territory registers some of the biggest literacy improvements in Australia

The NT has historically performed very poorly in NAPLAN testing and the improvement in results is impressive considering almost half of students speak English as a second language. But a pay battle for teachers could derail future successes.




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Thousands of mental health patient transfers show need for more clinicians in rural Australia, researchers say

Australians suffering acute mental health episodes in rural and remote areas are increasingly having to travel far from family and friends for life-saving treatment, leading to calls for more specialist clinicians in the country.




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More women than ever take part in NTCA Indonesia-Australia Pastoral Program

The program sees Indonesian agriculture students immerse themselves in NT cattle stations, learning how to ride horses, handle cattle, and conduct bore runs.




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NTCA Indonesian-Australia Pastoral Program




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Australian anthem rewritten to represent all Australians and promote Indigenous constitutional recognition

The national anthem has been rewritten and performed for the first time in Alice Springs by a group that says it should be more inclusive of all Australians.



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The unlikely heartland of softball in Australia

AFL might be the highest-profile sport in remote Indigenous communities, but no community in Central Australia is complete without a softball diamond.




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Geoscience Australia to stop printing and selling topographic maps from December

Bushwalkers and map sellers say the decision by Geoscience Australia to stop printing and selling topographic maps will put people's safety at risk and impact on our understanding of remote Australia.




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Shirleen Campbell among NT Australian of the Year winners for work with Indigenous women

An Alice Springs social worker who has given a voice to Aboriginal women and a Darwin doctor who oversaw the RAAF Cyclone Tracy evacuations have been honoured.




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Rain in south-eastern Australia will help cropping but much more needed to break drought

Rain, and lots of it, has fallen across the south-east and is expected to continue for the next few days but what will it mean for the southern cropping season and the drought?






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Family to stay in Australia after son with cystic fibrosis initially deemed a 'burden'

A Victorian family at risk of being deported back to their homeland Ireland after their son was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis will now be able to stay in Australia.




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Water trading's 'unintended' consequences across Australia's southern Murray-Darling Basin

As Australia's competition watchdog prepares to study the Murray-Darling Basin's $2 billion water trade, a trip up the river finds irrigators are worried about the market's "unintended" consequences.





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Vision Australia seeks funding to keep 'essential' radio service on the airwaves

More than 700,000 people could lose their primary connection to the outside world as the NDIS rollout leaves Vision Australia Radio without essential government funding to stay on air.




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Australia unprepared for more frequent heatwaves, health and emergency authorities say

As the northern hemisphere sweats through deadly heatwaves, experts warn Australia is unprepared to deal with soaring temperatures.