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Documents reveal maintenance of Collins Class submarines could be scrapped from SA by 2024

Full-cycle docking of Collins Class submarines could disappear from its current site in South Australia by 2024, Freedom of Information (FOI) documents reveal.




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Riverland man charged over alleged indecent assault of 8yo in public toilet appears in court

A man is charged with the alleged indecent assault of an eight-year-old in the public toilet of a venue in South Australia's Riverland region on Sunday.




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Designer claims Port Adelaide ripped off his design as club releases new logo

An Australian designer has accused Port Adelaide of ripping off a design he posted online four years ago following the football club's release of its new logo.




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Nineteen Eighty-Four 'signed first edition' snapped up by Orwell collector or is it a hoax?

An Orwell enthusiast recently thought he had a signed first edition copy of Nineteen Eighty-Four, but he now thinks he was probably the victim of an accidental hoax.




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Lamborghini driver charged over fatal crash allowed to drive pregnant wife to appointments

The driver of a Lamborghini that fatally struck a teenager in Adelaide has a previous conviction for street racing and has been issued with 18 expiation notices since 2002, a court hears.




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Paedophile Gary Tipping caught contacting child over internet after controversial prison release

A serial child sex offender is back behind bars just six weeks after being released, after he breached a supervision order by contacting a child over the internet.




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Kittens dumped in Adelaide's Tea Tree Plaza shopping centre, CCTV footage captures man and woman involved

Two seven-week-old kittens are dumped in a garden bed at an Adelaide shopping centre, and the RSPCA is seeking help to identify the couple involved.




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Cannabis oil advocate Jenny Hallam spared conviction for supplying medicinal cannabis

A South Australian cannabis oil distributor has been spared a conviction for providing the drug to terminally ill people, with the judge saying her actions helped rather than harmed the recipients.





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CCTV footage of the 21-year-old man outside the hotel (Supplied: Queensland Police Service)









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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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Worker freed after being trapped in forklift




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Police appeal for information after a woman's body is found in Melbourne park

Victoria Police are appealing for members of the public to come forward with information after a woman's body was found in a park in Melbourne's inner north.





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One man dead, another injured after becoming trapped at Sydney tip



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Treasurer Josh Frydenberg supports further interest rate cuts

The Reserve Bank cut interest rates this week due to anaemic per capita spending rates.




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Gemma Cosgrave and Steven Arthur died when their car collided with a truck on the Bruce Highway at Cardwell. (Supplied)





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One of several Gold Coast properties raided by police (Supplied: QPS)




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Queensland Environment Minister Leeanne Enoch announces Adani approval




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Father of missing backpacker calls on WhatsApp to release messages

The father of a missing Belgian backpacker, Theo Hayez, has called on encrypted messaging service WhatsApp to release the messages his son sent and received the night he went missing.



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Father of missing backpacker appeals for access to son's WhatsApp

The father of a missing Belgian backpacker has appealed for access to his son's encrypted messages, saying they are needed urgently to locate him.



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Tourists arrive disappointed to find Pink Lake isn't pink. Scientists say they can change that

A team of scientists in Western Australia will investigate how to turn an iconic lake pink in a project believed to be an Australian first.




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Police use pepper spray to disperse crowd of 150 brawling with baseball bats near grand final celebration

A police investigation is underway in a quiet corner of WA's south-west, after more than 150 people brawled with baseball bats and poles near a local football club's post-grand final celebration.




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Judge slams Gippsland Grammar as tutor jailed for underage sex with student

The Victorian County Court criticises Gippsland Grammar for not sacking a 21-year-old tutor months before he had sex with an underage student.





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Attempted indecent assault charge against Craig McLachlan dropped

A single charge of attempted indecent assault is dropped against television star Craig McLachlan, but the actor still faces 13 accusations.




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Lockdown love: Sex shops say they play a crucial role in keeping people happy

As people look for new ways to cope with the isolation of the coronavirus lockdown, business is booming at adult retail stores around the country.




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Creswick Woollen Mills open to public for essential winter shopping, but closed to tourism

Creswick's famous woollen mills reopen to the public in time for winter after closing amid the COVID-19 pandemic, but they remain closed to tourism for now.




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Victorian Education Minister James Merlino says offer from Federal Government to non-government schools is "completely inappropriate".

Victorian Jobs Minister Martin Pakula and Education Minister James Merlino provide an update on the coronavirus outbreak on April 29, 2020. There has been one death, taking the state's death toll to 18.



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PM says Victorian official's comments comparing Captain Cook to coronavirus 'very disappointing'

The Prime Minister weighs into the debate on a tweet by Victoria's Deputy Chief Health Officer while the state's Premier says there are "far more important matters to talk about".




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'You can't change the nappies from 2m away': The reality for those left behind in the working-from-home experiment

Six weeks into the biggest shakeup of the Australian workplace since World War II, one economist is warning the adjusted work arrangements could be widening inequalities among workers.




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Victoria Police suspends officer over 'appalling' breach of privacy

Victoria Police has suspended a senior constable over what Deputy Commissioner Shane Patton calls one of the most appalling breaches of privacy he's ever seen.




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'Where are we supposed to park then?: Tension as hospital workers hit with parking warnings

City of Yarra Mayor Misha Coleman defends parking inspectors who slapped "official warning" tickets onto the windscreens of cars belonging to St Vincent's Hospital staff, saying free parking offered to the staff during the coronavirus pandemic does not extend to cars parked in unsafe locations such as clearways.




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Regional airports 'slipping through the cracks' as coronavirus hits industry

The busiest airport in regional Victoria has laid off more than half its workforce and has lost 95 per cent of its revenue — but says it isn't eligible for government programs like the JobKeeper allowance.




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Victorian Government announces support for casual public sector employees amid coronavirus pandemic

Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas says casual public sector workers who have lost their jobs due to coronavirus will receive fortnightly payments if $1500, May 6, 2020.




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Cardinal Pell says inquiry's conclusions 'not supported by evidence'

Cardinal George Pell accuses the child sexual abuse royal commission of making findings "not supported by evidence" in its unredacted report, which found he was explicitly told in 1982 of the reason paedophile priest Gerald Ridsdale was being moved between parishes.




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Your next health supplement could be the same thing cows feed their newborns

With the COVID-19 pandemic, immunity has never been such a hot topic. It's meant a family-run dairy that produces colostrum is being overrun with enquiries.




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To get over her crippling shyness, Kaley started inviting complete strangers to lunch

Kaley Chu knew she needed to do something to change her life — her shyness was holding her back at work, and she felt like the world's most boring person. She decided to attack the problem head on.