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Boxing breaks down barriers between police and young Indigenous people, aims to reduce crime

For police officers and young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the regional Queensland city of Bundaberg, boxing together is a way to move on from a legacy of negative interaction.



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Between a wolf and a dog? 18,000-year-old pup stuns scientists

Scientists are stunned by the discovery of the well-preserved body of an 18,000-year-old puppy in far-eastern Russian Siberia, but experts are unsure whether it was a dog or a wolf.




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Retail Manager Lauren Perkins will reopen her store next week with reduced hours




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Tweet of the week

Can you guess this week's tweeter?




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Tweet of the week

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Tweet of the week

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Tweet of the week

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Tweet of the week

Can you guess this week's tweeter?




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Tweet of the week

Can you guess this week's tweeter?






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Locals launch war on the arum lily, a beautiful but deadly weed

Arum lilies may be visually spectacular, but for more than 100 years they have been been suffocating the natural bush and backyards in the South West corner of WA.




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Perth's weekend traffic hotspots, where delays on the road rival the weekday peak hour

When you think of traffic congestion, you probably think of cars bumper-to-bumper on the freeway during weekday peak hour, but there are several hotspots around the city where weekend traffic is even worse.




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Meth addict was awake for a week before murdering retirement village neighbour with hammer

A 60-year-old Perth man is jailed for life for bashing his elderly retirement village neighbour to death with a hammer while in the throes of methamphetamine bender that had left him awake for more than a week.




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How to ditch your day job and start a small business in fewer than 44 hours a week

Thinking about going into small business? Matt Godfrey ditched his career as a geologist to sell dumplings from a food truck. His best advice is to find a gap in the market and be realistic about money.




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Jetstar announces new air route between Melbourne and Busselton

Low-cost airline Jetstar announces it will start running three flights a week between Melbourne and Busselton in the south-west of WA.




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Claremont serial killer trial delayed by a week, a day after Bradley Edwards's shock guilty plea

The trial of the accused Claremont serial killer is delayed by a week, a day after his surprise guilty plea to raping a teenage girl and attacking a young woman in her home.





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Anorexia services for children in WA torn between Perth Children's Hospital and general hospitals

Since she was 11, an eating disorder has controlled much of Ruby Alarcon Gleeson's life. Then when she turned 16, she fell through the gaps into a "chasm of care" just when she needed help the most.




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Perth Halloween weather forecast to bring a cold snap after weekend hot spell

Trick-or-treaters might want to pack a brolly some gloomy Halloween weather is forecast for Perth, following the city's warmest October day for six years.




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WA fire warnings issued, with Perth set to hit 38C this weekend

Fire authorities prepare for a challenging weekend as scorching temperatures and gusty winds create dangerous fire conditions in the southern half of WA, including Perth where the mercury is expected to get as high as 38 degrees.




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Big week for banks

It’s ‘reporting season’ - where the ANZ, Westpac and NAB announce six month results. And in this year of economic crisis, those results were always going to be significant. The big banks are increasingly seen as economic bellwethers. Their fate tells us a lot about how everyone else might be going.




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Standoff between CBH and Arc ends in breakthrough grain rail freight deal

Australia's biggest grain handler and a global infrastructure giant reach agreement on the use of WA's rail freight network, but farmers' hopes this will lead to fewer trucks transporting grain may be dashed.




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SANFL hands six-week ban to unregistered female footballer who played in men's league

The SANFL bans Casey McElroy from playing in the first six games of next year's Limestone Coast Women's Football League season after she took to the field for a men's reserves team.




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Woman who played in Padthaway men's football match to fight SANFL's six-week ban

A country women's footballer says she is "shattered" at the penalty handed to her by the SANFL for playing in a men's team, ahead of a tribunal hearing in Adelaide next week.




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MC Sally Rigney thanks guest speaker Leanne Murphy at Weengallon Pink Ladies Day.






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Pink Ladies Day 2019 hosted 750 women in the middle-of-nowhere town of Weengallon.




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A committee of volunteers has been running the annual Weengallon Pink Ladies Day for the past 20 years.




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Iconic Weengallon Pink Ladies Day bush charity event ends on high with record crowds

Every year for the past two decades, the tiny Queensland town of Weengallon has played host to huge crowds of women dressed in pink who gather for a good cause.







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Scientists prepare to farm puffy pink seaweed that stops cows burping methane

The native Queensland seaweed that can stop bovines burping out methane could cut the country's greenhouse emissions by 10 per cent, if it could be farmed on a scale to feed every cow in Australia, researchers say.




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Sunshine Coast teenager Michael Ryan missing for almost two weeks as search continues

State Emergency Service volunteers from across the Sunshine Coast, Gympie and Noosa are continuing to search for a 14-year-old boy who has been missing for 12 days.




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Police urge patience between beachgoers and drivers after holiday clash

Police urge beachgoers and motorists to be considerate of each other after video emerges of a confrontation between a driver and holidaymakers who had set up camp along Rainbow Beach.





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NSW election exposes 'Great Dividing Range' between city and rural voters in Australian politics

The re-election of the Berejiklian Government for a third term has provided a morale boost for the federal Liberals, but any relief being felt will be tempered by a much bigger problem: what to do about voter discontent in the bush.




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A merger proposal between Wheatbelt shires rejected, after millions of dollars in the development

Local governments have expressed concern about a decision to kill off merger discussions between four Wheatbelt shires.





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Louth Races attract thousands but it's a bittersweet pilgrimage as the drought bites

Thousands head to the tiny New South Wales town of Louth for a dusty race weekend amid the ongoing dry.



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Tensions between Rex Airlines, Dubbo council hit new highs as letter distributed to thousands

Regional airline Rex is threatening to cut services on its Sydney-to-Dubbo and has sent a scathing letter to Dubbo households criticising their local council.




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Western Australia has now gone a full week with no new coronavirus cases

Western Australia reports no new cases of COVID-19 overnight, marking a full week since its last positive test, with the Premier calling it an "amazing and incredible and terrific" result.







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Fires sweep through northern NSW

Strong winds and high temperatures fuelled bushfires that destroyed at least 30 homes in northern NSW on October 8, 2019.




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'Frightening prospect': Tweed blames influx of Gold Coasters for parking closures

The shire's mayor says with more than 500,000 people from the Gold Coast having their beaches closed and all descending on the Tweed, it is a "pretty frightening prospect for our community".




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Mother charged over alleged serious assault of her 3-week-old daughter

An infant baby girl is recovering in a Queensland hospital with life threating injuries after allegedly being assaulted by her mother last month.