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Eggs are about to cost more, with drought pushing up price of grain and production

Major and smaller supermarkets are upping the price of eggs as chicken farmers become the latest casualties in the ongoing drought.






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Excerpt from an ABC TV program titled Women Feel Guilty Whatever They Do

A section of an ABC television program titled Women Feel Guilty Whatever They Do, aired on March 27, 1985. It features stay-at-home mother Liz Crawford and working mother Deborah Brennan.





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Rosalyn O'connor runs a social media page which provides meals for those in need.





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Police arrest a man over an alleged crime spree in Canberra

Police arrest a man after several attempted car thefts in Canberra. Passers by intervened and trapped the man in a car he was allegedly trying to steal, until police arrived.






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A trailer for TASH which will premiere at the Sydney Film Festival in June





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Ivan Milat returns to prison after hospital stay

Convicted serial killer Ivan Milat gets into a van and returns to prison after receiving cancer treatment at hospital.








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Police provide timeline of Darwin shooting

NT Police say the shotgun used in the mass shooting in Darwin yesterday was illegally acquired, potentially as far back as 1997.





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Police dig up Bracken Ridge yard searching for missing American woman Priscilla Brooten




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Protestors gather in Sydney to condemn Hong Kong extradition law

A group of 1,000 protesters gathered in Sydney on Sunday to urge the Australian Government to condemn a proposed new law in Hong Kong which would allow criminals to be extradited to mainland China.




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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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Tributes flow for former Prime Minister Bob Hawke

Friends, colleagues and figures from across the political spectrum came together to remember the former Prime Minister.





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Premier Daniel Andrews says the new laws will boost equality in Victoria

The Victorian Parliament will debate a bill which would allow people to change their gender on their birth certificate without needing to undergo surgery.




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'Predatory' Gold Coast payday lender accused of targeting vulnerable Aboriginal communities

Hundreds of Indigenous people living in communities across the West Australian desert are being signed up to loans by a Gold Coast-based lender they can neither afford nor understand, advocacy groups say.




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Laverton's nocturnal cow problem and the two men who took matters into their own hands

When an outback town in WA was faced with the unusual problem of cows leaving their paddocks and roaming their streets by night in search of food, two men were tasked with doing something about it.





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Irlen syndrome, the condition medical experts say doesn't exist, promoted to school teachers

According to medical experts, a condition that requires coloured glasses does not exist, yet WA and NSW teachers have attended training sessions on it.





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Golden girls of Kalgoorlie's Super Pit represent changing face of Australian mining

When Kalgoorlie's Super Pit gold mine started 30 years ago, there was not a single female employee. Today, the workforce is 30 per cent women, nearly double the mining industry average.





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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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Council threatens man living in caravan on his own property with legal action, fines of up to $50,000

A 60-year-old man living in a caravan in outback WA faces legal action and fines of up to $50,000 from his local council after erecting a shade structure without a building permit.





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Gold prices are trading near record highs, so why are Australia's mineral explorers crying poor?

Global uncertainty has sent gold prices soaring, resulting in a boom for miners. But it has also had the effect of drying up traditional markets where exploration companies raise cash to explore for rich new discoveries.




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Victoria Health to investigate outbreak at a private psychiatric facility

Victoria as recorded six new cases of coronavirus overnight, with a new cluster at a psychiatric facility.



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When the local Anzac Day service was cancelled, residents of this street improvised

Only a few weeks ago Karon Baker was in tears when her local Anzac Day service was called off, but by 6:30am this morning, she couldn't wipe a proud smile off her face.




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Victorian Premier doubles down on schools as state begins blitz of 100,000 tests

Two more cases of coronavirus are confirmed in Victoria overnight, as Daniel Andrews encourages people to be tested for COVID-19 and tells parents to prepare for term two to remain online.




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Wheat allergy, intolerance breakthrough could see harmful proteins bred out of varieties

Researchers have identified all the immune reactive proteins, then mapped and identified the parts causing chronic wheat ailments, giving growers a path to develop new lines.




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Push for 170km firebreak along Princes Highway

Fire-affected communities in eastern Victoria are calling for a permanent firebreak to be built along both sides of the Princes Highway into New South Wales.




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Victoria preparing for heavy downpour, snow, hail and a possible new rainfall record in Melbourne

The warm weather is about to end in Victoria, with the state set to be hit by a deluge of rain, hail and snow from today and temperatures set to hang around the low teens all weekend.




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Unemployment spike sparks entrepreneurial spirit among regional youth

Youth unemployment has soared as a result of the coronavirus, prompting some young people to start their own businesses to try and claw their way back into the workforce.





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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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