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Government Ready To Mediate In Australia Cricket Pay Row

Sports Minister Greg Hunt said Sunday the federal government was prepared to provide mediation between Cricket...

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Australia Police Thought Dismembered Body ‘a Prank’

Police who found a dismembered body being cooked on a stovetop in an Australian apartment thought they had stumbled on...

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Qantas Gay Marriage Pie Protester Charged With Assault

A devout Christian who smashed a pie into Qantas chief Alan Joyce's face to protest gay marriage was charged on...

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Australia To Drug Test Unemployed In Trial Welfare Crackdown

Australia will drug test the newly-unemployed as part of a crackdown on people who blow their benefits on getting high,...

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Qantas Chief Hit With Pie Over Gay Marriage Support

Qantas chief Alan Joyce Wednesday vowed to keep speaking out on social issues after a man who smashed a pie in his face...

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Athletes Warn Coates To Bring In AOC Change

Australia's athletes say they will hold John Coates to account after the country's most powerful sports figure was...

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Australian Grandmother Devastated By Islamic State Video

The devastated grandmother of a young boy filmed being coached to kill Australians has lashed out at his notorious...

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Baby Crocodile Found In Suburban Australia Returned To Zoo

A young freshwater crocodile found sunbathing on a riverbank in suburban Sydney by a family on their Sunday stroll has...

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PNG To Investigate ‘drunk Rampage’ At Australia Refugee Camp

Drunk soldiers "went on a rampage" and fired shots in the air at an Australian asylum-seeker camp in Papua New Guinea,...

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Australian Regional Towns Mull 2030 Bid

Eleven regional towns in the Australian state of Victoria have launched a combined bid to host the 2030 Commonwealth...

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Shark Takes Bite Out of Terrified Australian’s Kayak

A terrified Australian clung to the remains of his kayak for 40 minutes but survived in one piece after a shark took a...

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Islam Critic Hirsi Ali Cancels Australia Tour Over Security Fears

Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somali-born women's advocate and leading critic of Islam, on Monday cancelled a tour of Australia...

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Big Clean-Up Under Way In Flood-Ravaged Australia

A massive clean-up was in full swing Monday as floodwaters receded across parts of Australia devastated by a cyclone,...

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One Dead As Cyclone Flooding Overwhelms Australian Towns

A woman's body was found Friday and tens of thousands of people were evacuated from towns in two Australian states...

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Flooding Overwhelms Australian Towns After Cyclone

Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated from towns in two Australian states as authorities warned Friday there...

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Amnesty Slams ‘outrageous’ Fiji Newspaper Sedition Case

Sedition charges brought against executives at Fiji's oldest newspaper are "absolutely outrageous", Amnesty...

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Northeast Australia In Grip of ‘monster’ Cyclone Debbie

Lashing rain and howling winds battered northeast Australia Tuesday as towns went into lockdown ahead of a "monster"...

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Australia Braces For ‘very Destructive’ Cyclone

Australians are bracing for the worst cyclone in the country's northeast in several years, with residents evacuated and...

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Teenager Pleads Guilty To Australia Anzac Day Terror Plot

A teenage boy pleaded guilty Friday to planning a terrorist attack at an Anzac Day service honouring Australian...