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  April 11, 2018 FACEBOOK will consider charging users a fee to not receive advertisements based on what they have shared with friends on the social media platform. Mark Zuckerberg confirmed the contentious strategy to possibly make Facebook users pay for their […]

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TUESDAY, April 10 At last, Bronte Campbell has had her moment. And absolutely no-one in Australia is going to begrudge her of it. The younger of the Campbell sisters, for so long in the immense shadow of Cate, chalked up a win […]

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Monday April 9 Vue de monde restaurant staff overworked and underpaid Former staff at one of Melbourne’s most exclusive restaurants, Vue de monde, say they worked up to 30 hours of unpaid overtime each week, leaving their pay packets short by hundreds […]

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Friday, April 6 A US woman is suing a fertility doctor after discovering through an online ancestry website the man had secretly fathered her. Kelli Rowlette and the parents who raised her, Sally Ashby and her then-husband Howard Fowler, filed the lawsuit […]

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Australian Cricket Team Accused of Cheating The cricket world and the Australian public were shocked earlier this week when reports came out of South Africa that the Australian cricket team were cheating in their matches against South Africa. Accused of ball tampering, […]

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Wednesday, March 28 Cricket Australia says it is considering significant sanctions against Steve Smith, David Warner and Cameron Bancroft, but Darren Lehman will remain Australian men’s cricket head coach, according to ABC News. Smith, Warner and opener Bancroft have all been ordered […]

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Senate to debate ball-tampering debacle The Senate is set to debate Australian cricket’s ball-tampering saga, as politicians weigh in on the scandal engulfing under-fire captain Steve Smith. One Nation’s Brian Burston proposed Monday’s urgency motion, which is “the need to understand why […]

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FRIDAY, MARCH 23 An American couple were on their honeymoon when they were killed in a helicopter crash off the Whitsundays in north Queensland, ABC news reports. John ‘Pete’ Hansel, 79, and his 65-year-old wife Sue from Kailua-Kona in Hawaii died after […]

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March 21 99 Year Old Earns Comm Games Spot NOT all superheroes wear capes. Some of them wear caps instead, and Australian swimmer George Corones is one of them. The 99-year-old has been added to the Australian team for the upcoming Comm […]

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TUESDAY, MARCH 20 Unveiling a long-awaited plan to combat America’s opioid drug addiction, US President Donald Trump has called for stiffer penalties for drug traffickers, including embracing a tactic employed by many global strongmen: the death penalty, according to the ABC. “Toughness […]

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MONDAY, MARCH 19 More than 70 homes and other buildings are feared to have been destroyed in and around the town of Tathra, on the New South Wales south coast, the Rural Fire Service (RFS) reported. It is believed four people in […]

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Wednesday, March 14 Russia has issued a chilling warning after Britain gave it a deadline to answer accusations of involvement in a poisoning attack in Salisbury, but US and EU allies have expressed support for Britain condemning the attack. Prime Minister Theresa […]

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Monday, March 12 A row has erupted in Queensland schools after it was revealed that propaganda for the powerful and lawless Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) will be splashed in classrooms across the state. The Courier Mail reported today that […]

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Wednesday, March 7 Trump adviser quits over tariffs Top White House economic adviser Gary Cohn, a Wall Street banker who became a key architect of the 2017 tax overhaul and a bulwark against protectionist forces within the Trump administration, is resigning, the […]

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Athletics legend Roger Bannister dies aged 88 Iconic Olympic athlete Roger Bannister, the first man to run a mile in under four minutes, has died aged 88. Bannister made history and captured the world’s imagination as the first man to break the […]

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Friday, March 2 ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON QUEEN A failed assassination attempt on the Queen during a royal tour of New Zealand in 1981 was covered up to “avoid jeopardising” future royal visits, a former police officer has claimed. Nearly four decades on […]

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Wednesday, February 28 More than 4 million Australian cars are set to be hit by one the largest recalls in the country’s history. The Federal Government is today expected to announce the compulsory recall of cars affected by the defective Takata airbags. […]

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Always a state of extremes, Queensland’s gone from heatwave to doona-grabbing weather in only a matter of days, the ABC reports.Heavy rain is now causing havoc along much of the state’s coastline, with a month’s worth of rain heading for parts of the south-east in coming […]

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Multiple deaths at a Baptist-run aged-care home in Queensland are being investigated by police, the coroner and health regulators after staff raised concerns with Crime Stoppers about suspicious deaths. The Australian newspaper this morning reported a senior nurse was at the centre […]

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Jennifer Anniston and Justin Theroux Have Split After 2 and a half years of marriage, Jennifer Anniston and Justin Theroux have announced their seperation, and we didn’t see it coming. The couple got engaged in August of 2012 and surprised fans when […]

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