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Heavy rainfall across Victoria has caused landslides, flash flooding and the evacuation of homes.
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The New South Wales Government has been accused of hiding disappointing health figures on its new Your Health Service website.
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Police are looking for a man they believe indecently assaulted an elderly woman at a caravan park on the New South Wales north coast.
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Authorities are evacuating residents from earthquake-hit Christchurch as New Zealand prime minister John Key visits the city to assess the damage.
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Nine people are believed to have been killed when a plane crashed at a popular New Zealand tourist spot, medical officials said.
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A baby girl has been born in the back of a rescue helicopter in north Queensland.
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The Western Australian Mental Health Association says a mentally ill Perth woman who killed her twin babies has been let down by the health system.
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Two new polls show the majority of voters want three key independent MPs to back Labor to form a minority government.
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The Birdsville Races have been cancelled for the first time in its 128-year history after overnight rain has flooded the track.
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A Japanese man drove the wrong way down an expressway for 90 kilometres and broke through five police barricades because his cat had died, he told police.
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A dental health think-tank says Federal Labor's deal with the Greens requires the reversal of a policy to close down a Medicare dental scheme.
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A weakened but still dangerous Hurricane Earl has churned up the US eastern seaboard toward New England and Canada after dealing North Carolina's coast only a glancing blow.
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Labor's Centre Unity faction has endorsed a replacement for former New South Wales Government frontbencher John Della Bosca in the Upper House.
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Two Mexican federal lawmakers and at least three others have died when their small plane crashed in southern Mexico.
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Six men in Portugal have been jailed for sexually abusing boys at a state-run children's home.
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Marine rescue crews have freed a whale that was entangled in a shark net off the Gold Coast.
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Emergency crews are evacuating homes in and around Ballarat, as heavy rain falls across Victoria.
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Liberal MP Chris Pyne warns Labor's attempt to get the three rural independents onside could lead to an unstable government.
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An 11-year-old boy is in hospital in a stable condition after being mauled by a sea lion at a Sydney zoo.
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Heavy rain has stranded four hikers on the Heysen Trail in South Australia's far north.
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Police are searching for a man in Port Phillip Bay after reports that a boat took in water off Mount Eliza earlier this morning.
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The Northern Territory Country Liberals Senator Nigel Scullion says if the Coalition wins Federal Government it would immediately increase security at Darwin's detention centre.
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A controversial Dutch MP says the reported call by an Australian-born Muslim cleric for him to be beheaded is "a very serious threat".
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Victorian Premier John Brumby is being urged to reconsider the decision not to upgrade all power lines as recommended by the Bushfires Royal Commission.
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Wild weather has continued to batter South Australia and left thousands of people without power.
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