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Twitter employee uses last day at work to deactivate US President Donald Trump's account ab.co/2z9HZql
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Men from overseas, including Australia, are estimated to have fathered tens of thousands of children to sex workers in the Philippines. Now, thanks to DNA, the children are tracking them down. Watch the #4Corners documentary, Sex Tourism: My Father’s Secret, on ABC iview: ab.co/3LkkEb2
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There's a Christmas comet on its way — and a meteor shower too ab.co/2QO1sbr
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Dog guards fire-ruined home for a month while waiting for owner (pic: AP) ab.co/2QOk9vD
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Watch SA Premier @JayWeatherill shirtfront Federal Energy Minister @JoshFrydenberg on live TV, after gatecrashing the presser #auspol
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#ICYMI: These school kids managed to recreate #Daraprim's active ingredient for just $20
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At least two rhino poachers eaten by lions in South Africa ab.co/2KS66Pd
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#BREAKING: The WA Government has frozen all household fees and charges including electricity, water, public transport fares and motor vehicle charges.
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The decision of three actors in the Sydney Theatre Company's new production of The Seagull to wear the keffiyeh during curtain call sparked a frenzy of condemnation from members of the Jewish community. @latingle spoke to @louiseadler. #abc730
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pwn3d. :)
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#BREAKING: For the first day since the pandemic’s peak in Australia, the country has recorded zero new locally acquired cases of coronavirus.
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G'day! As much as we appreciate the shout-out, we think you meant @ABC?
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Dr Dan Suan says everyone should self-isolate at home in order to break person-to-person transmission: "Social isolation is not an act of fear. it's an act of love. The reason you are doing is to protect yourself, your family, your friends and their families."
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#BREAKING: The Oxford University coronavirus vaccine trial has been paused in what drug maker Astra Zeneca described as a "routine" action taken when there is a potentially unexplained illness among participants.
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#BREAKING: Authorities say a man with coronavirus ignored instructions to self-isolate pending test results, instead working several shifts at Hobart's Grand Chancellor Hotel.
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#Egyptian archaeologists have dashed hopes that a newly-discovered ancient sarcophagus might contain the remains of Alexander the Great, finding instead a mummified family swimming in red liquid ab.co/2O3UlaA
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Watch the emotional moment a Syrian refugee is reunited with his four kids and wife in Cambodia after seven years apart
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#BREAKING: Hong Kong citizens or residents currently in Australia on student or temporary work visas will have their visas extended for five years and offered a pathway to permanent residency.
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#BREAKING: A 14-year-old boy has been found alive and well after spending two nights in freezing temperatures at Mount Disappointment, north of Melbourne.
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Hundreds of school students walked out of classes in Melbourne and Adelaide today as part of a school strike for Palestine. #abc730
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#BREAKING: Australians have voted Yes in favour of allowing same-sex marriage #SSM
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This is what happened when Four Corners asked Woolworths CEO Brad Banducci about the lack of competition in the Australian grocery market.  Watch the #4Corners documentary tonight: ab.co/3uKJwUL
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World's oldest cheese found in Egyptian tomb — but it may be filled with a deadly disease ab.co/2vRG3lH
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#BREAKING: A Thai court has ruled an extradition case against Melbourne-based refugee Hakeem al-Araibi be dropped. He will fly back to Australia tonight
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An emotional @billshortenmp has hit back at 'gotcha s**t', after the Daily Telegraph published a story about his mother
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Greta Thunberg “represents the anger of that generation. It might insult a whole lot of middle aged white guys because it’s not the way we'd talk... but when I speak to young people there’s a rising rage that our generation has failed to step up,” @MrKRudd tells @PatsKarvelas
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Public gallery erupts into chorus of 'I Am Australian' after Parliament votes to legalise same-sex marriage #auspol #SSM
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#BREAKING: The Court of Appeal in NSW has ruled protesters are allowed to march in today's Black Lives Matters rally in Sydney
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BREAKING: Peter Dutton has lost his seat in parliament. The ABC projects that Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has lost his seat in parliament. abc.net.au/news/2025-05-03/f…
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#BREAKING: Donald Trump and the first lady, Melania Trump, have tested positive for coronavirus.
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#BREAKING: All retail, restaurants, hotels, bars and cafes will reopen in Victoria.
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New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins says he would like the country to become a republic ahead of attending King Charles III' coronation on Saturday. ab.co/40OvrQd
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#BREAKING: A NSW police officer has been placed on restricted duties while an internal investigation is carried out into the arrest of an Indigenous teen in Sydney.
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#BREAKING: People living in metropolitan Melbourne and Mitchell Shire will now be required to wear face masks outside their home, to protect against coronavirus.
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Customer "hopping mad" after being turned away from Hervey Bay mobile phone store...
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#BREAKNG: The chief executive of Rio Tinto is stepping down in the wake of the destruction of ancient rock shelters in the Pilbara earlier this year.
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Australians aged in their 30s and 40s are experiencing unprecedented and in some cases world-leading rates of 10 different types of cancer – and scientists are desperate to understand why. ab.co/4eEMYD2
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#BREAKING: Former Manus Island detainee Behrouz Boochani has had his claim for asylum accepted by New Zealand and been granted a visa to stay in the country.
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#BREAKING: Australians have rejected recognising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the nation's first people in the constitution through the establishment of a Voice to Parliament advisory body. ab.co/46Ogf99
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Indigenous Affairs reporter Isabella Higgins says the No victory in the Indigenous Voice to Parliament Referendum could change the way Indigenous Australians will want to interact with the rest of the country going forward.
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'How do you talk social distancing to people who live with about seven people in a small little shanty?' says @RanaAyyub, after Asia's largest slum, Dharavi, reported its first #coronavirus death. #Mumbai @bevvo14 #TheWorld
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Liberal MP Bridget Archer has defied her party leader Peter Dutton, saying any weakening of the current 2030 climate target would be "regressive" and the details of any alternative target should be revealed before an election. ab.co/45jvbwo
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#BREAKING: Police in New South Wales have won a Supreme Court bid to prohibit a Black Lives Matter march in Sydney.
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Indonesia elections: Former Governor of Jakarta and Presidential candidate @aniesbaswedan on why he wants more business engagement between #Indonesia and #Australia. #TheWorld @bevvo14
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An electrical failure creates a nightmarish spectacle at a US theme park, with a giant animatronic T Rex bursting into flames ab.co/2G7EGT9
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Sydney's Taronga Zoo welcomes energetic fennec fox baby as it emerges from nesting box. ab.co/2l2q6kM
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Australia's richest woman Gina Rinehart says federal taxation collected from mining more than covers the cost of the salaries of all of Australia's police, teachers and nurses. But #RMITABCFactCheck found that claim doesn't stack up: ab.co/3v3fc7D #auspol #factcheck
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#BREAKING: The nation’s medical regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Administration, has approved Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for use in Australia.
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“I've never seen an assault on the media as savage as this… I've never seen a warrant this comprehensive & I'd say scary… The chilling message is not so much for the journalists, but it's also for the public,” head of ABC Investigations @TheLyonsDen tells @PatsKarvelas #auspol
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"Well I'll be buggered, there's a shark in my boat!" Terry Selwood tells us how a 200kg great white shark ended up in his fishing boat.
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Aquarium's leopard shark switches to asexual reproduction in extreme form of inbreeding ab.co/2jSgd8W
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"It never happened when there was a terrible colonial oppressor, Britain." The last governor of Hong Kong, Chris Patten, blames China for creating a generation of people who want independence from the mainland. #TheWorld @bevvo14 @fangjason
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#BREAKING: The Federal Government has announced it will refund $721 million dollars worth of debts it clawed back through its controversial robodebt scheme.
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"Vladimir Putin is effectively a war criminal - this is a guy who should be contained, not engaged" - watch the full interview with 'Putin's number one enemy' @Billbrowder tonight on The World's special coverage of the Donald Trump/Vladimir Putin Summit. @bevvo14 #ABCTheWorld
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"I don't think it will do any good for Peter Dutton if the No case wins in the long-term, but the political implications is it will fire up the Conservatives to think this is the way you run politics and I think that's a really deeply disturbing sign for the country." - @latingle
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"You will never win an election with denial and delusion." The #Insiders panel break down the message from the Dunkley by-election for both parties #auspol
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In a searing Press Club speech, mining and clean energy magnate Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest slams the Coalition and fossil fuel lobby for using nuclear energy "bulldust" to delay the transition to a zero emissions economy.ab.co/3T97RNA
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"Our public service has been corrupted and been rendered completely incompetent and venal." Laura Tingle on what we've learnt from the Robodebt Royal Commission report #Insiders #auspol
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#BREAKING: The Australian gunman who carried out the March 2019 Christchurch mosque attacks has been sentenced to life without parole, the first time a whole life term has been handed down in New Zealand.
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