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Rain set to continue in parts of NSW

Rain is expected to continue in parts of NSW after days of wet weather that has helped dampen blazes, though flash flooding and landslips remain a risk.

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Storms en route as Victorian fires burn on

Rain and thunder are expected to hit Victoria on Sunday, which could have mixed impacts in fire-ravaged regions.

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Qld braces for more rain after deluge

Southeast Queensland is bracing for more rain after a record-breaking downpour caused havoc across the region on Saturday.

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Qld braces for more rain after deluge

Southeast Queensland is bracing for more rain after a record-breaking downpour caused havoc across the region on Saturday.

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AFL stars lend skills in fire-hit east Vic

Three AFL players have run a football clinic for children in Victoria’s fire-hit East Gippsland.

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Missing Qld boy pulled from mother’s arms

An amber alert has been issued for a one year old boy taken from his mother’s arms in Ipswich, west of Brisbane.

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Abbott flies across for Hockey farewell

Outgoing Australian ambassador to the US Joe Hockey has been farewelled from 25 years of public life in politics and diplomacy at a Washington party.

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Fears ‘huge’ part of Blue Mountains burnt

This season’s bushfires have “rewritten the rule book” as ecologists fear more than 80 per cent of the world heritage-listed Blue Mountains have been lost.

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Fire burning on Victorian coastal island

A blaze has been burning out of control on French Island, Victoria’s largest coastal island located at Western Port in the state’s south.

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Hero’s treatment for remote NT graduates

Young Aboriginal people in remote communities must overcome great obstacles to complete secondary school, but more are succeeding than ever before.

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Rain batters drought-affected NSW

Heavy rain has fallen across parts of NSW and is expected to continue into Sunday and Monday.

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Vic community rallies against Nazi flag

Members of a small Victorian town have gathered in a symbol of peace and inclusivity, after a local couple raised a Nazi flag above their property.

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Minister may face probe over sports grants

Labor, the Greens and senate crossbenchers say they will back a inquiry into the government’s $100 million sports grants scandal.

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Union wants urgent recovery allowance lift

The Australian Council of Trade Unions wants an immediate lift of the government’s disaster recovery allowance for bushfire-affected Australians.

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More rainfall needed to break drought

Farmers have been overjoyed by rain falling across parts of Queensland and New South Wales but there are warnings it’s not enough.

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Motorists face pain despite calm in Iran

Australian motorists might have to get used to higher fuel prices, despite a calming in the Middle East conflict between the US and Iran.

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Parliament open to temporary koala showing

The department that runs Parliament House says it isn’t yet ruling out exhibiting a bronze koala sculpture temporarily, after initially declining it.

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Former ‘hero’ spared jail over fraud in WA

A West Australian man who made headlines last year for rescuing his neighbour from a burning house has been spared jail time for fraud.

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WA prospector’s body had multiple injuries

An inquest has heard a prospector whose body was found in a mineshaft had multiple injuries but his cause of death could not be determined.

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