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Artificial intelligence is tipped to affect every occupation in Australia. Search our database to find out how your job is affected — if you're game.
Topics: robots-and-artificial-intelligence, work, business-economics-and-finance, australia
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Palestinians in the West Bank have now spent 50 years under Israeli military control. Their lives are filled with checkpoints, walls, patrols and restrictions on their movements.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, defence-and-national-security, israel, palestinian-territory-occupied
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If there's one thing we've learned from recent years, it's that there's a big difference between outlining a budget and actually getting the Senate to pass what's in it.
Topics: federal-parliament, federal-government, liberals, one-nation, greens, alp, australia
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Find out who scores and who misses out in Treasurer Scott Morrison's second budget.
Topics: budget, federal-government, federal-parliament, australia
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Explore an interactive breakdown of where the Government gets its money, how it's being spent, and what's changed since last year.
Topics: budget, federal-government, federal-parliament, australia
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Our tracker shows how much rain is fell across southern parts of the Queensland coast during the day on Thursday, as ex-Cyclone Debbie continues to cause havoc in the state.
Topics: cyclones, disasters-and-accidents, rainfall, weather, brisbane-4000, qld
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See the impact of Cyclone Debbie on tropical Hamilton Island, which has been hit with wind gusts of up to 263 kilometres per hour.
Topics: cyclones, cyclone, hamilton-island-4803
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Cyclone Debbie has whipped up winds of up to 263kph. Track wind speeds at key locations along the Queensland coast.
Topics: cyclones, cyclone, bowen-4805, lucinda-4850, townsville-4810, ayr-4807, hamilton-island-4803, mackay-4740, st-lawrence-4707
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As Sydney celebrates Mardi Gras, elsewhere in the world gay and lesbian people can struggle to simply stay out of jail.
Topics: gays-and-lesbians, law-crime-and-justice, discrimination, australia, sydney-2000, singapore, uganda, south-africa, iran-islamic-republic-of, saudi-arabia, european-union
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With the year getting off to a wild start, we asked a range of experts what they're most excited about for the rest of 2017— and what they're most worried about.
Topics: government-and-politics, environment, science-and-technology, australia
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Surprisingly, not that much for now. But in the longer term, it does make things more complicated.
Topics: federal-government, federal-parliament, australia
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A Four Corners investigation into residential group homes has found some of the country's most damaged children are being placed in serious danger.
Topics: child-abuse, community-and-society, family-and-children, australia, newcastle-2300
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Was it Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton? Test your political smarts with our presidential debate quiz — it's harder than you might think.
Topics: us-elections, united-states
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Was it Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton? Test your political smarts with our presidential debate quiz — it's harder than you might think.
Topics: us-elections, united-states
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The banks' interest rates decisions are putting more of your money in their coffers — use our calculator to find out how much.
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It's not going to be easy for the Government to get its agenda through the new Senate. Here's why.
Topics: federal-government, federal-parliament, australia
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Explore our interactive before and after images to see the scale of "the worst natural disaster to strike the US since Superstorm Sandy".
Topics: floods, united-states
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Could our Olympic swimmers keep up with a penguin? Could long jumpers leap the length of a humpback whale? Get a sense of how Olympians' feats measure up.
Topics: olympics-summer, brazil
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The fate of the election hinges on a few thousand votes scattered across six marginal seats around the nation. See how the final votes could fall.
Topics: federal-elections, government-and-politics, federal-government, federal-parliament, australia, brisbane-4000, townsville-4810, batemans-bay-2536, melbourne-3000, adelaide-5000, whyalla-5600, perth-6000
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Australia is starting the week without a winner after Saturday's federal election delivered no result. How did we get here?
Topics: federal-elections, federal-government, australia
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The question remains: Has Antony Green called the election yet?
Topics: federal-elections, federal-government, federal-parliament, australia
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We asked for your predictions on how the key battles will pan out. Check back as the results come in to see how you went.
Topics: federal-elections, elections, government-and-politics, australia
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Do you know where Coalition, Labor and Greens voters stand on 10 key election issues? Take our quiz, but be warned: it's hard.
Topics: federal-elections, federal-government, federal-parliament, australia
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What do the opinion polls tell us about the possible range of results on Saturday night, and in particular the most important election battlegrounds?
Topics: federal-elections, polls, alp, liberals, liberal-national-party-queensland, nationals, greens, australia
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Is there a generation gap in Australian politics? Take our quiz to see whether you know where older and younger people stand on 10 key election issues.
Topics: federal-elections, federal-government, federal-parliament, australia
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