Matthew Liddy is executive producer of special coverage for ABC News Online, responsible for projects such as Vote Compass, the Brisbane floods before and after interactives, and Mama Asia. You can follow Matt on Twitter.
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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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ABC journalist Mark Colvin devoted his life to telling stories. After his death yesterday, these are the stories his workmates are telling about him.
Topics: journalism, radio-broadcasting, broadcasting, sydney-2000
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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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Zoom out and you can see why Cyclone Debbie continues to wreak havoc on the people of Queensland.
Topics: cyclone, cyclones, emergency-incidents, disasters-and-accidents, weather, brisbane-4000, hamilton-island-4803, airlie-beach-4802, proserpine-4800, bowen-4805
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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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On International Women's Day, a report reveals the number of women in key leadership positions actually fell in 2017.
Topics: management, women, australia
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Australia has promised to close the gap between Indigenous and other Australians on health, education and employment. But we are failing to meet six of seven key goals.
Topics: federal-government, federal-parliament, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, australia
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Read the full text of the appeals court ruling against US president Donald Trump's executive order that restricted travellers from seven predominantly Muslim nations.
Topics: world-politics, courts-and-trials, immigration, united-states
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Companies arguably make political donations for one reason only: to influence Australian politics. ABC News has mapped the flow of money to find out which industries are using their riches in a bid to buy influence.
Topics: federal-government, federal-parliament, 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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The Australian Tax Office has named 670 large companies that paid no corporate tax in the 2014-15 financial year. Search the data to see who's paying what.
Topics: tax, company-news, australia
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A new global report card shows Australian students' results in science and maths slipping, with central Asia's Kazakhstan moving ahead in the rankings. But can you do any better?
Topics: education, primary-schools, secondary-schools, mathematics-education, science, australia, kazakhstan
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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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Donald Trump carved out an audacious and surprising path to the White House. Here's how.
Topics: us-elections, united-states
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Exit polls suggest white voters without a college degree were the most likely group to vote for Donald Trump to be US president, while black voters were the least likely.
Topics: us-elections, world-politics, polls, 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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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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These eight questions will help you understand how your views on national security and border protection compare to what other Australians think.
Topics: defence-and-national-security, terrorism, 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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Striking figures reveal the NT detains young people at a rate three times higher than the other states and territories.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, community-and-society, youth, law-crime-and-justice, darwin-0800
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The election is too close to call, Antony Green says. And that raises a lot of interesting questions.
Topics: federal-elections, federal-parliament, 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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