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Commodore retirement to drive value

The latest Australian-built Commodores could be worth “hundreds of thousands of dollars” in the future after news of the model’s discontinuation, experts say.

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Arts policy ‘business as usual’: minister

Communications and the Arts Minister Paul Fletcher has defended the government’s decision to place the arts in a broad-ranging department.

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Qld murder accused ‘panicked’, court told

A Queensland man is on trial for murdering a drug dealer, whose body was found buried in a pine forest about a month after he went missing.

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Qld murder accused ‘panicked’, court told

A Queensland man is on trial for murdering a drug dealer, whose body was found buried in a pine forest about a month after he went missing.

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Fuller changes tune on NSW strip-searches

Last month NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller said young people should fear law enforcement but now he’s personally reviewing the strip-searching of minors.

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Suicide outrage sparked Vic man’s ramraids

A Victorian man has been jailed for 21 months for ramming a car into a real estate agency and media organisations because of frustrations around suicide.

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Swine fever defences to get $66m package

Agriculture Minister Bridget McKenzie has announced a $66 million package to protect Australia’s $5 billion pork industry from the dire African swine fever.

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NSW to allow pill bins at music festivals

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian will allow so-called “amnesty bins” for pill-carrying musical festival goers from December 28.

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Trade action at risk as WTO faces crisis

A crisis gripping the World Trade Organisation threatens two Australian disputes over sugar subsidies and wine exports.

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Qld mum remanded over toddler deaths

The Queensland mother charged with murdering her daughters by leaving them in a hot car in November will remain behind bars.

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Voting and fires: the top searches of 2019

As 2019 draws to a close, Google has released data looking at what Aussies searched for throughout this year.

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Dangerous toys pulled from sale in Qld

Just two weeks before Christmas five dangerous toys have been pulled from shop shelves in Queensland over safety concerns.

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Anger at Lawyer X’s television interview

Nicola Gobbo’s lawyer was kept in the dark over a TV interview she gave while he argued the informer was too unwell to speak to a royal commission.

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Concern over moves to shift NT murder case

An indigenous community has raised concerns over possible moves to shift the court case over a police shooting from Alice Springs to Darwin.

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Simon Overland sacked by Melbourne council

Former Victoria Police chief commissioner Simon Overland has been sacked as chief executive of a Melbourne council.

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Lawyer X ecstasy importer blasts delays

An ecstasy importer jailed after Lawyer X Nicola Gobbo helped police sniff out a major ecstasy import has blasted delays in his appeal.

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NZ volcano: Explainer on burns injuries

The range of burn injuries suffered by the Australians who survived New Zealand’s White Island volcano eruption could range from second to fourth degree.

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Defence chief sorry for retirement scheme

Defence chief Angus Campbell has apologised to veterans given incorrect advice about an historic retirement scheme, which closed to new members in 1991.

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This is climate change: Kean on bushfires

The NSW environment minister has again acknowledged the link between the bushfires and climate change, despite the opposition of some coalition colleagues.

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