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Thunderstorm asthma season conditions similar to 2016

Allergy sufferers have been put on alert for thunderstorm asthma, with an ambulance leader warning conditions are akin to those before Melbourne’s deadly event in 2016. The peak thunderstorm asthma season …

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Minister blocks release of Qatar flight decision papers

Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles says the government has “nothing to hide”, as a cabinet colleague knocks back a Senate request to provide documents about its decision on Qatar Airways’ …

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Libya hunts for those to blame for flood deaths

Libyan authorities have demanded an investigation into whether human failings were to blame for thousands of deaths in the worst natural disaster in the country’s modern history, as survivors searched …

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Qualifier Navarro stuns Sakkari to reach San Diego semi-finals

Qualifier Emma Navarro of the United States upset world number nine Maria Sakkari of Greece, winning in a third-set tie-break, to reach the semi-finals of the WTA’s San Diego Open …

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Victorians top list for taking deadly ‘super drug’

Victorians are the country’s biggest consumers of the deadly “super drug” fentanyl as authorities warn of its potentially disastrous consequences. Melbourne has the highest level of heroin, ketamine and fentanyl consumption …

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PM urges renewables shift or risk being left behind

Anthony Albanese has told energy industry leaders Australia must move towards renewable energy or risk being left behind. In a speech and panel discussion at NewsCorp’s Future Energy summit, the …

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Civil Protection Minister: Residents of heavily flooded regions in Greece to receive urgent aid automatically

New Democracy’s executive state “has sunk in Thessaly’s plain,” PASOK-Movement for Change (KINAL) Nikos Androulakis said on Thursday, stressing that is inconceivable to find out that today is the first …

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Illegal links prompt uni to return artefacts depicting Zeus, Hercules and other warriors to Italy

An ancient two-handed vessel and a red-figure fish-plate will be among items a university returns to Italian ownership after revelations about their underworld links. An Attic black-figure amphora, which was …

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Airbnb reforms in spotlight as housing fight rages on

The Greens are calling on the federal government to put limits around short-term rentals like Airbnb to boost supply and take pressure off rents. Leader Adam Bandt said people were …

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Watchdogs give Victoria hurry-up on corruption reforms

Victoria’s corruption watchdogs have given the government a hurry-up on implementing recommendations from a bombshell report into branch-stacking within the Labor party. A progress report into the joint Operation Watts …

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