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Mum guilty of sick blackmail hoax involving dying baby
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Australian police obtained journalist's travel records in leak inquiry
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Australia: Grim tales from inside Sydney's crime museum
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Chinese warships heading to Australia to 'collect information'
Chinese warships heading to Australia to spy on US-Australian military exercises.
North Korea says Australian student was spying
Alek Sigley was released on Thursday and arrived in Tokyo to meet his Japanese wife.
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Fake beggars busted on Melbourne inner city streets
Fake beggars are flown in and make bundles of cash, investigation reveals.
No new clues offered by Aussie student released from North Korea detention
Swedish diplomats helped negotiate the release of the Australian student.
Kiwi implicated in death of girlfriend's baby: Coroner
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Growing concerns for man last seen at Auckland Airport
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Man loses arm in horrific dog attack
Man lucky to survive attack from two pig-hunting dogs who 'were eating him alive'.
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Man who swallowed gecko probably contracted parasite - experts
A Queensland father who died after swallowing a gecko probably contracted a parasite.
Jetstar suspends some transtasman flights
Jetstar is pulling out of its longest standing route from the country.
Breakthrough in NSW teen's gruesome murder
A notorious Supermax prisoner and his lawyer have been arrested.
Kiwi boy, 5, suffers burns on family holiday at Aussie fun park
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How Israel Folau's homophobic posts got Australians arguing about religion
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Dad dared to eat gecko dies in hospital 10 days later
Days after David Dowell was dared to eat a gecko at a party he died "in absolute agony".
Aussie central bank cuts official rates to 1% record low
Australia's economy has been weighed down in part by falling house prices.
No news a week after Australian disappears in North Korea
Some reports say the Australian had been detained, but there's been no official word.