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Australia 'in for the long haul' after Indonesia's latest foot-and-mouth declaration abc.net.au/news/rural/2023-0…

Australia 'in for the long haul' after Indonesia's latest foot-and-mouth declaration

Australia's chief vet says people should remain alert to the risks for years to come, after Indonesia moves away from an emergency response to a business-as-usual approach to the disease.

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Bush kids hit the beach as award-winning wheat crop funds ultimate excursion abc.net.au/news/2023-04-05/h…

Bush kids hit the beach as $50k wheat crop funds ultimate excursion

A tiny school of just 11 kids in northwest New South Wales has made a 900-kilometre journey to meet their small school pen pals.

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Pipis at Middleton and Goolwa declared safe to eat, collection gets green light abc.net.au/news/2023-04-05/p…

Pipis at Middleton and Goolwa declared safe to eat, collection gets green light

Recreational fishers can collect pipis (Goolwa cockles) from the beach at Goolwa and Middleton again from today.

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Court of Appeal rejects Bendigo man's bid to reduce jail sentence on mental health grounds after his violent attack on a woman abc.net.au/news/2023-04-05/c…

Court of Appeal rejects Bendigo man's bid to reduce jail sentence on mental health grounds after...

Graham Giudice is serving eight years in jail for fracturing a woman's face in a violent attack, with the Court of Appeal dismissing an application to reduce his sentence on mental health grounds.

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Alice Springs mayor apologises for writing letter supporting controversial project abc.net.au/news/2023-04-05/a…

Alice Springs mayor apologises for writing letter supporting controversial project without consul...

Matt Paterson says he "made a mistake" in writing a letter on behalf of council supporting the controversial Singleton project without consulting other councillors first. 

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Outback town becomes an island as rising river creates 'Bedourie Sea' abc.net.au/news/2023-04-05/b…

Outback town becomes an island as rising river creates 'Bedourie Sea'

Bedourie's only bridge is a metre below the floodwater and the mayor says it will be weeks before supply trucks will be able to get into town.

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Lobster fishers call for cargo ships to be restricted to deeper waters off WA abc.net.au/news/rural/2023-0…

Lobster fishers call for cargo ships to be restricted to deeper waters off WA

Operators in WA's Western Rock Lobster fishery say they are losing significant amounts of catch and equipment due to cargo ships straying from established shipping lanes. 

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Digging deeper into Wallsend's sinkholes abc.net.au/radio/programs/ne…

Digging deeper into Wallsend's sinkholes - ABC listen

Did you know there's a tunnel under Newcastle? 

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Uranium miner ERA hopes to raise $369 million to fund Ranger mine rehabilitation abc.net.au/news/rural/2023-0…

Uranium miner ERA hopes to raise $369 million to fund Ranger mine rehabilitation

Mining company ERA is hoping to raise $369 million to continue funding the rehabilitation of a uranium mine in Kakadu National Park. 

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Pastoralists cut off but 'smiling like hell' as record rain soaks Western Australia's outback abc.net.au/news/rural/2023-0…

Pastoralists cut off but 'smiling like hell' as record rain soaks Western Australia's outback

Pastoralists rarely say no to rainfall on parched country, but the timing could have been better for one family forced to miss out on an important event.

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How 38 tonnes of smuggled high-risk meat, plants ended up in a Sydney warehouse abc.net.au/news/rural/2023-0…

How 38 tonnes of smuggled high-risk meat, plants ended up in a Sydney warehouse

Not since Johnny Depp was issued a 50-hour warning to remove his mutts Pistol and Boo from Australia have biosecurity officials been so best in show.

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Grape growers eye off diverse new markets for export abc.net.au/news/2023-04-04/g…

Grape growers eye off diverse new markets for export

Wine exporters across regional Victoria are building stronger ties with overseas countries to offload a glut of red wine, in what is being described as one of the most challenging harvests the sector...

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Circular saw-wielding robot starts work at Queensland abattoir abc.net.au/news/rural/2023-0…

Circular saw-wielding robot starts work at Queensland abattoir

The dangerous, highly skilled job of cutting through heavy, hanging cattle carcases could be automated if a trial at a Queensland abattoir is a success.

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Employees, contractors in limbo as Scott's transport group enters liquidation abc.net.au/news/2023-04-03/s…

Employees, contractors in limbo as Scott's transport group enters liquidation

Scott's Refrigerated Logistics has been recording monthly losses of $8 million, with creditors voting today to send all six of its companies into liquidation.

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Residents demand action after 'minimally treated cattle effluent' pumped into bushland abc.net.au/news/2023-04-03/b…

Residents demand action after cattle effluent pumped into bushland

Locals in a WA country town say it is unacceptable that thousands of litres of effluent – described as "basically s**t" – were legally pumped into the bush.

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Open-cut silver, lead and zinc mine near Mudgee given planning approval despite community concerns abc.net.au/news/2023-04-03/b…

Open-cut silver, lead and zinc mine near Mudgee given planning approval despite community concerns

The NSW Independent Planning Commission has conditionally approved a controversial lead and silver mine in central-west NSW.

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Coles supermarket chain moves into milk production buying two Saputo factories abc.net.au/news/rural/2023-0…

A decade of offering discount milk, Coles now buys the milk factories

Supermarket chain Coles becomes a milk processor for the first time, buying two milk factories from Canadian dairy giant Saputo for $105 million.

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Turtle, raw prawns and poultry meat found in 'one of the largest hauls in Australian history' abc.net.au/news/2023-04-03/h…

Almost 40 tonnes of high-risk food seized in ‘largest-ever biosecurity hauls in Australian history'

High-risk foods, including beef, chicken, duck, pig meat, geese, turtle and frog meat, and raw prawns, have been seized by Australian biosecurity officials.

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Their van may be a 'tiny' home, but it's given Vaughn and Kobie freedom to hit the open road abc.net.au/news/2023-04-03/v…

Their van may be a 'tiny' home, but it's given Vaughn and Kobie freedom to hit the open road

Quitting your 9-5 office job to live in a van and travel around Australia is a pipedream for many people. But Kobie Notting and her partner Vaughn Turner made it happen and haven't looked back.

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What fills the void when a local paper folds? Former editor airs concerns over future of regional news abc.net.au/news/2023-04-03/f…

'TikTok is not a reputable news source' warns regional newspaper editor

Kate Hedley grew up in Mandurah and edited the town's paper, which is one of four mastheads in WA likely to shut down. She says she's worried about what will fill the gap.

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