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West Papua: police investigate as bags of snakes thrown into student dormitory

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Masked motorcycle riders pull up around 4am at East Java building that has been the target of protests

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Australia may be complicit in war crimes if it supports Saudi-led coalition in Yemen – UN

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Critics say Australia can’t guarantee weapons it sells to Saudi Arabia aren’t diverted to conflict in Yemen

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Queensland extinguishes native title over Indigenous land to make way for Adani coalmine

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Palaszczuk government did not announce decision Wangan and Jagalingou people say makes them trespassers on their own land

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Helen Davidson What exactly does Australia get from this mine, when so far the losses include native title, environmental protections, and $4.4bn. 20d

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Raising Australia's refugee intake would boost economy by billions, Oxfam says

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An annual intake of 44,000 would bring an extra $37.7bn in the next 50 years, Deloitte Access Economics report finds

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Pakistani refugee sets himself alight on Nauru

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Medecins Sans Frontieres accuses Nauru of breaching medical ethics

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Big irrigators take 86% of water from Barwon-Darling, report finds

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Lower Darling pushed into drought three years early because of sheer volume of water extraction by just a few licence holders

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Helen Davidson Big irrigators take 86% of water from Barwon-Darling, report finds 30d

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Indonesia arrests dozens of West Papuans over claim flag was thrown in sewer

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Officers shot tear gas canisters into student accommodation and took 43 people into custody after reports on social media

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West Papuan independence group says it is 'ready to take over country'

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Three rebel groups join forces under independence movement headed by exiled leader Benny Wenda

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'She was a whole person': Michaela Dunn's murder and its impact on Sydney's sex workers

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Sex workers who spoke to Guardian Australia say Dunn’s death has left them feeling vulnerable

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Helen Davidson 'She was a whole person': Michaela Dunn's murder and its impact on Sydney's sex workers. From @mmcgowan 34d

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Sydney stabbing: one woman killed and one injured in 'terrifying carnage'

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Police say 21-year-old suspect from western Sydney was carrying information on extremist ideologies when arrested in CBD

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Sydney stabbing: man had history of mental illness, police say – live

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A woman’s body has been found and a second woman taken to hospital with a stab wound after passersby restrain a man wielding a large knife

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Home affairs department failed to keep track of those claiming asylum at airports

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Fears there is no way of knowing if Border Force officers are ensuring all asylum seekers appropriately assessed

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South Korea: world championship athletes injured in fatal balcony collapse

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Nightclub balcony falls, killing two South Koreans and injuring aquatic athletes from the US, New Zealand, Netherlands, Italy and Brazil

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Australia must help protect Pacific from climate change, PNG prime minister says

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James Marape says Australia, with New Zealand and PNG, has a moral obligation to listen to the voices of smaller island nations

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Our climate inaction will destroy our Pacific neighbours

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You can't "step up" in the Pacific while stepping back on climate action.

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Helen Davidson Relevant to this, from @RichieMerzian Our climate inaction will destroy our Pacific neighbours 55d

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Australian weapons shipped to Saudi and UAE as war rages in Yemen

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Secret pictures show arms being shipped to coalition despite bans in Uk and attempted block by US Congress

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Afghan man dies at Melbourne immigration detention centre

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Police say death of 23-year-old-detainee is not being treated as suspicious

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UN inspectors primed for 'unfettered access' to Australian detention centres

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Human rights inspectors due to visit for the first time, with the right to go into any place of detention unannounced

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Vic Commissioner for Children wants access to immigration detention in the state

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Victoria's Commissioner for Children and Young People has requested access to assess the living conditions and well-being of children being held in immigration detention in the state.

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Helen Davidson Less than 48 hours after this story, a mother and young child has been released from immigration detention in Melbourne. Vic Commissioner for Children wants access to immigration detention in the state 141d

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Sick refugees on Manus and Nauru to be sent to Christmas Island not mainland

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Revelation by head of home affairs department comes as Nauru bans medical transfers based on telehealth assessments, threatening to derail new medevac laws