Vic rally seeks end to offshore processing

MORE than 200 people have gathered at a rally in Melbourne, calling for an end to offshore detention. Refugee activists chanted "Close Manus, close Nauru, let the refugees in" during Saturday's protest at the State Library of Victoria. The...

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Calls for more Korean family reunions

SOUTH Korea's president has proposed the rival Koreas hold reunions of Korean War-divided families on a regular basis, saying time is running out for the elderly separated by hostilities and politics. South Korea has made similar proposals in...

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Vic pilot unharmed after plane flips

A PILOT has escaped unharmed after his plane flipped over while he was making an emergency landing in a Victorian paddock. After encountering difficulties the male pilot of the light plane sought permission to land in a paddock in Lethbridge,...

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Women charged for racist attack on Qld bus

TWO young women have been charged with serious assault after a partially blind indigenous man was bashed and racially vilified on a Gold Coast bus. The pair, aged 17 and 21, handed themselves into police on Friday afternoon and are also facing...

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Date set for WA Senate election re-run

The re-run of last year's Senate election in Western Australia will be held on Saturday, April 5. Source: AAP WESTERN Australia will go back to the polls on April 5, after the state's governor Malcolm McCusker confirmed the date of the re-run...

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Find the child abusers, inquiry told

IN a powerful plea from the witness box at a child abuse inquiry, a woman has called for the "carers" responsible for the abuse to be found and named. Sixty-seven-year-old Wilma Robb was 13 when she was placed in Parramatta Girls Home, because...

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Ex-RailCorp exec told to burn documents

Former RailCorp executive Joseph Camilleri was told to burn documents by his daughter. Source: AAP THE gambling-addict daughter of a former RailCorp executive told her father to "burn, burn, burn" documents in her room after a raid by investigators,...

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Missouri executes another prisoner

A MISSOURI inmate has been executed for abducting, raping and killing a Kansas City teenager nearly 25 years ago. Michael Taylor was lethally injected just after midnight on Wednesday. He was the fourth Missouri prisoner executed by the state...

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Tap-and-go to higher Vic crime rate

Victoria's crime rate has risen with drugs, family violence and deceptions among the causes. Source: AAP TAP-AND-GO technology is helping make credit card fraud the fastest growing area of crime in Victoria. Drugs and family violence also...

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