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Parenting A CRACKDOWN on shonky double-dipping childcare operators is saving Aussie taxpayers almost $8 million a week.

Opinion HE’S not the federal minister, he’s a very naughty boy!

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News Queensland Government Cabinet minutes from 30 years ago reveal 1985 was more about big secrets for the premier, Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen.

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News NEW South Wales has sweltered through one of its hottest years on record despite Bureau of Meteorology figures showing July was the coldest in years.

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Politics THE 1990s began a period of upheaval in Australia’s political and social landscape.

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News STUDENTS who move overseas will no longer be able to avoid paying back student loans, following an announcement from the Federal Government.

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News RESIDENTS and business owners across northern England face further misery today after ‘‘unprecedented’’ flooding transformed urban streets into canals.

Movies WARNING this review contains minor spoilers. Does the new, seventh installment live up to the hype?

News THE man responsible for stabbing Dean Robertson in Benaraby at the Boyne River Tourist Park appears to have been picked up by police.

Pets & Animals A NEW South Wales man has found a 1.5m lizard climbing the outside of his house after he heard it thumping on the wall.

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News THE Central Queensland community has rallied around the family of 30-year-old Daniel Wickham, who was tragically killed in a workplace tree-lopping accident.

Offbeat THERE were no khaki suits or ghost-zapping back packs, but there was a journalist with a notepad and a photographer with a camera.

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Health IAN Ratcliffe spent more than 40 years boozing before he realised his issue was not what was inside the bottle – it was what was inside him.

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News NATIONAL research has found more people believe the gap between rich and poor has grown as families’ spending habits are revealed.

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Breaking Emergency services responding to reports a car has driven through rails on bridge and could be in the water

TV JON Snow and Bran Stark feature in first look at season six of HBO's wildly popular fantasy drama.

News CHRISTIAN group FamilyVoice Australia has congratulated a Big W store after they say it removed chocolate poker chips from sale.

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Crime POLICE are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a man in Bundaberg overnight.

News UPDATE: A 69-YEAR-OLD Noosaville man has been confirmed as the fatal crash victim in a five-car incident on the Bruce Hwy.

News GRIEVING Toowoomba parents William Bower and Kim Wright want to know why their baby son Malaki had to die.

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