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5 days ago | 
9news.com.au | Yashee Sharma
Disgraced former Queensland Labor minister Gordon Nuttall has died aged 71. He was diagnosed with stage four kidney cancer in 2023.Nuttall was first elected as the Labor MP for Sandgate in 1992 and maintained the seat until 2006. Nuttall served as deputy chairman of the Criminal Justice Committee from 1996 to 1998. He was the industrial relations minister before being promoted to health minister from 2004 to 2005 under then-premier Peter Beattie.
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6 days ago | 
9news.com.au | Yashee Sharma
Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan has criticised 'an era of divisive, Trump-style rhetoric' as she announced that she will visit China for the first time since taking up the state's top job. The trip is slotted for September and will include trade talks with the government, businesses, educators and communities. Allan said she hopes to develop "Victoria's new China strategy".
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6 days ago | 
9news.com.au | Yashee Sharma
The Greens will hold a party room meeting next week to vote on their new leader after Adam Bandt was ousted from his seat after about 15 years. Acting leader and senator Nick McKim said the party will meet on Thursday to decide on its leadership team. "Our party is bigger than any of us, and we are ready to get to work on the critical issues facing our country," he said.
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6 days ago | 
9news.com.au | Yashee Sharma
The federal election may be over for most of the country, but not for the candidates in these seats that remain on a knife's edge as votes continue to be counted. There are 10 seats that are still too close to call as of 3pm on Thursday, and it could be anyone's game. We saw this play out after Greens Leader Adam Bandt lost his seat of Melbourne after 15 years to Labor candidate Sarah Witty, becoming the second party leader to be ousted after former opposition leader Peter Dutton.
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6 days ago | 
9news.com.au | Yashee Sharma
Senator Jacinta Price has defected from the Nationals to sit with the Liberals as the party gets ready to vote on its new leader. Price is a senator for the Liberal Party's Northern Territory branch and the Coalition's shadow Indigenous Australians minister. She has previously sat with the Nationals but has announced she will move to sit with the Liberals in Canberra ahead of when the party meets on Tuesday.
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1 week ago | 
9news.com.au | Yashee Sharma
Homes were left without power after a high-voltage electrical transformer exploded and caused a potentially life-threatening fire in Sydney's north. Firefighters were called to Bannockburn Road in Turramurra about 6.30pm yesterday and arrived to find intense flames at the kiosk, which were inching towards an adjoining power pole and overhead wires. Fire and Rescue NSW Superintendent Adam Dewberry said about 11,000 volts of live electricity were alight.
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1 week ago | 
9news.com.au | Yashee Sharma
A teenager, who had gone missing after he was allegedly lured by a man on social media, has been found. WA Police said the "vulnerable" boy had started a conversation with a stranger online, who allegedly lured him to his home by sending a rideshare car to pick him up from his home earlier this month. His family soon reported his disappearance to police. Officers began a significant investigation and contacted international police to identify, find and arrest the man.
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1 week ago | 
9news.com.au | Yashee Sharma
Hundreds of corellas have been found dead in a suspected poisoning in the regional Victorian town of Horsham. More than 50 birds were found dead near the Wimmera River on Tuesday last week, but the number has since risen to 300. Horsham Rural City Council crews have been removing the bodies, both in the river and in the surrounding areas. During the clean-up, crews found grain suspected to be poisonous. Those grains have been vacuumed and covered up to prevent further harm to the local wildlife.
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1 week ago | 
9news.com.au | Yashee Sharma
Four false killer whales have died and three more remain stranded off a beach in Western Australia. The Department of Biodiversity Conservation and Attractions (DBCA) received a report of seven false killer whales about 20 metres off House Beach, a remote 150 metre-long stretch of sand about 12km east of Bremer Bay and about 540km south-east of Perth. Staff journeyed to the location to assess the situation and confirmed that four of the whales have died.
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1 week ago | 
9news.com.au | Yashee Sharma
Greens leader Adam Bandt has fronted the media today with a brave face, maintaining his confidence in retaining his seat and optimism about his party's power in parliament despite losing key seats in Queensland. The Greens went into the federal election with four seats – three in Queensland and one in Victoria - and are in danger of leaving with as little as none. The party has conceded defeat to Labor in the seats of Griffith and Brisbane but Melbourne and Ryan are too close to call.
