Topic: Australia — Neutral reports only
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[2026-03-17 16:25 UTC+10:00] [Culture / Art & design] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: NSW Police have been asked to “urgently” investigate incendiary comments allegedly made by a US electronic music producer at the opening night party at White Bay Power Station, which prompted the withdrawal of a leading corporate supporter.
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[2026-03-17 16:24 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Property News: Suburbs where house values rose most in the past 12 months.
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[2026-03-17 16:23 UTC+10:00] [Pauline Hanson] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Exclusive: One Nation leader updates register after questions from the Guardian to include multiple flights courtesy of Rinehart’s company
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[2026-03-17 15:58 UTC+10:00] [National / WA] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: As a prominent Perth lawyer, Alice McShera specialised in family law and restraining orders.
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[2026-03-17 15:57 UTC+10:00] [Indigenous Australians] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The policy reversal came after a federal court judge asked the government to explain why it had stopped negotiating with Cape York traditional owners
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[2026-03-17 15:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Luka Doncic (77), de los Lakers de Los Ángeles, dispara mientras Amen Thompson (1), de los Rockets de Houston, defiende durante la primera mitad del juego de baloncesto de la NBA, el lunes 16 de marzo de 2026, en Houston. (AP Foto/David J. Phillip)
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[2026-03-17 15:29 UTC+10:00] [Queensland] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Officer caught on body-worn camera making comments, according to lawsuit filed in federal court
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[2026-03-17 15:20 UTC+10:00] [Australia] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Eric Hsu put his chemistry degree to good use, turning his garage-based business into one of Australia’s biggest makers of soy products
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[2026-03-17 15:05 UTC+10:00] [Australian economy] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Energy minister says country’s fuel supply has yet to be affected by war after meeting with suppliers and retailers
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[2026-03-17 15:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Members of the Cadia community class action group and supporters outside the NSW Supreme Court. (ABC News)
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[2026-03-17 15:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Kamin Gock is a North America correspondent based in Washington DC. He has previously worked as a journalist with 7.30 and as a state political reporter in the NSW newsroom. In 2023, he was awarded the Kennedy Young Journalist of the Year and the prestigious Andrew Olle Scholarship during which he worked at 4 Corners, Parliament House and the London bureau.
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[2026-03-17 15:02 UTC+10:00] [National / WA] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Energy Minister Amber-Jade Sanderson has flagged a shake-up of Western Australia’s fuel market as she lamented the drying-up of the spot market smaller petrol operators used to buy from.
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[2026-03-17 15:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: SYDNEY, March 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- FinVolution Group (NYSE: FINV), a leading fintech company, announced its entry into the Australian market, following the acquisition of local lending platform Fundo. This move marks the Company's significant strategic expansion into a high-value developed market.
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[2026-03-17 15:00 UTC+10:00] [National / Victoria] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: What began as a local controversy over the opening of a new bottle shop near a home for vulnerable men in Melbourne’s north has triggered a multimillion-dollar quest to build the first women’s shelter in the same community. But many hurdles remain before the booming suburb will be able to offer safe refuge for women fleeing domestic violence.
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[2026-03-17 14:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Izak Rankine is set to play his first match of the 2026 season. (Getty images/AFL Photos: James Elsby)
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[2026-03-17 14:45 UTC+10:00] [Culture / Movies] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
Snippet: It wasn’t Australia’s night at the 98th Academy Awards. Not even our top hopefuls Rose Byrne and Jacob Elordi took home a golden statuette. So, naturally, all that was left for us to do was milk any adjacent Oscar glory for all it was worth.
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[2026-03-17 14:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: The Reserve Bank of Australia has lifted that cash rate target from 3.85 per cent to 4.1 per cent. (AAP: Brendan Esposito)
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[2026-03-17 14:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Australia's central bank on Tuesday raised benchmark policy rates for a second straight time, pushing them to their highest since April 2025 at 4.1%, amid sticky inflation.
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[2026-03-17 14:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Events in the narrow waterway are causing chaos around the globe. The Guardian’s energy correspondent, Jillian Ambrose, explains why
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[2026-03-17 14:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Iranian soccer player Atefeh Ramezanisadeh kicks a ball at a Brisbane Roar club training session in Brisbane, Australia, Monday, March 16, 2026. (Brisbane Roar via AP)
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[2026-03-17 14:11 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Copper-gold focused explorer True North Copper is looking to up the exploration ante in the Cloncurry district of northwest Queensland by bolstering the company’s gold inventory from a suite of promising regional targets.
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[2026-03-17 14:03 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Property News: Suburbs where house values rose most in the past 12 months.
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[2026-03-17 14:02 UTC+10:00] [National / Queensland] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: A woman who fatally struck a QUT PhD student on a Brisbane road after failing to see the traffic light was red for seven seconds will spend four months behind bars.
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[2026-03-17 13:59 UTC+10:00] [National / NSW] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Accused Bondi Beach terrorist Naveed Akram has hung his head after learning his mother and siblings are “under siege” and “living in fear” having been targeted with vigilante death threats and harassment after he allegedly murdered 15 people in Australia’s worst terror attack.
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[2026-03-17 13:58 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Property News: Suburbs where house values rose most in the past 12 months.
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[2026-03-17 13:50 UTC+10:00] [Victorian politics] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Jess Wilson’s party has made a splash on social media but will they work together in the state election race?
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[2026-03-17 13:42 UTC+10:00] [Bondi beach terror attack] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Lawyer acting for alleged Bondi beach terror attack shooter says 24-year-old’s mother and siblings have received death threats since December antisemitic shootings
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[2026-03-17 13:41 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
Snippet: The managing director of Antony Catalano’s Australian Community Media has told staff he was “pissed off” after first hearing about the proprietor’s assault charges via the ABC on Saturday morning, while insisting the company is not up for sale.
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[2026-03-17 13:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Farmers are reporting extended wait periods for deliveries of bulk fuel. (ABC Central West: Hamish Cole)
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[2026-03-17 13:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: A cliff crumbled at Port Willunga beach on the weekend. (Supplied: Barbara Martin)
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[2026-03-17 13:24 UTC+10:00] [Lifestyle] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-03-17 12:47 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Victoria] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Premier Jacinta Allan has conceded the government’s infrastructure tsar privately warned her about serious wrongdoing on Labor’s $100 billion Big Build, but said it was not found to be “systemic”.
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[2026-03-17 12:45 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Over 200,000 people are taking advantage of a "loophole" in New South Wales firearms legislation to acquire guns, according to a research group.In many parts of Australia, people are required to prove they have a "genuine reason" to own a gun.In NSW, the overwhelming majority of firearms licence holders state that reason as either hunting or sports shooting, the latter of which only requires the holder to be a paid member of a sports shooting club.READ MORE: Donald Trump says
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[2026-03-17 12:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Angelique Donnellan is the South Australia reporter for 7.30. She was political reporter for ABC News in South Australia and was nominated for a Walkley award for breaking coverage of the SA Government's leadership transition from Mike Rann to Jay Weatherill. Angelique has covered two state elections and several budgets.
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[2026-03-17 12:24 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: The Reserve Bank is about to announce its March interest rates decision.
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[2026-03-17 12:19 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 90]
Source: 9News
Snippet: The federal government has effectively admitted there is a possibility of fuel rationing if the war in Iran continues for far longer than expected, but insists there is no reason to resort to panic-buying, with supply continuing to come into the country as normal.On the same day as the country's major fuel retailers were hauled before the competition watchdog to explain the astronomical price rises motorists have had to deal with, Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles was asked about whether
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[2026-03-17 12:07 UTC+10:00] [Lifestyle / Life & relationships] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Last week, Queensland teenagers Lachlan Jay Henttonen, 16, and Ada Fels-Parker, 15, died in a crash involving the e-bike they were riding and a motorcycle. Tragically, their deaths are among an increasing number involving e-bike and e-scooter users in Australia.
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[2026-03-17 12:02 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Auto news: These are Australia's safest roads.
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[2026-03-17 11:58 UTC+10:00] [National / Victoria] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: While Victoria baked through its hottest day on record on January 27, Jayden Chetcuti allegedly got to work raising the temperature even higher in the outer Melbourne suburb of Wollert.
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[2026-03-17 11:44 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Federal] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: The two remaining Iranian women’s soccer players in Australia have begun training with the Brisbane Roar, suggesting they are committed to starting a new life while their fellow former teammates return to Iran.
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[2026-03-17 11:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Danish royalty King Frederik and Queen Mary are on a six-day state visit to Australia. (Reuters: Wolfgang Rattay)
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[2026-03-17 11:33 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: NeuroScientific Biopharmaceuticals has ticked off another key box on the road to commercialising the company’s StemSmart stem cell therapy, kicking off its first manufacturing run at one of Australia’s leading cell therapy facilities in Brisbane.
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[2026-03-17 11:30 UTC+10:00] [National / NSW] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
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[2026-03-17 11:30 UTC+10:00] [National / Victoria] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
Snippet: When Lizzy Hoo enters the West Melbourne restaurant where we are to have lunch, in a sequinned top and her signature glasses, the staff stop what they are doing.
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[2026-03-17 11:21 UTC+10:00] [Culture / TV & radio] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Age
Snippet: For the past week, Flex: The Series has flooded the social media stream, turning up in paid airspace on TikTok and Instagram, and during a commercial break in last week’s episode of Married at First Sight.
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[2026-03-17 11:14 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Auto news: These are Australia's safest roads.
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[2026-03-17 11:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:State and Territory Government
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[2026-03-17 11:11 UTC+10:00] [Sport / Athletics] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
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[2026-03-17 11:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: An investigation is underway after a baby’s finger was allegedly severed at a childcare center in Australia, Queensland.
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[2026-03-17 11:01 UTC+10:00] [National / Queensland] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Age
Snippet: A primary-school-aged girl has suffered “significant” injuries after she was struck by a car on K’gari’s Orchid Beach on Monday.
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