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The poker machines in NSW pubs generated profits of about $900 million in a three-month period this year. Should country pubs that decline to have poker machines be entitled to tax breaks?

A working group set up after severe storms over Queensland's Scenic Rim gives community members the skills to be more self-reliant and less dependent on outside help during a disaster.

FIFO workers in WA's construction sector are far more likely to consider taking their own lives than the average Australian. A woman whose friend acted on that impulse is among those trying to address the issue.

The Australian Disability Network reports people with a disability aged 15 to 64 are twice as likely to be underemployed as those without a disability.

Family members and advocates are concerned about conditions for inmates at Roebourne Regional Prison as another hot summer looms, especially after the town hit a top winter temperature of 40.2 degrees Celsius this year.

When Taraidh became quadriplegic 18 months ago, it turned his family's emergency plans on their head. A new program is helping equip people like him with the tools they need to prepare.

The Wagonga lady is one of more than 1,700 ancestors returned to Australia from overseas collections in the past three decades, but many more remain to be found and returned.

In 2004 the death of 36-year-old Cameron Doomadgee in a watch house on Palm Island sparked a riot which caused $4 million damage to the island and led to a $30 million class action racial discrimination. Community members say while the island may have changed due to the high profile nature of the event - the country has not  with deaths increasing year on year. 

Plans lodged with WA's Environmental Protection Authority this month will bring wild transformation to an ancient desert landscape. Experts, who note the proposed scale is "incredible", say the idea has a lot going for it.

Sky-high airfares, poor flight times and unexpected scheduling changes have become standard in Darwin — and there are concerns prices may be about to climb even higher. 

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A crisis accommodation centre manager in southern NSW says families are living in tents due to a lack of suitable housing.

Residents living near a Bendigo gold mine say the company's activities have already caused damaging earthquakes in the region.

Although the survey is only about 15 to 20 per cent complete, the northern reefs are so far revealing the biggest annual decline in coral cover in the 39 years the program has been running. 

Amid the spinifex on a remote Western Australian island looms Chevron's troubled carbon capture facility. The role the technology might play in cutting greenhouse gas emissions is likely to get a fresh airing at global climate talks in Azerbaijan.