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Disease outbreak prompts call to ensure kids are jabbed

A diphtheria outbreak has prompted a call-out to parents to ensure their children are vaccinated against the serious respiratory disease.

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'Harrowing' night as cyclone devastates remote towns

A "devastating" cyclone has torn through coastal towns, leaving homes destroyed, power out and shell-shocked residents picking up the pieces.

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Cyclone Narelle is now larger and ‘more severe’ as it crosses the Western Australian coast

Severe Tropical Cyclone Narelle continues to amaze us with its long journey across northern Australia.

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Ex-Tropical Cyclone Narelle: ‘vulnerable’ Katherine aged care residents evacuated to open-sided basketball court

Some residents moved amid threat of flooding are under public guardianship due to reduced mental capacity. NT public guardian says they ‘would have been very frightened’

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Town on high alert in cyclone's wake amid flood fears

Just when they thought it was safe to forget about the water, residents of a sandbagged outback town are bracing for a second round of flooding.

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Ex-Tropical Cyclone Narelle to intensify with Perth a possible target as storm makes rare crossing across continent

Narelle weakens to a tropical low after bringing heavy rain to already-saturated parts of the Northern Territory

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Rain-hit region braces as tropical storm sweeps past

Top End locals are wary of another flood threat after a former cyclone swept past, causing less damage than first expected as it speeds toward another state.

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Saturated NT braces for Tropical Cyclone Narelle to dump another 300mm of rain

Katherine has already experienced one of the worst floods in decades. Now patients have been evacuated from the hospital as Narelle bears down

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Territorians in path of Tropical Cyclone Narelle told to take cover in bathrooms as storm intensifies

Very destructive winds gusting up to 195km/h are forecasted, with major flooding expected in Katherine by Monday

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Hospital evacuated as sodden ground braces for Narelle

Communities still reeling from recent flooding are now dealing with evacuated hospitals, the prospect of extreme weather and surging tides.

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Indigenous Australians always come off worst in disasters. This needs to stop

Indigenous communities are often the worst hit when major disasters strike. The recent floods across the Northern Territory are a case in point.

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Limited support for proposals in Kumanjayi Walker death

A territory police force has supported some but not all coronial recommendations following the fatal police shooting of a young Aboriginal man.

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Cyclone Narelle: ‘compact’, dangerous and unusually predictable

Tropical Cyclone Narelle is currently a very dangerous Category 5 storm, sitting off the Far North Queensland Coast some 350 kilometres northeast of Cooktown. Formed in the Coral Sea, Narelle is packing a punch, with sustained winds near the centre of 205km per hour and wind gusts to 285km per…

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'Get out': police cop deathbed rant from outback killer

Even as he lay on his deathbed, a notorious murderer refused to divulge the whereabouts of a backpacker he shot dead in a crime that shook the nation.

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'Something's coming:' worst cyclone in a century looms

A remote community is bracing for the biggest cyclone to hit the region in more than a century, seven years after a category four storm devastated the town.

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Nervous wait for flood zones as tropical cyclone looms

Northern Australia is bracing for more destructive weather in coming days as a low becomes a tropical cyclone in the Coral Sea and heads west.

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Intensifying storm looms for flood-soaked communities

A possible tropical cyclone looks set to bring more wild weather to parts of northern Australia still recovering from record-breaking flooding.

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Missing man found alive as floods spark more rescues

A man who went missing from a houseboat has been found alive as major flooding continues to impact communities across the nation's north.

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The Guardian - AU

‘Blue-sky flood’ as waters reach outskirts of Longreach – as it happened

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NT cop Ben Parfitt rescued 27 schoolchildren from a flooded caravan park. Then he made headlines for saving a dog

German shepherd helped into helicopter hovering above 4WD stranded in flood waters that have inundated much of northern Australia was ‘amazing’

The Guardian - AU

Rent pause for flooded Aboriginal communities: ‘We’re talking about the most disadvantaged people in the Territory’

NT government says the rent freeze will be ‘applied automatically for eligible housing tenants’ as floodwaters break records in the Big Rivers region

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'Here to stay': locals dig in with post-flood mud army

For the third time in six years, a regional community has welcomed the mud army as volunteers help waterlogged regions following widespread flooding.

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Joe Lockhart Declined Jeffrey Epstein's Request for PR Help, Emails Show

Emails reveal that Joe Lockhart declined a request from Jeffrey Epstein for PR help in 2015 as sex-trafficking allegations intensified.

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What we know about croc numbers in the NT after surge in floodwater sightings

Recent crocodile sightings in floodwaters in the Northern Territory have prompted widespread concern, particularly in the town of Katherine and along the Daly River.

The Guardian - AU

The scale of northern Australia’s record-breaking floods revealed in data and maps

Some river levels are still increasing after parts of Queensland recorded their highest three-day rainfall totals

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