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[title] => Bon voyage: new paddle steamer takes its first dip in the Murray River.
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[description] => Covering the federal election in the blue-ribbon Liberal seat of Kooyong was always going to be exciting. But I could not have expected just how wild it became.
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[description] => Rainfall shortages and thirsty data centres have the government looking for long-term answers.
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[title] => Got tickets for days three and four of the Boxing Day Test? Here’s how to get a refund
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[description] => Cricket fans with tickets to days three and four of the Test will need to find something else to do after England sealed a win in two days.
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[description] => Once swimmable, the Quiet Lakes are a “seething mass of blue-green algae” due to 30 years of Melbourne Water failures say residents who live by the toxic water.
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[description] => Cricket fans with tickets to days 3 and 4 of the Test will need to find something else to do on Sunday, with tens of thousands now owed refunds.
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