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‘This is hell’: Inside the Zimbabwe that Robert Mugabe leaves behind


The newly christened Zimbabwe was the pride of southern Africa after it won its independence from white-minority rule in 1980 — so how did it all go so badly wrong?

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‘This is hell’: Inside the Zimbabwe that Robert Mugabe leaves behind


The newly christened Zimbabwe was the pride of southern Africa after it won its independence from white-minority rule in 1980 — so how did it all go so badly wrong?

         September 06, 2019 at 11:38PM https://ift.tt/2zU7j4P
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Live: Homes lost as bushfires rage across Queensland, NSW in extreme conditions


Firefighters are working against out-of-control blazes across two states, with at least 13 properties destroyed in Queensland and four in New South Wales. Follow our live coverage.

         September 06, 2019 at 11:31PM https://ift.tt/2A0oBgt
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The sight of MPs carrying pillows home was proof this may have been Parliament at its worst


The debate on WA’s voluntary assisted dying bill was always expected to be tough, but a marathon all-night sitting of Parliament has left no-one in any doubt — and it may be just the warm-up act, writes Jacob Kagi.

         September 06, 2019 at 11:30PM https://ift.tt/2zYf4Xp
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The Canberra community sharing household waste in attempt to eliminate landfill


As enthusiasm for zero waste grows and Canberra holds its first festival on the subject, Brook Clinton hopes her community of composters will help create a world where landfill is a thing of the past.

         September 06, 2019 at 11:15PM https://ift.tt/34vYSKO
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Hunting the Tasmanian tiger: In pursuit of the long, lost thylacine, with stealth and science


In its prime, the thylacine was at the top of the food chain in Australia and its small island to the south. Now, decades after its extinction, the hunt for the Tasmanian tiger is still very much alive.

         September 06, 2019 at 11:15PM https://ift.tt/34vBJZe
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Hunting the Tasmanian tiger: In pursuit of the long, lost thylacine, with stealth and science


In its prime, the thylacine was at the top of the food chain in Australia and its small island to the south. Now, decades after its extinction, the hunt for the Tasmanian tiger is still very much alive.

         September 06, 2019 at 11:15PM https://ift.tt/34vBJZe
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Hunting the Tasmanian tiger: In pursuit of the long, lost thylacine, with stealth and science


In its prime, the thylacine was at the top of the food chain in Australia and its small island to the south. Now, decades after its extinction, the hunt for the Tasmanian tiger is still very much alive.

         September 06, 2019 at 11:15PM https://ift.tt/34vBJZe
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‘Free range’ means something different in Canberra. This is what it looks like


The ACT Government has told grocers to display signs supporting ‘genuinely free-range’ egg farmers, based on a much stricter definition than the national standard.

         September 06, 2019 at 11:14PM https://ift.tt/31bK0Q5
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The tiny marsupial which dies after one, ‘intense’ mating session


A tiny male marsupial dies in the wild after “intense” mating and not from the harsh, arid environment in which it lives, research confirms.

         September 06, 2019 at 10:30PM https://ift.tt/2ZEGrox