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Refugee Week marked across Australia around the theme 'Finding Freedom'

Communities across Australia are marking Refugee Week with the theme "Finding Freedom".
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Australian Afghan refugee Zaki Haidari standing and looking at the camera, at a refugee protest in Canberra.
Duration: 8 minutes 19 seconds

Prince Harry exposes 'huge amounts of intrusion' by British media

Prince Harry has told a London court that phone-hacking has been carried out on an industrial scale across the British press during hours of cross-examination from the lawyer for Mirror Group Newspapers.
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Prince harry smiles and waves
Duration: 8 minutes 48 seconds

Queensland farmers leading nation's carbon farming boom

Farmers around the country are restoring native plants and planting trees to help sequester carbon from the atmosphere.
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Photo of people planting small trees.
Duration: 5 minutes 3 seconds

Discussions over China and Ukraine dominate G7 summit

Two countries which aren't members of the G7 have dominated this year's summit, which has just wrapped up in Hiroshima, Japan.
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Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy disembarks French government plane.
Duration: 7 minutes 26 seconds

Business Council of Australia calls for a housing overhaul

The Business Council of Australia has released a report calling for an overhaul of planning systems and a national summit to increase build-to-rent supply.
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An overhead shot of wooden housing frames being built on a street.
Duration: 11 minutes 8 seconds

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No longer hope the crew onboard crashed army helicopter have survived, defence minister says

Activity in Queensland's Whitsundays has changed from search and rescue, to a recovery mission, Richard Marles says. 
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Corporal Alex Naggs (left), Lieutenant Maxwell Nugent (middle) and Warrant Officer Class 2 Joseph Laycock.

Belgian friend of missing tourist Celine Cremer visits search area with police

A friend of missing Belgian tourist Celine Cremer flew to Tasmania and has been shown the wilderness area where where the 31-year-old disappeared a month ago, with police reporting a cadaver dog on loan from NSW has found nothing.
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A headshot of a young woman with blonde hair looking off camera.

'What a journey': Buddy Franklin announces immediate retirement after injuring his calf in final match

Hawthorn and Sydney champion Lance Franklin — who is one of only six players to kick 1,000 VFL/AFL goals — announces his retirement from the game.
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A man yells in celebration after kicking a goal.

Origin of space junk that washed up on WA beach revealed

The Australian Space Agency concludes the mysterious object found on Green Head beach was most likely debris from a satellite launch vehicle.
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People stand around a large object on a beach

live:Minister says army helicopter crash was 'a catastrophic incident': The latest news with The Loop

Today's latest news, as it happens.
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A ship pulls Taipan wreckage from the ocean, authorities are in a smaller watercraft nearby

Tourists rescued after 'ill-prepared' mountain trek in Tasmania's central north

Five "ill-prepared" tourists have "veered off course" during a mountain trek Tasmania, sparking a rescue mission and a plea from police that all bushwalkers "not rely on mobile phones for communication or navigation".
A large mountain towers over a camping ground.