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'Infuriating': Aboriginal voters turned away, told to line-up again on SA election day
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Acting SA electoral commissioner calls for council election delay
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Neo-Nazi Thomas Sewell broadcasting hate on Instagram from Victorian acreage
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Liberals grapple with age, gender problems in new party paper
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