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SpaceX launches Israeli lander towards the moon | Sky News AustraliaIsrael is set to become only the fourth nation to successfully land on the moon following a SpaceX rocket launch on Thursday night.\n\nThe robotic lander is the size of a washing machine and has been named 'Beresheet', which is Hebrew for the biblical phrase 'in the beginning'.\n\nIt was one of three cargo loads carried by the Falcon 9 rocket, the most successful rocket used by billionaire Elon Musk's private aerospace company SpaceX.\n\nIn addition to the Israeli lunar lander, the Falcon 9 carried an Indonesian communications satellite, as well as an experimental satellite for the US Air Force.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Heart Foundation launches risk calculator for ‘Australia’s worst serial killer’ | Sky News AustraliaResearch has revealed heart disease claims the lives of at least 51 Australians per day, prompting the Heart Foundation to launch a new online tool which helps people work out if they're at risk.\n\nThe Heart Age Calculator combines data about a user's age, body mass index, diabetes status and family history to ascertain heart age. \n\nIn 2017, more than 18,000 people died from heart disease.\n\n
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People smugglers will ‘not succeed’ entering Australia: PM | Sky News AustraliaPrime Minister Scott Morrison says people smugglers will ‘not succeed’ if they attempt to enter Australia illegally. \n\nMr Morrison has issued a strong warning toward people smugglers during a two-minute video, saying Australia has zero tolerance for the trade and illegal boats. \n\nThe video message follows the Coalition's colossal defeat after losing a parliamentary vote over the medical evacuation bill, which allows doctors to request the transfer of asylum seekers on Manus Island and Nauru to Australia for treatment. \n\n\n\n
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Workplace age discrimination ‘endemic’ in Australia | Sky News AustraliaEmployment lawyers are reporting an increase in the number of older Australians suffering from age-related discrimination in the workplace.\n\nCarly Stebbing, the founder of law firm Resolution123, has told Sky News the situation is ‘endemic’, with the prospect of finding work at the same pay and status level ‘virtually impossible’ at or post-retirement age.\n\nMs Stebbing says employers are continuing the expectation that employees should depart the workplace at retirement age. \n\nShe argues it's inappropriate to ask older workers about their retirement plans, comparing it to asking women about their plans to have children. \n\n\n\n
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People of 'bad character' can enter Australia due to medivac bill: Dutton | Sky News AustraliaHome Affairs Minister Peter Dutton says some of the asylum seekers on Manus Island and Nauru rejected by the US ‘could be eligible’ to come to Australia after the medivac bill passed parliament.\n\nAmerica has barred 265 asylum seekers from being able to enter the US under its ‘extreme vetting’ process.\n\nAt least 456 asylum seekers in offshore protection have been accepted under the deal first agreed upon by former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull and former President Barack Obama in 2016.\n\nMr Dutton told Sky News the medivac bill that Labor endorsed will see ‘people of bad character,' some of whom are part of the cohort rejected by the US, being able to enter Australia.\n\nThe medivac bill is designed to give doctors a greater say over whether asylum seekers in offshore detention centres can be flown to Australia for medical treatment, though still allows the Home Affairs minister to reject transfers on security grounds.\n\n\n\n
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