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Former Apple lawyer accused of insider tradingThe SEC has filed a lawsuit against former Apple lawyer Gene Levoff that accuses him of insider trading. 9News
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Former lord mayor Robert Doyle withdraws legal action, clearing way for report's releaseFormer Melbourne lord mayor Robert Doyle withdraws a Supreme Court action, clearing the way for the City of Melbourne to finalise and release its investigation into allegations he groped a woman at a black tie dinner in 2016.
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Thousands back call for minister to reinstate pupil-dragging principalAlmost 15,000 have signed a petition demanding the reinstatement of Melbourne principal filmed dragging student through school playground
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Disgraced chiropractor who claimed to 'cure cancer' fined $30kA disgraced Queensland chiropractor who claimed he could cure cancer using vitamin C has now been convicted of criminal charges.
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Salmonella outbreak linked to Vietnamese rolls, nine people hospitalisedAn Adelaide bakery stops selling Vietnamese rolls following an outbreak of salmonella linked to three of its stores. SA Health says nine people have been hospitalised.
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Convicted criminals could be transferred to Australia under medivac bill: Porter | Sky News AustraliaFULL INTERVIEW: Attorney General Christian Porter says the medivac bill that passed parliament this week would allow people convicted of a serious criminal offence to travel to Australia for medical treatment.\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\nNationals leader Michael McCormack was criticised on Thursday for claiming that the Home Affairs Minister would be unable to stop ‘spivs, and rapists and murderers' from being transferred to Australia for medical care.\n\nMr Porter told Sky News that under the amendments Labor put forward, an asylum seeker convicted, but not sentenced yet, of a serious offence can still be transferred to Australia.\n\nHowever, he could not nominate whether any asylum seeker currently housed on Manus Island or Nauru would fit this definition.\n\n\n
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