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The group behind a brazen new slogan say they've been inundated with interest and hope to boost visitor numbers in the Territory.
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Passengers on a commercial flight to Mexico get a surprise when a serpent slithers into the cabin in a scene straight out of the Hollywood thriller Snakes on a Plane.
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| UpdatedAs hard as it has tried, the Church of Scientology has yet to avenge a decades-long crusade against it by Rupert Murdoch, writes Steve Cannane.
Topics: non-fiction, religion-and-beliefs, people, offbeat, journalism, australia
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| UpdatedA reptile handler has proposed marriage to his girlfriend inside an enclosure at the Australian Reptile Park just metres from Elvis, the hungry 4.5-metre crocodile in residence
Topics: animals, offbeat, people, marriage, somersby-2250
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| UpdatedThe Bay Boys calendar of 2003 was a hot seller for the Port Macdonnell Football Club.
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A UK survey says you should stop wearing jeans after the age of 53. Tasmanians say "what balderdash", favouring denim for all ages.
Topics: fashion, lifestyle, offbeat, human-interest, hobart-7000, launceston-7250
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You may have heard of sea cows, but bulls on the beach aim to get Gold Coast locals and tourists to the outback.
Topics: tourism, animals, offbeat, surfers-paradise-4217
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It's the line that starts many a bad joke, but there was this one time in Adelaide when a horse really did walk into a bar. Hall of Fame jockey John Letts remembers.
Topics: horse-racing, animals, offbeat, human-interest, adelaide-5000
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| UpdatedA woman sustains serious burns after surgical drapes caught fire when she passed wind during an operation in a Tokyo hospital.
Topics: medical-procedures, offbeat, fires, japan, asia
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The US presidential race has dominated news and social media in the lead-up to the November 8 election, and is now spilling over into the country's much-loved holiday — Halloween.
Topics: carnivals-and-festivals, us-elections, offbeat, united-states
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For years after the Silverton Tramway Company in far west NSW was bought, sold and merged into obscurity, its employees' club continued to meet.
Topics: community-and-society, clubs-and-associations, history, offbeat, human-interest, broken-hill-2880
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Men who have spent their lives feeling ashamed of their saggy sperm satchel no longer need to suffer, writes Ben Pobjie. Scrotox is finally here.
Topics: men, mens-health, sexual-health, offbeat, comedy-humour, australia
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Mexico City held its first Day of the Dead parade on Saturday, October 29.
Topics: events, community-and-society, death, offbeat, carnivals-and-festivals, mexico
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Ed Balls, the former shadow chancellor in the United Kingdom, is confounding critics and rewriting the rule books of life after politics by dancing his way back into voters' hearts.
Topics: dance, arts-and-entertainment, television, government-and-politics, offbeat, human-interest, world-politics, united-kingdom
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An attempt this week to have yoga pants ostensibly outlawed is not the first coup against women's comfort, writes Jo Fox.
Topics: feminism, community-and-society, women, offbeat, human-interest, australia
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| UpdatedTake a look back at some of the most memorable viral Vines of the platform's three years, as Twitter announces it is killing off the video sharing app.
Topics: social-media, internet-culture, information-and-communication, offbeat, australia
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| UpdatedA young girl's lost toy is returned by warm-hearted cleaners who go out of their way to prove its misadventure is nothing but a fun holiday.
Topics: family-and-children, community-and-society, human-interest, child-health-and-behaviour, offbeat, renmark-5341, berri-5343
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| UpdatedFive months after a mechanic found Kalamata curled too close to a car engine, he (or she) has made a full recovery.
Topics: reptiles, animals, veterinary-medicine, offbeat, darwin-0800
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More than 50 years of collective experience behind the wheel of a taxi has given Mount Gambier's Mary and Geoff McDonnell a wealth of golden stories to tell.
Topics: lifestyle-and-leisure, human-interest, offbeat, mount-gambier-5290
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| UpdatedDo you remember having "the talk" with your parents or your kids? Artist Mish Grigor explores the taboos of sex, relationships and family dynamics in her theatre work based on real, "awkward" conversations with her family.
Topics: theatre, sexuality, community-and-society, family, offbeat, sydney-2000
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Australia is trying to lure more European backpackers with a $10 million campaign launched in London.
Topics: lifestyle-and-leisure, offbeat, human-interest, travel-and-tourism, united-kingdom
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| UpdatedOrphan, tradesman, gypsy and outback opal miner — Rudi Ravetti has done almost everything.
Topics: people, human-interest, offbeat, quilpie-4480