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| UpdatedRefugee and criminal lawyer Deng Adut is a contender for 2017 Australian of the Year having just been named the New South Wales winner.
Topics: awards-and-prizes, human-interest, sydney-2000, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedWith some of Canberra's top teachers being awarded for inspiring students, we take a look at what makes a good teacher.
Topics: teachers, access-to-education, public-schools, primary-schools, secondary-schools, awards-and-prizes, canberra-2600, act, harrison-2914, theodore-2905
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| UpdatedIrish rock star Bono is awarded Glamour magazine's first Man of the Year, an accolade that has been met with bewilderment and attracted criticism.
Topics: awards-and-prizes, people, united-states
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| UpdatedBede Jones, a Palawa man from Tasmania, hopes being awarded the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford University will encourage others to leverage their differences and aim high.
Topics: aboriginal, university-and-further-education, awards-and-prizes, gays-and-lesbians, community-and-society, tas
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An Aboriginal elder and a woman who helps seniors and dementia sufferers shares their life stories through theatre are recognised in this year's finalists for the WA Seniors Awards.
Topics: awards-and-prizes, older-people, human-interest, wa
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| UpdatedThe ACT's 2017 Australian of the Year award is presented to former Canberra Raiders captain Alan Tongue.
Topics: awards-and-prizes, states-and-territories, charities-and-community-organisations, community-and-society, canberra-2600, act
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| UpdatedAmerican singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature earlier this month, tells the Swedish Academy he will accept the prize.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, music-industry, music, books-literature, english-literature, music-awards, awards-and-prizes, sweden, united-states
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| UpdatedPaul Beatty says his Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Sellout was about bringing the conversation about American race relations into the present.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, books-literature, race-relations, awards-and-prizes, human-interest, united-states
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| UpdatedA film about a young man's initiation ceremony at a remote Aboriginal community in Queensland is met with acclaim at an international film festival in New York.
Topics: community-and-society, indigenous-culture, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, aboriginal, documentary, film-movies, arts-and-entertainment, awards-and-prizes, australia, united-states, canada
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Paul Beatty's The Sellout, a stinging satire of race and class in the United States, wins the Man Booker Prize, marking the first time an American has taken the prestigious fiction award.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, books-literature, awards-and-prizes, united-kingdom, united-states
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Joy McClymont says she never expected her personal training business to take off as quickly as it did from her family's remote property, Dalkeith station in western Queensland.
Topics: exercise-and-fitness, rural-women, rural-youth, rural-media, community-development, awards-and-prizes, longreach-4730
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A personal trainer working from a remote property in Queensland has won a national award, proving isolation is no barrier to success.
Topics: exercise-and-fitness, rural-women, rural-youth, rural-media, community-development, awards-and-prizes, longreach-4730
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| UpdatedMany writers might give their right arm to be paid almost $1 million to deliver a lecture, but Bob Dylan's silence since being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature might mean he never sees the award money.
Topics: music, awards-and-prizes, sweden
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| UpdatedFemale leaders in Papua New Guinean public and private sectors have been recognised at the annual Westpac Outstanding Women Award.
Topics: women, awards-and-prizes, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedA member of the Swedish Academy that awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in literature to Bob Dylan says the US musician's silence since receiving the honour is "impolite and arrogant".
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, music-industry, music, books-literature, english-literature, music-awards, awards-and-prizes, sweden, united-states
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| UpdatedIt was 2011 when Amna Karra-Hassan played her first game of Australian Rules football and the 28-year-old hasn't looked back since.
Topics: awards-and-prizes, australian-football-league, sport, community-and-society, women, people, sydney-2000
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New South Wales ironwoman and bushfire burns survivor Turia Pitt is announced as a NSW finalist for the 2017 Australian of the Year.
Topics: awards-and-prizes, wollongong-2500, newcastle-2300, griffith-2680
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A woman with dementia who is helping others across 38 countries deal with the health concern is among nominees for the Australian of the Year awards.
Topics: awards-and-prizes, human-interest, sa, adelaide-5000
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Three out of the four ACT Australian of the Year finalists hail from the sporting field, with Ricky Stuart, Alan Tongue and Katrina Fanning all up for the award this year.
Topics: awards-and-prizes, human-interest, canberra-2600, act
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A quirky and unusual unicorn will promote the magical spirit of next year's Adelaide Fringe festival, organisers say.
Topics: carnivals-and-festivals, arts-and-entertainment, visual-art, community-and-multicultural-festivals, awards-and-prizes, human-interest, adelaide-5000, sa, tanunda-5352
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Topics: water-skiing, awards-and-prizes, community-organisations, clubs-and-associations, cairns-4870
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They may not hold the official title anymore, but Cairns water-skiers who set a world record 30 years ago still believe they are at the top of their game.
Topics: water-skiing, awards-and-prizes, clubs-and-associations, community-organisations, cairns-4870, tas
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Topics: water-skiing, clubs-and-associations, community-organisations, awards-and-prizes, cairns-4870, tas
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Topics: water-skiing, clubs-and-associations, community-organisations, awards-and-prizes, cairns-4870