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| UpdatedA Brisbane amputee whose life was changed by a refugee writes to the Prime Minister asking him to rethink proposed migration law changes.
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Film star and UN ambassador Emma Watson teams up with a project to leave free books for commuters in the London Underground.
Topics: human-interest, social-media, books-literature, england
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Iconic songs by Midnight Oil, Christine Anu and The Wiggles are among 10 new recordings to be immortalised in the NFSA's Sounds of Australia registry.
Topics: music, arts-and-entertainment, history, popular-culture, library-museum-and-gallery, human-interest, canberra-2600, australia, act
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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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On a tiny one hectare farm on Lamb Island, off the coast of Brisbane, Simone Jelly runs an edible flower farm, producing flowers and edible leaves for the restaurant market. Read more
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| UpdatedFinding good coffee is a worthy hunt for many parents but what about a treat for the kids? Simon Leong is on a mission to find the best babyccinos in the world, starting with those in Sydney.
Topics: people, lifestyle-and-leisure, food-and-cooking, internet-culture, human-interest, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedFrom Kev Carmody to Archie Roach and Peter Garrett, the voices behind Australia's most iconic protest anthems reflect on their place in the Indigenous civil rights struggle, and whether there is still room for politics in the music scene.
Topics: indigenous-music, arts-and-entertainment, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, indigenous-culture, music, rock, activism-and-lobbying, history, human-interest, hip-hop, australia, nt
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Hunters Laurie Rees, Geoff van Steenis and Dirk Wendt talk about what draws them to hunting.
Topics: environmental-management, human-interest, animals, careers, pests, gruyere-3770, vic
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A Pakistani prosecutor says a court has dismissed a bail plea from National Geographic's famed green-eyed "Afghan Girl", who was arrested a week ago over allegedly forged ID papers.
Topics: crime, refugees, human-interest, pakistan, asia
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An Australian kayaker who paddled solo around the world has arrived on home soil, completing a 23,000 kilometre journey between Germany and Australia.
Topics: canoeing-and-kayaking, human-interest, women, community-and-society, lifestyle, rivers, oceans-and-reefs, travel-and-tourism, cairns-4870, torres-strait-islands, germany, papua-new-guinea
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When Charlotte Dobrovits moved into McKell Towers in Redfern she hit "rock bottom", but a new program by TAFE NSW designed for social housing residents has armed her with skills to be a community advocate.
Topics: community-and-society, human-interest, community-education, sydney-2000
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Virtual reality helps researchers and the public "dry dive" the Great Barrier Reef to explore and collect data on the natural wonder.
Topics: great-barrier-reef, environment, environmental-technology, science-and-technology, internet-technology, human-interest, brisbane-4000, cairns-4870
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Twenty new Australians are recruited to help migrant communities understand the dangers of a hot summer Down Under.
Topics: emergency-planning, bushfire, floods, immigration, human-interest, adelaide-5000
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More than 500 returned World War I servicemen are thought to be lying in unmarked graves around Tasmania, a sad oversight the Headstone Project is working to fix.
Topics: world-war-1, veterans, history, depression-1930s, human-interest, cornelian-bay-7008, tas
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Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu's prized instrument is among a haul of stolen music equipment found by police in Darwin.
Topics: crime, indigenous-music, guitar, human-interest, darwin-0800
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A therapy dog program in Newcastle is helping put smiles on the faces of sick kids.
Topics: animals, human-interest, health, volunteers, community-and-society, children, newcastle-2300, new-lambton-heights-2305
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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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