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| UpdatedMore than 200 years after George Salter arrived in NSW on the Second Fleet, his fourth generation niece Roslyn Van Der Sandt returns to Parramatta Park and the house he built and developed into a flourishing livestock farm.
Topics: history, community-and-society, human-interest, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedGlencoe Guernsey steer Big Moo could take the title of Australia's biggest bovine, his owner Joanne Vine says, and she is willing to wager a steak dinner on it.
Topics: animals, human-interest, rural, glencoe-5291
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| UpdatedFive days a week, sometimes toiling in primitive kitchens, often in remote districts of Australia's sheep belt, Dick and Cheryl Duggan prepare up to 100 meals a day.
Topics: livestock, human-interest, sheep-production, coleambally-2707, nsw, vic
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| UpdatedAs the "Jungle" asylum seeker camp ends in flames, 8,000 refugees are bussed from Calais to processing centres all over France. But what do they make of their future as Europe becomes increasingly hostile?
Topics: immigration, refugees, human-interest, france, united-kingdom
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| UpdatedA Sudanese-born lawyer who witnessed horrific human rights abuses in South Sudan and grew up in a refugee camp in Uganda wins an industry award for his contribution to criminal law in Western Australia.
Topics: human-interest, refugees, wa, perth-6000
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The Aurora Australis, or southern lights, dazzles the night sky in Tasmania in near-perfect conditions.
Topics: environment, human-interest, weather, tas, australia
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A mother and son separated by war, then reunited in far north Queensland after 20 years, say they want to make a difference to their community.
Topics: refugees, unrest-conflict-and-war, family-and-children, human-interest, cairns-4870, rwanda, congo, zambia, angola
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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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| UpdatedAn American wingsuit flyer says he is lucky to be alive, releasing video from a body-worn camera which shows him slamming into a tree in the French Alps.
Topics: extreme-sports, human-interest, france
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A unique collection of motorcycles, headlined by a 1950 Vincent Black Shadow series C, will be auctioned as part of an estate clearance this weekend in Adelaide.
Topics: human-interest, history, adelaide-5000
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What's it like to trek through ice and snow in minus 35 degree temperatures at the top of the world? Ask Year Nine student Jade Hameister.
Topics: community-and-society, human-interest, youth, australia
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| UpdatedA small farm on an island off the coast of Brisbane is brightening Australia's restaurant scene with colourful, edible flowers.
Topics: flowers, food-and-cooking, human-interest, lamb-island-4184, brisbane-4000
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You might have heard of Melaleuca in Tasmania's far south-west, but few have had the chance to visit. It's remote, wild and, apparently, addictive.
Topics: travel-and-tourism, national-parks, volunteers, birds, human-interest, port-davey-7001, hobart-7000
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We asked you to send us photos of your childhood teddy bears. You delivered.
Topics: children, parenting, human-interest, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedToday marks 30 years since Jenny Woodward's smiling face first graced television sets across the state on ABC News, making her what is believed to be Australia's longest serving weather presenter.
Topics: people, abc, broadcasting, information-and-communication, human-interest, qld
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| UpdatedHomesick but happy, an Iraqi family makes the difficult and dangerous journey back to the village they fled a year earlier, unsure if their home has been looted by IS militants or is still standing at all.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, human-interest, refugees, iraq
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| UpdatedAfter losing everything in the Yarloop bushfire, drummer Howie Johnstone gets the keys to a new home and heads back to the small West Australian town to re-create his castle.
Topics: human-interest, bushfire, yarloop-6218, mandurah-6210
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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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Topics: human-interest, people, wollongong-2500
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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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Sitting behind a keyboard from the age of 15, Stewart Macdonald had to take great caution or risk getting burnt.
Topics: print-media, human-interest, work, community-and-society, history, charters-towers-4820
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Iconic water jugs and quirky teapots are on show to celebrate the life and work of legendary designer Robert Foster.
Topics: design, human-interest, industrial-design, craft, library-museum-and-gallery, canberra-2600
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Dance classes for people with Parkinson's and their partners helps them find fun again.
Topics: parkinson-s-disease, dance, marriage, human-interest, bellerive-7018
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| UpdatedTattoos are no longer secret adornments, but as their popularity increases, so too do the arguments over who owns the intellectual property within them.
Topics: laws, law-crime-and-justice, copyright, information-and-communication, human-interest, united-states