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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.
Topics: travel-and-tourism, social-media, offbeat, human-interest, darwin-0800, alice-springs-0870
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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.
Topics: animals, social-media, offbeat, human-interest, mexico
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University of Melbourne senior research fellow Dr Denis Muller says social media is effective in giving regional Australians a voice, but when it comes to political campaigning even viral posts 'won't make a blind bit of difference to anything'. Read More
Topics: agricultural-policy, road, road-transport, social-media, social-policy, portland-3305
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| UpdatedSocial media has done wonders in connecting regional Australians to the rest of the country, but how useful is it when it comes to political campaigning?
Topics: agricultural-policy, road-transport, road, social-policy, social-media, portland-3305
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Topics: us-elections, government-and-politics, journalism, social-media, united-states
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| UpdatedA photo of a shirt emblazoned with the words "Rope. Tree. Journalist. Some Assembly Required" worn by a man at a Donald Trump rally over the weekend goes viral.
Topics: us-elections, elections, government-and-politics, social-media, internet-culture, journalism, united-states
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| UpdatedSecond and third-generation Australians say they are shocked by Federal Government Facebook advertisements encouraging them to tell their relatives not to come to Australia illegally.
Topics: immigration, government-and-politics, advertising, social-media
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As India's capital deals with the crippling effects of air pollution, the people who live there are reaching out to the world on social media by posting smog selfies.
Topics: air-pollution, social-media, environmental-health, world-politics, india, asia
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A Byron Bay physiotherapist is harassed by anti-vaccination campaigners who have mistaken him for a pro-immunisation blogger known as Reasonable Hank.
Topics: vaccines-and-immunity, social-media, crime, byron-bay-2481
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Topics: health, vaccines-and-immunity, social-media, crime, byron-bay-2481
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Peter Tiernan speaks about being mistakenly identified as pro-vaccination blogger 'Reasonable Hank.'
Topics: health, social-media, vaccines-and-immunity, byron-bay-2481
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Topics: fashion, gardening, social-media, mackay-4740
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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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The Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service investigates after an image showing two men 'surfing' on a beached green turtle on Fraser Island is posted on social media.
Topics: conservation, social-media, kingfisher-bay-4655
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Topics: community-development, social-media, sustainable-and-alternative-farming, lightning-ridge-2834
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Topics: sustainable-and-alternative-farming, community-development, photography, social-media, eugowra-2806
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Two women from central-west NSW embark on a year-long project to change perceptions about what farmers look like — and it's not an old guy with a pitchfork.
Topics: rural-media, rural-women, community-development, social-media, photography, books-literature, eugowra-2806, orange-2800
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Farmers are taking to social media to manage the disease and insect pressure on their crops this season, by tweeting close-up photos from their paddocks.
Topics: social-media, pest-management, agricultural-crops, dubbo-2830
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| UpdatedThousands of people are using Facebook's location tagging feature to "check in" at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, near the site of an embattled oil pipeline in a bid to confuse police, who supporters believe are using it to track protesters.
Topics: social-media, internet-culture, united-states
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| UpdatedThe world's biggest social media platform will allow more content on its platform that it would have earlier removed because it violated its standards, a senior executive says.
Topics: social-media, internet-culture, information-and-communication, journalism, united-states, vietnam, norway, australia
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Topics: grief, social-media, rockhampton-4700
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Using Facebook when grieving for a loved one may prevent people from coming to terms with the death, a researcher finds.
Topics: grief, social-media, rockhampton-4700
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Topics: earth-sciences, vegetables, sustainable-and-alternative-farming, social-media, sheffield-7306
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Topics: earth-sciences, vegetables, sustainable-and-alternative-farming, social-media, sheffield-7306
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| UpdatedA group of Tasmanian farmers is using 'digital disruption' to create a community of farmers sharing knowledge about improving soil health on farm.
Topics: earth-sciences, vegetables, sustainable-and-alternative-farming, social-media, sheffield-7306