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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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| UpdatedIt's cricket season — a time when many a backyard or amateur player can pull up with a sore shoulder or twisted ankle. Tasmanian Roar player Isobel Joyce shares some tips on how to not get injured.
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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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| UpdatedRefugee and criminal lawyer Deng Adut is a contender for 2017 Australian of the Year having just been named the New South Wales winner.
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| UpdatedA central Queensland mother warns of the dangers of magpies during breeding season after her son was seriously injured when he was swooped while riding his bike.
Topics: animals, animal-attacks, human-interest, rockhampton-4700
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| UpdatedA baby koala called Alfred is in good health after being found in a zipped canvas bag by police after they arrested a 50-year-old woman in Brisbane's south.
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A former salvage diver is intent on finding the final resting place of Australia's first submarine, AE1.
Topics: world-war-1, oceans-and-reefs, navy, history, maritime, human-interest, lifestyle-and-leisure, cairns-4870, papua-new-guinea
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Almost 50 years after Lucille Butterworth was murdered in Tasmania, the story of how her gift of a simple metal clicker may have saved lives in the Vietnam War is revealed.
Topics: human-interest, history, unrest-conflict-and-war, community-and-society, hobart-7000, vietnam
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The small rural community of Mingoola, on the Queensland/NSW border, was facing a bleak future.
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| UpdatedA radical grassroots resettlement plan transforms an ageing rural community on the NSW-Queensland border, with three African refugee families moving to the area.
Topics: community-development, community-and-society, community-organisations, human-interest, race-relations, refugees, tenterfield-2372, sundown-4860, qld
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| UpdatedThe social experiment to repopulate Mingoola has been labelled a win-win scenario.
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| UpdatedZimra Hussain is one of dozens of refugee children in Toowoomba on Queensland's Darling Downs who have been drafted into an AFL program to help their integration into the community.
Topics: people, human-interest, refugees, immigration, community-and-society, toowoomba-4350, qld
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The population of Australia's smallest town increases from zero to 200 for the fifth annual Channel Country Ladies day.
Topics: people, human-interest, community-organisations, community-and-multicultural-festivals, charities-and-community-organisations, womens-health, health, rural-women, rural, birdsville-4482, longreach-4730, qld, australia
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A professor of organisational behaviour thinks technology and the loss of smoking breaks have sent our 'thinking time' to the grave, so he has devised a simple healthy solution.
Topics: philosophy, human-interest, work, community-and-society, united-kingdom
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Is there a large Army helicopter hovering above you? Don't panic, we're not under attack.
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| UpdatedThe Bay Boys calendar of 2003 was a hot seller for the Port Macdonnell Football Club.
Topics: human-interest, sport, offbeat, community-and-society, photography, port-macdonnell-5291
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| UpdatedTaking the skin from an animal, cleaning it up and putting it through the tanning process to its finished state, is what 90-year-old Bryan Pearce has loved doing for the best part of 40 years.
Topics: animals, work, human-interest, community-and-society, deloraine-7304, tas
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| UpdatedIf Australian lifestyle and culture was an emoji set, what would it look like?
Topics: internet-culture, science-and-technology, information-and-communication, mobile-phones, indigenous-culture, lifestyle, human-interest, brisbane-4000
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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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South Australians are urged to help researchers count the koala population, a marsupial which is abundant in the Adelaide Hills but declared a vulnerable species nationally.
Topics: animals, human-interest, university-and-further-education, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedScientists discover a rare frog species in swampland north of Newcastle.
Topics: animal-science, biology, human-interest, science-and-technology, oyster-bay-2225, williamtown-2318, newcastle-2300, gosford-2250