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LGBT teens celebrate their sexuality at Fancy Formal
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Gay, lesbian and gender diverse teenagers celebrated the end of high school at the inaugural LGBT-Plus Fancy Formal in northern New South Wales.
Topics: gays-and-lesbians, youth, events, community-and-society, sexuality, education, byron-bay-2481, ocean-shores-2483, mullumbimby-2482, billinudgel-2483
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Eumundi School of Rock prepares debut
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The drummer is only eight years old in this up-and-coming Queensland rock band, mentored by four-time Aria award winning singer Katie Noonan.
Topics: music, rock, education, eumundi-4562
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Lorraine Williams, mother and Worawa cultural advisor. Video
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Lorraine Williams, mother and Worawa cultural advisor.
Topics: community-and-society, rural-youth, youth, education, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, healesville-3777, vic
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Jahmai Tolentino, Pat Dodson’s great granddaughter, wants to become an aviation pilot Video
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Jahmai Tolentino, Pat Dodson’s great granddaughter, wants to become an aviation pilot.
Topics: community-and-society, youth, rural-youth, education, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, healesville-3777, vic
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Tracey Burchall, Worawa teacher. Video
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Tracey Burchall, Worawa teacher.
Topics: community-and-society, rural-youth, youth, education, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, healesville-3777, vic
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Kateena Norris hopes to become a police officer. Video
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Kateena Norris hopes to become a police officer.
Topics: community-and-society, youth, rural-youth, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, education, healesville-3777, vic
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Shaquille Swan wants to study audio engineering and become a producer. Video
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Shaquille Swan wants to study audio engineering and become a producer.
Topics: community-and-society, youth, rural-youth, education, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, healesville-3777, vic
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Worawa College empowering young Aboriginal women with skills and confidence
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Imagine leaving behind your family, your country, your way of life. All at the age of 12. That is what it takes for young women to pursue an education at Worawa Aboriginal College — Victoria's only independent Aboriginal school and the first of only two Aboriginal-controlled boarding schools in Australia.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, indigenous-culture, education, women, healesville-3777
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Number of home-schooled Queensland children 'doubles in past five years'
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Thousands of Queensland children are being pulled out of the classroom to be home-schooled by their parents, with figures more than doubling over the past five years.
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Disney offers Tahitian translation of Moana Audio
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The Disney animated film Moana is to be translated into Tahitian, one of seven Indigenous languages spoken in French Polynesia.
Topics: film-movies, animation, education, pacific, french-polynesia
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Rosalie Martin named Tasmanian Australian of the Year 2017
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Rosalie Martin, a speech pathologist who helps prisoners learn to read, is named 2017 Tasmanian Australian of the Year.
Topics: awards-and-prizes, human-interest, community-and-society, suicide, education, environment, tas
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'Godfather of Coral' reflects on 25 years on the Solitary Islands Marine Park
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Renowned coral researcher Dr Charlie Veron, known as the "Godfather of Coral", addresses the NSW Coastal Conference to mark 25 years since the Solitary Islands Marine Park was established off the coast of Coffs Harbour.
Topics: great-barrier-reef, oceans-and-reefs, environment, environmental-impact, environmental-management, education, conservation, coffs-harbour-2450
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Take a walk through Sydney's oldest jail
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The National Art School is a beautiful complex with colonial sandstone architecture and leafy gardens, but almost two centuries ago the old Darlinghurst gaol was a brutal place that housed some of Sydney's worst criminals.
Topics: history, community-and-society, education, arts-and-entertainment, contemporary-art, architecture, sydney-2000
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Noel Pearson's Good to Great Schools linked to 'high risk' business practices: secret audit
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Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson's Good to Great Schools Australia organisation has been involved in "high risk" business practices potentially leaving the schools open to possible fraud and official misconduct, according to a confidential government audit of the Cape York Academy schools.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, government-and-politics, education, indigenous-policy, aurukun-4871, weipa-4874, qld, australia
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'There'll be dancing in the streets': Pearson pulls out of Aurukun
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Indigenous leader Noel Pearson advised the Queensland Government that the non-profit group he founded will cease "all negotiations" in relation to the troubled Aurukun school, briefly closed in May due to alleged violence.
Topics: education, access-to-education, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, aboriginal, aurukun-4871, brisbane-4000, qld
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Pain-free vaccine nanopatch wins scientist CSL Young Florey Medal (photos)
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University of Queensland professor Mark Kendall is awarded one of the nation's highest science honours for his pioneering work on "pain-free" vaccines that can be administered without a needle.
Topics: education, science, science-and-technology, science-awards, community-and-society, brisbane-4000, qld
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Hinch names Brisbane paedophile teacher, says school stayed silent
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Independent senator Derryn Hinch tells Parliament that Redlands College let parents believe paedophile Jonathan Sims was on leave when in fact the Year Two teacher was in jail for indecently treating a child.
Topics: child-abuse, community-and-society, children, education, religion-and-beliefs, law-crime-and-justice, laws, courts-and-trials, brisbane-4000, redland-bay-4165, qld
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Labor MP quotes Baz Lurhmann's 'sunscreen song' in Parliament
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A Federal Labor MP quotes Baz Lurhmann's Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen) in Parliament, which he says is a tribute to those currently holding their year 12 exams.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, education, human-interest, australia
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Boman siblings fight to control training provider Fitlink
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A bitter family dispute over troubled training provider Fitlink has escalated, leaving thousands of students in Australia and New Zealand uncertain about the future of their studies.
Topics: education, law-crime-and-justice, brisbane-4000
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Kids who watch porn won't necessarily turn into sex offenders Opinion
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There's no evidence that the increase in children committing sexual offences is because they watch online porn, writes Professor Marilyn Campbell.
Topics: child-abuse, education, sexual-offences, australia
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New twist on traditional PNG art on display at the Queensland Gallery Audio
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Artist Florence Jaukae-Kamel from Goroka in the Papua New Guinea highlands is delivering a new twist on the traditional art of making the bilum, the string bag used throughout the country.
Topics: fashion, contemporary-art, visual-art, education, pacific, australia
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Topics: education, maroochydore-4558
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Mining payments paying for school lunches in remote NT
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It is no small task preparing 150 meals for school children in Lajamanu, where gold mining royalties are giving the community the power to self-determine their spending priorities.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, mining-industry, business-economics-and-finance, government-and-politics, public-schools, education, lajamanu-0852
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Deadly summer feared as new drugs like 'N Bomb' emerge
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There are fears this summer could be the deadliest yet for Australian 'party drug' takers, with hundreds of new and unpredictable substances on the market, one of which a Brisbane woman tells the ABC "terrified" her.
Topics: drug-use, health, drug-education, education, drugs-and-substance-abuse, community-and-society, drug-offences, brisbane-4000, qld, australia, southport-4215, vic
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