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| UpdatedFour Aboriginal faces will soon watch over the tiny farming community of Sheep Hills in north-west Victoria, as another large-scale work of art is produced on the disused silos of Victoria's far west.
Topics: contemporary-art, arts-and-entertainment, street-art, indigenous-culture, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, regional, rural, sheep-hills-3392, brim-3391, patchewollock-3491
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| UpdatedThe election of Donald Trump and Britain's exit from the European Union are the hallmarks of a tectonic shift in Western politics, fuelled by rural and regional revolt.
Topics: regional, community-and-society, us-elections, government-and-politics, australia, united-states, united-kingdom
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A Mackay hip-hop dancer shows you don't need lessons to attract an audience of 33 million people.
Topics: dance, anxiety, music-industry, regional, mackay-4740
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| UpdatedHere is a selection of photos sent in by ABC Open audience members from around Australia.
Topics: photography, visual-art, arts-and-entertainment, community-and-society, regional, rural, australia
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They read like someone raided a very strange dictionary, but miners and historians say the names of Western Australia's gold mines provide a window into the industry's history and controversy.
Topics: historians, regional, kalgoorlie-6430, laverton-6440, coolgardie-6429
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An exhibition of the work of Brett Whiteley captures how the rolling hills and rustic villages of inland New South Wales were an early solace and shaper of the young artist and continued to permeate his career.
Topics: visual-art, regional, community-and-society, arts-and-entertainment, bathurst-2795, lavender-bay-2060, oberon-2787, sofala-2795, carcoar-2791
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A hospital in north Queensland is the first in the state to trial the use of 3D cameras to treat patients with diabetes living in rural and remote areas.
Topics: health-administration, regional, health-policy, healthcare-facilities, health, diseases-and-disorders, diabetes, townsville-4810, qld, charters-towers-4820, torrens-creek-4816
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A mythical creature in Australian folklore, the drop bear looks set to have a road named after it near Tamworth, in northern New South Wales.
Topics: community-and-society, regional, local-government, tamworth-2340
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Topics: doctors-and-medical-professionals, regional, mallacoota-3892
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| UpdatedA Chinese entertainment company outlines plans for a new Gold Coast theme park that would include "Indigenous" and "wild Australia" components, as a fifth airline prepares to offer Beijing-Brisbane flights.
Topics: company-news, regional-development, business-economics-and-finance, urban-development-and-planning, regional, local-government, government-and-politics, arts-and-entertainment, southport-4215, qld, australia
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Groundwork is being laid to create a 'body farm' in central Queensland, where scientists can study how human corpses decompose in the tropics.
Topics: science, forensic-science, research, medical-research, crime, offbeat, community-and-society, regional, rockhampton-4700, sydney-2000
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WA Housing Minister Brendon Grylls says policies requiring prospective homebuyers to cough up deposits of 30 per cent in mining towns across Australia are a "hangover" from the mining boom.
Topics: banking, housing-industry, housing, regional, kalgoorlie-6430
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| UpdatedThe Victorian Government has announced a $17 million hi-tech education precinct in the Latrobe Valley is expected to be home to international technology giant Fujitsu.
Topics: information-technology, education, education-collaborative-projects, regional, government-and-politics, work, community-and-society, morwell-3840
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| UpdatedPolice are seeking witnesses to a street fight in the small town of Railton in Tasmania's north-west that left two men with serious injuries.
Topics: regional, assault, railton-7305, devonport-7310
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Here is a selection of photos sent in by ABC Open audience members from around Australia.
Topics: photography, visual-art, regional, community-and-society, rural, australia
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Topics: art-and-creativity, performance-art, art-and-design, regional, disabilities, mackay-4740
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Topics: disabilities, art-and-design, performance-art, regional, mackay-4740
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A north Queensland arts organisation is helping locals use creativity to exchange ideas on an equal playing field.
Topics: performance-art, art-and-creativity, art-and-design, disabilities, autism-spectrum-disorder, regional, mackay-4740
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Topics: radio-broadcasting, radio, regional, youth, rural-youth, moranbah-4744
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Topics: radio-broadcasting, radio, regional, rural-youth, moranbah-4744