Teacher study sparks calls for graduates to go bush
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A new study into teacher resilience highlights the attrition rate in the profession, with renewed calls for graduates to take jobs in rural areas.
Topics: teachers, people, rural-youth, education, human-interest, melbourne-3000
Your memories of the Melbourne Olympics
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Watching the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games was many Australians' first experience of television.
Topics: television-broadcasting, human-interest, olympics-summer, television, melbourne-3000
Crash data sparks call to separate trams from traffic
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A rise in collisions between trams and motor vehicles shows the need to separate them, an expert says.
Topics: road, traffic-offences, safety, melbourne-3000
Let's talk about the best ways to approach public speaking
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If you're nervous about speaking publicly, an expert advises to write simply, embrace your nerves and don't always start with a joke.
Topics: information-and-communication, work, university-and-further-education, human-interest, footscray-3011, victoria-university-3000
Blue Light still grooving after 40 years
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Four decades on from its first dance, Blue Light is more than just a disco.
Topics: youth, police, pop, 21st-century, crime-prevention, 20th-century, preston-3072, maldon-3463
Melbourne sets Australian band t-shirt photo record
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A group of music-loving Melburnians have set the record for the most people wearing Australian music t-shirts in a single photo.
Topics: australian-composers, popular-culture, pop, rock, electronic, folk, music, fashion, photography, carnivals-and-festivals, human-interest, abc, melbourne-3000
Even shark sightings are covered by new VicEmergency app
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A new app warns Victorians of nearby emergencies including bushfires, storms, earthquakes — and even shark sightings.
Topics: emergency-planning, internet-technology, mobile-phones, melbourne-3000
Where do train replacement buses come from?
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They are the three words that strike fear into Melbourne commuters: "Buses replacing trains." But where do these buses come from?
Topics: rail, urban-development-and-planning, emergency-planning, melbourne-3000
How Melbourne can adapt, survive, thrive
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Melbourne's planners will have to work across local council boundaries if the city is to meet the challenges it will face in the 21st century, an expert says.
Topics: urban-development-and-planning, emergency-planning, climate-change, local-government, human-interest, melbourne-3000
What does Australian music sound like?
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We asked some stars of Australian music a simple question: "What does Australian music sound like?" This was how they responded.
Topics: music, human-interest, melbourne-3000
Melbourne sneezes through worst hayfever season in years
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Warnings that 2016's hayfever season would be the worst in years has come to pass, with sufferers across Melbourne reporting severe symptoms.
Topics: allergies, health, melbourne-3000
Why are Army helicopters flying over Melbourne?
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Is there a large Army helicopter hovering above you? Don't panic, we're not under attack.
Topics: army, human-interest, melbourne-3000
Melburnians urged to inspect trees for storm damage
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Melburnians are being urged to look up into the trees to spot potential dangers after the recent stormy weather.
Topics: storm-event, gardening, tree, storm-disaster, weather, melbourne-3000
Childhood friends too cute to bear
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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
Jon Faine's secret project to give women equal airtime
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A secret six-month project by a Melbourne radio program has seen a dramatic increase in the number of women interviewed on air.
Topics: women, abc, radio-broadcasting, melbourne-3000
Melbourne's iconic W-Class trams under audit
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The Victorian Government will inspect and record the condition — intact or otherwise — of Melbourne's remaining stock of historic W-Class trams.
Topics: 20th-century, history, human-interest, newport-3015
Spelling Bee champion makes 'Need a seat?' badges
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Great Australian Spelling Bee champion Anirudh Kathirvel starts a campaign encouraging public transport users to offer their seats to people who need one.
Topics: children, volunteers, social-media, disabilities, keysborough-3173
Growing your own avocados a smashing plan
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Growing your own avocados has been made easier by the apartment boom, an expert says, but renters are unlikely to see much benefit.
Topics: gardening, community-and-society, human-interest, melbourne-3000
Erection problems made worse by anxiety, expert says
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It is important that men don't put pressure on themselves when their penis isn't performing, an expert says.
Topics: sexual-health, men, mens-health, prahran-3181
'Sex sandwich' could help revive your love life
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Exhausted by work and family life, many people find that all they want to do in the bedroom is sleep. But a "sex sandwich" could help.
Topics: sexuality, relationships, family, people, human-interest, melbourne-3000
Uni builds darkroom as photography students opt for film
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A Victorian university finds that its students are increasingly interested in using film rather than phones to capture their photos.
Topics: photography, fine-art-photography, university-and-further-education, human-interest, geelong-3220, melbourne-3000
Hairy fashion changes make the cut for photo exhibition
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A new exhibition in Melbourne uses state government photographs to trace a century of hair fashion.
Topics: fashion, 19th-century, 20th-century, photography, library-museum-and-gallery, north-melbourne-3051
RACV calls for more clearways after Punt Road success
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The RACV says the success of the 24-hour clearway on Melbourne's Punt Road shows they should be implemented on other major roads.
Topics: urban-development-and-planning, states-and-territories, transport, south-yarra-3141
Snake release sites squeezed by new housing estates
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A snake catcher from Melbourne's western suburbs says new housing estates are making it more difficult to relocate the reptiles.
Topics: reptiles, animals, urban-development-and-planning, conservation, animal-attacks, human-interest, laverton-3028
It's Christmas! According to the shops, anyway
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There are more than 100 sleeps until Santa comes, but the nation's retailers are already happy to sell you a bauble or a pack of fruit mince pies.
Topics: human-interest, christianity, retail, melbourne-3000
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