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A contract musterer brought in to remove nearly 300 feral goats roaming Kambalda says locals kept letting the animals out of their pens.
Topics: pest-management, pests, rural, community-and-society, human-interest, animals, kambalda-6442, katanning-6317, nsw
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| UpdatedWar memorials at Taree in NSW will undergo risk assessments following the death of a child who was crushed by a stone monument on Saturday, the local RSL sub-branch president says.
Topics: death, community-and-society, taree-2430, nsw
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| UpdatedAn eighth person has died following last week's freak thunderstorm asthma event in Melbourne and another remains in intensive care, health authorities say.
Topics: health, community-and-society, storm-event, weather, melbourne-3000, vic
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The Cooktown Re-enactment Association is dismissing criticisms levelled at it by independent media organisation New Matilda.
Topics: history, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, australia-day, journalism, information-and-communication, community-and-society, cooktown-4895, cairns-4870
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| UpdatedA video of a Bellingen man performing the Haka on the frontline at Standing Rock Reserve goes viral.
Topics: indigenous-culture, community-and-society, internet-culture, bellingen-2454, united-states
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Germany's highest court rejects an appeal filed by a man known as the "bookkeeper of Auschwitz", who was sentenced to four years in prison for his role in the murder of 300,000 people at the Nazi death camp.
Topics: world-war-2, law-crime-and-justice, history, community-and-society, human-interest, germany
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| UpdatedDavid Cecchin, a member of paedophile Shannon McCoole's child exploitation website, is sentenced to seven years and five months in jail.
Topics: child-abuse, community-and-society, crime, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, adelaide-5000, sa
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander kids at an after-school care program in Redfern learn about the benefits of hard work through skateboarding.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, education, primary-schools, human-interest, children, sydney-2000
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Topics: aboriginal-language, aboriginal, community-and-society, education, albury-2640
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Topics: community-and-society, aboriginal, aboriginal-language, community-education, albury-2640
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| UpdatedThe Filipino community has brought its unlikely national sport to Sydney. And no family is more obsessed with basketball than Blacktown's Figueroas, as Ann Arnold reports.
Topics: basketball, family-and-children, community-and-society, popular-culture, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedA man ploughs his car into a group of pedestrians at Ohio State University and then gets out and begins stabbing people with a butcher knife before he is shot to death by a police officer, authorities say.
Topics: community-and-society, law-crime-and-justice, united-states
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A seven-year-old Aleppo girl who tweets about day-to-day life in her hometown says she is "under heavy bombardments", as the Syrian Army seizes the key district from rebels.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, children, community-and-society, syrian-arab-republic
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| UpdatedA West Australian council makes a pre-election plea for more jobs and infrastructure to service its rapidly expanding suburbs on Perth's northern fringes, but an academic warns the WA capital is sprawling too far.
Topics: urban-development-and-planning, lifestyle, house-and-home, housing, community-and-society, government-and-politics, wanneroo-6065
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A Barnett Government reform team is expected to soon give the go-ahead for a $225-million package aimed at improving support and services in 10 remote Aboriginal communities.
Topics: community-and-society, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, fitzroy-crossing-6765
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| UpdatedA university student suing federal Labor MP Terri Butler for allegedly smearing him on national television has rejected her written apology, labelling it a "sham".
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, race-relations, community-and-society, federal-parliament, brisbane-4000, qld
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Traffic on Sydney's M4 motorway is brought to a halt as a four-wheel drive spins out of control with its driver sitting unconscious behind the wheel, as brave onlookers try to help.
Topics: accidents, health, community-and-society, prospect-2148
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| UpdatedCanberra taxi drivers are angry about a deal between Uber and the ACT Government to get weekend partygoers home from Civic during the silly season.
Topics: government-and-politics, community-and-society, business-economics-and-finance, act, canberra-2600
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The Ageing in North Queensland symposium is challenging communities to take the lead on creating connections with seniors.
Topics: older-people, aged-care, community-and-society, townsville-4810, mackay-4740, bowen-4805, charters-towers-4820, cairns-4870
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| UpdatedAn innovative community-led approach to tackling domestic violence has been launched in central Queensland with residents and service providers joining forces to create a website dubbed #canihelp?
Topics: community-and-society, domestic-violence, information-and-communication, internet-culture, women, family, rockhampton-4700