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Topics: engineering, community-and-society, human-interest, history, rockhampton-4700
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One of Queensland's last surviving hand-wound tower clocks in Rockhampton needs a new caretaker not afraid of heights.
Topics: engineering, community-and-society, human-interest, work, history, rockhampton-4700
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| UpdatedThe Federal Government extends funding for homelessness services by one year after the sector warned a funding cut could prompt a human and economic disaster.
Topics: homelessness, community-and-society, domestic-violence, federal-government, government-and-politics, canberra-2600, act, australia
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The green light is given for the construction of Adelaide's tallest tower, a 134-metre-high hotel and apartment building on Frome Street in the East End.
Topics: urban-development-and-planning, community-and-society, house-and-home, lifestyle-and-leisure, housing, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedMany people with disabilities are still working for less than $3 an hour almost four years after Australia's High Court ruled they were being underpaid at Government-supported workshops.
Topics: disabilities, work, community-and-society, government-and-politics, australia
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The demand for food hampers in regional Victoria is up 11 per cent after a tough year for the state's dairy farmers, who are putting their hands up for help for the first time in years.
Topics: dairy-production, livestock, rural, community-and-society, charities-and-community-organisations, community-organisations, sale-3850, vic, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedHour-long train delays, communication issues and a laughing emoji sees Queensland Transport Minister Stirling Hinchliffe once again apologising to rail commuters for disruptions to services.
Topics: community-and-society, rail-transport, government-and-politics, alp, political-parties, liberal-national-party-queensland, brisbane-4000, qld
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Topics: charities-and-community-organisations, community-and-society, yarraville-3013
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| UpdatedA Senate inquiry into Tasmania's bushfires last summer recommends a national firefighting team be considered, along with more federal funding to tackle risks in the state's Wilderness World Heritage Area.
Topics: federal---state-issues, bushfire, environmental-management, community-and-society, government-and-politics, hobart-7000, launceston-7250, burnie-7320, tas
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The outback town of Hughenden in north-west Queensland is looking for ways to keep the town alive after devastating job cuts.
Topics: rural, business-economics-and-finance, community-development, community-and-society, hughenden-4821, mount-isa-4825, townsville-4810
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| UpdatedThe ACT Government confirms it is working on legislation to ensure all pool fences comply with current safety requirements, as recommended by a coronial inquest into the drowning death of a toddler.
Topics: health, safety, lifestyle-and-leisure, death, community-and-society, government-and-politics, canberra-2600, act
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| UpdatedA Newcastle school student has won a scholarship to learn from some of Australia's leading Shakespearean actors.
Topics: actor, arts-and-entertainment, community-and-society, youth, education, schools, theatre, hamilton-east-2303, uganda, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedHealth authorities take the unprecedented step of offering free vaccinations against the potentially lethal W strain of meningococcal to young children and teenagers in the WA Goldfields in a bid to prevent an outbreak turning into a crisis.
Topics: meningococcal-disease, diseases-and-disorders, regional, child-health-and-behaviour, government-and-politics, community-and-society, kalgoorlie-6430, coolgardie-6429, kambalda-6442, boulder-6432
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| UpdatedTraditional owners from the remote Mutitjulu community near Uluru have signed off on a landmark leasing deal after six years of negotiations with the Federal Government.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, indigenous-policy, government-and-politics, land-rights, nt, yulara-0872, australia
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Low-income students in Sydney band together to see their apartment block become one of the first in Australia to install a shared solar and battery storage system.
Topics: environment, solar-energy, community-and-society, government-and-politics, housing, alternative-energy, climate-change, sydney-2000
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Topics: rural-tourism, community-and-society, buchan-3885
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Topics: rural-tourism, community-and-society, buchan-3885
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Topics: rural-tourism, community-and-society, buchan-3885
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| UpdatedA small country pub in Victoria's east reopens after being rebuilt through a crowdfunding campaign.
Topics: rural-tourism, community-and-society, buchan-3885
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Businessman Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest is Western Australia's Australian of the Year 2017 and chats about his work and nomination for the national gong.
Topics: community-and-society, australia
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| UpdatedAustralians spend more than $10 billion a year on sport and fitness activities, but keeping kids engaged in club games beyond 11 years old is proving a challenge, according to a landmark study into sports participation.
Topics: sport, other-sports, community-and-society, australia
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| UpdatedBeloved ABC sports commentator and anti-domestic violence campaigner Charlie King wins a Northern Territory human rights award, using the moment to call for an end to family violence over Christmas this year.
Topics: human, human-interest, activism-and-lobbying, domestic-violence, community-and-society, darwin-0800, nt
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Topics: world-politics, government-and-politics, community-and-society, united-kingdom
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The policing of a dozen pro and anti-Islam rallies in Victoria this year is estimated to have cost taxpayers $2.3 million, but the actual figure could be higher, Victoria police say.
Topics: police, states-and-territories, community-and-society, melbourne-3000, melton-3337, bendigo-3550, vic
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| UpdatedA workshop that has been running for five years in Tasmania, teaching the Aboriginal art of 'stringing' marina shell necklaces, is culminating in a national exhibition.
Topics: aboriginal, community-and-society, hobart-7000, launceston-7250