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The first couple have their first dance 🇺🇸 📸: Reuters
What makes a tiny penguin set out on an epic journey through a vast ocean with seemingly little hope of returning home in one piece? 🐧🌏 Antarctic researchers aren't really sure, but when one little chinstrap penguin made a very rare appearance on remote Macquarie Island recently there was great excitement. 📸: Kim Klista
@barackobama departs Washington as a private citizen, waving goodbye to life as the President of the United States. 👋🏼🇺🇸 📷: AP/John Angelillo
@realdonaldtrump today becomes the 45th President of the United States, as @barackobama finishes his second term. 📸: AP/Evan Vucci 🇺🇸 #inauguration
Australia's most visited museum - the Queensland Museum - has celebrated its 155th anniversary. The 1.2 million objects that make up its vast collection are worth more than $487 million – among them, this Robber Fly. 📷: Jessica Hinchliffe
Window cleaners get to work on Frank Gehry’s ‘paper bag building’ – a business building at the University of Technology Sydney. This fantastic photo comes from @abcopen contributor ilyabaturin!
Good moo-rning! We just love these inquisitive cows, snapped by @abcopen contributor Mitch Forrester in Brushgrove, NSW… 👌🏼🐮☀
A pair of #ospreys 🦅appear to be tangled in mid air over Maroochydore on #Queensland's #sunshinecoast. Thanks to @abcopen contributor @catblack10 for the snap 📸🔥
Is there any better feeling than a dip in the ocean? Syrian refugee Joseph Ghazal has just had his first taste of an Aussie beach 🌊🏖. He fled his home town of Aleppo with his sons and wife, after his home was destroyed. "We lost everything during five years from the war," he said told ABC.
The Kambah Community #FireUnit 🚒 has a small but dedicated crew, but needs new members 👩‍🚒👨‍🚒. As the territory sweats through what is likely to be a longer and hotter #bushfire 🔥season than usual, #Canberrans living on the edge of the city are being urged to join volunteer town brigades. #ACT 📷ABC News: Adrienne Francis
Thanks to @abcopen contributor davetomo for this pic of a farmer 🚜knocking off after a hard day's work in Wedderburn, Victoria 📸👍🏼
Omg 😍🐻. This is Maiya the red panda. She recently suffered a neck injury while being carried in her mother’s mouth at Taronga Zoo. She’s well and truly on the mend though and has found a fluffy friend which she snuggles up to while feeding and sleeping.
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