Community and Society

• Accused Bourke Street killer taken in for questioning

  Posted January 23, 2017 13:35:21 | Updated January 23, 2017 14:02:07

  The man accused of killing five people and injuring dozens of pedestrians during a rampage through Melbourne's CBD is taken in for questioning at Melbourne West police station on Spencer Street.

  Topics: police, law-crime-and-justice, crime, disasters-and-accidents, community-and-society, death, melbourne-3000

• Star Maker Rachael Fahim shines on stage at Tamworth Country Music Festival

  ABC New England

  By Jennifer Ingall

  Posted January 23, 2017 13:34:14

  The 2017 Tamworth Country Music Festival Star Maker of the year is Rachael Fahim, from Sydney.

  Topics: arts-and-entertainment, music, youth, community-and-society, events, carnivals-and-festivals, country, tamworth-2340, sydney-2000, sa, vic, qld

• Catherine Keenan's year as Australia's Local Hero

  ABC Radio Sydney

  By Amanda Hoh

  Posted January 23, 2017 13:26:55

  Sydney Story Factory director Dr Catherine Keenan prepares to pass the baton as Australia's Local Hero and reflects on a year of helping students express themselves through writing and storytelling.

  Topics: australia-day, education, community-and-society, community-organisations, human-interest, sydney-2000

• Civil celebrants 'shouldn't refuse services' to same-sex couples

  By political reporters Henry Belot and Alex Beech

  Posted January 23, 2017 12:26:04 | Updated January 23, 2017 12:29:48

  A Senate committee is urged to ensure civil celebrants cannot refuse services to same-sex couples due to religious or conscientious objections.

  Topics: community-and-society, religion-and-beliefs, law-crime-and-justice, family-and-children, marriage, government-and-politics

• App aims to make it safer for sex workers to connect with clients

  AM

  By Angela Lavoipierre

  Posted January 23, 2017 10:23:33 | Updated January 23, 2017 10:50:49

  A new app which works in a similar way to Uber aims to make it easier and safer for sex workers to meet their clients.

  Topics: sexuality, community-and-society, prostitution, mobile-phones, information-and-communication, science-and-technology, internet-technology, australia

• Deadly Bourke St rampage prompts bail law reform in Victoria

  Posted January 23, 2017 07:55:58 | Updated January 23, 2017 13:39:08

  The Victorian Government will establish a night court for magistrates to hear after-hours bail requests, as part of a big shake-up of the system following Melbourne's Bourke Street tragedy.

  Topics: police, law-crime-and-justice, crime, disasters-and-accidents, community-and-society, death, melbourne-3000

• Cyclists and pedestrians to be helped across South Road

  ABC Adelaide

  Posted January 23, 2017 07:53:15 | Updated January 23, 2017 09:37:17

  Adelaide's South Road is open again to road traffic this morning but traffic management staff will be stationed at the tram overpass to help cyclists and pedestrians find safe crossing points.

  Topics: states-and-territories, government-and-politics, road-transport, community-and-society, adelaide-5000, glandore-5037, sa

• Indigenous communities struggling with suicide get $10m funding boost

  By Neda Vanovac

  Posted January 23, 2017 06:06:00

  A community-based support service to prevent Indigenous suicides is getting a $10 million boost as the Government begins to roll it out across Australia.

  Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, suicide, mental-health, youth, australia, wa, nt, sa

• Victorian Premier mulls changes to bail laws in wake of Bourke St rampage

  By Loretta Florance and Frances Bell

  Posted January 22, 2017 14:14:55 | Updated January 23, 2017 10:10:23

  Daniel Andrews says it is his job to address the "anger and frustration" Victorians feel in the wake of the Melbourne car attack on Friday, but refuses to be drawn on how bail laws might be reformed.

  Topics: police, law-crime-and-justice, crime, disasters-and-accidents, community-and-society, death, melbourne-3000

• South Road reopened to traffic as faulty bridge gets temporary fix

  Posted January 22, 2017 10:14:43 | Updated January 22, 2017 15:48:58

  Adelaide's main arterial route, South Road, is reopened to traffic, five days after a damaged tram overpass forced the closure of a 1.6-kilometre section used by up to 45,000 drivers a day.

  Topics: states-and-territories, government-and-politics, road-transport, community-and-society, adelaide-5000, sa, glandore-5037

• Businesses reach out to veterans seeking civilian jobs

  By Elise Scott

  Posted January 22, 2017 08:28:11 | Updated January 22, 2017 10:27:06

  Veterans often face a distinct set of challenges when trying to enter the civilian workforce, but companies are increasingly seeking out former Defence personnel for employment opportunities.

  Topics: veterans, defence-and-national-security, work, community-and-society, canberra-2600, act, australia

• Hungarian school students killed in ski trip bus crash in Italy

  Posted January 22, 2017 08:08:44 | Updated January 22, 2017 09:32:03

  Sixteen people, mostly teenagers, die and many are injured when a bus crashes while returning to Hungary from a ski trip in northern Italy, police say.

  Topics: accidents, community-and-society, italy

• Sydney women's march attracts thousands

  By Chloe Hart

  Posted January 21, 2017 15:58:52 | Updated January 22, 2017 00:23:57

  Thousands of people turn out in Sydney to support women's rights and equality in solidarity with American women planning a march in Washington DC to voice their dissent against the Trump presidency.

  Topics: women, us-elections, community-and-society, sydney-2000

• Police concerns rising over missing man despite possible sightings

  By Elise Fantin

  Posted January 21, 2017 14:53:49

  New South Wales police say despite a number of reports of possible sightings of missing Tasmanian Bernard Gore they have not been able to find the 71-year-old and they are increasingly concerned for his welfare.

  Topics: missing-person, community-and-society, tas

• Police chief 'rock solid' behind officers after car ploughed into Melbourne mall

  By Loretta Florance

  Posted January 21, 2017 14:18:55 | Updated January 21, 2017 20:36:53

  Victoria's chief of police defends the force's handling of a car pursuit which ended with a man driving into a Melbourne mall yesterday, killing four people and injuring 30 others.

  Topics: police, crime, law-crime-and-justice, state-parliament, government-and-politics, community-and-society, disasters-and-accidents, melbourne-3000

• Thousands turn out to global women's marches in Australia

  Posted January 21, 2017 13:38:39 | Updated January 21, 2017 18:23:48

  Post-inauguration women's marches in Australia and New Zealand launch a global human rights event expected to attract over 2 million people worldwide.

  Topics: community-and-society, human-interest, human, world-politics, new-zealand, australia, sydney-2000, united-states

• Three children rescued from Italy avalanche Video

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  ABC News

  1min 10sec

  Posted January 21, 2017 13:34:29 | Updated January 21, 2017 14:06:13

  Italian firefighters pulled out three children from the avalanche-hit Rigopiano Hotel on Friday evening, who were later taken to Pescara Hospital.

  Topics: avalanche, disasters-and-accidents, death, earthquake, community-and-society, italy

• Girl pulled from hotel rubble as search avalanche for survivors continues

  Posted January 21, 2017 12:52:57 | Updated January 22, 2017 06:42:59

  The family of a chef who first sounded the alarm after a massive avalanche struck an Italian hotel, is reunited after rescuers pulled his daughter alive from the rubble.

  Topics: avalanche, disasters-and-accidents, death, earthquake, community-and-society, italy

• 'Game on' as pair turns South Road arterial route into tennis court

  By Lauren Waldhuter and staff

  Posted January 21, 2017 11:03:21 | Updated January 21, 2017 13:27:54

  Adelaide's main arterial route is set to remain closed for at least another day but in the meantime, one plucky pair take advantage of the situation by turning the strip into their own private tennis court.

  Topics: states-and-territories, government-and-politics, road-transport, community-and-society, adelaide-5000, sa, glandore-5037

• Empty safe image

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  ABC News

  Posted January 21, 2017 10:06:38

  Topics: recycling-and-waste-management, community-and-society, darwin-0800

• Lock of an old safe image

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  ABC News

  Posted January 21, 2017 10:06:38

  Topics: recycling-and-waste-management, community-and-society, darwin-0800

• John Notais with his empty military safe image

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  ABC News

  Posted January 21, 2017 10:06:38

  Topics: recycling-and-waste-management, community-and-society, darwin-0800

• Dreams drive elusive search for treasure in old locked safes

  ABC Radio Darwin

  By Emilia Terzon

  Posted January 21, 2017 10:06:38 | Updated January 21, 2017 11:22:25

  At any given moment in a clattering Darwin workshop, locksmith Ben Simmons can be found cracking open an old rusting safe brought in by a hopeful treasure hunter — and just once in a while he strikes gold.

  Topics: community-and-society, history, recycling-and-waste-management, darwin-0800

• IS militants destroy more Palmyra monuments: antiquities chief

  Posted January 21, 2017 06:52:59

  Islamic State militants destroy one of the most famous monuments in the ancient city of Palmyra, the Tetrapylon, and the facade of its Roman Theatre, Syrian antiquities chief Maamoun Abdulkarim says.

  Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, history, community-and-society, archaeology, syrian-arab-republic

• 'Baby convicts' from Northern Ireland sent to Australia deserve compensation: inquiry

  By Europe correspondent Steve Cannane

  Posted January 21, 2017 06:41:36 | Updated January 21, 2017 08:08:06

  The Historical Institutional Abuse inquiry in Northern Ireland recommends children who were transported to Australia in the 1940s and '50s be given compensation for the trauma they suffered.

  Topics: child-abuse, community-and-society, children, welfare, immigration, northern-ireland, australia

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