Family and Children
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Hunter Valley dad and son raise awareness of Tourette's
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A father and son who both have Tourette Syndrome say it is time to put and end to the stigma surrounding the disorder.
Topics: diseases-and-disorders, child-health-and-behaviour, adolescent-health, family-and-children, cessnock-2325
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Topics: family-and-children, rockhampton-4700
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Boarding school staff provide second home for rural students
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As students return to school across the country, boarding school staff prepare for another year of making students feel at home.
Topics: education, family-and-children, rural, rockhampton-4700
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Topics: family-and-children, rural, nyabing-6341
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Civil celebrants 'shouldn't refuse services' to same-sex couples
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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
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Children encouraged to get creative with Cardboard Box Challenge
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A project in Newcastle encourages children to put down their fancy toys and technology devices, and embrace playing with cardboard boxes and craft supplies.
Topics: craft, children, parenting, family-and-children, newcastle-2300
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Obama and his many encounters with kids
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There may have been lots of important, grown-up business to attend to as President of the United States, but over his eight years in office, Barack Obama still found time for child's play.
Topics: us-elections, government-and-politics, federal-government, family-and-children, children, human-interest, united-states
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Topics: schools, education, family-and-children, mackay-4740
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Topics: family-and-children, education, mackay-4740
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Back to school: A psychologist's tips to ease the journey
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Psychologist Joann Lukins shares strategies to prepare for the emotion and worry of the first day of school.
Topics: schools, education, family-and-children, children, parenting, mental-health, townsville-4810, qld
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Skin-to-skin contact safe for premature babies, research shows
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Skin-to-skin contact is safe for vulnerable premature babies and should be encouraged to help a newborn's first few weeks of life, a new study reveals.
Topics: babies, family-and-children, health, melbourne-3000, australia
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Helping hand offered to WA grandparent carers
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A statewide research project aimed at providing more support to grandparents who care for their grandchildren full-time is launched in Western Australia — and for Lorraine Fitzgibbons, it could make a big difference.
Topics: family-and-children, carers, older-people, perth-6000, wa
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Pledge to lift 'barrier to justice' for WA child abuse victims
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The Barnett Government promises to introduce legislation to scrap the six-year statute of limitations on when victims of child abuse can take civil against their perpetrators or institutions if it is re-elected.
Topics: child-abuse, family-and-children, sexual-offences, wa
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Dugout homes lease agreements in White Cliffs delayed by NSW Government
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Underground homes in White Cliffs have been leased by the State Government but now those agreements are uncertain.
Topics: housing, government-and-politics, history, family-and-children, weather, white-cliffs-2836, melbourne-3000, nsw
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Safety warning after toddler opens pool gate in 21 seconds
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An Adelaide mother's video warning on Facebook about flawed pool fencing which showed a two-year-old boy swinging open a gate goes viral.
Topics: children, children---toddlers, community-and-society, family-and-children, accidents, disasters-and-accidents, adelaide-5000, sa
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Four-year-old becomes 'librarian for a day' at Library of Congress
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Daliyah Arana, who at the age of four has read more than 1,000 books, has been invited to serve as a "librarian for a day" at the world's largest library — the US Library of Congress.
Topics: books-literature, children, family-and-children, human-interest, united-states
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Unvaccinated SA children to be sent home from preschool
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Unimmunised children will be asked to stay away from South Australian preschools and care centres when there is a disease outbreak as part of a new procedure.
Topics: vaccines-and-immunity, health, children, children---preschoolers, children---toddlers, family-and-children, community-and-society, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, sa
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Topics: community-and-society, parliament, state-parliament, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, education, preschool, family-and-children, children, children---preschoolers, children---toddlers, birchip-3483
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Topics: community-and-society, parliament, state-parliament, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, education, preschool, family-and-children, children, children---preschoolers, children---toddlers, birchip-3483
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Topics: community-and-society, parliament, state-parliament, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, education, preschool, family-and-children, children, children---preschoolers, children---toddlers, birchip-3483
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Topics: community-and-society, parliament, state-parliament, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, education, preschool, family-and-children, children, children---preschoolers, children---toddlers, birchip-3483
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Bedtime video story tells tale of canola seed
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From seed to ship: Bedtime canola story tells the tale of a little seed's journey
Topics: rural, agricultural-crops, community-and-society, family-and-children, grain, social-media, information-and-communication, rural-youth, cummins-5631
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Father says young daughter was never in danger during 27 days on tiny boat
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A missing New Zealand father and his six-year-old daughter baffle police and evade a child-recovery operation with an incredible journey to Australia on a six-metre catamaran.
Topics: missing-person, family, family-and-children, family-law, ulladulla-2539
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Child's inflatable pool death prompts lifesaver warning
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Blow-up backyard swimming pools are posing a serious risk to small children, who can drown in water less than 30-centimetres deep, lifesavers say, after a two-year-old dies in an inflatable pool.
Topics: accidents, disasters-and-accidents, children, community-and-society, family-and-children, death, morayfield-4506, qld, brisbane-4000
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Riverland lifestyle lures local back to the fruit block
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Twenty-eight years after first leaving South Australia's Riverland, Sue Heward has traded in her city office job to help her parents grow figs.
Topics: fruits, food-processing, food-and-cooking, work, family-and-children, monash-5342
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