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| UpdatedFuelled partly by the rise of Donald Trump, the term 'toxic masculinity' has entered the mainstream, writes Hayley Gleeson. But not everyone agrees it's a positive development in gender relations.
Topics: feminism, men, offbeat, internet-culture, social-media, mens-health
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| UpdatedQueensland's iconic Big Pineapple site is set to be redeveloped as its new owners look to attract different audiences.
Topics: travel-and-tourism, human-interest, offbeat, lifestyle-and-leisure, community-and-society, history, woombye-4559
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| UpdatedWhen artist Sven Roehrs asked his mother's neighbour, Professor Alan Mackay-Sim, to sit for a portrait, he did not know he would be painting the next Australian of the Year.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, visual-art, painting, offbeat, australia-day, qld, australia
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| UpdatedAustralian history is full of great moments, which could serve as alternative dates for Australia Day, including April 7, when the most Australian movie ever made — The Castle — was released, writes Ben Pobjie.
Topics: federation, history, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, national-days, offbeat, australia-day, australia
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| UpdatedResidents in South Australia's Riverland region may have spotted something quirky in the sky this morning, after an unusual cloud formation appeared over Lake Bonney at Barmera.
Topics: weather, offbeat, sa, barmera-5345, renmark-5341
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This is the story of how the so-called "crazy garden of Cockington Green" came to be chock-full of small-scale buildings and miniature people.
Topics: gardening, travel-and-tourism, offbeat, lifestyle-and-leisure, community-and-society, canberra-2600
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| UpdatedIt is not summer in Australia without a barbecue and a complimentary herd of flies, but how do you keep the flying liquorice at bay?
Topics: human-interest, invertebrates---insects-and-arachnids, ecology, offbeat, weather, adelaide-5000, wollongong-2500
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| UpdatedSuperheroes are being used to inspire young students to discover and develop their artistic powers.
Topics: sculpture, popular-culture, children, human-interest, offbeat, design, craft, art-and-design, murwillumbah-2484
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| UpdatedRemember the Japanese tourist who spent 16 hours floating on his surfboard 6kms out to sea?
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| UpdatedAn Instagram account calling for 'nipple donations' seeks to smash sexist double standards on social media, writes Ben Pobjie. And we should all be terrified of what comes next.
Topics: feminism, youth, offbeat, internet-culture, social-media
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As President Barack Obama counts down his time in office, we look back on some of the most memorable occasions he has shared with foreign leaders.
Topics: offbeat, human-interest, obama-barack, foreign-affairs, united-states
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| UpdatedConfectionery brand Allen's is inviting the public to vote on new lolly flavours, but their choices are a little disappointing, writes Deirdre Fidge. Here are some better ideas.
Topics: youth, internet-culture, social-media, offbeat, popular-culture, australia
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Topics: dance, performance-art, women, offbeat, exercise-and-fitness, townsville-4810
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Topics: dance, performance-art, women, offbeat, exercise-and-fitness, townsville-4810
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Topics: dance, performance-art, women, offbeat, exercise-and-fitness, townsville-4810
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Topics: dance, performance-art, women, offbeat, exercise-and-fitness, townsville-4810
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North Queensland women are boosting their body confidence by performing burlesque.
Topics: dance, performance-art, women, offbeat, exercise-and-fitness, townsville-4810
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Top End rangers conduct the unusual duty of rescuing a stingray that made its way into a popular freshwater swimming hole for a detox holiday.
Topics: animals, conservation, offbeat, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedEmbarrassingly timed, sometimes hilarious and always lasting longer than needed — what are hiccups and why do we get them?
Topics: human-interest, offbeat, pain, adelaide-5000, australia
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| UpdatedA California shoe company apologises and recalls a boot after a customer shares a photo showing the sole's tread leaving swastika imprints.
Topics: offbeat, human-interest, united-states
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What does it take to have fans screaming for you as if you were the actual King of Rock'n'Roll?
Topics: human-interest, offbeat, arts-and-entertainment, music, regional, community-and-society, parkes-2870
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| UpdatedDonald and Sheila Feast's collection of classic cars and curios just might be one of the quirkiest private museums in South Australia.
Topics: human-interest, offbeat, port-macdonnell-5291
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| UpdatedHeavy rains in Central Australia see tiny shield shrimps hatching from years of obscurity in the middle of the desert.
Topics: animals, weather, floods, deserts, offbeat, weird-and-wonderful, nt, alice-springs-0870, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedA quokka has inadvertently escaped Rottnest Island on a waste barge and is now believed lost in Perth.
Topics: animals, national-parks, offbeat, rottnest-island-6161, canning-vale-6155, perth-6000