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Ahhh… that feeling when you slide into the pool on a hot day. 🐶🌊☀️ Thanks to @abcopen contributor Emily Parisi for this picture of Ollie the dog keeping cool in Kiama, NSW! #Australia #summer #dogs #dogsofinstagram #pool
Here they come! 🐢🐢An eruption of about 100 hatchlings stormed a beach last night and started their journey into the ocean. It is an incredibly exciting time to see hatchlings emerging in the evenings! Thanks to Gladstone-based @abcopen contributor alexkyddphoto for the lovely 📸 #greatbarrierreef #turtle #snorkelling #underwater #photography #abcopen #gladstone #gladstoneregion
There was a time that children in Aboriginal communities like Yirrkala were prohibited from practicing their own language and customs. Now the local school uses a bilingual program and draws on Aboriginal traditions to teach children to become literate in their own language while learning English and Western culture. ✏️📚 📸: Yirrkala School #yirrkala #yolngu #bilingual #education #aboriginal #indigenous #arnhemland
Autism assistance dog Jason has turned 5-year-old Reilly's life around. "Without a doubt it's changed our lives. We were a family in crisis before we got Jas. It means the world to us," Reilly's mum said. 👆🏽Click our Instagram story for more.
A blue-ringed 🐙 was found by a professional #fisherman in #Scarborough Harbour over the weekend. The octopuses, which can often be found in the outer reaches of #MoretonBay, are rarely discovered within the confines of the harbour. Thanks to @abcopen contributor Aurelie Labbe for the 📷! 💦🌊
Aimee Gladigau, 14, and her father John, use #music 🎤 to help lighten the mood during a stressful and exhausting #harvest. The pair from #Alawoona in South Australia are the masterminds behind a series of #music parody videos for #BullaBurra. 📷 Supplied: Bulla Burra 🖥📹
Swans and their cygnets swim on the #DarlingRiver in front of the rowing club at #Wentworth in NSW. Thanks to @abcopen contributor Helen Healy for the 📷! #swim #swans
Peter Drew first gained national attention with his series of ‘Real Australians Say Welcome’ street posters — aimed at starting a conversation about refugees and immigration. His latest series focuses on the issues of Aboriginal languages and traditional ownership of land, with more than 250 variations of the posters to be produced in the local Indigenous language of an area prior to European arrival. 📷: Brett Williamson
The young people in the remote #Himalayan community of #Bemni are fighting for an education by resisting leaving school to work the land. The young adults have become the go-betweens, straddling a great divide between an illiterate older generation of farmers, and a younger generation of school children for whom physical toil may no longer be the primary lens onto their life. 📸: Jane Dyson
What does Monday morning look like in your house? For Helen Dimotakis it’s busy as she gets her triplets ready for their first day of school ✏️📚. It's a bittersweet moment in many parents' lives - but any feeling of vulnerability is tripled for Helen, who never thought she'd see her premature babies grow up. 📸: ABC News: Margaret Burin
#Protesters at #JFK airport stand against US President #DonaldTrump's #immigration #ban. There were dramatic scenes at major US airports where protests erupted as border agents detained #refugees who landed after Mr Trump signed the executive order. 📸Reuters: Andrew Kelly
#Sunday is for relaxing and that's actually what these two seem to be doing 🐕. ABC Open contributor Chris Ferguson snapped this great shot of Mikey and Rustle cooling off in a trough on a property at #Yantabulla in #NSW #cattledogs #summer #ruralaustralia
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