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America will remain strong so long as its leader keeps challenging others to resist his creepy, crushing handshake, writes Ben Pobjie.
Topics: elections, world-politics, us-elections, popular-culture, offbeat
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A man on parole after serving jail time for robberies he committed as one of the "overall bandits" used a fake penis in a bid to give authorities a clean urine sample, an Adelaide court hears.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, offbeat, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedA Tasmanian farm has a new maze to entertain the kids, shaped into a crop of maize.
Topics: agricultural-crops, rural-tourism, travel-and-tourism, community-and-society, family-and-children, human-interest, offbeat, hagley-7292
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Topics: animals, endangered-and-protected-species, animal-behaviour, offbeat, currumbin-4223
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Topics: animals, endangered-and-protected-species, animal-behaviour, offbeat, currumbin-4223
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Topics: animals, endangered-and-protected-species, animal-behaviour, offbeat, currumbin-4223
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Topics: animals, endangered-and-protected-species, animal-behaviour, offbeat, currumbin-4223
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Topics: animals, endangered-and-protected-species, animal-behaviour, offbeat, currumbin-4223
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| UpdatedCute, cuddly Australian native animals are much loved across the globe, but their private mating behaviours can be extremely wild.
Topics: animals, endangered-and-protected-species, animal-behaviour, offbeat, currumbin-4223
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| UpdatedA male koala makes a distinctive bellowing mating calls to a group of females which screech in return.
Topics: animals, endangered-and-protected-species, animal-behaviour, offbeat, currumbin-4223
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| UpdatedAustralia's first cryonics facility will be built in the sleepy NSW town of Holbrook, offering people the chance to be frozen after death in the hope they will one day be brought back to life.
Topics: science-and-technology, human-interest, offbeat, forensic-science, death, holbrook-2644
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From your local barista to the neighbour who brings in your bin every week, take the opportunity on February 14 to honour all the love in your life, writes Deirdre Fidge.
Topics: relationships, people, offbeat, popular-culture, australia
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| UpdatedRecurring circle formations in a Top End couple's backyard raises theories about termite mounds, giant tail-chasing dogs and, inevitably, "little green men".
Topics: offbeat, human-interest, gardening, weird-and-wonderful, katherine-0850
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Cancer research and treatment is often framed as a 'fight' or 'war' against the disease. But, writes Darren Saunders, we need to tread carefully when taking that language out of the lab.
Topics: cancer, health, journalism, offbeat, australia
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| UpdatedA new dating app aims to match lovers based on their mutual dislike of Donald Trump, slow drivers and butt selfies — it's going to change the world, writes Ben Pobjie.
Topics: popular-culture, relationships, internet-culture, social-media, offbeat
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| UpdatedA five-year-old boy who started shearing his teddies aged two is now shearing lambs and has his future career mapped out.
Topics: wool, rural-youth, rural, human-interest, offbeat, community-and-society, children, family-and-children, culcairn-2660, wagga-wagga-2650
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| UpdatedA tiny plastic farmer wearing a wide-brimmed hat and green overalls does his bit to raise awareness of Australian agriculture.
Topics: rural, farm-labour, human-interest, offbeat, primary, education, information-and-communication, internet-culture, social-media, tocumwal-2714, nsw
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| UpdatedA community in northern New South Wales is preparing to unveil a street named after an icon of Australian folklore - the drop bear.
Topics: local-government, government-and-politics, community-and-society, human-interest, offbeat, tamworth-2340
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| UpdatedA green and red Tasmanian slug is the latest animal to be named after naturalist David Attenborough, who was honoured today as a lifetime patron of the Australian Museum.
Topics: science-and-technology, environment, human-interest, animals, biology, animal-science, earth-sciences, offbeat, tas, united-kingdom, australia
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| UpdatedIt may seem surreal to see people wielding swords in a Canberra park on a Sunday afternoon but it's all part of the fun for a popular medieval re-enactment group.
Topics: medieval, history, offbeat, canberra-2600
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Topics: film-movies, bands-and-artists, community-and-society, offbeat, clubs-and-associations, cairns-4870
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A far north Queensland artist collective uses caffeine to do more than keep its members awake during late-night editing sessions — it is selling it to finance a film.
Topics: film-movies, community-and-society, offbeat, cairns-4870
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Topics: animal-welfare, offbeat, coombabah-4216
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An abandoned rooster dubbed 'Bear Grylls' has been giving Gold Coast animal rescue staff a run for their money.
Topics: animal-welfare, offbeat, birds, community-and-society, charities, coombabah-4216
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Topics: conservation, birds, library-museum-and-gallery, offbeat, townsville-4810