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Topics: secondary-schools, public-schools, primary-schools, distance-education, regional, kalgoorlie-6430
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For parents in the regions school choices can be limited, plus the unspoken belief among some parents that local schools might be unsuitable.
Topics: secondary-schools, public-schools, regional, education-industry, access-to-education, distance-education, kalgoorlie-6430, esperance-6450
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Topics: world-war-2, air-force, history, regional, regional-development, community-development, lake-boga-3584, ballarat-3350, mildura-3500
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Topics: world-war-2, air-force, history, regional, regional-development, community-development, lake-boga-3584, ballarat-3350, mildura-3500
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Museum volunteer David Mark and WWII veteran Dick Udy speak about the Lake Boga flying boat base. Read more
Topics: world-war-2, air-force, history, regional, regional-development, community-development, lake-boga-3584, ballarat-3350, mildura-3500
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Topics: world-war-2, air-force, history, regional, regional-development, community-development, lake-boga-3584, ballarat-3350, mildura-3500
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Topics: world-war-2, air-force, history, regional, regional-development, community-development, lake-boga-3584, ballarat-3350, mildura-3500
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| UpdatedDuring WWII, a small town in Victoria's Mallee was on the front line in the defence of Australia.
Topics: world-war-2, air-force, history, regional, regional-development, community-development, lake-boga-3584, singapore, broome-6725, darwin-0800, ballarat-3350, mildura-3500
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When Port Adelaide players took a break from training to visit school students in the Riverland on Tuesday, the girls were the first to line up for an autograph.
Topics: sport, regional, renmark-5341, berri-5343
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Five-time Finke Desert Race champion and Dakar winner Toby Price hits out at a decision to ban helmet-mounted cameras from competition in Australia.
Topics: motor-sports, regional, alice-springs-0870
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Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, christianity, lifestyle, youth, regional, cairns-4870
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Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, christianity, youth, regional, lifestyle, cairns-4870
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Pastor Andrew Adidi expresses his love of the Christian faith in an unconventional way.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, christianity, lifestyle, youth, regional, cairns-4870, solomon-islands
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A man discovers a red-bellied black snake while building a sandcastle on a popular NSW north coast beach.
Topics: reptiles, health, regional, urunga-2455
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Country towns brace for more wet and wild weather as record rains fall across WA.
Topics: storm-event, storm-disaster, photography, regional, esperance-6450, albany-6330, williams-6391, wagin-6315, ravensthorpe-6346, boddington-6390, kalgoorlie-6430, narrogin-6312, bunbury-6230
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Regions that offer adequate amenities for residents have the best chance of converting long-distance commuters into the sort of new residents who can sustain regional prosperity.
Topics: mining-rural, mining-industry, family, family-and-children, regional-development, regional, community-and-society, karratha-6714, port-hedland-6721, mackay-4740, rockhampton-4700, roxby-downs-5725, weipa-4874, newman-6753
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| UpdatedHere is a selection of photos sent in by ABC Open audience members from around Australia.
Topics: photography, arts-and-entertainment, visual-art, community-and-society, regional, rural, lifestyle-and-leisure, australia
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| UpdatedFive-year-old Charlie Dunn has been learning to shear since he was 2. Shearing teachers say there's growing interest from young people wanting to join the industry, but some are a little younger than others.
Topics: sheep-production, rural, rural-youth, regional, culcairn-2660
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Tributes are flowing for Blue the Shearer, whose irreverent and intelligent verse was heard on ABC radio for more than a quarter of a century.
Topics: poetry, regional, people, stuart-town-2820, wellington-2820, orange-2800, springwood-2777
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Three generations of the Johnson family have known the iconic Tathra wharf since the age of coastal steamers.
Topics: history, sea-transport, regional, tathra-2550
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Topics: people, sea-transport, history, regional, tathra-2550
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| UpdatedIan Taylor says he holds no grudges over Labor's 2008 decision to kick him out and says the party can bounce back across regional Western Australia.
Topics: elections, state-parliament, regional, kalgoorlie-6430
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A restaurant was a chance for Chinese migrant Zhongcui Fan to improve his family's future in Australia but the constant search for a chef has left him struggling to stay open.
Topics: immigration, community-and-society, work, food-and-cooking, regional-development, regional, berri-5343, renmark-5341, adelaide-5000, china
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Topics: aboriginal, regional, regional-development, weather, rainfall, deserts, kalgoorlie-6430
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Topics: aboriginal, regional, regional-development, weather, rainfall, deserts, kalgoorlie-6430