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• Tuning in image

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  ABC News

  Posted February 17, 2017 14:07:55

  Topics: community-and-society, history, world-war-2, unrest-conflict-and-war, youth, radio-broadcasting, broadcasting, information-and-communication, radio, government-and-politics, castlemaine-3450

• Headquarters image

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  ABC News

  Posted February 17, 2017 14:07:55

  Topics: community-and-society, history, world-war-2, unrest-conflict-and-war, youth, radio-broadcasting, broadcasting, information-and-communication, radio, government-and-politics, castlemaine-3450

• The trainer and his students image

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  ABC News

  Posted February 17, 2017 14:07:55

  Topics: community-and-society, history, world-war-2, unrest-conflict-and-war, youth, radio-broadcasting, broadcasting, information-and-communication, radio, government-and-politics, castlemaine-3450

• The trainer image

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  ABC News

  Posted February 17, 2017 14:07:55

  Topics: community-and-society, history, world-war-2, unrest-conflict-and-war, youth, radio-broadcasting, broadcasting, information-and-communication, radio, government-and-politics, castlemaine-3450

• Amateur radio enthusiasts image

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  ABC News

  Posted February 17, 2017 14:07:55

  Topics: community-and-society, history, world-war-2, unrest-conflict-and-war, youth, radio-broadcasting, broadcasting, information-and-communication, radio, government-and-politics, castlemaine-3450

• Over and out as youth in central Victoria take up amateur radio

  ABC Central Victoria

  By Larissa Romensky

  Posted February 17, 2017 14:07:55

  The digital age means amateur radio is no longer as popular as it once was but a group of youth in central Victoria is embracing the technology.

  Topics: community-and-society, history, world-war-2, youth, radio-broadcasting, broadcasting, information-and-communication, radio, government-and-politics, castlemaine-3450

• Crypt ready to receive champion of convict rights

  By Aneeta Bhole

  Posted February 17, 2017 13:45:55 | Updated February 17, 2017 13:54:29

  The Hobart crypt is ready to receive a religious pioneer who, 151 years after his death, will have his life's wish to return to Tasmania finally fulfilled.

  Topics: religion-and-beliefs, history, community-and-society, hobart-7000

• Historical menus served native critters on a plate

  ABC Radio Brisbane

  By Jessica Hinchliffe

  Posted February 16, 2017 14:41:54 | Updated February 16, 2017 15:02:48

  From parrots served at weddings to ox tail for afternoon tea, Queensland's dining past has been filled with creatures great and small.

  Topics: food-and-cooking, history, community-and-society, human-interest, brisbane-4000

• Singapore POW's art brought light to a dark wartime world

  ABC Western Vic

  By Sue Peacock

  Posted February 15, 2017 17:32:31

  Des Bettany arrived in Singapore in 1941 carrying a kids' art set and a talent for cartoons which carried him through his years as a POW.

  Topics: visual-art, community-and-society, history, world-war-2, unrest-conflict-and-war, government-and-politics, world-politics, men, ballarat-3350, singapore

• There's value in passing on your election junk mail

  ABC Radio Perth

  By Emma Wynne

  Posted February 15, 2017 16:52:13

  The State Library of Western Australia needs your help adding to its archives by donating the political advertising that comes through your letterbox during the election campaign.

  Topics: history, library-museum-and-gallery, elections, human-interest, perth-6000

• Praise for courage of veterans, POWs at the fall of Singapore

  Posted February 15, 2017 13:35:04 | Updated February 15, 2017 14:33:44

  Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove praises the courage of Australia's veterans and prisoners of war during a commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the seminal moment when Singapore fell to the Japanese in 1942.

  Topics: world-war-2, history, community-and-society, veterans, defence-and-national-security, government-and-politics, ballarat-3350, vic, australia

• Governor General Sir Peter Cosgrove image

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  ABC News

  Posted February 15, 2017 12:36:56

  Topics: world-war-2, history, community-and-society, ballarat-3350

• Fall of singapore ceremony-8468.jpg image

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  ABC News

  Posted February 15, 2017 12:16:35

  Topics: world-war-2, history, community-and-society, veterans, ballarat-3350

• Catalina Museum image

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  ABC News

  Posted February 15, 2017 11:21:42

  Topics: world-war-2, air-force, history, regional, regional-development, community-development, lake-boga-3584, ballarat-3350, mildura-3500

• Catalina on water image

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  ABC News

  Posted February 15, 2017 11:21:42

  Topics: world-war-2, air-force, history, regional, regional-development, community-development, lake-boga-3584, ballarat-3350, mildura-3500

• David Mark and Dick Udy Audio

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  ABC News

  4min 48sec

  Posted February 15, 2017 11:21:42

  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

• Catalina taxiing during WWII image

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  ABC News

  Posted February 15, 2017 11:21:42

  Topics: world-war-2, air-force, history, regional, regional-development, community-development, lake-boga-3584, ballarat-3350, mildura-3500

• Catalinas in flight image

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  ABC News

  Posted February 15, 2017 11:21:42

  Topics: world-war-2, air-force, history, regional, regional-development, community-development, lake-boga-3584, ballarat-3350, mildura-3500

• Fall of Singapore puts tiny Mallee town on front line during WWII

  Vic Country Hour

  By Emma Brown

  Posted February 15, 2017 11:21:42 | Updated February 15, 2017 11:31:00

  During 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

• Grieving mother statue unveiled by Governor General Sir Peter Cosgrove image

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  ABC News

  Posted February 15, 2017 10:23:13

  Topics: world-war-2, history, community-and-society, veterans, ballarat-3350

• In their own words: Australian soldiers remember fall of Singapore

  RN

  By former ABC foreign correspondent Tim Bowden

  Posted February 15, 2017 09:23:08 | Updated February 15, 2017 10:12:13

  More than 30 years after the end of WWII, Australian prisoners of war really began to tell the stories of what happened in the wake of the fall of Singapore.

  Topics: world-war-2, history, community-and-society, 20th-century, singapore, australia, japan

• Fall of Singapore: World War II section of the POW memorial at Ballarat image

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  ABC News

  Posted February 15, 2017 09:20:35

  Topics: world-war-2, history, community-and-society, ballarat-3350

• Australian Malays, Singaporeans remember occupation 75 years on (photos)

  ABC Radio Canberra

  By Andrea Ho

  Posted February 15, 2017 09:17:09 | Updated February 15, 2017 10:17:04

  The people left behind in Singapore and Malaysia upon the fall of Singapore and the British retreat 75 years ago today saw their lives irrevocably change.

  Topics: world-war-2, unrest-conflict-and-war, community-and-society, history, singapore, malaysia, japan

• Adolf Hitler lookalike arrested by Austrian police

  Posted February 15, 2017 00:27:46

  Austrian police arrest a man described by local media as "Hitler's double" for possible violations of laws against glorifying the Nazi era.

  Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, world-war-2, history, community-and-society, world-politics, austria

• James Kerr image

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  ABC News

  Posted February 14, 2017 18:42:03

  Topics: community-and-society, history, world-war-2, unrest-conflict-and-war, government-and-politics, world-politics, men, ballarat-3350

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