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11-year-old girl's unique bucket list has the internet laughing
An 11-year-old girl's rather unique bucket list has gone viral - and it's not hard to see why.
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Listen up, if we're married or plan to have children is none of your business
Another female leader gets the nod, another stream of 'tut tut, how will she lead us without having locked in a husband and procreated?' from corners of the media who've got nothing else to ask about apparently.
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Sally Faulkner says she still hasn't spoken to her kids
Nine months on from the botched 60 Minutes child snatch attempt that saw her thrown into a Lebanese jail, Sally Faulkner says she still has not had any contact with her estranged children.
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Bourke Street attack: victims remembered at first community memorial
The Jewish community held the first community memorial service for victims of the Bourke Street tragedy.
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Fatal quad bike crash in Barellan, NSW, the second tragedy for Connor Irvin's family
A farming family from tiny Riverina town of Barellan is again in mourning following their second tragedy in just two weeks.
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Mother pleads guilty to murders of children who drowned in lake
A mother of seven has pleaded guilty to murdering two of her children and killing a third after she drove her car into a lake in Melbourne's west.
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Twin, 7, dies after quad bike accident in NSW
A seven-year-old boy has died after a quad bike accident in the NSW Riverina on Sunday afternoon.
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Police find three young brothers missing from Mornington
Police have found three brothers who went missing from their home in Mornington, a coastal town in Victoria's south.
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'Momma is no felon': torment of woman snatched as a child
It was the moment that summed up the whirlwind of confused emotions that must have filled 18-year-old Kamiyah Mobley.
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Bush sisters offer sage advice to the Obama girls in an open letter
"Explore your passions. Learn who you are. Make mistakes, you are allowed to."
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Teenage girl charged with murdering seven-year-old girl
A teenager has appeared in court charged with murdering a seven-year-old girl whose mother broke down in tears as she tried in vain to save the life of her daughter found seriously injured on a playing field.
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