Barbara Miller
Barbara Miller is a senior reporter with ABC News and former Europe correspondent.
No job, no worries: Migrants mentored on how to start their own businesses
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There is a new program helping migrants launch their own businesses in an effort to tackle unemployment in the community.
Topics: immigration, community-and-society, work, sydney-2000, nsw
Australians offered chance to cheat death by freezing bodies
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Australia'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
Mothers desperate for a daughter break silence on 'gender disappointment'
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Critics call it a social construct, but venture into some online chatrooms and you'll find hundreds of Australian women who suffer "gender disappointment" — depression over the sex of their children.
Topics: fertility-and-infertility, reproduction-and-contraception, health, parenting, family-and-children, community-and-society, women, womens-health, australia
Europe beefs up New Year's Eve security after Berlin terror attack
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Police are on high alert all across Europe in the lead up to New Year's Eve with the need for better security acutely felt in the Germany city of Cologne, where hundreds of women were sexually assaulted and robbed last year.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, terrorism, immigration, refugees, government-and-politics, world-politics, germany, european-union
'I worry about being locked in cupboards': The fear of returning to care
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The thought of going into aged care is distressing for someone like Ellen Bucello, who was subjected to neglect and abuse in state care as a child.
Topics: community-and-society, child-abuse, aged-care, nsw, australia
The price of life: Push to make commercial surrogacy legal in Australia
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There is significant support in Australia for commercial surrogacy to be legalised and professional guidelines drawn up to regulate the industry, a study finds.
Topics: surrogacy, reproduction-and-contraception, health, government-and-politics, federal-government, australia, cambodia
Greens urge UK to contribute to child sex abuse compensation
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Greens senator Rachel Siewert urges the UK Government to contribute to Australia's compensation scheme for child sex abuse victims if allegations of mistreatments at NSW institution are true.
Topics: child-abuse, community-and-society, nsw, united-kingdom, australia
Allegations UK child migrants were knowingly sent to 'crook' institutions in Australia
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The UK Government continued to send child migrants to Australian institutions despite knowing they were being mistreated here, according to allegations in a submission lodged to the UK inquiry into institutional child sexual abuse.
Topics: child-abuse, community-and-society, united-kingdom
Parents feel pressured to terminate pregnancy after Down syndrome diagnosis
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Mothers of children born with Down syndrome say they were put under repeated pressure to terminate their pregnancy and given only worst case scenarios for their baby's chances of a meaningful life.
Topics: pregnancy-and-childbirth, reproduction-and-contraception, health, disabilities, australia, launceston-7250, tas, mornington-3931, vic
'Hate will not help us': Father reflects on year since son's death in Paris attacks
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Stephane Sarrade reflects on the year he has spent without his son Hugo, who was shot dead when three Islamist terrorists stormed Paris' Bataclan theatre during a rock concert.
Topics: terrorism, unrest-conflict-and-war, france
Ben Quilty confronts the Syria refugee exodus
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Artist Ben Quilty and author Richard Flanagan made a harrowing trip to Europe and the Middle East to witness first-hand the refugee crisis.
Topics: refugees, immigration, community-and-society, contemporary-art, arts-and-entertainment, lebanon, syrian-arab-republic, australia
Doomsday Vault scientists gather in Australia
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International grain scientists gather in rural Victoria to discuss food security and ways to safeguard species of plant-life from extinction.
Topics: botany, science-and-technology, australia
Teachers call for rewrite of 'confusing' draft HSC syllabuses
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NSW science and maths teachers are calling for a rewrite of new draft senior syllabuses, saying in their current form they are "confusing", contain "serious blunders" and are not fit for introduction.
Topics: education, mathematics-education, subjects, science, science-and-technology, nsw, australia
Scotland edges close to second independence vote
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In the wake of the Brexit vote, the prospect of a second referendum in Scotland is back on the table, just two years after the country voted no to independence from the UK.
Topics: referendums, foreign-affairs, world-politics, scotland, united-kingdom
Hello Kitty: Wildcats on the way back in rewilding Europe
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Across Europe hairy hulking beasts, not seen in some cases for centuries, are slowly returning. Wildcats in Scotland, lynx in England — even, potentially, elephants in Denmark — are all on the march as the rewilding revolution gathers pace.
Topics: human-interest, animals, environment, environmental-impact, scotland, denmark, england
Asylum seeker mass drowning numbers could top 500, biggest loss in last 12 months
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The survivors of what is believed to have been a catastrophic mass drowning in the Mediterranean last week give accounts of their ordeal.
Topics: refugees, accidents---other, european-union
Rolf Harris trial date set over fresh sexual assault charges
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Disgraced entertainer Rolf Harris is to stand trial in London on January 9 next year on eight new sexual assaults charges.
Topics: assault, sexual-offences, courts-and-trials, united-kingdom
Asylum seekers in Greece face uncertain future as EU deal takes effect
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Several thousand asylum seekers currently held in detention on the Greek Islands face an uncertain future, after 200 were returned to Turkey as part of a deal brokered with the European Union.
Topics: refugees, immigration, world-politics, unrest-conflict-and-war, greece, european-union, turkey
Migrant deportations stay peaceful amid rights concerns
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The first deportations from Greece to Turkey under the European Union's refugee deal have been mostly peaceful, and the question now is whether Syrians will be among the next group sent back on boats, Barbara Miller reports from Lesbos.
Topics: refugees, immigration, world-politics, unrest-conflict-and-war, greece, european-union, turkey
Hollande scraps plan to strip terrorists of citizenship
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French President Francois Hollande abandons plans to strip convicted terrorists of their citizenship, retreating from a tough stance he took in the days after the November attacks in Paris.
Topics: terrorism, constitution, laws, france
Brussels airport delays reopening after terror attacks
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Brussels airport says it will not reopen today and it could be months before it is fully operational following last week's terrorist attacks.
Topics: terrorism, unrest-conflict-and-war, law-crime-and-justice, belgium
Hundreds arrive on Greek islands as EU-Turkey deal enters force
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Hundreds of asylum seekers are continuing to arrive on Greek islands despite the start of a new policy aimed at stopping the boats.
Topics: refugees, immigration, unrest-conflict-and-war, greece, european-union, turkey
Rolf Harris pleads not guilty to new assault charges
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The former children's entertainer faces eight new sexual assault charges, including allegations he assaulted a blind woman with cerebral palsy who said he felt like an "octopus".
Topics: assault, sexual-offences, courts-and-trials, united-kingdom
'We were following a chance': Journey back to Idomeni migrant camp
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Desperate migrants making the journey back to Greece after a dramatic border crossing a day earlier are aided by compassionate locals offering food and clothes. Europe correspondent Barbara Miller speaks to locals about the emotional toll of the migrant crisis.
Topics: immigration, community-and-society, greece, macedonia-the-former-yugoslav-republic-of, european-union
Migrants plead with officials after failed Greece-Macedonia river crossing (video)
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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras appeals to migrants hoping to cross a rain-swollen riverbank from Greece into Macedonia, saying there is no chance the border will re-open.
Topics: immigration, refugees, macedonia-the-former-yugoslav-republic-of, greece, european-union
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