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A survey of country rugby league clubs across NSW and Queensland finds that most are having problems attracting volunteers, players and sponsors.
Topics: rugby-league, sport, community-organisations, volunteers, yamba-2464, bundeena-2230, armidale-2350, bribie-island-4507
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Locals living in the Forbes region in the central west of New South Wales have ambitious plans to establish a unique bush sculpture trail in the region. Read more
Topics: rural-tourism, rural-women, volunteers, sculpture, community-development, forbes-2871
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Topics: volunteers, animal-welfare, community-and-society, tharwa-2620, act, australia
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| UpdatedYou are in trouble in the Gold Coast surf and in urgent need of a lifesaver, but fear not when you find the man who comes to your rescue is old enough to be your grandfather.
Topics: volunteers, emergency-incidents, people, human-interest, southport-4215, qld, miami-4220, mermaid-beach-4218
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Emergency accommodation is being erected in Kalgoorlie-Boulder for about 80 residents from the remote Aboriginal community of Tjuntjuntjara who have been stranded due to widespread flooding.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, aboriginal, emergency-incidents, floods, weather, housing, charities-and-community-organisations, volunteers, community-and-society, kalgoorlie-6430, boulder-6432
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Topics: community-organisations, refugees, volunteers, noosaville-4566, gympie-4570, united-states
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Topics: community-organisations, refugees, volunteers, noosaville-4566, gympie-4570, united-states
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Topics: community-organisations, refugees, volunteers, noosaville-4566, gympie-4570, united-states
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Hundreds of stuffed toys are en route to children in refugee camps across three countries thanks to dozens of volunteers from the United States and Australia.
Topics: community-organisations, volunteers, refugees, noosaville-4566, gympie-4570
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Topics: community-organisations, refugees, volunteers, noosaville-4566, gympie-4570, united-states
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Topics: community-organisations, refugees, volunteers, noosaville-4566, gympie-4570, united-states
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Topics: community-organisations, refugees, volunteers, noosaville-4566, gympie-4570, united-states
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| UpdatedThe mayor of Bathurst Gary Rush has downplayed concerns about the ongoing costs of a major local kangaroo relocation project, saying preventing vehicle collisions is the priority.
Topics: animals, animal-welfare, environmental-management, motor-sports, lifestyle-and-leisure, community-and-society, government-and-politics, local-government, volunteers, bathurst-2795
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| UpdatedA country New South Wales region hit hard by drought and floods installs massive red letters spelling 'amazing' in a stock route, the first installation in a public art project and potentially tourism-boosting sculpture trail.
Topics: sculpture, regional, regional-development, tourism, rural-tourism, volunteers, community-development, community-organisations, forbes-2871, condobolin-2877
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| UpdatedAn octogenarian yogi volunteers her time to teach yoga practices and techniques to mental health patients at Cairns Hospital.
Topics: mental-health, meditation-and-prayer, older-people, volunteers, women, cairns-4870
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A young woman who started the nation's first organisation for juvenile arthritis sufferers and a Country Fire Service volunteer are among South Australians to be recognised with Australia Day awards on Monday.
Topics: australia-day, awards-and-prizes, human-interest, volunteers, arthritis, sa, adelaide-5000
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| UpdatedTopics: rural, environment, volunteers, broken-hill-2880, adelaide-5000
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| UpdatedAn American couple have been volunteering on Australia's nature reserves for the past 15 years.
Topics: volunteers, environmental-impact, rural, rural-women, environment, conservation, olary-5440, broken-hill-2880, south-west-rocks-2431, south-africa, zimbabwe
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Canberrans living on the edge of the city are being urged to join volunteer town brigades, also known as Community Fire Units.
Topics: fires, disasters-and-accidents, volunteers, bushfire, canberra-2600, kambah-2902, act, australia
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Thanks to the hard work and dedication of locals, the West Moonah Community House continues to go from strength to strength.
Topics: community-organisations, volunteers, women, human-interest, food-and-cooking, moonah-7009, hobart-7000
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| UpdatedA program helping reduce loneliness among older people in Newcastle is expanding.
Topics: aged-care, community-and-society, community-organisations, volunteers, wallsend-2287
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Topics: recycling-and-waste-management, volunteers, mackay-4740
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A group to help clean up the streets is formed as part of a program to help rehabilitate Indigenous men who have been charged with family violence offences.
Topics: crime, crime-prevention, volunteers, prisons-and-punishment, dubbo-2830
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| UpdatedA manager of a Wollongong charity feeding hundreds of people living on the poverty line has been charged with swindling thousands of dollars.
Topics: charities-and-community-organisations, fraud-and-corporate-crime, volunteers, community-and-society, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, police, wollongong-2500, warrawong-2502
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| UpdatedOn December 28, 1916, a "one in 500 year" flood event threatened to destroy the outback Queensland town of Clermont; 100 years later, locals reflect on the destruction.
Topics: emergency-incidents, floods, volunteers, community-and-society, history, local-government, emergency-planning, clermont-4721