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| UpdatedSigns are being installed around Wilcannia in far-west New South Wales in an effort to increase visibility of Indigenous perspectives of the town.
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Perth once had 15 cinema screens in the city centre; now there are none, but the evidence of the old movie halls is still there hidden behind shops, offices and in basements.
Topics: film-movies, history, arts-and-entertainment, architecture, human-interest, perth-6000
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| UpdatedSunken World War II warships have been disappearing in Indonesia and so far there has been little action taken to ensure their protection.
Topics: world-war-2, history, community-and-society, indonesia, australia
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| UpdatedThe only Australian tall ship to sail in the 1988 First Fleet re-enactment voyage for Australia's bicentenary celebrates 30 years on the water.
Topics: community-organisations, community-and-society, history, youth, adelaide-5000, sa, port-adelaide-5015, port-lincoln-5606
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| UpdatedIn modern Moscow long-gone are the days when beef stroganoff was the only thing on the menu, the cosmopolitan city has been travelling in the fast lane toward progress but Lisa Millar experiences first hand how the city is being paralysed by traffic.
Topics: community-and-society, history, russian-federation
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A statue of explorer Matthew Flinders, who named Port Lincoln in South Australia after his home province, has been unveiled.
Topics: history, community-and-society, port-lincoln-5606, sa
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Ray Wakefield's drawing of Cornelian Bay before the Brooker was built
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Ray Wakefield in the Glenorchy LINC
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The Story Island Project is collecting real-life tales of life on and around the Brooker Highway to inspire creativity and improve literacy among school students.
Topics: community-and-society, community-organisations, history, primary-schools, schools, human-interest, glenorchy-7010, hobart-7000
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The Tasmanian members of World War II's so-called 'Doomed Battalion' are remembered, 75 years after their capture by an overwhelming enemy force.
Topics: world-war-2, history, community-and-society, launceston-7250, tas
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Reg Mombassa has been a leading light in Australian pop culture for more than 40 years, both as a rock musician and artist. Despite the career highs and a happy family life, Mombassa admits he is haunted by a persistent sense of trepidation.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, non-fiction, contemporary-art, music, bands-and-artists, rock, pop, poetry, popular-culture, visual-art, painting, family-and-children, history, community-and-society, australia, new-zealand, ireland, united-kingdom
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| UpdatedA remarkable film from 1901 of former Test cricketers KS Ranjitsinhji and CB Fry is painstakingly restored by the National Film and Sound Archive.
Topics: film-movies, community-and-society, art-history, history, cricket, sport, australia
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A 1984 ABC story about a new bottling line at Coca Cola's Thebarton plant
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Dozens of street signs in a South Australian town a forming a unique "open access" war memorial — the only one of its kind in Australia.
Topics: world-war-2, history, human-interest, people, local-government, regional, community-and-society, defence-forces, loxton-5333, vietnam, indonesia, egypt, act
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Journalist and author Grantlee Kieza has delved into Australia's archives to bring to life the story of Ned Kelly's mum, Ellen, in his new book, Mrs Kelly.
Topics: books-literature, arts-and-entertainment, history, crime, australia
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Regional arts body Country Arts SA will vacate the Berri art gallery and plans to offer the building rent-free in a bid to retain it as a public art space.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, visual-art, library-museum-and-gallery, regional, community-and-society, history, berri-5343
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| UpdatedArchaeologists are excited after finding broken glass in North Parramatta that could point to coexistence between members of the Darung Tribe and European settlers.
Topics: history, community-and-society, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, archaeology, north-parramatta-2151
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With the rise of online resources for people to delve into history from the comfort of their own homes, there is concern historical groups could eventually become a thing of the past.
Topics: historians, history, community-and-society, internet-technology, community-organisations, lemon-tree-passage-2319, newcastle-2300