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Wollongong's Moir family packed up their lives and moved into a caravan at the start of 2016 with a view to playing orchestral concerts and busking around Australia.
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| UpdatedA mother tells her story about raising a baby inside Victoria's Tarrengower Prison, where the other inmates are the child's immediate family, if only temporarily.
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A central Victorian choir has been invited to perform at Carnegie Hall in New York.
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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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| UpdatedKristy Steenhuis and Jane Fitzgibbon would not recognise each other on the street, but they share the kind of bond you would not wish on your worst enemy. Suicide.
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The Babes Project is crowdfunding to launch a collection of empowering stories of women experiencing crisis pregnancies through to parenthood.
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A union questions how psychological testing of current child protection workers in South Australia will be done and what will happen to any staff who fail.
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Parents are being reminded to pre-vet every app their young children download amid renewed concerns that virtual reality gaming is exposing minors to sexual advances.
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| UpdatedA British couple who want their relationship recognised in law without the "patriarchal baggage" of marriage lose the latest stage in their fight to be allowed a civil partnership.
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| UpdatedThe vaccine for Q fever will hopefully soon be available to younger children, pending the results of medical trials.
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| UpdatedTiahleigh Palmer was one of 46 Queensland children in the child protection system who died in 2015-16, in a case the Government has described as "tragic". Take a look at what could be changing as authorities hope to prevent similar incidents.
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| UpdatedThe Queensland Government will spend $6 million to improve communication between agencies when a child goes missing, as part of recommendations following the death Logan schoolgirl Tiahleigh Palmer.
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Same-sex couples can now legally adopt children in South Australia, with new laws coming into effect today.
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| UpdatedAn Aboriginal politician makes a passionate address to Northern Territory Parliament about a child protection system he says is failing Indigenous children, sharing the names of nine children who were recently "stolen" from their Yolngu families.
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Australian doctors say viewing X-rays on a smartphone can be just as useful in diagnosing common lung problems in babies as looking at the standard X-ray film, opening up opportunities for rural patients who need quick diagnosis.
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| UpdatedLateline spent a day with Fiona Hough and her five-year-old son Charlie, who has autism, to see how they cope when the carer doesn't come.
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| UpdatedA Tasmanian farm has a new maze to entertain the kids, shaped into a crop of maize.
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| UpdatedLin family killer Robert Xie, who murdered five members of his family, is given five life sentences without the possibility of parole, while his wife says he is innocent and a "scapegoat" for the crimes.
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| UpdatedA five-year-old boy who started shearing his teddies aged two is now shearing lambs and has his future career mapped out.
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Regions that offer adequate amenities for residents have the best chance of converting long-distance commuters into the sort of new residents who can sustain regional prosperity.
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