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| UpdatedQuambatook Group School in northern Victoria will no longer be staffed despite a Facebook campaign attracting many teachers.
Topics: human-interest, schools, primary-schools, government-and-politics, public-schools, information-and-communication, social-media, children, work, community-and-society, family-and-children, quambatook-3540, monash-university-3800
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| UpdatedA recruitment video the Finance Department spent thousands of dollars to create is panned by marketing experts as "excruciating" and "cliched".
Topics: federal-government, government-and-politics, business-economics-and-finance, advertising, information-and-communication, australia
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| UpdatedA Melbourne dog-owner discovers the ups and downs of internet celebrity after a video of her puppy sliding across floorboards attracts more than 15 million views online.
Topics: internet-technology, internet-culture, information-and-communication, animals, human-interest, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedA station manager in WA's Kimberley region says their internet will certainly be cut off on Tuesday night, despite completing an application to change service back in August.
Topics: internet-technology, wireless-communication, information-and-communication, community-and-society, rural, wa, perth-6000
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| UpdatedThe Government's privacy watchdog wants answers from bureaucrats who provided a Centrelink client's personal details to a journalist in a bid to counter her public criticisms.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, information-and-communication, welfare, community-and-society, australia
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| UpdatedThe Border Force Commissioner defends his agency's decision to ban all mobile phone use in the nation's onshore detention centres, arguing it is a way of cracking down on crime within the facilities.
Topics: immigration, community-and-society, crime, mobile-phones, information-and-communication, australia, christmas-island
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| UpdatedThose who publicly criticise Centrelink's automated debt recovery program could have their personal information released to correct the record, the Department of Human Services says.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, information-and-communication, welfare, community-and-society, australia
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| UpdatedFor the first time, Australians will be able to check when the NBN network will be available in their area, after an update to the company's website.
Topics: information-and-communication, internet-technology, australia
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| UpdatedIt took four months and 300 emails to get two ABC correspondents permission to enter Russia to cover international affairs in Moscow.
Topics: government-and-politics, world-politics, journalism, information-and-communication, russian-federation
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| UpdatedNews organisations including The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, CNN and Politico are barred from joining an informal, on-the-record White House press briefing.
Topics: donald-trump, media, information-and-communication, government-and-politics, united-states
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| UpdatedWith many predicting Amazon will soon set up warehousing and distribution in Australia, what does that mean for consumers?
Topics: company-news, business-economics-and-finance, consumer-protection, consumer-electronics, information-and-communication, australia
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Host: Ellen Fanning
Panel: Graeme Innes, Jane Caro & John Lyons
Interview with: Dr Maureen Cleary
The panel discusses the cuts to penalty rates, the royal commission into child abuse & the 30 year anniversary of Australia’s first mobile phone.
Topics: information-and-communication, community-and-society, australia
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Host: Ellen Fanning
Panel: Chip Rolley, Mark Di Stefano and Daisy Cousens
Interview with: Jamie Hyams & Amin Saikal
The panel discusses the Israeli PM’s visit, Milo Yiannopoulos’ book cancellation & Dimmi’s restaurant booking site blacklisting no-shows.
Topics: government-and-politics, community-and-society, information-and-communication, australia, israel, palestinian-territory-occupied
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Topics: community-and-society, history, world-war-2, unrest-conflict-and-war, youth, radio-broadcasting, broadcasting, information-and-communication, radio, government-and-politics, castlemaine-3450
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Topics: community-and-society, history, world-war-2, unrest-conflict-and-war, youth, radio-broadcasting, broadcasting, information-and-communication, radio, government-and-politics, castlemaine-3450
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Topics: community-and-society, history, world-war-2, unrest-conflict-and-war, youth, radio-broadcasting, broadcasting, information-and-communication, radio, government-and-politics, castlemaine-3450
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Topics: community-and-society, history, world-war-2, unrest-conflict-and-war, youth, radio-broadcasting, broadcasting, information-and-communication, radio, government-and-politics, castlemaine-3450
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Topics: community-and-society, history, world-war-2, unrest-conflict-and-war, youth, radio-broadcasting, broadcasting, information-and-communication, radio, government-and-politics, castlemaine-3450
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The digital age means amateur radio is no longer as popular as it once was but a group of youth in central Victoria is embracing the technology.
Topics: community-and-society, history, world-war-2, youth, radio-broadcasting, broadcasting, information-and-communication, radio, government-and-politics, castlemaine-3450
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| UpdatedNews organisation Yahoo7 is fined $300,000 after one of its journalists published a story that prejudiced a Melbourne murder trial.
Topics: courts-and-trials, journalism, information-and-communication, melbourne-3000, vic, nsw, sydney-2000
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In this episode: the century-old murder mystery that gripped South Australia, a Queensland school teacher prepares to square-off against one of boxing’s biggest names, the tourists overwhelming Tasmania’s natural wonders and a West Australian cricket club rallies to support two young members suffering a rare cancer. #AustraliaWide
Topics: government-and-politics, information-and-communication, community-and-society, cancer, tourism, boxing, australia, tas
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Topics: mining-rural, oil-and-gas, telecommunications, wireless-communication, information-and-communication, mining-industry
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| UpdatedA unique partnership between a linguist, an app designer and a remote Aboriginal community is helping to ensure the survival of a rare Indigenous language.
Topics: aboriginal, aboriginal-language, internet-culture, information-and-communication, languages, university-and-further-education, research, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, gununa-4871
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| UpdatedProtesters, a sea turtle and the migrant crisis in Europe are all featured in this year's World Press Photo competition, but none were more impactful than the explosive Photo of the Year: a gun-wielding Turkish policeman standing over the body of Russia's ambassador.
Topics: photography, arts-and-entertainment, information-and-communication, print-media, united-states
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The unlikely artist behind emoji, Shigetaka Kurita, didn't have any experience in design or programming when he designed the first set of tiny icons in the late 90s.
Topics: human-interest, arts-and-entertainment, art-history, information-and-communication, mobile-phones, science-and-technology, united-states