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| UpdatedSouth Australians are asked to turn off non-essential appliances to avoid potential load-shedding after three units at the state's largest power generator go offline.
Topics: community-and-society, electricity-energy-and-utilities, adelaide-5000, sa
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Everyone has probably heard about the physical benefits of having sex, but are you aware of the long list of psychological benefits?
Topics: sexuality, community-and-society, health, australia
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| UpdatedThe Senate clerk recognises concerns the DHS's release of personal information to a journalist could have a "chilling" impact on sources in the Centrelink investigation.
Topics: welfare, community-and-society, government-and-politics, federal-government, australia
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| UpdatedThe Prime Minister's department confirms 54,997 penalty notices were issued from July 1 to September 30 last year for participants in the Community Development Programme.
Topics: unemployment, community-and-society, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, community-development, rural, nt, australia
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The trust that operates Sydney's sprawling Botany Cemetery negotiates a deal that will allow the park to expand onto land significant to Aboriginal people.
Topics: aboriginal, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, botany-2019, nsw
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| UpdatedAfter fire destroyed the historic Kandanga pub, locals made sure the small Queensland town was not without a meeting place where anyone was welcome to have "a beer and a yarn".
Topics: community-and-society, fires, disasters-and-accidents, people, human-interest, kandanga-4570, qld, maroochydore-4558
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Here is a selection of photos sent in by ABC Open audience members from around Australia.
Topics: photography, visual-art, community-and-society, regional, rural, lifestyle-and-leisure, australia
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| UpdatedLast year they wore rainbow laces and now Sydney FC will step up their Mardi Gras support by walking onto the pitch behind a sea of rainbow flags.
Topics: sport, a-league, soccer, community-and-society, sexuality, sydney-2000
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It's been making headlines since summer, but how does Centrelink's controversial debt recovery system actually work?
Topics: welfare, community-and-society, government-and-politics, federal-government, australia
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| UpdatedThe agency set up to improve online government services never worked on Centrelink's automated debt recovery system.
Topics: welfare, community-and-society, government-and-politics, political-parties, social-policy, australia
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| UpdatedIn a homage to the female superhero Wonder Woman, 100 Glamazons draped in a colour palette of red, blue and gold will march at Sydney's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, events, carnivals-and-festivals, gays-and-lesbians, community-and-society, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedThe Solomon Islands government has endorsed the concept of strata title for land and housing ownership as a way of tackling the housing problem, especially in the capital Honiara.
Topics: community-and-society, housing-industry, pacific, solomon-islands
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| UpdatedDoubling the grant offered to people buying their first home in regional Victoria will help push house prices down, Premier Daniel Andrews says.
Topics: states-and-territories, government-and-politics, community-and-society, business-economics-and-finance, industry, housing, housing-industry, vic
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| UpdatedThe Federal Government refuses to bow to a parliamentary committee's calls for a royal commission into alleged abuse, neglect and violence against people with disabilities.
Topics: disabilities, health, carers, community-and-society, royal-commissions, law-crime-and-justice, government-and-politics, human, australia
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| UpdatedIn the wake of community outcry, the Catholic Church says it has now removed three former priests from a Catholic-run retirement home neighbouring two Canberra primary schools.
Topics: community-and-society, religion-and-beliefs, catholic, primary-schools, schools, garran-2605, canberra-2600, act, australia
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Five thousand Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders will be hired over the next decade as part of one of the country's biggest employment drives for Indigenous workers, with mining magnate Andrew Forrest's GenerationOne overseeing the project.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, federal-government, australia
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| UpdatedPeople with suicidal thoughts who make worrying posts to Facebook Live will now get real-time intervention, in changes that come after a number of livestreamed deaths.
Topics: social-media, internet-culture, information-and-communication, community-and-society, suicide, brisbane-4000, qld
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The death of around 100 people during the Japanese air raid on Broome is still impacting families of victims and survivors 75 years later.
Topics: world-war-2, unrest-conflict-and-war, community-and-society, history, family-and-children, broome-6725, japan
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| UpdatedAustralians are working more and for less money, with many people unhappy in their jobs but three regional Victorian professionals changed their careers for a better quality of life.
Topics: human-interest, university-and-further-education, women-in-agriculture, teachers, education, career-counselling, community-and-society, careers, public-schools, shepparton-3630, bendigo-3550, maldon-3463, united-states
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| UpdatedA perfectly formed anvil thunderstorm cloud spreads across the northern skies of Adelaide, dumping heavy rain on the Barossa and igniting a Twitter frenzy.
Topics: weather, community-and-society, adelaide-5000, sa