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| UpdatedAre civil rights too important to be decided by a popular vote or is it an assault on our democracy if the voice of the people is not heard on this issue? Kevin Donnelly and David van Mill debate the merits of holding an expensive plebiscite on same-sex marriage.
Topics: federal-government, gays-and-lesbians, marriage, government-and-politics, federal---state-issues, australia
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| UpdatedA hero? A villain? Despite remarkable feats on the field, departing Australian cricket captain Michael Clarke leaves behind a trail of unknowables.
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Fran Davis spent her whole life so terrified of the dark that she wouldn't walk to her own clothesline at night, until the celestial wonder of the southern lights changed all that. She's now on the vanguard of a growing community of aurora hunters.
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| UpdatedWe published ABC reporter Will Ockenden's metadata in full and hundreds of you helped analyse it. Here's what you got right - and wrong.
Topics: internet-culture, mobile-phones, federal-government, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedTake our quiz to see if you can tell who reporter Will Ockenden is talking to - just from his metadata.
Topics: internet-technology, mobile-phones, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedIn the digital age, how much of your life is actually private? To find out, ABC reporter Will Ockenden got access to his metadata. See what that data looks like.
Topics: federal-government, internet-technology, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedThese before and after satellite images reveal the impact of two huge blasts that have killed more than 50 people in the Chinese port city of Tianjin.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, china
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| UpdatedSee how Australia's carbon emissions and its new 2030 target compare among the world's top 15 emitters.
Topics: environment, climate-change, australia
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| UpdatedMeet some of the specialists behind crime-scene investigation in Australia who say their jobs aren't as sexy as they may appear on-screen.
Topics: crime, television, forensic-science, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedAustralian surfing star Mick Fanning said he was "stoked" to walk away from a shark attack during the J-Bay Open surf event in South Africa.
Topics: shark, surfing, oceans-and-reefs, australia, south-africa
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| UpdatedAfter recording images of towns and cities across the world, Google's Street View service launches via horse-drawn sled in the sparsely-populated Asian country of Mongolia.
Topics: internet-technology, human-interest, mongolia
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| UpdatedNational Geographic photographer Steve Winter, known for his intimate photos of big cats, arrives in Australia for the first time to deliver a series of talks on his thrilling career in wildlife photography.
Topics: photography, arts-and-entertainment, animals, human-interest, conservation, environment, united-states, perth-6000, melbourne-3000, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedHere's Pluto as never seen before, thanks to NASA's New Horizons spacecraft.
Topics: planets-and-asteroids, astronomy-space, science-and-technology, united-states, australia
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| UpdatedThe 2005 Ashes series was 22 days of fluctuating, riveting cricket played in a great spirit - relive every single day of the classic contest with Grandstand's comprehensive retrospective timeline.
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| UpdatedSee how Australia's most famous art prize has evolved over the past century, as the faces of every winner from 1921 to 2015 morph into each other.
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| UpdatedTopics: exercise-and-fitness, swimming, brighton-3186
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| UpdatedWhen acid attack victim Hasina Akter faced the man who disfigured her, she was encouraged to take revenge by beating him.
Topics: women, crime, bangladesh
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| UpdatedCentenarians share their stories of life, love and lasting memories.
Topics: population-and-demographics, human-interest, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedThree days in a domestic violence refuge, where women tell of piecing their lives back together after fleeing abusive relationships.
Topics: domestic-violence, brisbane-4000
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The ACT Government releases the addresses of Canberra's 1,022 Mr Fluffy asbestos-contaminated homes.
Topics: asbestos, states-and-territories, act, canberra-2600
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Relations between the United States and Cuba, more strained than neighbourly over the past century, have seen US occupations, Cold War enmity, and even the brink of nuclear war.
Topics: world-politics, united-states, cuba
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| UpdatedAfter 17 years at the helm, Mike Finch bows out of Circus Oz.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment
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| UpdatedMeet sheep shearer, cattle herder and milk woman Sevjid Damdin, who was awarded the Motherhood medal during Mongolia's socialist times.
Topics: human-interest, mongolia
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| UpdatedTopics: suicide, depression, mental-health, volunteers, human-interest, health, canberra-2600, act, australia
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| UpdatedSomalai Seng first heard the Khmer Rouge through a crackling loudspeaker on an old truck. The soldiers drove around the streets of Pailin, telling the locals they only needed to pack for a few days while they cleared the town.
Topics: women, unrest-conflict-and-war, cambodia