Paige Cockburn is a digital producer and reporter based at the ABC's Brisbane office. Follow Paige on Twitter: @PaigeCockburn
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| UpdatedEven the luck of the Irish has not spared Sydney's St Patrick's Day celebrations from the drenching the city has received this week with the event now cancelled.
Topics: community-and-society, community-and-multicultural-festivals, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedA spat between two powerful NSW Government organisations over a police phone bugging scandal escalates, as the ombudsman's office rebukes 'unfounded and inflammatory' comments from the crime commission.
Topics: police, government-and-politics, law-crime-and-justice, corruption, nsw
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| UpdatedCoopers Brewery distances itself from a promotional video released by The Bible Society about same-sex marriage, as pubs around the country take its beers off tap in protest.
Topics: beverages, food-and-beverage, sydney-2000
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Many Sydneysiders were shocked to hear about Egg the pug's alleged dognapping at knifepoint, but in a twist his owner has been charged with making a false report of armed robbery.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, homebush-2140
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| UpdatedOne of Australia's most senior Catholics, Archbishop of Brisbane Mark Coleridge, says he does not know how many priests break their vows of celibacy, and does not think it is appropriate to question them.
Topics: royal-commissions, catholic, child-abuse, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedAlongside the impossible pain and hefty medical expenses, acid attack victims are often faced with a closed door when attempting to re-enter society and find work. But they are now asking employers to see their skills, not their scars.
Topics: women, assault, domestic-violence, india
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| UpdatedWhat will Barack Obama do with his last morning in power? Will he follow Bill Clinton's lead with an exit prank? He could also pen some parting words for Donald Trump, or issue more pardons.
Topics: world-politics, us-elections, human-interest, united-states
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| UpdatedCampbell 'Bumble' Remess continues to inspire people around the globe by auctioning off his famous handmade bears and hosting his first gala dinner where $26,000 is raised for cancer research.
Topics: children, human-interest, charities, cancer, hobart-7000
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| UpdatedGet a peek at the natural beauty this country's greatest ecologists are exposed to as the Ecological Society of Australia announces the winners of its annual photography competition.
Topics: ecology, environment, animals, australia
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Graffiti is not often associated with positive messages, but the "vandalism" left at a US mosque from a group of "hooligans" was unusually heart-warming.
Topics: religion-and-beliefs, community-and-society, human-interest, united-states
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| UpdatedWhat if a spinach plant could warn of a bomb threat by sending a message to a smartphone?
Topics: science-and-technology, earth-sciences, united-states
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| UpdatedWomen in Iran are uploading videos of themselves riding their bikes in defiance of new fatwa that bans female cycling for "contravening women's chastity".
Topics: women, social-media, religion-and-beliefs, iran-islamic-republic-of
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| UpdatedFor those who think the dog surfing scene is just about canines in costumes gliding in on the whitewash, Abbie the Australian Kelpie will prove you wrong.
Topics: animals, surfing, sport, human-interest, offbeat, united-states
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| UpdatedAustralian researchers use X-ray technology to find a figure of a woman hidden underneath a 19th century portrait by French impressionist Edgar Degas.
Topics: art-history, science-and-technology, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedAs part of Play School's 50th anniversary celebrations, singer-songwriter Katie Noonan gets the opportunity to be presenter for a day — a "magical" experience.
Topics: television, play-and-learning, arts-and-entertainment, children---toddlers, children---preschoolers, family-and-children, australia
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| UpdatedWith the death rate for chronic lower respiratory disease three times higher for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, one Kamilaroi woman is working to bridge this gap.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-culture, indigenous-protocols, health, arts-and-entertainment, australia
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| UpdatedIf the audience response was anything to go on, same-sex marriage and Australia's treatment of asylum seekers are the most emotive election issues in this Victorian seat.
Topics: federal-elections, regional, immigration, marriage, government-and-politics, federal-government, wangaratta-3677
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| UpdatedScientists uncover more than a tonne of fossils and dinosaur remains — some estimated to be 71 million years old — while on an extremely gruelling and frosty expedition to Antarctica.
Topics: fossils, research, antarctica
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| UpdatedWhen Donald Trump said the only card Hillary Clinton had to play in the US presidential race was the "woman's card", a brother-sister duo decided to make a whole pack.
Topics: us-elections, women, offbeat, united-states
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Western Australian music artists and crew members from the 2015 Disconnect Festival say they have not seen a cent of money owed to them since the event four months ago.
Topics: music, music-industry, carnivals-and-festivals, perth-6000
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| UpdatedA mother who refused to be vaccinated against whooping cough changes her firm stance after she contracted and passed the serious disease onto her newborn baby.
Topics: vaccines-and-immunity, babies---newborns, qld
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| UpdatedA series of unremarkable decisions like not stopping for coffee possibly saved the life of a young Australian student who was in Brussels Airport at the time of Tuesday's attacks.
Topics: terrorism, human-interest, belgium, brisbane-4000, qld, australia
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| UpdatedThe murder of two Argentine girls backpacking through South America prompts women all over the world to defend solo travelling by females.
Topics: women, travel-and-tourism, travel-health-and-safety, ecuador
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| UpdatedA new expertly detailed diorama on show in Las Vegas shows exactly how Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman made his infamous second jailbreak.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, library-museum-and-gallery, crime, offbeat, united-states
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Would you ever consider sharing your tears so they could be analysed at a microscopic level? That is exactly what Dutch photographer Maurice Mikkers asks his friends and strangers to do.
Topics: human-interest, contemporary-art, fine-art-photography, netherlands