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More than 100,000 people lined a major road through Perth in a one-off tribute to AC/DC and the late Bon Scott, but only after setting a new world record.
By Evelyn Manfield
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Revellers are forced to stand in line for hours and watch music acts on outdoor screens because the venue for the official Mardi Gras afterparty can only accommodate about half of those who bought tickets.
By Paige Cockburn
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In 2004, a German-born Australian resident ended up in prison and then a detention centre for 10 months after providing authorities with a false name. Her story shone a light on the immigration and mental health systems.
By Daniel Keane
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Vinyl records are set to generate more revenue for the Australian music industry than CDs this year, but it appears to have nothing to do with how the music actually sounds.
By Gian De Poloni
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WOMADelaide performers talk about the importance of folk music, the negative effects of how the style is perceived, and how it's being brought into the 21st century.
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An ancient seabed in Western Australia's north-west is proving to be one of the richest sites to find fossils of giant creatures that roamed the ocean until 3.5 million years ago.
By
Emma Wynne
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Fugitive director Roman Polanski's win at the Cesar awards is met with booing and a walkout by some actresses attending the ceremony in Paris.
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With sequins and glitter sparkling, hot pants and rainbow tutus galore, thousands turn out in Sydney's CBD for the 42nd Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.
By Bellinda Kontominas
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Two South Australian crossbench politicians call for an urgent review of classification laws, after discovering manga and anime sold in Australia that depict sexual images of children, including rape scenes.
By Leah MacLennan
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Cramming into clubs packed with big hair, booze and pounding music was a rite of passage in the 1980s and 90s
By Michael Dalla Fontana
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From arcade classics to mobile phone hits, six pioneering video-game makers tell us their pick of must-know, must-play games currently on display at the National Film and Sound Archive.
By Teresa Tan
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A societal swing as powerful as the #MeToo movement can't but have some influence over the thinking of a group of people whose wives, friends, daughters and sisters have finally started to tell them their own truths, writes Virginia Trioli.
By Virginia Trioli
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Sydney's glittering and glamorous Mardi Gras parade will explode onto Oxford Street tonight, with dozens of floats and thousands of revellers set to join the annual event celebrating the LGBTQI+ community.
By Emma Elsworthy
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The Moscow-based Hollywood actor is sanctioned by the Securities and Exchange Commission in the US after failing to disclose a $US1 million fee.
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Stateless follows four strangers whose lives collide in an Australian immigration detention centre in the desert. With the series premiering on Sunday, here is your shortcut guide.
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With six kilometres of manuscripts, 21 kilometres of newspapers and 23 kilometres of books, the State Library of Victoria is collecting in perpetuity — and it needs more space.
By Emma Nobel
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Scientists have revealed why different sides of our brain seem to be involved in making sense of music and speech.
By
Anna Salleh
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The actor penned this father-son tale while in rehab and the result is as soul-searching as you might expect, and also surprisingly tender.
By Keva York
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A clean-out gone wrong sparked the writer's first mainstage play, Torch the Place, in which three children stage an intervention for their hoarder mum.
By arts editor Dee Jefferson
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Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears is smart, sharp, earnest and above all, it is the film fans have been pining for. So how would Essie Davis — Phryne Fisher herself — fare turning her sleuthing skills to a real crime?
By Paul Verhoeven
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The Auschwitz museum says a brutal scene in Amazon TV series Hunters is "dangerous foolishness" but the creator says it was "incredibly necessary".
By Dannielle Maguire
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Legendary Queen guitarist Brian May has taken a swipe at an Adelaide council's "revolting" proposal to implement a nightly cat curfew for local residents' felines.
By Alice Dempster
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A new documentary from British broadcaster Channel 4 News appears to show children picking beans, lifting heavy loads and working for up to six days a week on farms which supply Nespresso.
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Kanye West's religious choir and prayer performance group Sunday Service has been popping up across the United States. Here's your shortcut guide.
By Emily Sakzewski
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Wildlife carers on the New South Wales South Coast remain swamped with work in the wake of the bushfires, with a flying fox clinic seeing a 900 per cent increase in bats needing care.
By
Justin Huntsdale
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The tech is more plausible and the portrait of domestic violence has never felt more grimly everyday than in this chilling update of Universal's classic horror film.
By Luke Goodsell
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Coronavirus whistleblower, dissidents and freedom of speech are at the heart of a new exhibition by Badiucao, self-described as the Chinese-Australian artist hunted by the Chinese Government.
By Teresa Tan
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With Chinese factories still shut and hundreds of millions of Chinese workers having faced some sort of home lockdown, the wedding industry, which relies on dresses made in China, is in disarray.
By business reporter Nassim Khadem
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Police mark Shrove Tuesday by posting '"pancake art" and a stack of puns to social media to draw attention to wanted suspects.
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Disney has changed a lot under the leadership of Bob Iger, picking up a range of popular movies and TV shows through bold acquisitions. But do you know which?
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The Grammy winner says she is "OK and safe now" in an Instagram post explaining her withdrawal from the limelight after the release of her 2010 album.
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Harvey Weinstein is now awaiting sentencing and faces up to 29 years behind bars. But March 11 is not the only day his fate will be decided.
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They weren't pets, and they weren't from the zoo — the three baboons that were seen roaming around Sydney's inner west yesterday escaped from a research facility where medical experiments are conducted on animals.
By Kevin Nguyen
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A Hong Kong bookseller who sold texts critical of Chinese political leaders, and who has previously been abducted in a Thai beach resort before resurfacing in detention in mainland China, is jailed for 10 years.
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Opera singer Placido Domingo apologises to the women who have accused him of sexual harassment after an investigation by the American Guild of Musical Artists found he behaved inappropriately with female performers.
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Three baboons being transported to the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney's inner west broke free from a truck before being recaptured with social media going into overdrive over the dramatic escape.
By Sarah Thomas
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An "untouchable man" will likely spend years behind bars, far from the Hollywood halls he ruled, so where does that leave Australia's #MeToo movement, beset by conflict and almost silenced?
By Annika Blau
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A woman who says she has only been a fan of the iconic rock band Queen for about a year sets the Guinness World Record for clocking up approximately 240 hours, or 10 consecutive days, watching Bohemian Rhapsody in cinemas.
By Rebeka Powell
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Harvey Weinstein's new home will be New York's notorious Rikers Island jail. This is what we know about how the case against the former film mogul unfolded, and what could happen next.
By Lucia Stein, wires
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One man suffering from frostbite and four other tourists are rescued in the Alaskan wilderness after visiting an abandoned bus that has become a lure for adventurers since it was featured in the Into The Wild book and movie.
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Photographer Timothy Lindner captures the beauty of colourful patterns created by minerals and groundwater on cave walls in the Flinders Ranges.
By Shannon Corvo
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The voices of the #MeToo movement hail the conviction of Harvey Weinstein as a victory for women who have gone public with allegations against powerful men.
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Katherine Johnson, a mathematician for NASA's early space missions and who was later portrayed in the hit film Hidden Figures about pioneering black female aerospace workers, dies aged 101.
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Its inventor came up against some "really evil stuff". The Nazis, Stalin and even the Vatican have banned it. In its relatively short life, the saxophone has attracted a whole lot of controversy.
By Anna Kelsey-Sugg for The History Listen
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Australia's premier horror director, Leigh Whannell, uses a century-old Hollywood property to highlight an urgent contemporary issue.
By music and pop culture reporter Paul Donoughue
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Former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein is facing more than 25 years in jail after being convicted of sexual assault by a New York jury in a landmark victory for the #MeToo movement.
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Drug kingpin Pablo Escobar was once public enemy number one in Colombia. Now, years after his death, animals from his zoo are wreaking havoc in the nation.
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Australia's domestic violence problem and the 'corrosive' masculinity that is central to it is explored in a new art installation on the New South Wales north coast.
By
Catherine Marciniak
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A-ha were the hottest thing to come out of Scandinavia since ABBA. Decades after bursting onto the scene, the memories of those first years still linger for the band.
By Michael Rowland
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Several children are strip-searched at an under-18s music festival in Western Sydney, despite the practice coming under intense criticism at an inquiry by the police watchdog.
By Rani Hayman
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Almost 15 years after his death, Pro Hart remains a much-loved figure in his home city of Broken Hill — but his family and the local community are in shock in the wake of his prominent local grave site being defaced, apparently with acid.
By Gayle Ball and staff
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Steve Kemp — an elder of the Ghungalu people and former mayor of the Woorabinda Shire — says he's stopped making boomerangs, as the dry conditions around Woorabinda Aboriginal Shire means the wood he uses is cracking.
By Jemima Burt
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For more than a century, the story of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has captured imaginations around the world, and her friend the Hatter is finally getting his time in the spotlight.
By Emma Nobel and Gavin McGrath
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With one in four of us said to be facing loneliness, could a form of online dating to find friendship be the answer?
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The cast of the hit 90s US television series Friends will unite for an untitled, unscripted special for the launch of streaming service HBO Max, according to WarnerMedia.
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As Harry Shearer speaks down the phoneline from New Orleans, it's hard not to hear the multitude of Simpsons characters hidden in his voice.
By Matt Neal
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If bushfire threatens you want a first responder like this man whose nimbleness had him pirouetting with the best.
By
Michael Cavanagh
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Emma Siossian
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Why do so many women — including famous ones — fall into the trap of apologising for themselves, their achievements and their opinions?
By Kate Midena
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In an exhibition spanning two decades of his practice, Vernon Ah Kee interrogates racism, racial violence and whiteness, and Australia's "history of wrong decisions".
By Hannah Reich for The Art Show
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The son of a former ABC cameraman accidentally donates never-before-seen colour footage of Don Bradman at the crease to the National Film and Sound Archive.
By national sport reporter David Mark
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Donald Trump ridicules the historic Oscar win for South Korean film Parasite, telling a campaign rally he wishes for the return of Hollywood classics like 1939's Gone With the Wind.
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As the string of retail casualties so far this year continues to grow, administrators say 33 Colette stores will close in the next three weeks, with the future for workers unclear.
By business reporter Stephanie Chalmers
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With controversies mounting and the brand's value falling, Victoria's Secret is sold to a private equity firm with doubts whether the company can reinvent itself for a new generation of women.
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As thousands flock to the city to enjoy the Adelaide Fringe Festival, thousands more will be enjoying festivities at one of nearly 20 satellite fringes across South Australia.
By Malcolm Sutton
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That warm, earthy scent when it rains for the first time after an extended dry spell has a name. As Dr Karl explains, there's a whole science behind it.
By Tom Edwards and Gianfranco di Giovanni
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MORNING BRIEFING: Transport NSW urges travellers to check for updates on train services to Victoria, and warning for Sydney residents to monitor for damage caused by construction of the Western Harbour Tunnel.
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Without Peter Green, there would be no Fleetwood Mac. The renowned guitarist led the band to new rock heights, before virtually disappearing from public life. The question is, could he be about to make a return?
By Mark Bannerman
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He's the apoplectic, potty-mouthed British TV news reporter whose off-camera sprays are some of the most scathingly sharp political insights in recent years — and now Australia is in his crosshairs.
By Sarah Thomas
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Dujuan Hoosan — a healer in his community, and speaker of three languages — is the subject of Australian documentary In My Blood It Runs.
By Keva York
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A man who took a ukulele from an Adelaide Fringe performer and allegedly bashed him over the head with it is described in court as a "menace" with a significant history of violence.
By court reporter Meagan Dillon
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Tom Hanks's new film brings the power of being able to identify your emotions back into the spotlight. But what happens in a work context, when you feel that old friend anger bubbling to the surface?
By Kate Midena
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One of the stars of the Australian Ballet's world-premiere production of The Happy Prince literally takes ballet to new heights as dancers soar high above the stage in a contemporary production which features a "living fruit salad" of cultural references.
By Stephanie Ferrier
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Rat infestations may have been a nightmare for convicts at the Hyde Park Barracks, but today historians are grateful for their activity.
By Alison Xiao
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A domesticated dog reconnects with his animal instincts in Jack London's classic ode to untameable wilderness, here given a warm-fuzzy adaptation for a new generation.
By Luke Goodsell
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Twenty years after signing a non-disclosure statement, Harvey Weinstein's former personal assistant Rowena Chiu speaks out about being sexually assaulted by him.
By Michael Vincent
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Coralie Alison would like to see the 28-year-old, who is one of the headliners of July's festival, address that abuse and his past misogynistic lyrical content when he takes the stage for his only Australian show.
By music and pop culture reporter Paul Donoughue
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A 53-year-old violinist performs during surgery to remove a brain tumour to ensure the parts of her brain that control hand coordination are not affected.
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The spectacular Gouldian finch was once found across northern Australia, but the combination of poor rains and habitat destruction leaves fewer than 2,500 birds in the wild.
By
Rebecca Nadge
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Chris Meldrum
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An all-female acting class will go ahead in Hobart after being put on ice for almost a year following a complaint from a man who claimed the classes were "exclusionary".
By
Georgie Burgess
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Listening to music helps palliative care patients on a physiological level, reducing the perception of pain, feelings of anxiety, leaving a profound emotional impact.
By
Megan Kinninment
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Sydney's historic hotels are being seen in a new light with the release of a trove of long-buried photographs.
By Matthew Bamford
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The last surviving World War II veteran in an iconic photo of the bloody Kokoda Track campaign has died in North Queensland.
By Sofie Wainwright
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Large numbers of Cape Barren geese are causing erosion and fouling water troughs in the Spencer Gulf off South Australia.
By Jodie Hamilton
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There is one question everyone asks the master of home design — but he rarely gets a chance to answer it.
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Research suggests that, if the first moments after a traumatic episode are managed well, if survivors allow themselves to process the memory of the event in all its horror, it's possible to prevent the majority of long-term symptoms. As a survivor of sexual assault, I wish I'd known that a decade ago, writes Lucia Osborne-Crowley.
By Lucia Osborne-Crowley
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Matt Wright has made his name capturing Australia's biggest and baddest crocodiles, but in Indonesia a big croc tangled in a tyre proves an impossible catch.
By Greg Jennett
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It was an incredible feat to pull off — 10 hours, 22 acts, and almost $10 million raised for bushfire relief. Here are some of the highlights from an unforgettable night in Sydney.
By Paige Cockburn and Riley Stuart
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The family that owns a house in south-west England where an artwork from Banksy appeared in time for Valentine's Day temporarily covers the mural after it is defaced.
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Singer-songwriter superstar Sir Elton John is forced to walk offstage due to pneumonia at a show in New Zealand, throwing into doubt upcoming performances in Australia.
By Max Walden
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In 1979, Rhonda was a registered nurse on a budget. For two years she saved up to pay off her $1,400 wedding dress. Recently she gifted that dress to ABC News presenter Tamara Oudyn, in an unexpected act of kindness that shocked her to her core.
By Tamara Oudyn
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For the first time, a major Australian arts festival opens with an entirely Indigenous program — and artists, audiences and community were the winners.
By arts editor Dee Jefferson
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Factories in China remain closed, leaving many local companies and their customers without stock, with even more uncertainty going forward.
By business reporter Nassim Khadem
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Research suggests Australians taking arts-focused trips could be vital in rebuilding communities devastated by bushfires and coronavirus.
By Antonette Collins
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Mick and Sue built a fire bunker on their property, and saved their historic Kiah home.
By Vanessa Milton
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More than 20 acts perform for 10 hours to an enthusiastic audience at Sydney's Olympic Park, helping to raise close to $10 million to support a range of community organisations involved with fighting the bushfires.
By Sarah Thomas
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SA Police now say a building fire in Adelaide's Rundle Mall last night was most likely caused by an electrical fault.
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It has seen off economic downturns and the rise of the e-book — somehow, this old-fashioned bookshop is still standing after 100 years and its loyal customers think they know why.
By Lucy MacDonald
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Doomadgee locals have taken a shine to pottery classes in the Gulf of Carpentaria, helping the community.
By Kemii Maguire
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Supernatural beings can show us the mystery of the world, why there's an alternative to the idea of punishment, and provide a glimpse into our own human essence.
By Alice Moldovan for ABC Religion and Ethics
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Yacht skipper Trevor Norton has picked up Franklin River paddlers for 30 years. That's 2,000 nights spent on the Gordon River.
By
Rick Eaves
