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Global Grooves: Exotic cuisine from across the globe

A wide range of foreign treats and traditional cuisines made their way into the mouths of festival goers in north Queensland over the weekend. The festivities were part of an annual Global Grooves event highlighting the diverse range of cultures in north Queensland.




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Giggling all the way to the school gate

Townsville children can get a head start ahead of school, with a new mobile playgroup.




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Choir of Unheard Voices embrace Mzaza's foreign music

Musical therapist and violinist Greta Kelly uses the power of music to take people away from their daily worries. This is why she felt compelled to get in touch with Choir of Unheard Voices.






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Go behind the scenes when ABC went on the road in Toowoomba

It takes a lot to put six television programs, and a host of radio shows, to air from a regional city, but that is what the ABC did in Toowoomba.



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Centuries old Spanish garments restored and protected with community heritage grant

There is no shortage of heritage to celebrate and preserve at the New Norcia Monastery in Western Australia's Mid West.



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The faces of Toowomba that capture a changing city

Amidst the reflections of cars and signs in the Toowoomba CBD, 12 faces of residents have appeared in empty shop fronts to celebrate the diversity of people who call the garden city home.




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Recycling communication dishes for osprey nests

Ospreys living around the coastal town of Jurien Bay, around 220 km north of Perth, have recently been given some newly renovated nests thanks to some recycled communication dishes.





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Graffiti art reigns

Coffs Harbour and Nambucca get a graffiti art make over.













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BrisAsia Festival is back for 2017

From live music, dumpling demonstrations and kite making workshops for kids, to self-defence lessons, bird watching, contemporary dance performances and a bamboo lantern parade, there'll be something for everyone at BrisAsia this year! Delight your senses with 80 events jam packed into three weeks from January 27 - February 19 across the city.




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A common vampire bat in flight.






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Inside house shot





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Fashion industry needs budding engineers, mathematicians, according to Frock Club founders

Bright minds are being encouraged to consider jobs in fashion, rather than traditional STEM careers such as engineering and mathematics.




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Torrita locals fight for just eight seconds of your time, to slow traffic down through their town

The small rural community of Torrita fights to keep safe speed limits through their town, and to acknowledge their existence.





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Australian pioneer Pauline Milich was the remarkable midwife who gave birth while delivering a baby

Pauline Milich brought her 14th child into the world while helping another woman deliver a baby life was different in the early 1900s.




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Retirement village resident gathers petition for bus stop outside her home in rural Victorian town

An 85-year-old woman in rural Victoria campaigns for a bus stop outside her retirement village.



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Margaret Cooper and Swan Hill mayor Anne Young




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Margaret Cooper, 85, at her Swan Hill home





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Desperate citrus growers forced to give up on crops as they wait for decision on water buyback

Citrus growers on the lower Darling River stare down an unprecedented disaster, with some being forced to abandon their crops as they wait for the Federal Government to agree to a water buyback.




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Man to face trials in two states over alleged double shooting of his mum and brother

A former deputy mayor could face trials in two states for shooting his mother and brother on either side of the NSW-Victoria border, after police in NSW issued a warrant for his arrest.




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Murray cod fish kills 'every week' have graziers concerned about depleted state of lower Darling River

As heated debate about water policy continues, native fish are continuing to die in the lower Darling River in shrinking residual pools.








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Mildura Base Hospital management set to return to public hands

The Victorian Government is set to announce that it will take over the running of the state's only privately run public hospital.








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Dog handler's push to recognise dog agility trials as an official sport in Australia

Humans get exercise in many ways, including training and competing with their dogs in agility trials. So is it time the competition is officially recognised as a sport?




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Man charged with murder of Mildura council staff member Karen Belej

Detectives charge a man with murdering a woman who was found shot dead at a house in north-west Victoria at the weekend.




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Genetic modification law reform could see cotton industry swoop on South Australia

South Australia'sdecisiontoaxe its banongeneticallymodified cropscouldopen the doors for the cotton industry many locals have traditionally opposed.