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Keeping Aboriginal culture and songlines alive in South Australia's Flinders Ranges

The Flinders Ranges in South Australia are known for their rich Aboriginal history and now two women are trying to preserve it.



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Olympic swimmer Kyle Chalmers has heart surgery less than a year out from Tokyo games

Olympic gold medallist Kyle Chalmers is cautiously optimistic another round of surgery has fixed an ongoing heart condition "once and for all", with less than a year to go before the 2020 Olympic Games.





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Solo trekker Steve Woore follows runaway teen whalers' 500km pioneering trek across Eyre Peninsula

In the mid-19th century two teenagers fled the brutal life of a SA whaling station. With the help of local Indigenous tribes they survived walking more than 500km through remote landscape to finally reach freedom.




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Barwon Water ordered to fix Otways water acidification due to pumping of key groundwater aquifer

A Victorian water authority bows to pressure and abandons plans to pump more groundwater from an area where it caused major environmental degradation.




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Hizir Ferman may have 'progressively suffocated' to death pinned by prison guards, inquest hears

Violent standover man Hizir Ferman may have "progressively suffocated" to death when Victorian prison officers used their body weight to pin him to the ground after forcibly removing him from his cell, an inquest has been told.




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Melbourne man collects hundreds of pieces of jewellery made out of human hair

Some people collect cars, mugs or sports memorabilia. Hayden Peters collects jewellery made from the hair of dead people.




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Homeless man sleeping in skip bin in Kerang accidentally tipped into garbage truck

A homeless man suffers a broken tooth and sore back after falling more than 2 metres when the skip bin he was sleeping in was tipped up and into the back of a garbage truck at Kerang, in northern Victoria.




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Families raise funds for seizure alert dogs for children with epilepsy

Families of loved ones who live with epilepsy are now relying on trained dogs to detect their seizures, and one mother says their dog saved her son's life on multiple occasions.




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Blind dairy farmer Harry Gibson and wife Diana have made it work despite the odds

Diana Gibson has been her husband's "eyes" for many years, but now her own health is failing with Parkinson's disease. But despite everything, Harry still tends the cows.




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Bridging the Strait salutes forgotten aviation pioneer Arthur Long, 100 years on

This year marks a century since a Tasmanian raced to beat a Victorian rival across Bass Strait.






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Knight and defending world jousting champion Phillip Leitch retains his title in medieval-style tournament

World jousting champion Phillip Leitch of Kryal Castle, near Ballarat, defeats challengers from as far away as the Netherlands, Russia and Canada to claim the title for another year.




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Drought eats into Australia's agri-accounts as we import grain, deal with 25-year low cattle herds and spiralling water costs

From sky-high water costs to prohibitively expensive livestock feed, new forecasts show how drought will impact Australia's exports and agricultural production.




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Influenza outbreak kills 37 Victorians, including hospital worker in state's east

James Day died from complications caused by influenza eight days after he was admitted to hospital in eastern Victoria. He is one of 37 people killed so far this year.




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Lake Tyers, a popular fishing and camping spot for thousands of years, faces environmental pressures

Bung Yarnda, also known as Lake Tyers, has a rich Indigenous history as a fishing and camping place for Gunai clans in east Victoria. Now a thriving coastal town, the area faces the pressures of population growth.



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Greens pioneer Deb Foskey faces fight of her life tackling cancer in the wake of house fire

Deb Foskey has survived the death of her teenage son, a career in politics, the threat of bushfire which has just claimed her home but now she faces the toughest fight of her life.




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Little penguins in need of more rehabilitation jumpers in case of oil spill

Little penguins can be susceptible to oil spills and when that happens they head to Phillip Island to get clean again, but not before being fitted out with special "rehabilitation jumpers".




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Port Albert pier is located near the proposed farm

If the 'Star of the South' wind farm is approved, you will see the turbines off the pier





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Victorian hospital security guard awarded $31K payout in unfair dismissal case

Latrobe Regional Hospital in Victoria's Gippsland has been ordered to pay more than $31,000 to a former security guard who was sacked last year.






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Victorian hospitals across Gippsland, Geelong and Warrnambool hit by ransomware attack

The Victorian Government investigates the scale of a ransomware attack by "sophisticated cyber criminals" on some of the state's major regional hospitals that has forced healthcare providers to go offline.




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Victoria's Latrobe Regional Hospital mental health staff under limited supervision, review finds

A report on the workplace culture at a major hospital in Victoria uncovers limited supervision of junior mental health staff, as well as allegations of bullying and sexual harassment.





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Piano workshop



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Famous 145yo Pleyel piano restored, illuminating lost craft of piano making

Albert H. Fox, who restored and rebuilt close to 6,000 pianos and tuned several thousand more, has now restored a famous 145-year-old Pleyel piano.





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Regional hospitals compared with third world as doctors put pressure on NSW Government to call for judicial inquiry

Whistleblower doctors in New South Wales say their pleas for a serious inquiry into regional healthcare by the NSW State Government are being ignored since a damning Four Corners expose last month.




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DTU and TU Delft develop stress adapted orthotropic infill for 3D printing

A team of researchers at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) has developed a new method for generating stress adapted orthotropic infill for 3D printing.



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BCN3D raises $3M in funding and spins out of Polytechnic University of Catalonia

BCN3D, a Barcelona-based desktop 3D printing OEM, announced today that it has raised $3 million through seed funding.



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Researchers 3D print shrimp-inspired robot claw to produce underwater plasma

A snap from a snapping shrimp (known as the pistol shrimp) can create extreme pressures that will produce a flash of light and temperatures of 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit, producing plasma (a state of matter in which electrons are freed from their atoms).



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Epic bike ride challenging misconceptions about people with disabilities

A group of friends with disabilities is about to undertake a cycling adventure to challenge the misconceptions about people with disabilities. They're going to ride from Australia's lowest point at Lake Eyre to the highest point Mt Kosciuszko. Two of them will peddle the 2000 kilometres together on a tandem trike.




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Pirate Blockade!

CJ looks into Australia's new blockade of copyright-infringing websites, and a smartphone film festival.



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Nerdzilla's 100th Episode!

It's our centenary and we are officially old.



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NSW DPI launch "The Gate" with global accerlerator SparkLabs













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WA beekeeper program facing axe despite sweet success for youth unemployment

A successful WA program turning job seekers into beekeepers looks likely to fold when federal funding runs out in 2018.