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Gorman Mangkaja collection breaks new ground for Indigenous fashion design collaboration

In a ground-breaking collaboration, Melbourne fashion label Gorman teams up with Indigenous artists whose work depicts places where sacred cultural knowledge has been passed down for thousands of years.




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Man dies in car crash after earlier police pursuit, prompting death in custody investigation

A fatal crash following a police pursuit near a community north-east of Alice Springs is being treated as a death in custody, with police declining to say what prompted them to chase the 42-year-old man.





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Vale Peter Sherwin, one of the cattle kings of northern Australia

At one point Peter Sherwin was the largest private landowner in the country, with about 300,000 head of cattle, spanning 17 cattle stations.




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'No kid should be in jail': 12yo at centre of documentary issues plea to NT Parliament

Dujuan, a 12-year-old who was nearly jailed as a 10-year-old, addresses the NT Parliament, urging them to try to understand troubled youth and look for alternatives to detention.




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Indigenous art depicting bush medicine draws acclaim from critics and collectors

In the remote Northern Territory community of Ampilatwatja, paintings show the prescriptions for thousands of years of traditional healing.



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Thousands of mental health patient transfers show need for more clinicians in rural Australia, researchers say

Australians suffering acute mental health episodes in rural and remote areas are increasingly having to travel far from family and friends for life-saving treatment, leading to calls for more specialist clinicians in the country.




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Twenty Indonesian agriculture students were shosen to take part in this year's program.




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Aboriginal council CEO says police followed him home from a bottle shop and pepper-sprayed his dog

Tengentyere Council chief executive Walter Shaw says police auxiliaries followed him to a friend's house and then back to his town camp, where he says they pepper-sprayed his dog and searched his car before acknowledging he had no alcohol.




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Missing French bushwalker found off popular Ormiston Gorge track near Alice Springs

The 64-year-old tourist was reported missing after failing to return from a bushwalk near Ormiston Gorge in the West MacDonnell ranges 135 kilometres west of Alice Springs.




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Akeyulerre, the Arrente Healing Centre bush foods cards.



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Uluru helicopter crash survivors recall harrowing moments before impact

On a cool March morning in 1968, a television commercial shoot slated for the top of Uluru went horribly wrong.




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Sheikh Hamad bin Hamdan Al Nahyan




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Wild black kites have been gatecrashing the bird show at Alice Springs Desert Park




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A black kite makes its presence felt at the bird show



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The free flying bird show's resident magpie



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Wild black kite raptors pirate the spoils at desert bird show

Wild black kites are becoming a bit of a nuisance at a free-flight bird show in Alice Springs, turning up to the shows hoping for a free feed.




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Bird trainer Angus Newey at a free flying bird show



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Shirleen Campbell among NT Australian of the Year winners for work with Indigenous women

An Alice Springs social worker who has given a voice to Aboriginal women and a Darwin doctor who oversaw the RAAF Cyclone Tracy evacuations have been honoured.







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Josh Meredith's small business is helping change community attitudes about Down syndrome

Josh Meredith lives with Down syndrome and is helping change community attitudes towards disability in the workplace.




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Irish family faces deportation after son diagnosed with cystic fibrosis

An Irish family, who has been living in regional Victoria for almost a decade, faces deportation after their son is diagnosed with cystic fibrosis.





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Police offer $500k reward in hunt for person who shot cyclist on Myrtleford-Everton Rail Trail

After two years, police in Victoria still do not know why someone shot Kelvin Tennant while he was cycling on the Myrtleford-Everton Rail Trail in 2017. They are offering a $500,000 reward to find the person responsible.





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Men shot by police in Barnawartha North were known to counterterrorism police

The brothers shot and injured by police after wielding a knife and tomahawk during a confrontation in Victoria's north-east were of interest to counterterrorisminvestigators.




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Barnawartha police shooting: NSW authorities allege brothers were radicalised before jail time

The brothers shot by police in Barnawartha North yesterday were radicalised before going to jail last year, NSW Corrective Services allege, as counterterrorism police say one of the men had been on their radar for at least two years.




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Joshua Clavell faces court after being shot by police in Barnawartha standoff

A man who was shot by police in northern Victoria last week, after he and his brother allegedly threatened officers with a knife and a tomahawk, appears in court charged with assaulting police.




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Microlight flown by uncle crashes into Lake Eildon, killing Melbourne woman Kathleen Canavan

Relatives are mourning the death of a 23-year-old Melbourne woman who died on Saturday when a microlight flown by her uncle crashed into the waters of Lake Eildon in central Victoria.



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Woman's body found after microlight crashes into Lake Eildon in central Victoria

Police recover the body of a 23-year-old Melbourne woman who was a passenger in a microlight aircraft that had crashed into Lake Eildon, in central Victoria. The pilot was rescued by a fishing boat and taken to hospital.



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Murray-Darling Basin residents' survey shows support for reallocating water from irrigators to Indigenous communities

A random survey of people living in the Murray-Darling Basin shows support for reallocating water from irrigators to Indigenous communities.




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Smoking ceremony marks the signing of the Taungurung Country community energy partnership




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On Country renewable energy partnership gets green light

A three-way renewable energy partnership bringing together the traditional land owners, community, and government will deliver a sustainable income and clean energy.



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Victorian helicopter pilot Gilbert Parker living 'his dream' before Fiji crash

Gilbert Parker is remembered by friends as a "fine man", after he went missing in seas off Fiji when his helicopter crashed as he attempted to take a mother and her two-year-old son to hospital.




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Farmer who chopped up rare ooshie to raise awareness of drought says he was 'standing up for what is right'

Farmers Stephen Black and Melissa Portingale were so desperate for water they put a rare ooshie up for sale. That's when the trouble started.




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Victorians cashing in on NSW Return and Earn scheme as recycling crisis bites

Wodonga grandmother Janice Marcuzzi is among those residents crossing state borders to take advantage of container deposit schemes.




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Cancer patient 'showbag' could be rolled out nationally

A care package for people diagnosed with cancer could be rolled out nationally after its success in a regional community.



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Anglican bishop's wish to bless same-sex marriages to be put to a vote

Before he retires, Bishop John Parkes in north-east Victoria is pushing for same-sex marriages to be blessed by the Anglican Church.




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Court rejects appeal for 'depraved' Victorian murderer to have life sentence shortened

Murderer Michael Cardamone, who tortured and callously killed Victorian woman Karen Chetcuti-Verbunt in 2016, has his life jail term upheld by appeal judges who say the "dreadful punishment" is fit for "a dreadful crime".





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Colourful rolls of ribbons at a local haberdashery shop





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Australia's haberdashery shops are hanging on by a thread but are they crafting a comeback?

The humble haberdashery shop was once a mainstay of many a town centre, but is browsing the colourful bits and bobs in these stores in danger of becoming a thing of the past?




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Farmers, residents fight $30m sheep abattoir planned for Gillieston, northern Victoria

A $30 million proposal for a sheep abattoir that would employ 150 full-time workers is opposed by a group of residents, who are concerned about potential health impacts and devaluation of their properties.




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Cow defies odds and gives birth to four calves in big shock to cattle farmers

A cow has amazed a pair of cattle farmers and fascinated a veterinarian after giving birth to rare quadruplets.




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Kialla man Thomas Baksh drank 'up to 40 cans of alcohol' before crash that killed son

A father who was on his L-plates drank "up to 40 cans of alcohol" before getting behind the wheel pleads guilty to causing the death of his son.