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Meet the 20-year-old making meals for our frontline health workers

Since late March, Alex Dekker has provided more than 10,000 meals to frontline workers in Victoria and New South Wales.





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Working in Australia for $3 an hour life on the working holiday visa

If people who arrive in Australia on the working holiday visa want to stay a second year, they have to do 88 days of work in regional parts of the country. Some report exploitation and abuse.




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Taking the plunge




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Grim prediction for regional motels as Airbnb, online booking sites add unprecedented pressure

Once the staple of regional travel, motels are facing an increasingly uncertain future as online alternatives bite away at revenue.




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Cox Plate: Kings Will Dream returns to Moonee Valley just 12 months after fracturing pelvis

After fracturing his pelvis and nearly bleeding out after last year's Cox Plate, Kings Will Dream is set to write another chapter in an unbelievable comeback story at Moonee Valley, during a fortnight of intense scrutiny over the treatment of horses within the racing industry.




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75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking

Paul Levitz




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Review: Ramona Koval's 'Speaking Volumes'

Rare insights into leading authors with Radio National's Ramona Koval.



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Sydney, Illawarra drinking water catchment under threat as mining takes toll on key wetlands

Sydney's drinking water catchment is under threat from longwall mining with upland swamps and streams drying out as a colliery pushes to expand.






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Meditate with Chris Hemsworth, bake with Maggie Beer — the celebrity masterclasses taking off in lockdown

Celebrities, cooks and internationally renowned performers offer online masterclasses, as those in coronavirus isolation look to upskill.




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Making water 'out of thin air': Desert community turns to groundbreaking solution for water woes

A remote Central Australian community will trial a technology that boosts supplies of drinking water using solar power and air, after battling water security issues for several years.




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Ali's job is based in London and she's working remotely — in North Queensland

When the coronavirus pandemic began, London-based events planner Ali Lord decided the best place to be was at her parents' cattle station, so she packed up her laptop and reconnected it 17 days later, after an epic commute.




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Health officials set to board Ruby Princess after docking in Manila

The International Transport Workers Federation says contacts on the ship told them there are six people in isolation on board due to COVID-19.




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'Can you imagine lying there for nearly a week?': 80yo woman rescued after breaking hip in home isolation

Erika Freingruber was stuck on the floor of her Beaudesert home, south of Brisbane, for up to five days with a broken hip before police rescue her after a tip-off from the state's newly-formed coronavirus Care Army.




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Fact check: Does being unemployed for a year nearly halve your chances of ever working again?

COVID-19 has resulted in widespread job losses — so what happens next for those who lost their jobs? ACOSS CEO Cassandra Goldie says if you're out of employment for more than 12 months, your chances of ever working again fall by 40 per cent. Is she correct?




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Hugs, parties and dancing the tango: What you're looking forward to after lockdown

Whether it's seeing family and friends, playing sport, eating out, dating or travel, we're all yearning for things that are out of our grasp right now. And experts say that might ultimately change us for the better.




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WA doctor lost in jungle on Christmas Island survived by drinking cave water

Katherine Comparti says "everything you could imagine" went through her mind when she became lost in thick jungle during a holiday to the remote island of Christmas Island off the West Australian coast.




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How the Apollo 11 Moon landing was achieved with the vital help of Carnarvon Tracking Station

It is a piece of Australian history never heard how a waitress, a TV repair man and a young Croatian migrant in a remote WA town helped the US win the space race by sending man to the Moon half a century ago.




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Water banking, rain farming and other ways to safeguard against future drought

Water banking involves the deliberate injection of surplus water into known aquifers. The idea is to repurpose the world’s many artesian basins as giant sustainable storage tanks - ones that can readily be drawn upon in times of drought. It’s just one of the ideas we explore in the second instalment of our two-part series on water conflict and management – the politics, the problems and the potential solutions.




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Would a coal mine save Kingaroy, or destroy it? Opinion is fiercely divided

"More mines, more jobs, more future," proclaims a mysterious billboard near Kingaroy. But not everyone agrees and the years of "constant fighting" are taking a massive toll.




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Brothers appear in court charged with allegedly attacking senior Melbourne police officer

Two brothers charged with intentionally causing serious injury over an alleged attack on a a senior Victoria Police officer displayed aggressive and threatening behaviour and were "attempting to engage in a fight" a Melbourne court is told.




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Canberra cafe owner who boasted about lavish lifestyle on social media guilty of drug trafficking

A 27-year-old Canberra man is found guilty of running a major drug operation to fuel a flamboyant lifestyle complete with expensive cars and inspirational quotes played out on Facebook and Instagram.




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Devonport's pocket rocket tall ship, Julie Burgess, is a rare survivor of working sail era

This 83-year-old ketch, Julie Burgess, is the last survivor of more than 100 built by the Burgess family and all were named after Burgess women.




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Eliza Bartlett is shaking off the stigma of type 1 diabetes. She is a nurse, cricketer and inspiration

Eliza Bartlett is a diabetic but is does not define her. The 27-year-old walked 4,200 kilometres across Europe to displace the stigma.




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'You can't study chemistry' and other barriers faced by women from non-English speaking backgrounds

Meet the determined young women who are working to break down barriers in the community and workforce, refusing to be defined by a stereotype.





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Adelaide Crows CEO comments on sacking of Burton and Camporeale

The dismissals come after a review identified poor internal relationships as a major issue affecting the AFL club.




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Megan Schutt on same-sex marriage, the pride of representing her country and 'not taking any crap'

Megan Schutt has no time for the same-sex-marriage haters and her bold online personality is ensuring she is grabbing her chance on the national stage ahead of another ground-breaking WBBL campaign.




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Timothe Chalamet in The King




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Police investigate report of fake cop pulling over driver and 'strangely' taking items of cutlery

Police investigate another report of a man impersonating a police officer in Adelaide, this time pulling over a driver and taking several items of cutlery.




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Top physicists, who analyse the Higgs boson while working out 'the truth', to meet in Adelaide

Scientists are "anti-politicians" who look for evidence to break theories rather than data to support an individual's politics, a particle physicist says ahead of a conference in Adelaide involving the world's top scientists.




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Former AFL and SANFL player handed four-year ban by ASADA for taking prohibited substance

Joshua Glenn is banned from competitive football for four years by the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority after testing positive to a prohibited substance.




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Video footage of Rebels bikie attacking child sex offender

The footage was posted by Rebels bikie Bradley Daniele, who appears to take credit for the attack.



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Police to review policies as footage emerges of bikie attacking child sex offender in watch house

SA Police is reviewing its security practices as CCTV footage of a bikie attacking a child sex offender at the Adelaide City Watch House is posted online.







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'We working to meet every one of those requirements' Adani Australia CEO Lucas Dow




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'We working to meet every one of those requirements' Adani Australia CEO Lucas Dow





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Environment Minister Leeanne Enoch speaking with an anti-Adani activist on the weekend (Facebook)




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Environment Minister Leeanne Enoch speaking with an anti-Adani activist (Facebook)





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Gold thief wanted 'memento' of time working at rich WA mine

A 22-year-old geology student pleads guilty to stealing from one of Australia's biggest gold mines, saying he wanted a "memento" to motivate him to finish his degree.