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Little Richard dead at 87

Little Richard, one of the founding fathers of rock and roll, has died at the age of 87.




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Why it's hard to find a Burger King in Australia

Companies often change valuable brand names when expanding to other countries. Sometimes the reason is a language issue. But other times, the reasons are far more interesting.



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Hard Cash Valley

Georgia Bureau of Investigation Agent Dane Kirby and FBI Agent Roselita Velasquez probe a brutal murder in a Jacksonville, Florida hotel room in Panowich's searing follow-up to Like Lions (2019). Arnie Blackwell's murder is only the beginning. Someone is leaving a bloody trail through the Southeast looking for Arnie's younger brother, a boy with Asperger's Syndrome who possesses an unusual skill with numbers that could make a lot of money and that has already gotten a lot of people killed. As Dane and Roselita hunt for the boy, it swiftly becomes a race against the clock that has them entangled in a web of secrets. A masterful tale of Southern Noir.




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Too Hard Basket: breaking the chainmail

A chain email arrives in your inbox from two friends requesting you send a poem of your choice on to 20 others. You really like both these people and don't want to hurt their feelings by not participating, but you have a deep dislike of chain letters and loading up the internet with bumph. You feel really conflicted about this. What should you do?



  • Computers and Technology
  • Information and Communication
  • Poetry
  • Ethics

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Too Hard Basket: excluded from a family inheritance

You are chatting with your cousin and she casually mentions an inheritance. You know that on her mother's side there was nothing to inherit. Your paternal grandmother though, died five years ago and you received nothing. Do you dig for answers knowing there's no chance of money, but really just to understand why? Or do you just let sleeping dogs lie?




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Richard Thompson - Electric

British folk ambassador returns with a fully charged electric set.




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Flu strikes down more than 183,000 people this year, and it's not only the elderly who are being hit hard

Doctors are shocked by how quickly this season's flu is striking down the young and healthy. Last year, Amanda Nix was doing Tough Mudder, but a few weeks ago she was struck down with the infection, blacking out in an emergency ward as it took hold.




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Justin Longmuir as coach of the AFL's Fremantle Dockers makes sense now for the hard part

Appointing coaches just because they have played for that club is not always the best strategy, but Justin Longmuir ticks all the boxes for Fremantle. Now he just needs to tick a few more, writes Clint Thomas.




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WA's biggest native hardwood processor, Auswest Timbers, accused of 'wasting' thousands of tonnes of jarrah logs

WA's biggest native hardwood processor is facing accusations it sold thousands of tonnes of jarrah sawlogs to be burnt as low-value charcoal.




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'The Boys' hits hard at Wollongong

The latest production of Griffin Theatre Company's 'The Boys' is a performance so disturbingly real that you're relieved when the house lights come up and you can leave.




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Dogs will eat anything, as owners of pet who swallowed cement render learn the hard way

When the vet x-rayed their young dog and found a mass in its intestines, Duke's owners never imagined it would be a lump of cement.




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Downpour fills dams, soaks paddocks in drought-hardened far western NSW over Easter

From 85 millimetres of rain in a year to more than 50mm in a day, widespread Easter rain raises spirits from Bourke to Menindee.




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Ivanhoe truck and tractor show brings joy in hard times with visitors rolling into struggling outback town

Locals are worried for the future of the small NSW town of Ivanhoe, but a colourful truck and tractor show brought in crowds about three times the size of its population.




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'We're dead in the water': Wildlife parks hit particularly hard by COVID-19 tourism halt

Wildlife parks have a long road back to financial buoyancy after coronavirus restrictions stripped them of their sole source of income; visitors, and some operators are dipping into personal savings just to keep their animals fed.




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A washed-out semi-final wasn't exactly hard to predict, so how was it allowed to happen?

India and England's Twenty20 World Cup semi-final was washed out and Australia's clash with South Africa almost was too, all without a backup plan in place. How was this allowed to happen?




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Gary Cook said his son was a "good boy" who'd had a "hard life".




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After Vanity Fair came to town, Byron Bay took a long hard look at itself

After a US magazine visited the far-north NSW coast town, Byron Bay was abuzz. Dig a little deeper and the stories pour forth from angered locals.



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  • northcoast
  • Information and Communication:Internet:All
  • Australia:NSW:Byron Bay 2481

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Byron Shire mayor Simon Richardson



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  • northcoast
  • Business
  • Economics and Finance:Industry:Road Transport
  • Disasters and Accidents:Accidents:Road
  • Government and Politics:Local Government:All
  • Australia:NSW:Byron Bay 2481


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A Good Day to Die Hard

The hit action franchise suffers a serious blow with this silly, lightweight and forgettable installment. Yippee-Ki-Yay indeed!




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Eight Gigabytes of Hardcore Pornography

Funny and disturbing, this play is a must see.




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Richard Branson was once so confident about Virgin he ripped up a $250 million cheque

In 2000, Virgin Australia first entered the Australian aviation market with one route, two aircraft and 200 employees. Last month, it was flying to 56 destinations around the world.




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Homelessness hard enough, then coronavirus makes sleeping rough even more dangerous

The COVID-19 pandemic has made life on the streets more difficult than ever and despite government promises to help, Lionel says he has been "hearing that for a long time and nothing happens".







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Aged care royal commission chair Richard Tracey QC dies of cancer

Richard Tracey QC is remembered as wise, selfless and admired as the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety is told of the "complete shock" of his sudden death.




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CCTV shows convicted terror plotters at chemist, hardware store

CCTV released by the Supreme Court of Victoria shows Ahmed Mohamed and Hamza Abbas in a chemist and a hardware store buying items to be used in the attack.




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Amy Prcevich and Elvis Richardson




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There's a tiny crayfish burrowing in the rainforest, and hardly anyone knows it's there

It's the size of a tea bag and plays dead if you manage to catch it but this little crayfish is starting to get noticed.




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Survey on impacts of COVID-19 paints a picture of distress, hardship and resilience

The ANU study has found that two-thirds of Australians feel anxious or worried about their own and others' safety, and a substantial number believe they'll contract the virus in the next six months.





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Desert roses are gaining popularity as hardy drought plants in outback Queensland

The hardy desert rose is rising in popularity, with nurseries unable to keep up with demand, as green thumbs seek drought-tolerant colour in the dry outback.



  • ABC North West Queensland
  • northwest
  • Community and Society:Regional:All
  • Lifestyle and Leisure:Gardening:All
  • Australia:QLD:Mount Isa 4825

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Scandinavian Hardanger fiddles played in Lord of the Rings soundtracks trending in Australia

An Australian fiddlemaker is helping to spice up the dying craft by creating Hardanger fiddles, a Norwegian instrument that gained international fame in The Lord of the Rings soundtracks.





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Marathon: how one battle changed Western civilisation by Richard A. Billows

Rob Minshull produces Weekends with Warren and is an avid reader.




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The Warsaw Anagrams by Richard Zimler

Rob Minshull produces Weekends with Warren and is an avid reader.




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Review: 'Wotan's Daughter' by Richard Davis

Gold Coast author Richard Davis says the time is ripe to re-evaluate the life of Australian opera singer, Marjorie Lawrence.



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  • goldcoast
  • Arts and Entertainment:Books (Literature):All
  • Australia:QLD:Mermaid Beach 4218


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Rock legend Little Richard dies aged 87

The American pianist-singer, regarded as the founding father of rock music, dies from unknown causes aged 87.







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Things were already hard for Isabel's grandkids. A pandemic made things even tougher

The coronavirus pandemic has made life harder for most people, but spare a thought for 66-year-old Isabel McLeary, who is looking after three teenagers with disability who can now only access vital support online.




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‘You feel like you're writing history': ABC journalist Richard Willingham on covering coronavirus

Victoria's state political reporter Richard Willingham tells of a dramatic week during the COVID-19 pandemic when everything changed, and the particular challenges of reporting a story unlike any other he's covered.




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Meet the hardest workers in Parliament House

Nestled in bushland on the side of Canberra's Capital Hill, in the shadow of Parliament House's mighty flagpole, is arguably the most ruthless but cohesive party rooms in federal politics.




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Alan Clarke jumps in to give a dolphin a hand off the sand at Hardwicke Bay




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Dolphin given a hand off the sand by trail runner at remote Hardwicke Bay beach

Alan Clarke thought completing a 500km run across some of Australia's roughest terrain would be his biggest challenge. But that all changed when he spotted something in the shallows.




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Father who shook baby son so hard he is 'being kept alive artificially' sentenced to jail

A young father who "snapped" while trying to settle his five-week-old son, shaking the baby so hard that his development has now "effectively frozen", is sentenced to at least 18 months in prison.