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Photographer Kristan Emerson is legally blind, experiences the world as bright, colourful place

Amateur photographer Kristan Emerson is legally blind and is helping other people with visual impairments to experience travel and foreign cultures through his eyes.





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Wine industry toasts technology behind new national vineyard scan

High-tech mapping using AI and satellites reveals that nearly 500,000km of grape vines are growing throughout Australia that's more than the distance between Earth and the Moon.




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Can systemic racism kill? An inquest into the death of Tanya Day could find out

Tanya Day died of traumatic brain injuries after she was arrested for public drunkenness in December, 2017. Lawyers for the Indigenous woman's family are now asking the Victorian coroner to consider whether systemic racism was a factor in her death.





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Improving your memory using ancient indigenous techniques

Forget Sudoku and cryptic crosswords, Australia's senior memory champion draws on indigenous cultures from around the world for memory techniques.



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Lawyers experience high rates of anxiety and depression, survey finds

Balancing the scales of justice is an onerous responsibility for legal professionals when the freedom, futures, families, and finances of their clients are on the line.




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New housing model aims to give people with disabilities a chance at home ownership, semi-independent living

It's hoped a new house using a shared-ownership model will give people with disabilities a chance at home ownership and semi-independent living, but it comes with a $300,000 price tag per person.






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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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Doctor Christopher Kwan Chen Lee, who said some women deserve to be raped, suspended indefinitely

A Melbourne doctor is banned from practising after sparking outrage with online chat room posts, including one that said "some women deserve to be raped" and another that said his marriage "would end in murder" if it fell apart.




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Krystal De Napoli says descriptions of variable stars date back thousands of years in Indigenous oral history



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'As long as we can see the sky, we can see our stories': Indigenous Australians first to discover variable stars

Traditional custodian at the Aboriginal Trust in Lake Tyers Victoria, Wayne Thorpe, is learning as much about the traditional science and stories of the stars as he can.



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Indian Catholic priest who claims parents' sins cause autism in children cancels Australia tour

An Indian Catholic priest who claims parents' adultery and masturbation causes autism in children, and who claims to have "cured" autism through prayer, cancels a series of religious retreats in Australia.




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Genetics laboratory fire in Yarram destroys 100 cryogenic cylinders containing cattle semen

Crucial cattle herd genetics have been lost in a fire that destroyed 100 cryogenic cylinders of cattle semen in south-east Victoria overnight.




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Coastal Gippsland residents raise concerns about Star of the South, Australia's largest wind farm

An offshore wind farm proposed for regional Victoria will power almost a fifth of the state's electrical needs, but coastal residents says they are concerned about rising costs and fishing exclusion zones.




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Flooding rains, infant milk demand from China buoy South Gippsland dairy industry

While many dairy farmers in northern Victoria are downsizing and selling up due to drought and the cost of water, in South Gippsland they are investing in their businesses.




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Plans wind farm




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Victorian treaty vote for First Peoples' Assembly delivers a different kind of state election

A special kind of election is unfolding across Victoria as the Aboriginal communities taking part in the treaty process cast their votes to elect a First Peoples' Assembly.




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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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Sea urchins devastate broadleaf seagrass: Industry and environmentalists team up to restore it

An unlikely partnership involving scientists and the fishing industry is at the centre of efforts to restore seagrass stocks in Corner Inlet.




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3D printed Glow Box, a window into an artificial mind

Glow Box is a 3D printed hybrid object which imbues life into the object by displaying a real-time visualization of a neural network as it works to solve problems.



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Campden BRI launches research project to evaluate how 3D printing could benefit food industry

Campden BRI have begun a research project to evaluate how 3D printing could benefit the food industry.



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Mock refugee camp offers window into the lives of asylum seekers

In the Sydney suburb of Auburn, a mock refugee camp has been used to show people the conditions millions of asylum seekers across the globe find themselves in every day. Visitors have had the chance to hear personal stories from refugees and asylum seekers on how they came to Australia, and what happened when they arrived.




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The Team Behind That's Not Me

Alice Foulcher and Gregory Erdstein on their comedy about the insecurities of the acting life, That's Not Me.




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Tiwi Island Sistagirls say same-sex marriage postal vote a 'waste' in Indigenous communities

The Tiwi Island Sistagirls say the upcoming same-sex marriage postal vote could be a waste of time in their community because people there are not familiar with the process.



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Coconut faces a looming global supply shortage, but could an Australian industry crack it?

Consumer demand for coconuts is booming and world supply is struggling to keep up, so an industry awaits as Australia imports nearly all the coconut it consumes.










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Curious Central West questioner Susan wanted to know what was behind the gate






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NLA Indigenous curator Rebecca Bateman shares her mother's oral history.




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Chris Nathaniel talks about the opportunity to establish an avocado industry in the NT




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Foxes costing the Australian sheep industry $28 million





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Abdication of Edward VIII in 1936 caused chaos behind the scenes in Canberra

A newspaper photo saved by a trusted stenographer shows the behind-the-scenes drama of Edward VIII's abdication unfolding in his dominion Down Under.



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Indigenous voices on old-school language cards preserved in Miriwoong digitisation project

The decades-old voices of people teaching and learning the Miriwoong language are preserved in a unique collection of magnetic strip cards.




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Indigenous representation in bush food industry at all time low



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Michael McCabe's killer sentenced to life behind bars for 'brutal and heinous' 2015 murder

A north Queensland man has been sentenced to life behind bars after he was found guilty of murdering 25-year-old Michael McCabe almost four years ago.




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Policeman appears to hit Indigenous woman in Charters Towers in video posted on social media

The Queensland Ethical Standards Command will review an incident after a "disturbing" video emerged showing a police officer appearing to strike a woman several times in the face.




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Indigenous dance captured by French portrait photographer Charles Frger

The ancient rituals of some of the more mysterious aspects of Indigenous dance are off-limits to most Australians, but Frenchman Charles Frger has been invited to capture them in a new light.