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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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Birds Eye View: a new perspective of women in prison




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Government 'open to the prospect' of opening borders to NZ

The New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will join the Australian National Cabinet Meeting via video link tomorrow to talk about the way through the COVID-19 pandemic.




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Labor says not enough safeguards to prevent fraud in the early release super scheme

Up to 150 superannuation accounts have been illegally accessed by what the Australian Federal Police says is a sophisticated operation targeting the early release super scheme.




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Let's Get Quizzical with Tom Ballard and Mel Buttle

Have you been paying attention to the news this week?




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Richard Thompson - Electric

British folk ambassador returns with a fully charged electric set.




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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - La Finta Giardiniera (Freiburger Barockorchester; Rene Jacobs)

An overwhelmingly joyous account of one of Mozart’s lesser-known operas.




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Johann Sebastian Bach - Harpsichord Concertos (Retrospect Ensemble; harpsichord/director: Matthew Halls)

A fresh-feeling recording of ear-popping brilliance.




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Leonardo Vinci - Artaserse (Philippe Jaroussky; Max Emanuel Cencic; Coro della Radiotelevisione svizzera; Concerto Koln; conductor: Diego Fasolis)

Vinci’s final opera possesses extraordinary energy and some beautiful moments.




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Country Breakfast Features Saturday 9th May

This week we find out why the US meat industry is in coronavirus chaos; hear the Belgian potato industry's cry for frites; and discover why this Mothers' Day will be a great one for flower growers.




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Neil Diamond - The Very Best of Neil Diamond: The Original Studio Recordings

Offers more than a whistle-stop tour of the hits.




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Talk Talk - Natural Order

If magic in music exists, it is here, and never-ending.




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Karl Bartos - Off the Record

A mixed manifestation of electronic pop from the former Kraftwerk-er.







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Hero's bravery award brings back memories for girl saved from sheep station fire 80 years ago

One man's rescue of a four-year-old girl from a fire 80 years ago has been formally recognised, and now the girl he saved wants to give something back to his family.




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Grey nomads 'getting into all sorts of trouble' sees record number of flying doctor callouts

Often underprepared but determined to live the dream, hordes of grey nomads are keeping the Royal Flying Doctor Service busy in the outback.




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Officials measure a world-record attempt for a line of motorhomes in Barcladine, May 26, 2019




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A Guinness World Record-breaking parade of camping vehicles outside Barcaldine, May 26, 2019




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Outback Queensland town Barcaldine wins Guinness World Record for longest line of motorhomes

The outback Queensland town of Barcaldine has officially set a new world record for the longest line of motorhomes.




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Outback Queensland pioneering single mother's daily rainfall records recognised 100 years on

When outback pioneering single mother Mary Emmott started rainfall records in 1914 she had no idea how important they would be.







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Little Rock schedules video ‘town hall’ Monday on code revision; city Board meeting Tuesday includes conflicting opinions on short-term rentals in Hillcrest

Code revisions, short-term rentals and a donation of city land to the state's proposed billion-dollar freeway project through downtown are on the agendas of city meetings next week.

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Keyboard and computer screen-Flickr@sage_solar





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Capel mother Cassandra Doohan murdered baby Anastasia Hand days after tip-off over injuries

Child protection authorities were tipped off about the mistreatment of baby Anastasia Hand 16 days before her mother violently and fatally shook the infant at the family's home south of Perth, a court is told.




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Mother Cassandra Doohan who murdered her baby Anastasia Hand fails to avoid life jail term

A judge has ruled a young West Australian mother who violently shook her baby daughter to death must serve a life jail term, with at least 13 years behind bars before she can be released.




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Tasmania news: Tattooist murder trial begins, hundreds of Temco jobs threatened

DAILY BRIEFING: A trial gets underway for the alleged murder of Dwayne Davies who was shot more than two years ago, 300 jobs at Temco are at risk and the cause of penguin deaths is identified.






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This market garden was set up to grow rare vegetables — and is now going gangbusters

An Adelaide community garden started as a hobby by a group of refugees wanting to grow vegetables from Africa and Asia is now proving so popular its produce is being sought interstate.





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Two years on, multiple investigations have shed little light on Warrnambool's nurdle spill

Almost two years after millions of microplastics spilled onto pristine beaches in Victoria and sparked an emergency response from authorities, the plastic's origin remains a mystery.




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Where are all the mutton birds? Birdwatchers concerned by delayed arrival of migratory short-tailed shearwaters in Victoria

Every year, thousands of short-tailed shearwaters, or mutton birds, descend on Victoria's coastline at the end of September or early October after a mammoth journey from the northern hemisphere, but so far this year they haven't shown up.




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Queensland's road toll calculations 'extraordinarily complicated', police say

Calculating the road toll is "extraordinarily complicated", according to Queensland police as loved ones say the confusion is compounding their grief following a horror few weeks on the state's roads.





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Hairdressers unionise and unite for fight against proposed cut to penalty rates

They do apprenticeships, work with tools and are exposed to chemicals, so why aren't hairdressers paid as well as plumbers? The Australian Workers Union wants that to change.





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Bundaberg man charged over 1976 cold case murder of Rex Keen

Police charge a 69-year-old Bundaberg man with the cold case murder of Rex Keen, who was found bashed and stabbed to death in his Brisbane hotel room more than 40 years ago.





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Carmel Murdoch at Story Bank



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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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Cashless welfare card trial splits Bundaberg community, participants say they feel humiliated

The cashless welfare card trial in Central Queensland is getting mixed reviews, with charities and community organisations saying there are signs of improvement but participants are less enthusiastic.



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Whale Heritage Site status awarded to Hervey Bay in world-first

As it hosts researchers and conservationists as part of the World Whale Conference, Hervey Bay's responsible and sustainable practices have been awarded.



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Decades-long study shows waterbird population has fallen as much as 90 per cent

The drastic decline over the past four decades is linked to widespread drought which is causing bodies of water to disappear, devastating waterbird population numbers.