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Balloon football brings out the competitive side in players with disabilities vying for the grand final

For players of the Balloon Football League, or BFL, the passion and competitiveness is just as intense as AFL the only difference being the players are disabled.




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Gippsland farmers are struggling through a green drought and say outsiders 'don't understand'

The paddocks of Gippsland look green, but farmers are still in drought and have lost as much as 70 per cent of their regular income.






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Woodside Beach resident Kosta Frans

Woodside Beach resident Kosta Frans is concerned about the rising cost of electricity prices in the country.




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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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Resident left struggling to breathe and physically sick from Hazelwood coal mine fire, court hears

Resident Michelle Gatt says the smoke and falling ash from the 45-day fire in the Hazelwood coal mine left her constantly coughing and without a voice.




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Biodegradable HyO-Cups are dried gourds grown inside 3D printed molds

Jun Aizaki, the founder of New York-based design studio Crème Design, and his team created HyO, a completely organic, biodegradable cup made from a gourd grown inside a 3D printed mould to take their functional shape.



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'This is about humanity': Inside a protest camp in the heart of coal country

On a small bush block some 50 kilometres out of Bowen in north Queensland, a group of anti-coal activists are living harmoniously while also training for civil disobedience.




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Townsville flood aftermath: Resident's relentless mould battle six months after monsoon event

Cassandra Smith* found herself in hospital and on an IV line directly to her heart when mould took hold of her body, seeping in after her Townsville home was inundated during major flooding, with an expert saying mould in the city is the most extreme she has ever seen.




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Townsville aged care residents benefit from horse-sized animal therapy

You might expect to see wheelchairs and walking frames in the corridors of an aged care facility, but you might not expect to see a 850-kilogram horse.




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kerbside rubbish collection bed outside



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kerbside art abandonment



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Kerbside trash and treasure transformed into art by Magnetic Island photographer

When Magnetic Island resident George Hirst saw piles of household items left on the side of the kerb for collection, he believed they were telling a story. So he turned it into art.




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North Queensland's oldest residential building moves locations to make way for gold mine expansion

In the north-west Queensland town of Ravenswood, two heritage-listed buildings at a school have been moved due to an expansion of the local gold mine.




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Proposed NT youth justice reforms reconsidered, as children arrested while asleep at home

Children sleeping at home have been woken and arrested in Alice Springs, according to lawyers dismayed at a potential government back down on the use of arrest as a last resort.



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Speeding car crashes into Alice Springs home, narrowly missing family inside

An Alice Springs family is feeling lucky to be alive after a speeding car missed a turn and crashed into the front of their house, with one passenger sent to hospital with head injuries.



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Young Pipalyatjara residents show off their new clothes, thanks to Threaded Together, ahead of the 2017 fashion show



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$50,000 worth of winter clothes and blankets help keep remote residents warm in sub-zero conditions

Thread Together, a charity committed to reducing waste in the era of fast fashion, joins forces with a rabbi to help an Indigenous community stay warm over the cold desert winter.



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Judge's 'clearly offensive' Indigenous parenting barb subject of complaint consideration

A Northern Territory judge previously sanctioned for "harsh" and "gratuitous" remarks from the bench has criticised other Aboriginal defendants. A legal body says the comments are "clearly offensive" but has not yet decided to make any formal complaint.




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NT rural residents face spending thousands to truck in water if bores run dry

With groundwater levels critically low and the wet season yet to begin, some rural Northern Territory residents fear they may have to pay thousands of dollars to truck in water for their homes.




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Qantas adds more discount airfare options for regional residents

Residents in Mount Isa, Cloncurry, Longreach, Barcaldine, Blackall, Karratha and Kalgoorlie can expect to benefit from the new scheme, pricing airfares to the nearest capital city at a maximum of $800.




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The free flying bird show's resident magpie



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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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Victoria weather: Residents urged to prepare for severe windstorm, polar blast

Emergency services are warning Victorians to brace for a cold snap and wind gusts of up to 130kph in parts of the south-east, while alpine areas may enjoy heavier snowfall.





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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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Voices from inside Don Dale

When AFL star Cyril Rioli started playing football inside Australias most infamous youth detention centre, he found teenagers ready to change.



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Below-average WA cyclone season no excuse for complacency as authorities warn residents of deadly consequences

Authorities are warning WA residents to prepare emergency kits for up to five days and to avoid "last minute" preparations, despite below-average cyclone predictions for the 201920 season.




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NT Chief Minister announces review into Alice Springs power blackout as residents feel the heat

Michael Gunner says a nine-hour blackout which left thousands of residents across Central Australia without power during the heat of the day on Sunday is "unacceptable" and calls for a review into the region's power supply.




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Galiwin'ku residents allocated housing shelter years after Cyclone Lam's havoc

Almost five years after the Arnhem Land community of Galiwin'ku was battered by Cyclone Lam, the NT Government is yet to spend $20.3 million of disaster relief funding for rebuilding housing.



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Darwin residents fear for future water security as underground aquifers run critically low

Residents have been left vulnerable and fearing for their future water security as underground aquifers run critically low in rural Darwin and communities fear what a second poor wet season could mean for their future.




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ANU 'falling short' when it comes to student support numbers, executive admits to residents

Australian National University students slam staff over on-campus accommodation support, which they say is structured in a way that the first port of call for a student to report sexual violence is to talk to another student.




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Canberra's kerbside pickup service for bulky waste to be rolled out to all residents by 2025

A service available to many Australians will finally be provided to Canberrans, with the ACT Government hoping a kerbside collection service starting next year will help to curb illegal dumping in the territory's national parks.




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Bradyn Dillon inquest to consider what more police, government agencies and community could have done

An inquest into the death of murdered child Bradyn Dillon hears his father lied to school authorities in a deliberate attempt to hide his son from the public.




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ACT Government considers fertility clinic to help young cancer patients preserve eggs and embryos

In a bid to bring down costs and ease the burden during an already difficult time, the ACT Government may establish a dedicated fertility-preservation clinic for women undergoing cancer treatment.



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Inside a massive cyber hack that risks compromising leaders across the globe

One email was all it took for hackers to steal some of the most personal information from people potentially now in high-ranking roles across the globe. The cyber attack was so sophisticated it didn't even need the person to click on a link or open a document for the hackers to get in.




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Royal commission hears aged care residents served re-used, cold meals in 'race to the bottom'

Celebrity chef Maggie Beer says nothing can forgive the abysmal standard of meals given to some aged care residents as the royal commission into the sector hears people were served meals from trolleys near maggot-infested rubbish bins.




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Historic calophyllum tree's removal rallies Cardwell residents in bid to save it

Cardwell residents band together to save a large tree that arborists have declared unsafe due to beach erosion during the recent heavy wet season.




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Giant crocodile, Howard, has 10yo Elroy on his side fighting for him to remain on creek bank

A 10-year-old boy writes to Queensland's Environment Minister pleading with authorities not to remove a giant crocodile that has been sunning itself on a creek bank.




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Snake skin found by Cairns resident Stuart Morris possibly from 7-metre reticulated python

Stuart Morris initially kept walking when he first laid eyes on a massive snake skin in Cairns, but when he saw it a second time he decided to take it home and straighten it out all 7 metres of it.




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Gold Coast aged-care residents distressed after Earle Haven Retirement Village's sudden closure

Police are called after medical equipment is stripped from the walls of the Earle Haven Retirement Village, where 70 elderly people some bedridden and living with dementia reside.




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Gold Coast nursing home residents in limbo, claims wages unpaid for a month

Witnesses say it was "pandemonium" when a Gold Coast nursing home shut down yesterday after paramedics attended the village to help find emergency accommodation for 70 residents. The closure is believed to be over a contract dispute.