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WHEN Rosie Ayliffe answered her door in Derbyshire, England, on the evening of the 23rd of August 2016 to see two solemn policemen, her heart sank. The news was any parent’s worst nightmare, that her only child and 20-year-old daughter Mia Ayliffe-Chung had been killed in Australia. “They weren’t allowed to tell me anything other…
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Spinal Life Australia has launched an online campaign and petition, protesting the NDIA ruling that excludes people over 65 from accessing disability support and funding. Spinal Life Australia is campaigning against the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) ruling that excludes Australians over 65 from accessing vital disability support funding. Under the current scheme, Australians who…
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The Museum of Underwater Art plans to create a new underwater museum on Magnetic Island, designed to bring tourists to the area and honour the reef’s scientific and cultural heritage. But local environmental groups are protesting the decision. The Museum of Underwater Art has announced new plans to build an underwater museum on Magnetic Island,…
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Originally in the Daily Telegraph Anti revenge-porn avenger and activist is a more appropriate title for stay at home, mother of two Katelyn Bowden.After being notified that explicit photos of her had been posted on the revenge porn site Anon ib, she sat frozen and powerless as she read what strangers were commenting about her.…
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The new face of pageant fever in the Philippines are young men, competing for fame, prize money and national tours offering the promise of social mobility, writes Marina Trajkovich.
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The Burdekin’s Zonta women will soon be assembling a thousand birthing kits that will help save the lives of mothers and babies in developing countries around the world. The initiative, one of the International Zonta Club’s most recognised recurring projects, works with the Birthing Kit Foundation Australia to deliver the kits, which are designed to…
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The Burdekin Shire Council is calling for $6.8 million in government funding to support a new Macro-Algal Bioremediation Facility, a project which has major implications for sustainable technology developments and infrastructure projects across Australia. The trial use of algae to treat the region’s wastewater at the Ayr, Brandon Water Treatment Plant began three months ago,…
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https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/sydney-confidential/dancing-topless-at-the-crazy-horse-is-more-a-calling-than-a-job/news-story/c5f88037e835acaa697117b0261b071d CANDY St Louis’ mother had different expectations when she put her daughter through ballet school. The Brooklyn-born burlesque dancer laughs about it, as she applies her makeup before her latest nude review show. “My mum was really surprised when I wanted to do Crazy Horse, she was like ‘I don’t understand, I paid for…
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