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Simone D!!!! *- GREATEST MEMBER OF CARE2 -* Wk.# 18
Society & Culture  (tags: Simone D, care2 member, Australia, animals, greatest member of care2, activists, celebrity, culture, education, ethics, GoodNews, interesting, news, rights, society, women, world )

Teresa
- 154 days ago - care2.com
Simone is exactly the type of person we want here at Care2, she is a real fighter of causes, Simone gives her time to help animals and to protect them, signing petitions and letting us know when an animal has been abused and she doesn´t stop there,
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View Profiles of Missing Persons
Society & Culture  (tags: endangered missing, exploitation, kidnappings, australia, children, abuse, crime, child, freedoms, family, ethics, society, safety, humans )

Electra
- 234 days ago - missingpersons.gov.au
ATTENTION Australia Citizens! This is a map with links to view Profiles of the missing/abducted in Australia, and has nothing to do with the recent fires. Please view to see if you may be able to locate any of these missing people.
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Geelong Company Building Extra Strong Hearses for Fat Bodies - Australia
Society & Culture  (tags: australia, geelong, victoria, funeral, caskets, coffins, obesity, heavy weights, fat, hearse )

Chrissy
- 255 days ago - news.com.au
AUSTRALIANS are getting so fat specially-reinforced hearses are being made to cope with the dead weight. Phillip Royce's traditional trade is in bus refits and repairs but about five years ago a call from funeral company John Allison Monkhouse prompted
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McDonalds to Charge More in Poorer Suburbs - Australia
Society & Culture  (tags: australia, mcdonalds, fast food, poor, restaurant, price hikes, children, family )

Chrissy
- 271 days ago - news.com.au
McDONALDS is lifting prices in poorer suburbs where it believes consumers are more likely to accept higher charges without complaint. Costs were previously based on restaurant overheads and ingredient prices.
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Australians Bid Farewell to 'G'Day Mate': Report
Society & Culture  (tags: australia, crocodile hunter, steve irwin, paul hogan, g'day mate, language, slang )

Jacquelin
- 415 days ago - news.yahoo.com
SYDNEY (AFP) - Australians who sound like crocodile hunter Steve Irwin or Crocodile Dundee actor Paul Hogan could soon be a relic of the past, a report said on Sunday. Research shows the nasal Australian twang -- exemplified by the late Irwin and the char
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Australia Praised for New Refugee Policy
Society & Culture  (tags: Australia, government, Refugees&Relief, Visas, permanent sanctuary, immigration, human rights, United Nations )

Jeff
- 559 days ago - news.yahoo.com
CANBERRA, Australia - Australia's new government won praise from the United Nations and human rights groups Wednesday for offering refugees permanent sanctuary rather than temporary visas.
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Croc Hunter Park Faces Mine Threat
Society & Culture  (tags: australia, crocodile hunter, steve irwin, Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve, mining )

Jacquelin
- 562 days ago - news.com.au
A KEY crocodile research area dedicated to the memory of Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin is under threat from strip-mining. The 135,000ha Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve on Queensland's Cape York Peninsula was one of the last places visited by Irwin for his ann
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PM Gets Tough to Protect Children
Society & Culture  (tags: child abuse, Australia )

Nancy
- 574 days ago - theaustralian.news.com.au
THE Rudd Government is about to launch a major takeover of child protection, leveraging its control of family assistance and childcare to intervene earlier in the child abuse cycle.
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Aussies Among World's Most Undersexed - Australia/World
Society & Culture  (tags: australia, usa, world, sex, women, men )

Chrissy
- 632 days ago - news.com.au
AUSTRALIA is among the world's most undersexed nations - but we still outperform the Yanks and the Brits, according to a global survey. About 60 per cent of Australians have weekly sex, making Aussies the sixth-least sexed nationalities on Earth,
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Billionaires Move to Improve Aboriginal Living Standards - Australia
Society & Culture  (tags: australia, aboriginal, communities, health care, government, western australia, counselling )

Chrissy
- 644 days ago - abc.net.au
The West Australian Government has entered a partnership with the private charity, the Australian Children's Trust, to improve family and health services in Fitzroy Crossing in the Kimberley.
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Kevin Rudd Tables the National Apology to Indigenous People to Be Held Tomorrow (Wednesday Australan Time)
Society & Culture  (tags: indigenous, australia, national sorry day, rudd, prime minister, stolen generation, sorry, society, culture, humans, politics, rights )

Ali
- 652 days ago - news.com.au
FEDERAL parliament will say sorry for the "profound grief, suffering and loss" inflicted on the stolen generations and will vow to never let it happen again. Continued below as this is an important day for Australia......
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The Body Politic - Would You Donate Your Body To Science? - Australia
Society & Culture  (tags: australia, victorias, cadavers, donation, donate, body, doctors, medical science, plastic surgery )

Chrissy
- 653 days ago - news.com.au
WOULD you donate your body to medical science? You'd probably be more inclined to if you thought it was for a worthwhile cause rather than training doctors how to create surgical celebrity look-alikes.
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Rudd: We Need to Act to Remove the Blight on Our Nations' Soul - Australia
Society & Culture  (tags: australia, aboriginal people, aborigines, stolen generations, apology, federal parliament, government, kevin rudd )

Chrissy
- 653 days ago - news.com.au
PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd says this week's parliamentary apology to the Stolen Generations will remove a "blight on the nation's soul" and has the overwhelming support of Australians. Mr Rudd today announced the Government would bring more than 100 member
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Aboriginal Past 'Not All Bad' Says Tony Abbott - Australia
Society & Culture  (tags: australia, aboriginal people, aborigines, apology, federal parliament, government )

Chrissy
- 654 days ago - news.com.au
THE Opposition will stress previous governments have done both good and bad things for indigenous people when the Federal Parliament apologises to the stolen generations on Wednesday. Opposition indigenous affairs spokesman Tony Abbott, who until recently
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Grandmother Dies After Brutal Backyard Bashing - Australia
Society & Culture  (tags: australia, victoria, elderly, woman, burglar, death, murder, robberyviolence )

Chrissy
- 661 days ago - news.com.au
AN elderly Melbourne woman has died in hospital after being brutally bashed by an intruder in an attack she kept secret for nine days, fearing another attack. Grandmother Josephine Cesnick, 76, was pottering about in the backyard of her home in Templewood
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