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 Society & Culture  Jacquelin - 4 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  Jeff - 147 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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 Society & Culture Jacquelin - 151 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  Nancy - 163 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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 Society & Culture  Chrissy - 221 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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 Society & Culture Chrissy - 233 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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 Society & Culture  Ali - 241 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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 Society & Culture Chrissy - 242 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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 Society & Culture Chrissy - 242 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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 Society & Culture Chrissy - 243 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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 Society & Culture Chrissy - 250 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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 Society & Culture Chrissy - 251 days ago - news.com.au FIRST Camden didn't want an Islamic School, then Rosebery wouldn't stand for a Hillsong stadium and now a sleepy rural suburb north of Rouse Hill is campaigning against a Hindu temple. All denominations have felt the wrath of local communities opposing
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 Society & Culture Chrissy - 255 days ago - theage.com.au TO SEND her three children back to school this year, Lizy Di Lorenzo has spent more than $2000 -- on the books, stationery and uniforms recommended by the government schools her children attend. On top of that there is $750 in voluntary fees the schools
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 Society & Culture Chrissy - 257 days ago - news.com.au PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd has ordered a White Paper report into the growing problem of homelessness in Australia. At Parliament House in Canberra, Mr Rudd said there were more than 100,000 homeless people in Australia and it was clear the Federal Gov
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 Society & Culture Chrissy - 258 days ago - brisbanetimes.com.au SOME of Australia's top women executives are earning only half the income their male counterparts are pocketing, a new study by the Federal Government's equal employment watchdog has found. While women working full-time generally earn 84 per cent of the m
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