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Imagine sleeping in a tent because you can't find a place to live?...
Wednesday 11 March 2009 -
I'm sitting on the edge of a dusty red oval talking with Brett Badger, a counsellor with the Mt Theo Substance Misuse Program. Brett explains how the return of the summer football competition has turned the community around....
Tuesday 19 August 2008 -
Yuendumu is one of the last Indigenous communities in central Australia to come under income management. But by May Yuendumu will join twenty five other communities in the Northern Territory, where welfare payments are managed by Centrelink....
Tuesday 19 August 2008 -
It's not often we get to find out what life is like in a remote community from the perspective of a teenage girl....
Friday 9 May 2008 -
For years Mildred Inkamala would hide women and children in her small house in the remote community of Hermannsburg....
Thursday 17 April 2008
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The borderlands between Mexico and the United States are a lawless wasteland where massacres, drug busts and battles between the military and drug-traffickers happen regularly. Juarez has one of the highest murder rates in the world, including more than 100 young women whose random murders ...Friday 12 March 2010
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Figures show that the number of babies taken from mothers at birth is rising dramatically, particularly in NSW. Judgements must err on the side of child safety, but there's concerns some babies are taken needlessly. One couple is suing for $18 million. Reporter Hagar Cohen ...Wednesday 10 March 2010
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The Queensland Government's Inquiry into alcohol-related violence isn't due to report its findings until March 18, but already interest groups are protesting. Lobby group 'Queensland Locked Out' will be protesting against the QPU's proposal of a 2am nightclub shutdown - but do they have any ...
Wednesday 10 March 2010 -
Western Australia's Premier has today been defending his Government's decision to lend money to the family of a woman who needs a second liver transplant. Claire Murray, a former heroin addict, received a donor liver last year but returned to drug use and now needs another transplant. ...
Thursday 4 March 2010 -
A former drug addict has received a $250,000 loan from the State Government to have a liver transplant in Singapore....
Wednesday 3 March 2010

