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Australian Campaign Pushes for Mandatory Genetic Testing in Unexplained Child Deaths

Danielle Green's campaign, "Coroners Project," advocates for mandatory genetic testing in unexplained child deaths in Australia after losing two children to a rare gene mutation that was not detected during autopsy, highlighting that 40% of child deaths under 20 are currently unascertained.

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Good Health and Well-being
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Vandemonian Lags": A Musical Recounting Tasmania's Convict Past

Vandemonian Lags," a musical-theatre production premiering in Melbourne, Bendigo, Ballarat and Frankston from May 22-25, uses true stories from Tasmania's detailed convict records (UNESCO-recognized as the most detailed archive of the Victorian working class) to tell the largely untold stories of co...

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Gender Equality
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Class Migration and Workplace Culture: A Journalist's Personal Account

Caroline Zielinski, a journalist at The Age, recounts her experience navigating a middle-class workplace culture after achieving social mobility through education, highlighting the resulting tension between her new professional life and her working-class family background.

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Reduced Inequality
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Kylie Minogue's "Tension" Tour: A High-Energy, Minimalist Spectacle

Kylie Minogue's "Tension" tour launched its UK leg in Glasgow, featuring a high-energy setlist of hits spanning her career, reimagined with modern electropop elements and a minimalist stage design; the show highlighted her vocal abilities and audience engagement.

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Serial Rapist Sentenced After 30 Years Using Groundbreaking DNA Technology

A 52-year-old man, Michael Anthony Woodhall, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for three violent sexual assaults committed between 1995 and 1998 in Western Australia; his capture was enabled by groundbreaking investigative genetic genealogy (IGG) technology, marking its first use in an Australian ...

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Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions
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Virgin Australia Upgrades International Business Class with Qatar Airways Partnership

Virgin Australia partners with Qatar Airways, acquiring a 25% stake, launching 28 weekly long-haul routes to Europe, the Middle East, and Africa via Doha starting June 12th using Qatar's award-winning Qsuite business class on Boeing 777 aircraft, offering enhanced amenities and benefits to Velocity ...

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Decent Work and Economic Growth
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Planned Burns Threaten Extinction of Victorian Glossy Black Cockatoos

Planned burns of 13,000 hectares of forest in East Gippsland, Victoria, threaten the vulnerable Glossy Black Cockatoo population, which already suffered a 75% decline after the 2019-20 bushfires and relies on the remaining 48,000 hectares of unburnt habitat for its specialized diet and breeding. Con...

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Life on Land
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She Shapes History": Countering the Underrepresentation of Women in Australian Public Monuments

Less than 4% of Australian statues depict women, prompting the "She Shapes History" initiative to create walking tours in multiple cities to highlight women's often overlooked contributions, training over a dozen guides and reaching thousands of people.

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Gender Equality
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Mixed-Race Identity: An Australian Author's Journey of Self-Discovery

Steve MinOn, an Australian author of mixed Chinese and Scottish heritage, recounts his journey of coming to terms with his identity, facing prejudice in both the gay community and wider society, ultimately advocating for self-definition beyond simplified racial categories.

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Reduced Inequality
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Australia Condemns 13-Year Sentence for Citizen Fighting in Ukraine

An Australian man, Oscar Jenkins, was sentenced to 13 years in a Russian maximum-security prison for fighting with Ukrainian forces between March and December 2022, prompting condemnation from the Australian government.

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Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions
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Australia Invites Pope Leo for 2028 Visit

Australia's ambassador-designate to the Vatican is prioritizing an invitation for Pope Leo to visit Australia in 2028 for the International Eucharistic Congress in Sydney, seeking collaboration on climate change, AI, and aid for Pacific Island nations.

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Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions
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Plapp Wins Giro Stage, Ulissi Takes Pink Jersey

In the eighth stage of the Giro d'Italia, Luke Plapp won his first WorldTour race with a 49km solo breakaway, finishing ahead of Wilco Kelderman and securing Alessandro Ulissi's pink jersey win, the first Italian victory in four years.

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