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1 week ago | 
abc.net.au | Annika Burgess |Jack Fisher
Exhausted and sore, slowly dragging their muddy hooves through the paddock to be milked after several days stranded. This is how some cattle emerged from the NSW floods, while hundreds more were washed away. "The calves were the ones that really took a hit," Croki dairy farmer Craig Emerton said. "We lost roughly 55 under 12-months-old."NSW is known for its fresh milk production, and typically cows are milked two or three times a day — every day of the year.
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1 week ago | 
abc.net.au | Annika Burgess |Jack Fisher
Mick Wicks watched on from the porch as more and more of his belongings were dragged to the rubbish pile. The 89-year-old's life heaped in front of him, covered in mud. "It's all the memories," he said, becoming emotional. "I never would have imagined this."Along Mr Wicks's street in Taree, nearly half the houses were under water in last week's catastrophic NSW floods. Now they were being gutted, their contents strewn across front lawns.
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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Maani Truu |Jack Fisher
The major parties have decided on a solution to Australia's housing crisis: build more homes. But some of the country's newest suburbs suggest it's not as straightforward as it seems. The houses spring from the green hills row by row: sturdy and angular, brick and concrete. Miniature bicycles and scooters are sprinkled across mown lawns and shoes piled in front of doors that gape open to the street.
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2 months ago | 
abc.net.au | Mark Doman |Jack Fisher |Alex Palmer |Thomas Brettell |Margaret Burin
Sand dunes are often the first line of defence when powerful storms — like the one Cyclone Alfred delivered — batter our coastline. Years of built-up sand provide a natural buffer between coastal infrastructure and the elements. That natural defensive line, stretching from the Sunshine Coast in Queensland to Coffs Harbour in NSW, has been on show over the past week. Massive swell whipped up by the cyclone pummelled the coastline, shifting millions of cubic metres of sand back out into the ocean.
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | James Tugwell |Jack Fisher
Loading... An ice climber is perched halfway up a frozen waterfall at the base of an amphitheatre of rugged mountain peaks. Beneath his feet is a precarious drop to an icy lake covered in thick snow. Loading... He delicately flicks the tip of his axe into the icy wall. Pulling himself up, he kicks the crampon spikes on his mountaineering boots into the ice. Loading... It's like a scene from the Canadian Rockies, the Swiss Alps or the Himalayas. Except the climber isn't overseas.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | James Tugwell |Jack Fisher
Every Tuesday morning at 10am, the world descends on a small classroom in a regional NSW town as part of a transformation that has been happening for several decades. Women and children from Türkiye, Ecuador, France, Colombia, India and Pakistan step off a minibus and into the Cooma Multicultural Centre (CMC), 90 minutes south of Canberra, for English lessons. Today, each woman chooses a picture from a pile of printed photos and shares a story about life in her homeland.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Tynan King |Jack Fisher |Laura Gartry
When Shane Smithers was adding traditional symbols to his mural, commuters passing by asked him, "What are you doing?!"The Aboriginal artist says it's because he wasn't painting dots or concentric circles. Shane is a Dharug and Dharawal man who uses traditional visual language — the same symbols his ancestors used thousands of years ago. "We didn't have dots, we had lines," he explains, gesturing at the 30-metre mural in Parramatta Square.
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Brody Smith |Katia Shatoba |Thomas Brettell |Jack Fisher |Mark Doman |Clare Blumer
Sport / Posted 4 minutes agoIn AFL circles, Scott Pendlebury is in rare air. He has touched the ball more times than anyone in the history of the game. He has laid more tackles. He's a dual premiership player, a Norm Smith medallist, a six-time All-Australian, the longest-serving Collingwood captain, and five-time club best and fairest. Tonight, against historic rivals Carlton, he will play game 400, a feat achieved by just five other players in VFL/AFL history.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Mark Doman |Jack Fisher
As the FBI continues its investigation into the shooting at the rally of former US president Donald Trump, urgent reviews of the security surrounding the event are in motion. Just how 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks managed to get onto a building with a rifle, relatively close and with a clear view of Trump is one of the key questions being asked of the Secret Service. Another is why buildings less than 150 metres from the former president were not secured.
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Jun 30, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Pat McGrath |Mark Doman |Jack Fisher |Thomas Brettell |Alex Lim
As war rages in Ukraine and the Middle East, weapons manufacturers are watching their profits and share prices soar. Australia's big institutions, including universities and local governments, are under pressure to dump their investments in these companies and ignore the attractive returns on offer. Superannuation funds have long been ahead of the pack, offering members "ethical" or "socially aware" branded investment options that promise to shun the weapons industry.
