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3 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Katri Uibu |Luke C. Bowden |Daniel Miller
For $1 million per child a year you'd expect unlimited opportunities, stellar care — opulence. Indeed, governments are at pains to convince taxpayers that group homes for children in state care are "therapeutic" trauma-informed facilities.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Katri Uibu |April McLennan
Former Launceston mayor and current councillor Danny Gibson, who is alleged to have harassed and behaved inappropriately towards young adults, has posted on social media that allegations against him are "untested and slanderous". Cr Gibson's post comes as a call for mandatory Working with Vulnerable People (WWVP) cards for Tasmania's elected officials is renewed.
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Dec 18, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Katri Uibu |Maren Stefanie Preuss
Ula Brown has never taken a contraceptive pill, used a "chemical deodorant" or owned a microwave. "I think it stems from my family. My nana and my mum were both quite alternative," she says. "Things were treated a lot at home before we would see a doctor."Some of these beliefs live on through Ula's own children. "My daughter has had a home birth. She had a qualified midwife, but she was quite happy to have a birth without intervention," she says.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
rnz.co.nz | Katri Uibu
By Katri Uibu, ABCAustralian billionaire Tim Heath survived a kidnapping attempt by fighting off his alleged abductors who had pretended to be tradies painting the hallway of his apartment building. The Victorian business mogul has been living in Estonia since the early 2000s, setting up one of the country's most successful startups Yolo Group estimated to be worth 814 million euros (NZ$1.49 billion).
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Grace Tobin |Lesley Robinson |Katri Uibu
Amelia Hawkshaw and her husband Zach Longe's round of IVF produced 17 embryos. Seventeen chances to make their dream of becoming parents come true. "We were so overjoyed," Amelia said. But that dream turned to tragedy in August last year. "We got a call … to say that the embryos had been contaminated with bacteria and so those 17 had to be destroyed, just all of them," Amelia said.
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Louise Milligan |Amy Donaldson |Katri Uibu
In short: The headmaster has resigned following revelations he kept a teacher on staff who sent sexually explicit emails to a former female student. What's next? The boys' school was the subject of a Four Corners investigation this week and is preparing to go co-educational. The headmaster of Sydney's prestigious Cranbrook School, Nicholas Sampson, has resigned following revelations he kept a teacher on staff after discovering he sent multiple graphic emails to a former female student.
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Mar 4, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Louise Milligan |Amy Donaldson |Dylan Welch |Katri Uibu
Moving from the other side of Australia to Cranbrook — a prestigious boys' school in the country's wealthiest suburb — should have been the opportunity of a lifetime for Travis Mathews. He was 13, his mother had died, and he had been a ward of the state of Western Australia since he was a baby. The state was paying for Travis's tuition at Cranbrook, in Bellevue Hill on Sydney Harbour, because his older sister was working at a nearby naval base.
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Jan 14, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Katri Uibu
In short: About 70,000 people live in Australia unlawfully, many of whom arrived on student or visitor visas, the Department of Home Affairs says. Shan, a migrant on a student visa, has told the ABC his story of overstaying a visa, living out of a car and getting caught six months later. What's next? Shan is still here, five years later, on a bridging visa that does not allow him to work, while experts are concerned about workplace exploitation of unlawful residents.
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Jan 2, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Katri Uibu
The stale scent of mould hits Elaine's nostrils before she even gets through the front door of her social housing flat — a stark reminder she is not living the retirement she had hoped for.
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Dec 17, 2023 | 
en.mogaznews.com | Katri Uibu |Danielle Bonica |Brendan Esposito
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