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3 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Emma Simkin |Shauna Foley
The Central Coast Mariners women's team is preparing for its grand final debut against three-time champions Melbourne Victory. The Mariners returned to the competition in 2023 after 13 years out of the league. The Mariners men's team won the last two A-League titles and a win for the women would see the smallest club in the competition claim victory for three straight seasons.
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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Shauna Foley |Emma Simkin
Noses at the ready — Paddy, Sully, and Vera have a critical job. The three dogs have been trained to locate underground tubers of the Wyong sun orchid in a trial that is an Australian first. The plant lies dormant beneath the earth's surface most of the time and is hard to see unless it's flowering. Found on the New South Wales Central Coast, the orchid blooms only on warm, sunny days between September and November, and has dark, bluish-purple flowers.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Shauna Foley |Scott Levi
A boom in the number of jelly blubbers in NSW's Hawkesbury River is impacting commercial fishing businesses. A professor from Griffith University is looking into the cause of the explosion in numbers. Harvesting and eating the jelly blubbers has been proposed as a way to combat the issue. Dane Van Der Neut has been a commercial fisherman on the New South Wales Hawkesbury River for almost two decades.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Shauna Foley |Alex Barwick
Scared and ashamed, she found support through a women's health centre on the Central Coast of NSW. Two decades later she would become the CEO of that same organisation, supporting vulnerable girls and women.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Shauna Foley |Keira Proust
At 70, Marilyn Johnson has experienced multiple abusive partners throughout her life. "I once lived with a man who would destroy my home and furniture, and he would cut up all my clothes with a razor blade," she said. "My first boyfriend … would hit me, he would cheat, and he'd leave to gamble all of our money away."Ms Johnson left her last abusive relationship 20 years ago and has since lived on her own.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Sarah Forster |Shauna Foley
A steep decline in patient numbers is being blamed for the closure of the only private maternity ward on the New South Wales Central Coast. Gosford Private Hospital, run by HealthCare, will end birth services on March 31, 2025, leaving the public facility in Gosford as the only birthing hospital available in the region. It cited a 40 per cent drop in patient numbers over a 10-year period as the reason behind the shock decision, which comes as Australia's birth rate hits "rock bottom".
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Shauna Foley
The longest-running Indigenous-led rehabilitation facility in New South Wales is celebrating a special milestone. The Glen was founded in 1994 to provide an alternative to modern rehabilitation. Since then it's helped more than four thousand men and opened a women's wing... and its staff say the successful model can't be expanded quickly enough.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Shauna Foley
Leeton McGuinness has been in and out of prison for most of his life. But things began to change when Mr McGuinness decided to enter a rehabilitation facility earlier this year. "It was a continuous cycle that I thought I'd never leave," he said. Mr McGuinness was accepted into The Glen, an Indigenous-led drug and alcohol rehab centre based on the New South Wales Central Coast. It is a 12-week program, which aims to connect clients with their First Nations identity during their recovery journey.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Shauna Foley
A Country Women's Association branch is resurrecting vintage recipes to help families battle the rising cost of living. The recipes are being posted online to inspire a new generation to cook. The CWA branch will continue posting with the hope it can reach a bigger audience. Grandma's meatloaf, broken glass jelly and Weet-Bix slice. Dishes like these are made from simple and cost-effective recipes. So, can they help families get ahead amid the cost-of-living crisis?
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Shauna Foley |Caroline Perryman
As a pregnant teenager, Sara Foster felt scared and ashamed sitting in the waiting room at her local women's health centre. "I felt like the floor could swallow me whole," she said. "Here I was, this young single woman who had just finished school six months ago. "I was so worried about being judged."Two decades later, Ms Foster has returned to the Central Coast Community Women's Health Clinic — this time as its chief executive officer. "It is such a full-circle moment," she said.
