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Twelve-year-old boy sews 365 teddy bears a year for charity
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Campbell Remess makes teddy bears to make people smile during tough times. His online supporters recently made him smile with a surprise bedroom makeover.
Topics: charities, children, volunteers, family-and-children, human-interest, person, acton-park-7170
One-armed surfer Bethany Hamilton charges into the Fiji Pro quarter-finals
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Hawaiian surfer Bethany Hamilton, who lost her arm in a shark attack, eliminates world number one Tyler Wright on her way to the Fiji Pro quarter-finals.
Topics: surfing, sport, lennox-head-2478, nsw, australia, fiji
Couple's love story viewed more than 12 million times on social media
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A young Queensland couple with Down syndrome say they are overwhelmed about the reaction to their love story, which has resonated with people around the world.
Topics: people, disabilities, social-media, internet-culture, corinda-4075, brisbane-4000, qld
Dr Heimlich saves choking woman with namesake manoeuvre
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Dr Henry Heimlich, the 96-year-old Cincinnati surgeon credited with inventing the lifesaving technique named after him, uses it for the first time this week to save a fellow senior citizen who was choking on a hamburger.
Topics: health, medical-procedures, human-interest, united-states
Concrete canvas brings two of Australia's best street artists together
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Two world-renowned street artists are bringing their talents back to their hometown to brighten up a Brisbane rail underpass.
Topics: street-art, human-interest, people, bowen-hills-4006
Indigenous nurses run Thursday Island Hospital ward for first time
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A group of Indigenous nurses at Thursday Island Hospital make history, becoming the first-ever all-Indigenous team to run the hospital's general ward.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-culture, doctors-and-medical-professionals, medical-history, thursday-island-4875, cairns-4870
This stroke victim can't speak — but wait until you hear him sing Unchained Melody (video)
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Adrian Eagleton cannot string a sentence together after experiencing a stroke 18 years ago, but like many of the members in Stroke A Chord, he can sing beautifully.
Topics: stroke, choral, ringwood-3134
Six-month-old becomes world's youngest water-skier (video)
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Clad in a tiny pink swimsuit, a six-month-old baby has water-skied more than 200 metres to claim a new world record.
Topics: human-interest, offbeat, people, united-states
Give them a bell: Meet Australia's youngest carillonists
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Visitors to the shore of Canberra's Lake Burley Griffin often hear the sound of bells, but few know how the sound is made, let alone who makes it.
Topics: music, people, human-interest, act, canberra-2600
Wiki Loves Earth photo competition debuts in Australia
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Take a look at some of the entrants so far for a nature photography competition organised by Wikipedia that is open to Australians for the first time.
Topics: photography, national-parks, marine-parks, internet-culture, fine-art-photography, human-interest, australia
WA beekeepers rejoice in full karri forest bloom
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A forest of giant karri trees near Pemberton in Western Australia's South West is blooming in a way that has not been seen in nearly 50 years and it has beekeepers rejoicing.
Topics: food-processing, agribusiness, pemberton-6260
Turning hospital landfill into a viable social enterprise
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Single-use hospital towels usually destined for landfill are finding a second life in a nifty social enterprise giving work to people with disabilities and raising money for charity.
Topics: healthcare-facilities, business-economics-and-finance, environmentally-sustainable-business, health, disabilities, echuca-3564, bendigo-3550
Autistic child genius app developer hopes to meet Obama
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At just 11 years old, four-time app developer Hamish Finlayson has been invited to meet US president Barack Obama.
Topics: autism-spectrum-disorder, internet-technology, family, science-and-technology, computers-and-technology, children, townsville-4810, united-states
Power of music strikes a chord in children's emergency ward
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The healing power of music is being harnessed in emergency rooms at Brisbane's Lady Cilento Children's Hospital to ensure young patients remain settled during procedures.
Topics: health, music, child-health-and-behaviour, human-interest, children, brisbane-4000
Perth to Thay Maw Ku: The retirees building wheelchairs for kids in need
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In a small village in Myanmar's jungle, a young boy is getting around with the help of a new wheelchair that has come all the way from Western Australia.
Topics: relief-and-aid-organisations, children, volunteers, perth-6000, wa, burma
Brisbane volunteers aim to expand Ghana orphanage
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A group of young Brisbanites is hoping to change the lives of orphaned children in Africa one brick at a time.
Topics: charities-and-community-organisations, children, poverty, people, human-interest, brisbane-4000, ghana
What's your favourite book to read to children?
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Ahead of Wednesday's National Simultaneous Storytime, 666 ABC Canberra asks eight Canberrans to name their favourite book to read to children.
Topics: children, books-literature, library-museum-and-gallery, human-interest, canberra-2600
Students colour in to fund family violence therapist in Tasmanian community
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A group of teenage girls takes a colourful approach to combating family violence in their small community on Tasmania's north west coast.
Topics: family, family-law, domestic-violence, community-and-society, wynyard-7325
Tears and cheers at debutante ball for youth with disabilities
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There were tears and cheers as hundreds of people attended a debutante ball on the Gold Coast for young women with disabilities.
Topics: disabilities, events, people, southport-4215, qld
Huskies, handlers pawfect their runs at dog sled boot camp (video)
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Huskies and their owners are rattling their harnesses through state forests down Australia's east coast as the Siberian dog sled season begins.
Topics: animals, human-interest, sydney-2000, berrima-2577
Qantas staff help drought-stricken graziers
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As large areas of Queensland struggle with a four-year drought, Qantas staff have used their diverse talents to lend a hand to long-suffering graziers in the Longreach area.
Topics: drought, volunteers, beef-cattle, community-and-society, work, rural, farm-labour, longreach-4730
Woman's tormented life with juvenile arthritis inspires new foundation Feature
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Juvenile arthritis affects one in 1,000 Australian children and one Adelaide Hills woman living with the condition is setting up a foundation to help future generations.
Topics: arthritis, child-health-and-behaviour, people, human-interest, health, adelaide-5000
Donated suits become tailored threads for disadvantaged men
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A Queensland man is taking used suits, tailoring them and passing them on as a way to get the less fortunate men of Brisbane back on their feet.
Topics: charities-and-community-organisations, community-and-society, fashion, human-interest, brisbane-4000
Inside the weird world of Bolivian female wrestlers
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The hugely popular spectacle of lucha libre was once the exclusive domain of men in Bolivia, but now women are donning colourful costumes and stepping into the ring as fighters — finding celebrity and rising above oppression in the process.
Topics: photography, arts-and-entertainment, community-and-society, popular-culture, lifestyle-and-leisure, bolivia
Meet the robotic new guide at the WA Art Gallery (video)
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A small walking, talking tour guide robot named Aggie is unveiled as the latest strategy to draw in visitors to the Art Gallery of Western Australia.
Topics: library-museum-and-gallery, robots-and-artificial-intelligence, visual-art, offbeat, painting, arts-and-entertainment, perth-6000
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