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Council bars birdwatchers
Alice Springs :: Australia | almost 3 years ago
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Alice Springs to see a freak explosion of the princess parrot, one of Australia's rarest, most enigmatic and elegant birds. The Central Land Council, which represents Aboriginal groups, has refused to issue travel permits to dozens of birdwatchers
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Man drought hits Central Australia
Alice Springs :: Australia | almost 3 years ago
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The official gender ratio in Alice Springs shows a marked decline in men compared to women. In most parts of the Northern Territory, men outnumber women but in Alice Springs something else is happening. "[There's] a fairly dramatic feminisation, if
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Strip on Australia's Uluru angers Aborigines
Sydney :: Australia | almost 3 years ago
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A woman who performed a striptease on top of Australia's giant red rock Uluru on Sunday prompted renewed calls for people to be banned from climbing the important indigenous site, a report said. Alizee Sery, 25, stripped down to a white bikini after
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Sleepy Labor minister misses meeting
Canberra :: Australia | almost 3 years ago
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Mr Snowdon, whose seat of Lingiari covers most of the Northern Territory, was scheduled to discuss the future of a remote Central Australian Indigenous health service at Yuendumu, which wants to become independent of the Central Australian Aboriginal
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Tourism website photos 'culturally insensitive'
Sydney :: Australia | almost 3 years ago
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The website, dubbed "There's Nothing Like Australia", also features images that have been labelled with incorrect place names. The site allows people to upload their own photos of Australia, but some of the pictures show areas of Central Australia
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Cops hunt gunman over bizarre shooting
Alice Springs :: Australia | 3 years ago
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Police set up checkpoints on all roads in and out of Alice Springs yesterday after the attack, in which a 44-year-old man was shot with a 12-gauge shotgun. They were also searching the Alice Springs area with a helicopter. The victim and his female
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Supporting Indigenous kids in Alice Springs to go to school
Alice Springs :: Australia | 3 years ago
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The Central Australian Aboriginal Congress will receive the funding over the next three years to deliver the Ready and Willing for School Program. As part of the $150 million Alice Springs Transformation Plan, the program will provide a health check
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Joint study to look into the delivery of kidney disease treatment in Central Australia
Sydney :: Australia | 3 years ago
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Federal Minister for Indigenous Health and Rural and Regional Health, Warren Snowdon, today announced the joint study and said it's a positive step in the right direction. Renal dialysis can be distressing for patients, because many of them live in
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A 'founding father' of the NT
Bernie :: MO :: USA | 3 years ago
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Kilgariff, whose life's journey took him from humble beginnings to the national stage in business, politics and philanthropy, has died of pneumonia at the Old Timers retirement home in Alice Springs...His hands-on work from an early age in helping to
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Record rainfall transforms Red Centre
Alice Springs :: Australia | 3 years ago
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The city received more than its average yearly rainfall in just one week earlier this year, and the Red Centre now has a carpet of green. In the first two months of this year more than 400 millimetres of rain fell in the centre of Alice Springs, and
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