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I'm moving to Melbourne in January. 12 Funtatlaguy Dec 2019 Dec 2019 2 3452

And sometimes there are things that restore your faith in people 10 Matilda Nov 2019 Dec 2019 7 2961

NSW bushfires spread across entire coastline as homes lost in Qld fires 8 Matilda Dec 2019 Dec 2019 7 2616

Welcome to Authoritarian Australia 0 Matilda Dec 2019 Dec 2019 7 1943

Morrison and Berejiklian can't see the forest for the burning trees 2 Matilda Nov 2019 Nov 2019 2 1762

Barnaby Joyce says Government should protect Julian Assange from extradition to the US 2 TexasTowelie Oct 2019 Oct 2019 0 1844

Indigenous Australian literature panel featured at the 2019 National Book Festival in Washington, DC 1 CBHagman Aug 2019 Sep 2019 2 2115

Good News about Family DownUnder....👏👏👏👏👏 2 irisblue Nov 2017 Aug 2019 1 2974

ABC raid: Outcry as Australian police search public broadcaster 1 sandensea Jun 2019 Jun 2019 2 2407

New Labor leader Anthony Albanese calls for end to climate wars 2 Matilda May 2019 Jun 2019 1 2079

Bob Hawke, Australia's 23rd prime minister, dies aged 89 6 Thyla May 2019 May 2019 4 2613

Australian Federal election 2019: Prime Minister Scott Morrison sets May 18 election date 3 Thyla Apr 2019 Apr 2019 1 2274

Federal Election, May 2019 0 Matilda Mar 2019 Mar 2019 1 1963

The Killing Times: the massacres of Aboriginal people Australia must confront 3 Thyla Mar 2019 Mar 2019 7 3691

Nobody needed this: Brian Burston levels sexual harassment allegations at One Nation leader 1 Thyla Feb 2019 Feb 2019 1 3349

Tony Abbott has not changed, not even the Speedo pose looks different 2 Matilda Feb 2019 Feb 2019 1 2245

Tasmania is burning. The climate disaster future has arrived while those in power laugh at us 13 Matilda Feb 2019 Feb 2019 34 5315

Behrouz Boochani: detained asylum seeker wins Australia's richest literary prize 0 Matilda Jan 2019 Jan 2019 3 1838

(NZ) Driver posts 'hide your children' prison Halloween photo after causing death of teen 0 sl8 Dec 2018 Dec 2018 0 2657

Signal says it can't allow government access to users' chats 0 sl8 Dec 2018 Dec 2018 2 2206

Thousands of students rally across Australia 2 Matilda Nov 2018 Nov 2018 6 2584

The Opera House debacle 6 Matilda Oct 2018 Oct 2018 4 3121

Morrison vows no money for climate conferences and "all that nonsense" 4 Matilda Oct 2018 Oct 2018 6 2949

This message was self-deleted by its author 2 sl8 Sep 2018 Sep 2018 1 2291

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull digs in 9 Matilda Aug 2018 Sep 2018 2 3576

Scranton, Pennsylvania, university building will now bear the name of Australian nun Mary MacKillop 2 CBHagman Aug 2018 Aug 2018 2 2774

NSW Government says entire state in drought. 0 Matilda Aug 2018 Aug 2018 4 2312

This is Australian-style sexism brought to you by a senator and Sky News 2 Matilda Jul 2018 Jul 2018 4 3133

Questions about how Australian gun law changes have played out 8 Ken Burch Feb 2018 Feb 2018 1 3910

Well, in case you hadn't heard it, Trump wants what you'd call a "White America" immigration policy 7 Ken Burch Jan 2018 Jan 2018 2 3938

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Vatican should make celibacy for Catholic priests voluntary, royal commission says 1 Matilda Dec 2017 Dec 2017 1 2292

For Family & Friends Down Under. X Post from LGBT group & GD 0 irisblue Dec 2017 Dec 2017 0 1872

Kiwi spies knew of Donald Trump's 'collusion' with Russia as it unfolded book 5 JonLP24 Dec 2017 Dec 2017 28 4670

Scientists grow baby coral on Barrier Reef 1 sl8 Nov 2017 Nov 2017 4 2709

Malcolm Turnbull delays Parliament amid banking commission push 1 Matilda Nov 2017 Nov 2017 1 2221

'Stop The F*gs': Anti-Gay Activists Are Attacking Same-Sex Marriage Via This Vile Poster 5 TexasTowelie Aug 2017 Nov 2017 1 4790

All we want is freedom not another prison camp 0 Matilda Nov 2017 Nov 2017 1 2578

Australian government orders police raids on union offices 0 TexasTowelie Oct 2017 Oct 2017 1 2265

Australian economy "going into a hole" 0 TexasTowelie Oct 2017 Oct 2017 0 3219

Anti-Gay Activists Just Got Burned by a Pizza Parlor 1 TexasTowelie Sep 2017 Oct 2017 23 5500

Giant 5.2-metre (17 foot) croc shot dead in central Queensland 5 left-of-center2012 Sep 2017 Sep 2017 0 3424

Tennis Legend Says if Australia Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage 'There Will Be No Christmas' 8 TexasTowelie Sep 2017 Sep 2017 5 3770

Satirist John Clarke dies aged 68. 2 Matilda Apr 2017 Sep 2017 2 2521

North Korea: Australia would support United States in conflict, Malcolm Turnbull says 4 Matilda Aug 2017 Aug 2017 1 4814

Gillian Triggs: Australian government 'ideologically opposed to human rights' 1 Matilda Jul 2017 Jul 2017 6 2934

Australia's Prime Minister says laws of mathematics don't apply in his country 1 TexasTowelie Jul 2017 Jul 2017 1 3276

Tony Abbott: The Opposition Prime Minister 0 Matilda Jul 2017 Jul 2017 4 3116

The Long-Lost 8th Wonder of the World May Have Been Found 4 sandensea Jun 2017 Jun 2017 22 6317

John McCain urges action on Great Barrier Reef and Paris climate deal 3 Matilda May 2017 May 2017 0 6277

Australian indigenous leaders meet for historic summit 0 nitpicker May 2017 May 2017 1 7024

'The most ill-informed, under-prepared, and psychologically ill-equipped president in US history' 10 Matilda Apr 2017 May 2017 28 11364

Dear Australia: I'm sorry we treated your citizen so awfully. I'm embarrassed. 3 Aristus May 2017 May 2017 3 4598

Kokoda Track (Papua, New Guinea) Commemoration---75th Anniversary 1 Tanuki Apr 2017 Apr 2017 2 2183

Mom taking pics of toddler spots deadly snake inches away 2 TexasTowelie Mar 2017 Mar 2017 2 5881

'Very impressed': Elon Musk speaks to SA premier Jay Weatherill 1 Matilda Mar 2017 Mar 2017 2 2717

Trump hails Australia's draconian immigration regime 3 TexasTowelie Mar 2017 Mar 2017 1 2784

'It's a tragedy,' Clive Hamilton says of Turnbull's climate transformation 5 Matilda Mar 2017 Mar 2017 2 2905

Australia's highest-paid public servant quits $4.3 million job 0 TexasTowelie Feb 2017 Feb 2017 0 3000

Eaten Fish: Iranian asylum seeker and cartoonist ends Manus Island hunger strike 0 Matilda Feb 2017 Feb 2017 0 2333

Fall of Singapore: Australian POWs' oral history charts memories of defeat and imprisonment 3 Matilda Feb 2017 Feb 2017 0 2590

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Australian government reintroduces sweeping welfare cuts 4 TexasTowelie Feb 2017 Feb 2017 4 2911

Greens move to bar 'racist, xenophobic' Trump from visiting Australia 3 Matilda Feb 2017 Feb 2017 10 2851

Honest Government Advert - Centrelink Fail 0 Matilda Jan 2017 Jan 2017 3 2360

One Nation lies about Trump invite, gets caught out, cries 'fake news' 1 Matilda Jan 2017 Jan 2017 10 3367

Pensions cut for 330,000 Australian retirees 0 TexasTowelie Jan 2017 Jan 2017 0 3308

Former PM Paul Keating weighs in on Rex Tillerson 0 Matilda Jan 2017 Jan 2017 9 3217

Senator Rod Culleton declared bankrupt 0 Matilda Dec 2016 Dec 2016 0 3338

Feds block joint venture between American Airlines and Australia's Qantas 1 TexasTowelie Nov 2016 Nov 2016 0 2276

What's Up, Rod? 1 Matilda Nov 2016 Nov 2016 0 2510

Tony Abbott tells UK Tories he believes he can be PM again 2 Matilda Oct 2016 Oct 2016 0 2524

Australia does not have a welfare problem. We have a poverty problem 4 Matilda Sep 2016 Sep 2016 2 2613

Batgirl 'housework': Target removes 'sexist' T-shirt and apologises 3 niyad Aug 2016 Aug 2016 2 2663

Remains of missing hiker found in Summit County 4 GentryDixon Aug 2016 Aug 2016 2 2998

Life in Nauru detention: a dark, wretched Truman Show without the cameras 1 friendly_iconoclast Aug 2016 Aug 2016 0 2494

Will Anthony Albanese challenge Bill Shorten for the ALP leadership? 3 Ken Burch Jul 2016 Aug 2016 0 2288

The Nauru Files: 2,000 Leaked Reports Reveal Scale of Abuse of Children 0 Matilda Aug 2016 Aug 2016 0 2021

Clinton or The Frump 0 peakhillfm Jul 2016 Jul 2016 1 2413

PM announces royal commission into mistreatment of juveniles in NT detention 1 Matilda Jul 2016 Jul 2016 0 1999

The terrible true story of Mr Eaten Fish, Manus Island cartoonist 0 Matilda Jul 2016 Jul 2016 0 2254

Kevin Rudd seeks nomination for UN secretary general role 0 Matilda Jul 2016 Jul 2016 1 2101

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