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• From over-productive to 'senile', coconut trees pose big challenges in the tropics

  14-07-2024 23:56 via abc.net.au
  
  The tree prized for its long, productive life is turning into a headache for the communities that have embraced it, creating a safety risk in some and leaving others with extremely old, unproductive plantations.
  
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• These frozen and canned food ideas are delicious and thrifty

  14-07-2024 23:45 via abc.net.au
  
  Reaching for canned and frozen fruit and vegetables can help keep costs down. We asked a cookery teacher about the most delicious ways to use them.
  
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• 'We're not the Gold Coast': King Island's pride at top golf accolade leads to infrastructure push

  14-07-2024 21:18 via abc.net.au
  
  For nearly 100 years, a volunteer-run, nine-hole golf course was the only sign of the sport on King Island. But times have changed, with roughly 60 per cent of the island's tourists here for a chance to play on its world-class courses.
  
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• Former cow paddock knocks out prestigious Royal Melbourne to become Australia's best golf course

  14-07-2024 21:18 via abc.net.au
  
  For nearly 100 years, a volunteer-run, nine-hole golf course was the only sign of the sport on King Island. But times have changed, with roughly 60 per cent of the island's tourists here for a chance to play on its world-class courses.
  
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• Ongoing decline in Victorian foster carers spurs urgent calls for increased allowance

  14-07-2024 21:15 via abc.net.au
  
  Greg Lacey and his family were foster carers for three years but the mounting pressure on carers felt all-consuming.
  
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• Financial stress pushing foster carers out of the system and forcing kids into residential care, experts say

  14-07-2024 21:15 via abc.net.au
  
  Greg Lacey and his family were foster carers for three years but the mounting pressure on carers felt all-consuming.
  
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• Financial stress pushing foster carers out of the system and forcing kids into residential care

  14-07-2024 21:15 via abc.net.au
  
  Greg Lacey and his family were foster carers for three years but the mounting pressure on carers felt all-consuming.
  
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• Should airlines have to compensate domestic travellers when flights are cancelled or delayed?

  14-07-2024 20:56 via abc.net.au
  
  There are calls for stronger protection for passengers. But some airlines say it won't improve outcomes for passengers, instead saying it could increase airfares.
  
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• 'Once you're in, you can't get out': The gated villages leaving retirees feeling trapped

  14-07-2024 20:52 via abc.net.au
  
  Land lease communities, where retirees buy their home but rent the land, are booming, fuelled by a housing affordability crisis and an aging population. But some residents say they feel trapped in a "financial prison" and experts say a lack of legal protections leave some with few options for redress.
  
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• 'I'm in a financial prison': The retirement villages leaving retirees feeling trapped

  14-07-2024 20:52 via abc.net.au
  
  Land lease communities, where retirees buy their home but rent the land, are booming, fuelled by a housing affordability crisis and an aging population. But some residents say they feel trapped in a "financial prison" and experts say a lack of legal protections leave some with few options for redress.
  
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• How an idyllic retirement resort became a 'financial prison'

  14-07-2024 20:52 via abc.net.au
  
  Land lease communities, where retirees buy their home but rent the land, are booming, fuelled by a housing affordability crisis and an aging population. But some residents say they feel trapped in a "financial prison" and experts say a lack of legal protections leave some with few options for redress.
  
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• Shannen Doherty star of Beverly Hills 90210, Charmed, dies age 53

  14-07-2024 15:02 via abc.net.au
  
  Shannen Doherty was twice fired by the same powerful producer. Busy documenting her life on her podcast Let's Be Clear with Shannen Doherty, Doherty had a theory as to why she had a bad-girl image in the 1990s, and according to her it had nothing to do with her actually being bad.
  
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• Shannen Doherty, star of Beverly Hills, 90210 and Charmed, dies age 53

  14-07-2024 15:02 via abc.net.au
  
  Shannen Doherty, who starred in Little House on the Prairie, Beverly Hills, 90210, and Charmed, dies aged 53 following a cancer diagnosis.
  
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• Passengers pack first train ride to Yanchep in Perth's north, but ride did not come cheap

  14-07-2024 06:25 via abc.net.au
  
  WA's Premier and Treasurer are among the first passengers to ride the 15-kilometre railway extension covering three new train stations in Perth's north — Alkimos, Eglinton and Yanchep — on Sunday.
  
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• 'It's such a human thing': How screen composers are fighting to protect their craft against artificial intelligence

  14-07-2024 02:04 via abc.net.au
  
  Would you choose to listen to music that's been made by a computer? Screen music composers say they risk being pushed out of their industry without better regulations around the use of artificial intelligence in sound generation.
  
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• How screen composers are fighting to protect their craft against AI that creates songs in seconds

  14-07-2024 02:04 via abc.net.au
  
  Would you choose to listen to music that's been made by a computer? Screen music composers say they risk being pushed out of their industry without better regulations around the use of artificial intelligence in sound generation.
  
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