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• Friend remembers 'talented and amazingly kind' Sydney woman...

  

  A school friend has paid tribute to an “incredibly smart” woman who died after an apparent drug overdose at the Sydney leg of the Stereosonic electronic music festival on Saturday.Sylvia Choi, a 25-year-old woman from Oyster Bay in Sydney's southern suburbs, fell ill during the festival at Olympic Park on Saturday and was rushed to Concord Hospital, where she later died.The qualified pharmacist is believed to have taken ecstasy with alcohol and possibly MDMA mixed with water. Friend Aim..

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• Too early to judge academies: Cameron

  

  Academy critics need to look at the big picture: CameronAdam CurleyNovember 30, 2015 1:02 PMGWS academy player Jacob Hopper looks a ready-made midfielder for the GiantsCRITICS who say Greater Western Sydney's academy recruiting pool is too large need to understand the positive effects the system is having on the AFL as a whole, according to Giants coach Leon Cameron.The talent-rich Riverina area in south-west New South Wales is the biggest point of contention for some Victorian clubs, with the r..

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• Call for drug testing stations at festivals to reduce deaths

  

  There are calls to set up testing stations for drugs at festivals and amnesty bins to reduce deaths.THE approach to drugs at music festivals and clubs doesn’t work and will lead to more deaths unless pill testing is made available at festivals, an expert has told news.com.au.Matt Noffs, chief executive officer of theNoffs Foundation, which works with young people with drug and alcohol problems, said the solution to preventing deaths was in education, not prohibition.The warning follows arenewed ..

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• Personal, political, persistent: how the campaign for marriage...

  

  In a packed hall on a humid day in Ipswich, Ivan Hinton-Teoh, deputy director of Australian Marriage Equality (AME), tells his story. How he fell in love with, proposed to and married his sweetheart. How he had found the one he wanted to be with for the rest of his life.He explains how his grandmother held gay people in disdain until the moment she discovered her grandson was gay. Within monthsIvan married Chrisin a commitment ceremony attended by his joyous Nan, his strongest champion to the en..

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• Regional papers need more support

  In Albury, longstanding Border Mail editor Di Thomas resigned after 23 jobs were cut from the paper. It has been a familiar story as the Fairfax caravan rolled ...

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• Border tradies named as best in the industry

  

  A man who barely spoke English and didn't know where spark plugs were in a car three years ago has taken out a Victorian mechanic titleTRADE TALENT: Albury's Ash Hillsley and Joe Presti have been recognised state-wide for their work in the automotive industry. Picture: ELENOR TEDENBORGAn Italian man who arrived in Albury four-years ago has gone from working as a cleaner to an award winning mechanic despite hardly knowing the English languageJoe Presti started out detailing cars but his potential..

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• 120000 in three days, and this could be permanent

  

  Keith Bradshaw: 'Fans voted with their feet'2:36Cricket: SACA chief executive Keith Bradshaw hailed the 'pink-ball Test' as a fantastic success as a crowd of 47,000 flocked to the Adelaide Oval to watch day one of the final Test between Australia and New Zealand.THE success of the day-night Test match has cemented Adelaide as the place to watch cricket and prompted calls for the world-first format to become an annual fixture in the City of Churches.Total attendance for the three days of the Test..

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• Trio to take on the best

  

  The Myrtleford P12 College year seven student played at the Australian Junior Basketball Country Cup in Albury at the start of this year, and said that experience ...

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• Southern Inlands Brekky Blog | Monday, November 30, 2015

  

  ALBURY-WODONGA: A young group of friends who went to Lake Hume for an afternoon swim ended their day by helping to rescue a man from the water.

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• Renal failure

  A renal dialysis unit must be established in Deniliquin.That is the demand from a newly formed community committee made up mostly of people who are suffering from kidney failure.The group met for the first time on Tuesday and invited the Pastoral Times along to hear their stories of desperation and heartache.They resolved to lobby NSW Member for Murray Adrian Piccoli, Federal Member for Farrer and Federal Health Minister Sussan Ley and the NSW Heath Department for action.Leading the push is loc..

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