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Black Saturday scars run deep

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Michael Vincent returns to Kinglake to find out how the community is recovering after Victoria's deadly Black Saturday fires.
Australia's population predictions

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New figures show Australia will be forced to look overseas for more new citizens, as rising health and aged care costs threaten to drive the country into debt.
Australian Open season
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The Australian Open attracts record crowds to Melbourne, in a competition described as the biggest annual sporting event in the Southern Hemisphere.
Cambodia's endangered languages

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The future of Cambodia's local languages looks bleak with warnings 19 languages face extinction within the next 90 years
'Jai Ho!' diplomacy


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Tens of thousands of Australians packed out a free concert held by Indian musician AR Rahman, the Oscar-winning composer for the film 'Slumdog Millionaire'.
Base strains US-Japan relations


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The future of a United States military base in the Japanese prefecture of Okinawa is creating tensions in the Japan-US relationship, and confusion in Guam.
Australia losing appeal


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As Australia works to repair its reputation as an education destination, new figures show student visa applications from India have fallen by 46 per cent.
Lasting ripples
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The sheer scale of suffering from the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004 - which continues today - has forced new considerations for delivering aid.
Casting the stone
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Human rights groups in Indonesia are calling for intervention to stop a law that would see adulterers stoned to death in Aceh.
Wide open frontier
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There are claims Australia's northermost border, fronting Torres Strait, is underprotected and 'porous'.
Australia's sinking islands


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Residents of Australia's Torres Strait Islands say their pleas for climate change aid are going unheeded by the Federal Government.
China, India and climate change

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Pressure is mounting on both China and India to make strong commitments at Copenhagen, but just what will be expected of them is still to be hammered out
The economics of climate change

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As the political wrangling over Australia's emissions reduction scheme continues, many analysts argue that an ETS is too complex, ineffective and open to fraud.
A history of climate change

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Scientific evidence for man-made global warming began mounting in the 1980s, but the story from there is anything but simple.
Climate change forecast


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An international panel of scientists studying climate data have found that some indicators show climate change is occurring faster than expected.











