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Australia is set for a $9.3 billion surplus, but deficits for next three financial years
Source: ABC NewsTopic: Budget
Competing interests mean this year's budget is the most confusing in years
Source: ABC NewsTopic: Budget
A family were asleep on Boxing Day when a teen on a Christmas bender changed everything
Source: ABC NewsTopic: Stabbings
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What cost-of-living relief are you hoping for in this year's budget? Tell us
The federal government will hand down their third budget on May 14 and we want to know what's going to make a difference for you.
Source: ABC NewsTopic: Budget
How anticipating happiness leads to a joyful life
The Germans have a word for anticipatory happiness: vorfreude. It's the recognition that anticipating something good can be great for us.
Source: ABC RNTopic: Mental Health
'His life got quite small': WA footy great's CTE diagnosis confirmed as family details struggle with disease
The daughter of late WA football great Austin Robertson Jr details how her father's confidence was shaken as he battled the effects of CTE, a degenerative brain disease caused by repeated concussions.
Source: ABC Radio PerthTopic: Australian Rules Football
Why we connect so strongly with trees
How one council's idea of giving every tree an email address led to "treemails" and an outpouring of love and prose to their city's 77,000 trees.
Source: ListenTopic: Trees
At 14, Ned stumbled upon a 'perfect jungle'. He didn't know he would spend the next two years fighting to save it
When a teenager uncovered a "critical refuge" for endangered species, it marked the start of a journey that eventually saw the parcel of land named after him.
Source: ABC South East NSWTopic: Bushfires
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Focus on women
Xuan bought a $6,000 apartment in an old Chinese city so she could 'lie flat'
As young people in China feel the squeeze of cost of living and social pressures, many are looking to the country's forgotten older cities where they can buy a home and pursue the kind of life they want.
Source: ABC NewsTopic: Human Interest
How this footy club went from bottom of the ladder to become heroes
From losing every single match to the undefeated premiers, a women's football team in Darwin knows how to overcome a challenge.
Source: ListenTopic: Sport
Ewe beauty: Trailblazing Jeanine Kimm shears her way to an Australian record
The 31-year-old NSW shearer has set the first Australian women's merino shearing record for the most ewes shorn in an eight-hour period.
Source: ABC RuralTopic: Wool
Women touching hearts and raising Pride awareness through nearly 200 'random acts of crochet kindness'
Tasha Eimer struggled to find her place as a lesbian woman. In a bid to promote inclusion and acceptance she's leading a project to fill her town with rainbow hearts for Pride Month.
Source: ABC Mid North CoastTopic: LGBT
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