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Earthquakes don’t kill people; buildings do. And those lovely decorative bits are the first to fall

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By Ann L Brower, University of Canterbury News of Melbourne’s earthquake on 22 September 2021 made my left leg...

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The Australian government announced today that it would allocate an initial 3,000 humanitarian places to Afghan nationals within Australia’s 13,750 annual program.

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