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Nicole Fredman and Tom Bjorksten recently got engaged by Nicole proposing to Tom on their farm in Booyong, northern NSW. Picture: Elise Derwin

More women popping the big question

It may not be the bended knee proposal you expect, but an increasing number of women are shunning 1600 years of tradition by popping the question to their boyfriends – and they don’t need a Leap Day to do so.

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Dr Peter Ridd  outside Parliament House in Canberra.Dr Peter Ridd has come to parliament, campaigning for some environmental standards on cane farmers to be lifted. He says restrictions on a certain fertiliser is based on dodgy science.

This was about Fair Work, not climate change

After working for a Queensland university for almost 30 years, a professor was sensationally sacked after he dared to challenge research linked to climate change, saying it was untested. Lessons need to be learnt from his story, writes Des Houghton.

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migrants arrive in Brisbane in the 1950s aboard the ship Oronsay from London

Waves of migrants built our home

There are more than 7.3 million migrants living in Australia, which means that 29 per cent of the Australian population was born overseas, the majority coming from England, China and India.

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