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Giving Aiia her voice back

She spoke three languages, loved to read and adored her sisters. Now Aiia Maasarwe is dead. But her family refuses to let her lose her voice.

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Schools top fire risk list

Schools, high-rise apartments and commercial buildings are just some of the developments clad in dangerous combustible materials across northwest Sydney.

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Whitlam’s family home threatened

The childhood home of former prime minister Gough Whitlam is under imminent threat of being levelled by bulldozers.

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Skase’s daughter ‘left bankrupt’ by disgraced dad

The step daughter of fugitive Australian businessman Christopher Skase claims her father wasn’t a criminal mastermind who had secretly squirrelled away hundreds of thousands of dollars, claiming “we’re all bankrupt” and she has to search through hard rubbish dumps to get by.

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The betrayal: Allison’s world caves in

WORD spread through the mums in the school tuckshop. It was September, 2011, and word of Gerard’s infidelity had spread from the real estate community to the school community. A friend of Allison’s approached. It was time she knew.

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‘Til death do us part

IT WAS a tapered coffin of rosewood. Allison Baden-Clay, whose body had lain abandoned and exposed on the muddy banks of a suburban creek for 10 days, who’d been zipped into a body bag and set out on a steel slab, lay on satin under an arrangement of coloured peonies.

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Raising the Costa Concordia

TODAY a high-risk operation begins to refloat the Costa Concordia, two years after it sank in a deadly and terrifying disaster. This is how it will happen.

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Army vets give teens life ammo

THREE ex-army men dusted off their fatigues to found Military Cadets, where veterans impart to teenagers the discipline they need to become solid citizens.

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Our top nine fireplaces to share this winter

WINTER is a great time to turn up the heat on your relationship, but first you’ll be needing a fire. Luckily, nine of the best are found in our backyard.

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Biting back in the war on mossies

SCIENCE has enlisted an unlikely ally to combat the mosquito-borne dengue virus, the latest outbreak of which has infected 136 Queenslanders.

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Oscars Travesties

Martin Scorsese had to wait 25 years for his first Academy Award. The Wolf of Wall Street is unlikely to earn him a second.

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Catching the devil

THE inside story of the psychopath who killed Daniel Morcombe and how he was brought to justice.

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Special report: the new villains

SOUTH Australia’s criminal record has, traditionally, been defined by its history.

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Drunk, angry and dangerous

IN a drunken moment, lives can be irreversibly changed — or ended. Suddenly a night out goes from fairytale to horror story.

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