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Prossy (in purple), 13, with other students at Nyumanzi Community Primary School in Nyumanzi refugee settlement in northern Uganda. Photo: Amy Fallon

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School of refugees

School is very different for those in the Nyumanzi refugee settlement

Boys in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, playing in a polluted, water-logged street on the way to collect drinking water on June 17, 2017. Photo: Mehedi Hasan, NurPhoto, AFP

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Water, water everywhere

When it rains in Bangladesh, it well and truly pours

The plan to build Australia’s biggest coalmine in Queensland has been given a boost by politicians who changed the law about Aboriginal land rights.

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Laws of the land

Native title concerns fail to slow Adani progress

Little Red Riding Hood has a surprise of her own for ‘grandma’. Illustration: Christopher Downes

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Little lies and ugly untruths

Is it ever okay to tell a lie? And can you ever tell the difference when someone is lying?

An artist's idea of the extinct bird, Progura gallinacea, which stood as tall as a grey kangaroo. Image: Elen Shute, Flinders University, from photos by Kim Benson, Tony Rodd and Aaron Camens

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Tall turkeys, chunky chooks

Medal of the Order of Australia recipient, 90-year-old Neil MacKenzie at his Bracken Ridge home with his current miniature locomotive project, a B17 Queenslander. Photo: Brenden Allen

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Royal honour for model Aussie

A hose sprays water onto Grenfell Tower, an apartment block in west London that was caught in a huge blaze on June 14, 2017. Photo: Tolga Akmen, AFP

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London fire inquiries continue

Party Boy is one of the sulphur crested cockatoos in the Wingtag Project. Party Boy is a social media favourite. Here he is overlooking Sydney. Photo: Cockatoo Wingtag

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Facebook for feathered friends

Tess Poyner, 14, is a finalist in the Australian Geographic junior Nature Photographer of the Year 2017 competition for this photo of a kangaroo, 'Morning Mist'.

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Nature’s finest

Kids overseas are being bullied because of their food allergies and researcherssay it is happening in Australia, too.

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Stop the lunchbox bullies

Kyah Smith injured her finger playing basketball and needed surgery. Photo: supplied

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Them’s the breaks

The Inflatable Refugee floats down the Yarra River for Refugee Week. Photo: Stewie Donn

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Silent refugee, loud message

The orchid mantis in Bug Lab. Photo: Joel Checkley

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Little bugs, big powers

Rebecca Charteris blood bank co-ordinator with Henry the greyhound who donates blood. Newbridge animal centre.Photo taken on the 16th of june 2017. Photo: Jacky Ghossein

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Doggy donors

British prime minister, Theresa May, in orange, waits with other candidates for the election results in Maidenhead on June 9. Photo: Geoff Caddick, AFP, Getty Images

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Young rock the UK vote

Adani plans to start work on itsnew open cut mine in the Galilee Basin.This is an open cut mine at Mt ThorleyWarkworth in the Hunter Valley, NSW.Photo: Dean Sewell

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Adani mine goes ahead

The combined poweroutput of the brown coal-firedLoy Yang A and Loy Yang B powerstations in Victoria is the biggestsingle electricity source inAustralia. Photo: MD Yusuf HabibSatil/Flickr

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Clear balance of power

Josh with some of his 10,000 chickens! He’s very proud to be supporting Foodbank in their quest to reduce food waste and help to feed the hungry. Photo: Tamsyn Murray

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Food fighter’s egg-cellent idea

Visitors flocked to see two corpse flowers blooming at the Chicago Botanic Garden in Chicago, Illinois in the US in early June 2017. Photo: Nova Safo, AFP

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Stench of rare success

A drone captures the image of a child playing on Currarong beach on the south coast of NSW. Photo: Nick Moir

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Entering the drone zone