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Verney Road School in Shepparton moves to former Wanganui Park Secondary School site
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Shepparton's Verney Road School will find a new home at the former Wanganui Park Secondary School site after receiving a significant funding boost.
Key points:
- $23.8 million has been promised to build a new home for a Shepparton special school
- The school, built for 75 students, now has more than 230, plus staff
- The new building is expected to open in the 2026 school year
Queer love stories: Ivy and Yoey
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The love that Ivy McGowan and Yoey Maxwell share is a rare kind.
In the five years since they met by chance at a queer picnic in Naarm/Melbourne on Ivy's 22nd birthday, it's grown to become something they had both thought they could only ever dare to dream for.
We asked them to share their story with us.
Blindness no barrier for Wollongong jeweller Keely Payne as she creates by touch
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When Wollongong jewellery maker Keely Payne sits down to work, she does everything from choosing colours to threading tiny beads onto wire by touch alone.
Tackle boxes filled with colour-coordinated beads contain braille on the side to tell her what she is holding.
After a horrific car crash, doctor Dinesh Palipana saw the emergency ward from the patients' side
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After a car accident in 2010, doctor Dinesh Palipana was left a quadriplegic.
Key points:
- A car accident left Dinesh Palipana paralysed below his chest
- It did not stop him from becoming a doctor
- He is now helping to make the profession more inclusive
The Northern Territory's first supported independent living home opens in Nhulunbuy
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