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Vlogger with MS shares NDIS tips, insights into life with disability on social media

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Vlogger with MS shares NDIS tips, insights into life with disability on social media

With fiery red hair, a big voice and a mobility scooter, she says it is not unusual for strangers to approach her in the street and tell her something about a video she made more than a year ago.

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Bionic ear surgeon who helped deaf children hear gets own cochlear implant

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Bionic ear surgeon who helped deaf children hear gets own cochlear implant

John Rice pioneered cochlear implant surgery in South Australia as an ear, nose and throat surgeon in the 1990s.

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Musician on a mission: Deaf guitarist on three-year busking tour for Lifeline makes last SA stop

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Musician on a mission: Deaf guitarist on three-year busking tour for Lifeline makes last SA stop

Murray Mandel is profoundly deaf, but that has never kept him away from music.

Classical guitar is how the 64 year-old Sydney man has chosen to spread his message on a three-year busking tour that is taking him around Australia to raise funds for crisis support charity Lifeline.

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'I might go deaf but I'm not worried': Victorian family proves that going deaf is nothing to fear

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'I might go deaf but I'm not worried': Victorian family proves that going deaf is nothing to fear

Nia Harrison was born into a family where being deaf was nothing out of the ordinary — her mother, aunt and grandmother are all deaf, as is her best friend Cate.

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T20 Deaf Cricket World Cup: Off-spinner bowled over by international opportunity

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T20 Deaf Cricket World Cup: Off-spinner bowled over by international opportunity

A young deaf cricketer, who has just been named in the Deaf Cricket Australia Squad, says he would not change a thing.

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