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What is Canberra Core? Trendsetters talk local street style

Despite appearing less than two months ago (27 May), the titillating Instagram @canberra.core has already made a name for itself as the only page “doing the street style thing” in Canberra.

Back in July 2020, slow motion clips of pedestrians in Shanghai, Beijing, casually strutting the streets while wearing impossibly cool outfits took over TikTok, inspiring countless copycat (walks) hailing from Milan, Paris, New York.

While the rest of us were trapped indoors and in sweatpants, living vicari
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28-year-old Canberra woman heads towards Homeless World Cup

In about 10 days’ time, a team of eight street soccer players, brought together by backgrounds in homelessness and disadvantage, will represent Australia at the 2023 Homeless World Cup.

The Big Issue Street Socceroos are heading towards Sacramento, California where the Cup will take place on 8 July. Among them is Caity, the only Canberran, and the only woman on the team.

Her teammates may tower over her in size, but Caity welcomes her opponents to underestimate her. It only makes it that much
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Challenging perceptions of homelessness at Vinnies CEO Sleepout in Canberra

On the longest night of the year, Thursday 22 June, Canberra’s CEOs and leaders will sleep out for homelessness in the National Museum of Australia’s Garden of Australian Dreams – where the word ‘home’ is emblazoned in 80 different languages.

The Vinnies CEO Sleepout has raised a few eyebrows over the years, along with the millions of dollars for homelessness support services. Christine Shaw, of Blackshaw Manuka, “throws down the gauntlet” for naysayers to take part.
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'Unissued Diplomas' preserves stories of Ukrainian students

Sunday 2 April will be the last day for Canberrans to see an exhibit that has travelled to 45 universities, in 20 countries across the world. The ANU centre for European Studies is displaying Unissued Diplomas in the Kambri Cultural Centre, which is free to walk in from 7am to 7pm every day.

The exhibition was created for the Ukrainian university students who died following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. It was written, organised, and carried around the world by their peers who
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‘Private world of pain’ portraits of endometriosis

March is Endometriosis Awareness Month, which aims to raise the profile of a debilitating disease that affects one in nine Australian women.

Canberra artist Melissa Hammond photographed local woman Kristy Stephenson, who lives with Stage IV Endometriosis – the most advanced stage.

“I said, I could show you all my scars from my surgeries, but she wanted to find out what pain looks like for me.

“For me, pain is usually in the middle of the night."
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A woman of spirit: Adele Auva’a

A finalist in Lifeline Canberra’s 2022 Women of Spirit Awards, Adele Auva’a is a survivor, a proud Samoan woman, and a community mentor to young girls. Above all that, however, she’s a mum of two.

“Straight up, being a single mum is the one hurdle I’m still overcoming to this day,” says Adele.

“Growing up in our culture, we always saw that you stay in your relationship – whether you’re happy or you’re not, because it’s that union, supposedly, that will carry you.”
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Fragile X Family: ‘We’re out there, but no one knows’

Wife Sharon, husband Eugene, eldest son Ben, daughter Emily, and youngest son Gabe, of inner south Canberra, are proud to say they are not a perfectly normal family, thank you very much.

Fragile X syndrome is an under-recognised and frequently misdiagnosed genetic disorder caused by fragility in the X chromosome.

It is the leading cause of inherited developmental disability, affecting approximately one in 5,000 people.
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