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  1. Pinned:News guidelines (0 replies)
  2. Schapelle - 5 year cut to sentence (32 replies)
  3. SIDS & Kids update official recommendations (300 replies)
  4. CEO Sleepout (4 replies)
  5. Craig Thomson... waffling? (44 replies)
  6. Four sisters ordered to be deported to Italy to their father – by midnight tonight (278 replies)
  7. Lingerie Football League coming to Australia (173 replies)
  8. Epidural tragedy last year - update (12 replies)
  9. LNP to get rid of same sex civil unions (62 replies)
  10. WDYT - should a 6 year old go to prison indefinitely? (45 replies)
  11. TOUGH LOVE: Budget targets single parents to save $700m (322 replies)
  12. School 'failed to get me into law' (91 replies)
  13. Carbon tax (0 replies)
  14. Woman give birth to twins after being declared brain dead. (30 replies)
  15. Time's breastfeeding cover (116 replies)
  16. States ending free parent whooping cough vaccination (7 replies)
  17. Sustainable Energy Breakthrough! (3 replies)
  18. Terrible news story, please be warned, relates to death and babies (34 replies)
  19. NSW Companion Animal Task Force (2 replies)
  20. Have you heard of other versions of what happened the night of March 11 in Afghanistan? (6 replies)
  21. Abducted boy in Malaysia (may be upsetting) (27 replies)
  22. Should the AVN be allowed to fundraise? (214 replies)
  23. Where did the "Education" section of The Age online go? (3 replies)
  24. What if this were my child (45 replies)
  25. Education Tax Refund (4 replies)
  26. Austalians better off than ever before (20 replies)
  27. Moved: James Blunt Dead at 35 news story hoax (-- replies)
  28. RIP MCA (10 replies)
  29. Body found - suspected to be that of missing mother (32 replies)
  30. Worth reading. (95 replies)
  31. 40 pedestrians hit in 5 days (13 replies)
  32. Missing - Have you seen Trish Beaton/Petersen (6 replies)
  33. Some research on Pertussis outbreaks (14 replies)
  34. Mum killed in bus accident in Beecroft (21 replies)
  35. How to spot a misogynist (12 replies)
  36. does this concern you? (20 replies)
  37. What the hell is wrong with some people?! (7 replies)
  38. sperm bank mix up (3 replies)
  39. Dear anti-vaxxer... (197 replies)
  40. HSC student challenges her results (45 replies)
  41. Removed thread (9 replies)
  42. American Airlines drops AVN ads. (11 replies)
  43. Toddler left alone after mother dies (40 replies)
  44. Shooting at Robina Shopping Center (12 replies)
  45. Drunk mother driving with 10 kids. (6 replies)
  46. Making room in the Federal budget for essential services (0 replies)
  47. Aust Government rejects UN ruling on human rights violation (23 replies)
  48. Fluvax incorrectly administered to small chlidren (26 replies)
  49. Tony Abbott and Bill Shorten don't know (3 replies)
  50. Woman gets compo for sex accident on work trip (52 replies)
  51. Matthew Newton arrested AGAIN (52 replies)
  52. Pet Shop burns down - all animals die (17 replies)
  53. Thread removed (0 replies)
  54. Gold Coast mayoral candidate led Blackshirts, male vigilantes group (37 replies)
  55. ... (19 replies)
  56. Education Crisis looming (0 replies)
  57. 32 yr old dating 17 yr old (28 replies)
  58. Pulitzer Prize for Breaking news photography (6 replies)
  59. A2 Milk is being pulled off shelves in Coles and IGA in NSW (3 replies)
  60. Ben Cousins Charged Yet again with drug possession (47 replies)
  61. Warning labels on alcohol - WDYT? (2 replies)
  62. Bob Brown just resigned (237 replies)
  63. Innocent woman killed in police pursuit (61 replies)
  64. Moved: Sick of being judged for this! (-- replies)
  65. miracle baby (11 replies)
  66. Old news story... (5 replies)
  67. Derryn Hinch names convicted paedophile (54 replies)
  68. Tsunami warning (1 reply)
  69. Slavery's last stronghold (7 replies)
  70. Tony Abbott's sister is gay (24 replies)
  71. Not having children the new trend in QLD (9 replies)
  72. RIP baby Jack (12 replies)
  73. After-birth abortion - may be sensitive topic (70 replies)
  74. Mum driving with baby in handbag (7 replies)
  75. Abbott's nanny plan (67 replies)
  76. Home birth advocate Janet Fraser admits lying to hospital staff about length of labour (53 replies)
  77. Not sure of an appropriate title for this... (3 replies)
  78. Do you Think the Conversation is Changing? (4 replies)
  79. Archibald Prize 2012 (6 replies)
  80. ANZAC DAY CENTENARY HAS RISKS: REVIEW (24 replies)
  81. Parents get 2.9Million in wrongful birth suit (66 replies)
  82. Help Me App (5 replies)
  83. Moved: ISOFIX Is coming (-- replies)
  84. Really scary stuff (65 replies)
  85. Jim Stynes has lost his battle with cancer (20 replies)
  86. RIP Lincoln Hall (Aust mountaineer) (6 replies)
  87. LNP win in QLD (119 replies)
  88. Sarah Hanson-Young on being a politician & mum (0 replies)
  89. ///// (0 replies)
  90. Visiting SIDS expert slams Victorian coroner for telling parents not to sleep with their babies (104 replies)
  91. Million dollar baby (35 replies)
  92. Vac Truth - Experiences? (5 replies)
  93. US woman finds feather in chicken nugget (7 replies)
  94. Amina Filali (2 replies)
  95. Kony2012 film maker arrested (28 replies)
  96. Stupid idiot of a woman. (55 replies)
  97. "Hung like Daddy" tshirts for toddlers (32 replies)
  98. Toddler chooses winning scratchie (1 reply)
  99. This made me cry. (5 replies)
  100. AVN and the movements to stop them (189 replies)
  101. This dumb hurts.... (29 replies)
  102. NSW police find blood in cubby house (1 reply)
  103. WTF..man he is lucky I'm not one of the parents. (28 replies)
  104. Suit that knows how your baby feels (12 replies)
  105. Dads left out of parenting classes (15 replies)
  106. If you thought Yumi Stynes was out of line... (30 replies)
  107. Disgusting anti-gay marriage ad (27 replies)
  108. Circumcision (121 replies)
  109. Kony 2012 (71 replies)
  110. DV increase after disaster (17 replies)
  111. New Burqa, Niqab ID Laws Unveiled in NSW (18 replies)
  112. House plans (0 replies)
  113. The Rudd Challenge (920 replies)
  114. Mother jailed after hitting friend for giving parenting advice (8 replies)
  115. Saying sorry (7 replies)
  116. RIP SC David Rixon (10 replies)
  117. Predictions for new Labor cabinet? (33 replies)
  118. What do you think people need to know about? (14 replies)
  119. Proof that rich peoople are bastards (30 replies)
  120. trolling to the extreme (12 replies)
  121. Gabe Watson Acquitted (46 replies)
  122. Four corners episode - did anyone watch? (3 replies)
  123. two men acquitted of murdering their partners in one day (17 replies)
  124. 4th Inquest (23 replies)
  125. Things you can do with a Subaru Forester (6 replies)
  126. Induced labour lets dying father hold newborn (10 replies)
  127. What is the world coming to? (40 replies)
  128. Kevin Rudd resigns. (32 replies)
  129. Chicken industry practices (35 replies)
  130. School Run Mum blows .304 with baby on board (14 replies)
  131. School boy hit by a car (24 replies)
  132. Dear judge being gay doesn't make you a paedophile (3 replies)
  133. Anyone watch four corners tonight? (9 replies)
  134. Whitney Houston Dies age 48 (26 replies)
  135. Mum kills baby with drug-affected breastmilk (31 replies)
  136. First pictures of Blue Ivy Carter! (51 replies)
  137. Warning disturbing *Animal related* (20 replies)
  138. 24 Afghan children die of exposure in refugee camp (14 replies)
  139. The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement. (0 replies)
  140. Thief with a conscience (9 replies)
  141. Cuts to psychology rebates. (3 replies)
  142. Mother makes ultimate sacrifice for son in floods (12 replies)
  143. Those poor Rinehart children (45 replies)
  144. Forced adoptions at Royal Women's Hospital (51 replies)
  145. Wrongful birth (111 replies)
  146. Poor puppies. (10 replies)
  147. Take back our children, say angry foster parents (32 replies)
  148. Who's next for Labor? (12 replies)
  149. Fight over Djokovic's Shirt (17 replies)
  150. Rabies heading to Australia (11 replies)
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