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Rethinking Ink: How to Remove a Tattoo

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Hi People, I had not been happy with the tattoo I had got some years back on a trip with friends. It was done by an amateur and appeared nothing like what I wanted. Anyway, it was there and I could not do anything to change it. Then I got to know about cover-up tattoos but for that I needed to fade the original one. I decided I will go for it, but was not sure what treatment to choose. I was advised to go for laser tattoo removal and I took it. It helped me fade a part of the tattoo and got it transformed into a symbolic artwork. Here is an article that will shed some light on the procedure.   https://www.freshskincanvas.com.au/rethinking-ink-how-to-remove-a-tattoo/

Pet parrot saves man from house fire in Australia

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 A man's pet parrot has saved him from a fire that gutted his house. The man's house in Brisbane, Australia, was well alight when firefighters arrived just after 2am but Anton Nguyen had escaped without injury. Read more: https://news.sky.com/story/pet-parrot-saves-man-from-house-fire-in-australia-12123221

Australia’s Aboriginal People Find New Energy in Their Fight for Justice as an Officer Faces Trial for Murder

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 Death has a sound in Yuendumu, a red-dirt town in the middle of Australia’s sparsely populated Northern Territory. The haunting ritual wailing, to mark the death of a loved one, permeates Samara Fernandez-Brown’s memories of the town her family is from. The 22-year-old lives in the southern city of Adelaide, but she traveled 1,100 miles to the town of 800 residents—nearly all of whom are Aboriginal people called the Warlpiri—on Nov. 9, 2019 to attend her grandfather’s funeral. When she heard crying on the evening of the memorial, she assumed it was to mourn him. She soon learned the sobs were for someone else: her 19-year-old cousin Kumanjayi Walker. Read more: https://time.com/5905168/australia-aboriginal-people-justice/

Australian central bank cuts key interest rate to 0.1%

 CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s central bank on Tuesday cut its benchmark interest rate by 0.15 of a percentage point to a record low 0.10% in a bid to lift the economy from a pandemic-induced recession. The move was the first since March when the Reserve Bank of Australia board made two cuts of a quarter of a percentage point each two weeks apart. The Reserve Bank also announced it would buy 100 billion Australian ($70 billion) of government bonds of maturities of around five-to-10 years over the next six months. The bank is prepared to buy bonds in whatever quantity is required to achieve a 3-year yield target of 0.1%, Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe said in a statement. Read more:  https://apnews.com/article/business-virus-outbreak-australia-economy-67cd14b9e3bd39ab74bfff18002b7835 

China-Australia relations: ban on US$400 million Australian wheat imports looms

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 China is expected to ban imports of Australian wheat, putting a A$560 million (US$394 million) trade in doubt, with the grain the latest to join a list of new blocks on Australian products, according to industry sources. From Friday, barley, sugar, red wine, timber, coal, lobster, copper ore and copper concentrates from Australia, are expected to be barred from China even if the goods have been paid for and have arrived at ports. The ban on wheat is likely to follow, although a date has not yet been set, sources said. Read more:  https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3108176/china-australia-relations-ban-us400-million-australian-wheat