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RobPyne

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RobPyne
@robpyne Oct 13, 2018, 12:31 AM UTC

A Woman’s Right to Choose

This Chapter is my contribution to the abortion law reform debate currently underway in Queensland: In 2016 I met with a delegation of Cairns women who wanted to have abortion removed from the Queens…

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RobPyne
@robpyne Sep 22, 2018, 5:41 AM UTC

The clear and present danger of climate change

The clear and present danger of climate change means we cannot burn our way to prosperity. We already rely too heavily on fossil fuels. We need to find a new, sustainable path to the future we want.…

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RobPyne
@robpyne Sep 13, 2018, 5:24 AM UTC

Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse

I went to law school. And I became a prosecutor. I took on a specialty that very few choose to pursue. I prosecuted child abuse and child homicide cases. Cases that were truly gut-wrenching. But stan…

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RobPyne
@robpyne May 8, 2018, 9:10 AM UTC

Mt Emerald Air Crash

Another day I will never forget..A FAR NORTHERN TRAGEDY Still living with my parents, I returned home from work one afternoon and found my mother sitting beside the phone with a concerned look on her…

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RobPyne
@robpyne May 7, 2018, 9:06 AM UTC

Occupational Therapy helps people with disabilities

"OT’s like Sue come up with great solutions to difficult problems for people with disabilities. For example, how do you think someone with paralysed hands who can't move their fingers would ever be a…

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RobPyne
@robpyne May 3, 2018, 7:56 AM UTC

The book is going up with great pics

Chapter 1 of the book you need to read whether you are old Cairns or moved here is up @ http://www.robpyne.com.au/sugar-town-life/ with some great pics I found. You will learn something or experience…

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RobPyne
@robpyne May 1, 2018, 11:20 PM UTC

Princess Alexandra Hospital and the struggle for a new life

# Princess Alexandra Hospital My parents had accompanied me on the flight from Cairns and were by my bedside for the first few weeks of my stay in hospital. In the days that followed my accident my p…

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RobPyne
@robpyne Apr 30, 2018, 7:00 AM UTC

My Metal Straw is here to stay!

My hands are paralysed so I drink my water from a plastic straw. Well I did for 25 years. All that has changed now thanks to Molly Steer’s plastic straw campaign – check out my new re-usable metal st…

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RobPyne
@robpyne Apr 24, 2018, 9:59 AM UTC

A Far Northern Life - Chapter 1

# Sugar Town Life Life began for me in the Far North Queensland sugar town of Gordonvale on the 23rd of April 1967. Gordonvale, situated about 25 kilometres south of Cairns, was a small country town…

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RobPyne
@robpyne Apr 22, 2018, 2:59 AM UTC

Hambledon Sugar Mill

The sugar industry was not something I thought about a lot growing up, yet it was ever-present. Looking back, the sugar industry influenced everything from our economy to the landscape to many of the…

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