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[ { "role": "user", "content": "G'day SHADOW, I've lost my Medicare card somewhere between the car and the servo. Do I need to panic?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "No need to panic, mate. You can replace a lost, stolen or damaged Medicare card through your Medicare online account linked t...
kimi/australia/Medicare, bulk billing and myGov
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Hi, I'm in Melbourne on the pension and my old GP stopped bulk billing. How do I actually find a bulk billing doctor these days?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "The official way is the healthdirect find a health service directory, where you can search for GPs...
kimi/australia/Medicare, bulk billing and myGov
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Mate, had a scare on the weekend and an ambulance got called for my missus up here in Townsville. Medicare covers the ambulance, right?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Good news, you're in Queensland. Ambulance services are free for Queensland residents throu...
kimi/australia/Medicare, bulk billing and myGov
[ { "role": "user", "content": "No worries, she's lived here for years. What's the go with QLD public hospitals then, do we pay anything?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "As a Medicare card holder treated as a public patient in a public hospital, you generally won't pay for the hospital trea...
kimi/australia/Medicare, bulk billing and myGov
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Hey SHADOW, how do I link Medicare to my myGov account? Just moved to Adelaide and setting everything up." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Welcome to Adelaide. The short version is: sign in to my.gov.au, go to Link a service, pick Medicare, and prove who you a...
kimi/australia/Medicare, bulk billing and myGov
[ { "role": "user", "content": "G'day, family of five in Perth and our out of pockets on the kids' specialists are stacking up. Someone at soccer mentioned a safety net. What's that about?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "That's the Medicare Safety Nets. Once your family's combined out of po...
kimi/australia/Medicare, bulk billing and myGov
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Hey, doing my tax in Sydney and got slugged with a Medicare levy surcharge. I thought Medicare was free?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Ha, fair reaction. Most taxpayers pay the Medicare levy, which is a percentage of your taxable income on top of income tax...
kimi/australia/Medicare, bulk billing and myGov
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Hello! I'm visiting Tasmania from the UK for six months. A mate says I can get Medicare over here. True?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Quite possibly, yes. The UK has a Reciprocal Health Care Agreement with Australia, so British visitors can get some Medica...
kimi/australia/Medicare, bulk billing and myGov
[ { "role": "user", "content": "SHADOW, quick one. I'm in Adelaide, is ambulance cover through Medicare or do I need something else?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Ambulance is not covered by Medicare in South Australia, so you would normally pay for ambulance treatment and transport out o...
kimi/australia/Medicare, bulk billing and myGov
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Hi, saw a dermatologist in Canberra last week and paid the full fee upfront. Can I claim some back through Medicare, and how?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Yes, if the specialist was a registered provider and the service was on the Medicare Benefits Schedul...
kimi/australia/Medicare, bulk billing and myGov
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Hey mate, I'm a veteran in Darwin with a DVA card. Do I even bother with Medicare, or does the DVA card cover the lot?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Good question. The DVA card covers your health care for accepted conditions, and DVA arrangements often mean...
kimi/australia/Medicare, bulk billing and myGov
[ { "role": "user", "content": "SHADOW, I'm on a Disability Pension in Launceston and my script costs are brutal. Anything that helps?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "There are a couple of things. First, with a Pensioner Concession Card you already pay a lower concessional price for medicin...
kimi/australia/Medicare, bulk billing and myGov
[ { "role": "user", "content": "G'day SHADOW. I'm moving out of my flat in Newtown, Sydney next month. How do I get my bond back?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Good on you for asking before the end. In NSW your bond is lodged with NSW Fair Trading, usually through Rental Bonds Online. Whe...
kimi/australia/renting: bonds, leases, repairs, rent increases, by state
[ { "role": "user", "content": "My hot water system has died and the landlord is fobbing me off. What can I do? I'm in Melbourne." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "No hot water counts as an urgent repair in Victoria, so your rental provider must fix it as soon as possible once they know about...
kimi/australia/renting: bonds, leases, repairs, rent increases, by state
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Just got a letter from my agent in Brisbane saying my rent is going up in eight weeks. Can they do that just two months after the last increase?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Maybe not. Queensland limits how often rent can go up, and the rules there changed...
kimi/australia/renting: bonds, leases, repairs, rent increases, by state
[ { "role": "user", "content": "My rent in Fremantle went up three months ago and the landlord wants to jack it up again. How often can they do that in WA?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "In WA it depends on your agreement type. If you're on a fixed term lease, the rent can only go up durin...
kimi/australia/renting: bonds, leases, repairs, rent increases, by state
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Moving into a place in Adelaide. Agent says bond is six weeks rent. That right?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "It can be, but not always. In South Australia the maximum bond depends on the weekly rent. For cheaper properties the cap is four weeks rent, and f...
kimi/australia/renting: bonds, leases, repairs, rent increases, by state
[ { "role": "user", "content": "The oven in my Hobart rental has been broken for six weeks and the landlord keeps saying next week. Anything I can do?" } ]
kimi/australia/renting: bonds, leases, repairs, rent increases, by state
[ { "role": "user", "content": "I rent in Canberra and the agent just told me rent's going up by 80 bucks a week. They only gave me five weeks notice. Is that enough?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Probably not. In the ACT rent can only be increased once in any 12 month period, and the lan...
kimi/australia/renting: bonds, leases, repairs, rent increases, by state
[ { "role": "user", "content": "My landlord in Darwin wants a bond of six weeks. That seems steep." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "It is steep, and it's over the cap. In the Northern Territory the maximum bond is four weeks rent, full stop. The landlord must also lodge it with the NT's bond...
kimi/australia/renting: bonds, leases, repairs, rent increases, by state
[ { "role": "user", "content": "I'm on JobSeeker and struggling with rent in Geelong. Is there any help available from the government?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "There may be. If you get a qualifying payment like JobSeeker and pay rent, you might be eligible for Commonwealth Rent Assis...
kimi/australia/renting: bonds, leases, repairs, rent increases, by state
[ { "role": "user", "content": "My real estate in Footscray hit me with a rent increase. I reckon it's way above what similar places are going for. Can I fight it?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "You can have a crack at it. In Victoria the rental provider must give at least 60 days written ...
kimi/australia/renting: bonds, leases, repairs, rent increases, by state
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Thinking of renting out our old investment place in Wollongong. Are repairs tax deductible?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Some are, but it matters what kind. General repairs that fix something back to its original condition, like replacing a broken hot wate...
kimi/australia/renting: bonds, leases, repairs, rent increases, by state
[ { "role": "user", "content": "G'day SHADOW. I'm 66 next month and live in Wollongong, NSW. Am I old enough to get the Age Pension?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "G'day! Short answer: you need to be at least 66 years and 6 months to qualify for the Age Pension, so depending on your exact ...
kimi/australia/Centrelink payments and appointments
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Hi SHADOW, I got a letter saying I have to book a JobSeeker appointment. Can I just walk into the Centrelink in Footscray, VIC?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "You can visit a service centre, but it's usually quicker to book an appointment first rather than w...
kimi/australia/Centrelink payments and appointments
[ { "role": "user", "content": "My Youth Allowance claim got knocked back. I'm a full-time uni student in Brisbane. What now?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Sorry to hear that. First thing to check is the letter or your myGov inbox, it should say why it was rejected. Common reasons are not...
kimi/australia/Centrelink payments and appointments
[ { "role": "user", "content": "SHADOW, I'm on DSP in Perth, WA. My missus does a bit of casual work, does that affect my payment?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "It can, yes. The Disability Support Pension has income and assets tests, and your partner's income counts towards yours. A bit o...
kimi/australia/Centrelink payments and appointments
[ { "role": "user", "content": "I'm a single dad in Adelaide with two kids under 8. What payments might I be able to get?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A couple worth looking at. Parenting Payment is the main one if you're the primary carer of young children, single parents can generally ...
kimi/australia/Centrelink payments and appointments
[ { "role": "user", "content": "I've been looking after my mum full time since her stroke. She's got no savings. Is there anything for me?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Sounds like you're doing it tough, and yes, there is help. The Carer Payment is for people providing constant care to so...
kimi/australia/Centrelink payments and appointments
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Centrelink keeps sending me letters in the mail. Can I just get them online instead? I'm in Hobart." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Yep, you can switch to electronic letters. If you have a myGov account linked to Centrelink, your letters are already available...
kimi/australia/Centrelink payments and appointments
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Mate, my rent just went up heaps and I'm on JobSeeker in Darwin. Anything to help with rent?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "If you get JobSeeker and pay private rent, you can likely get Rent Assistance. It's a regular extra payment on top of your JobSeeker, ...
kimi/australia/Centrelink payments and appointments
[ { "role": "user", "content": "My grandad's a veteran on the Gold Card and lives in Canberra. Does his card get him any discounts on power bills?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Quite possibly, yes. The DVA Gold Card comes with certain concessions, and in the ACT there's the Electricity, G...
kimi/australia/Centrelink payments and appointments
[ { "role": "user", "content": "I need to talk to an actual human at Centrelink about my Family Tax Benefit. Their phone lines are always busy. Any other way?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A few options. If it's urgent or complex, calling early in the morning tends to work better. Otherwi...
kimi/australia/Centrelink payments and appointments
[ { "role": "user", "content": "G'day SHADOW, first time doing my tax return here in Newcastle. Do I even need to lodge one? I only worked part time last year." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "G'day! Whether you need to lodge depends on things like how much you earned and any tax withheld. T...
kimi/australia/tax returns, the ATO, myTax and deductions
[ { "role": "user", "content": "I want to lodge through myTax but I've never set up myGov. Is it hard?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Not hard at all. You create a myGov account at my.gov.au, then link the ATO as a service. Once it's linked you can open the ATO service and lodge your retur...
kimi/australia/tax returns, the ATO, myTax and deductions
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Working from home in Melbourne most of this year. Can I claim my internet and electricity as deductions?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Possibly, yes. Work from home expenses like electricity and internet can be claimed if you're working from home to fulfil ...
kimi/australia/tax returns, the ATO, myTax and deductions
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Sold some shares this year in Brisbane and made a bit of a profit. Do I have to tell the ATO about that?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Yes, capital gains from selling shares count as income you need to declare in your return. The gain is generally the diffe...
kimi/australia/tax returns, the ATO, myTax and deductions
[ { "role": "user", "content": "When's the deadline to lodge my return? I'm in Perth." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "For most people lodging their own return through myTax, the deadline is 31 October after the end of the financial year, so the same date applies in WA and every other state....
kimi/australia/tax returns, the ATO, myTax and deductions
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Thinking of using a tax agent in Adelaide this year instead of doing it myself. Any tips?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A good move if your affairs are a bit complicated. The key thing is to make sure the agent is registered with the Tax Practitioners Board...
kimi/australia/tax returns, the ATO, myTax and deductions
[ { "role": "user", "content": "I run a small sole trader business in Hobart. Is my business income part of my personal tax return or separate?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "It's part of your personal return. As a sole trader your business income and deductions go in your individual tax r...
kimi/australia/tax returns, the ATO, myTax and deductions
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Do donations to the bushfire appeal count as tax deductions? I'm in Canberra." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "They can, but only if the organisation you donated to is a deductible gift recipient, which you'll usually see noted as DGR on their website or recei...
kimi/australia/tax returns, the ATO, myTax and deductions
[ { "role": "user", "content": "My employer wants me to get an ABN so they can pay me as a contractor. I'm in Darwin. Is that dodgy?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "It can be. Being asked to get an ABN doesn't automatically make you a contractor, what matters is the actual working arrangeme...
kimi/australia/tax returns, the ATO, myTax and deductions
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Help, I lodged my return and now I've realised I left out some income. What do I do?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Don't panic, you can amend your return. If you lodged through myTax you can log in via myGov and request an amendment to fix it, and it's best...
kimi/australia/tax returns, the ATO, myTax and deductions
[ { "role": "user", "content": "I'm the bookkeeper for a small business in Parramatta. Do I need to worry about state payroll tax as well as the ATO stuff?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Depends on your total Australian wages. Payroll tax is a state tax, not federal, and in NSW it's admini...
kimi/australia/tax returns, the ATO, myTax and deductions
[ { "role": "user", "content": "G'day SHADOW! Just passed my driver knowledge test in Sydney and got my learner licence. Do I still have to carry the plastic card everywhere, or is there a digital version?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "G'day! Congrats on the Ls. NSW has a digital driver l...
kimi/australia/driver licences, rego and road rules by state
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Hey SHADOW, my car's rego runs out next month and I'm flat out with work. Can I renew it online in NSW?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Yeah, in most cases you can renew NSW rego online through Service NSW, as long as your details are up to date and you don't...
kimi/australia/driver licences, rego and road rules by state
[ { "role": "user", "content": "My daughter's about to get her Ls in Melbourne. What's the go with learner hours in Victoria?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "In Victoria, learner drivers under 21 need to log at least 120 hours of supervised driving, including 20 hours at night, before they ...
kimi/australia/driver licences, rego and road rules by state
[ { "role": "user", "content": "How much does it cost to renew rego in Victoria at the moment?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Honestly, rego fees change pretty regularly and my notes could be out of date, so I don't want to quote you a figure that might be wrong. Give me permission to do a...
kimi/australia/driver licences, rego and road rules by state
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Lost my wallet at the beach on the Gold Coast and my licence was in it. How do I get a replacement in QLD?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "No stress, you can replace a lost or stolen Queensland licence through the transport and motoring portal, online or at a...
kimi/australia/driver licences, rego and road rules by state
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Is it true you can't touch your phone at all while driving in Queensland? Even at the lights?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Broadly, yes. In Queensland the rule is very strict: you must not use a handheld phone while driving, and that includes when you're s...
kimi/australia/driver licences, rego and road rules by state
[ { "role": "user", "content": "G'day, my WA driver's licence is up for renewal. Can I do it online or do I have to front up to a centre in Perth?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "In WA you renew through the Department of Transport, and plenty of people can do it online, though some will nee...
kimi/australia/driver licences, rego and road rules by state
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Just moved to Adelaide and the rego system here is doing my head in. Is CTP separate in SA or bundled in?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Welcome to SA! In South Australia, compulsory third party insurance is bundled in with your registration, so when you pay...
kimi/australia/driver licences, rego and road rules by state
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Do Tasmanians renew rego yearly? Just bought a secondhand ute in Hobart and keen to get it sorted." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Yep, vehicle registration in Tassie is renewed periodically, and when you buy a secondhand vehicle you'll also want to transfer ...
kimi/australia/driver licences, rego and road rules by state
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Hey SHADOW, how do I go about getting my ACT learner licence? I'm in Canberra." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Honest answer, mate: I've got verified info for NSW, Victoria, Queensland, WA, SA, Tassie and the NT, but I don't have an ACT page in my notes, and ...
kimi/australia/driver licences, rego and road rules by state
[ { "role": "user", "content": "G'day, I just started my first job at a cafΓ© in Melbourne and something called super is coming out of my pay. What even is it?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Congrats on the first job! Super, short for superannuation, is money your employer pays into a retir...
kimi/australia/superannuation basics
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Hey SHADOW, I'm in Sydney and reckon I've got an old super account from a job years ago that I lost track of. Any idea how to find it?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Too easy. The ATO keeps a record of your super, including any lost or unclaimed accounts. Yo...
kimi/australia/superannuation basics
[ { "role": "user", "content": "I'm moving from a job in Brisbane to a new one in Perth. Do I have to set up a new super fund or does my old one come with me?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Your old one can follow you. Since 2021, employers have to check with the ATO for your stapled fund,...
kimi/australia/superannuation basics
[ { "role": "user", "content": "How much is my employer in Adelaide supposed to be paying into my super? I reckon it should be more than what I'm seeing on my payslip." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "The super guarantee rate is a federal thing, same in SA as everywhere. It's a percentage of...
kimi/australia/superannuation basics
[ { "role": "user", "content": "I'm 24, working in Hobart, and trying to save a deposit for a unit. Is there a way to use super to help buy a first home?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Yes, there's the First Home Super Saver Scheme. You can make voluntary contributions into your super, up ...
kimi/australia/superannuation basics
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Thinking about setting up a self managed super fund with my sister down in Geelong. Good idea or a headache?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Honest answer: it can be both. An SMSF gives you control over where the money is invested, but you and your sister bec...
kimi/australia/superannuation basics
[ { "role": "user", "content": "I'm on a working holiday visa in Darwin and heading home to Germany next month. Can I get my super back when I leave?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Yes, if you were in Australia on a temporary visa, you can claim it back as a Departing Australia Superannuat...
kimi/australia/superannuation basics
[ { "role": "user", "content": "My super fund has been hopeless, they've bungled my rollover twice and won't respond. Who do I complain to from Canberra?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Start by giving the fund's complaints team a fair go in writing, since they're required to have an intern...
kimi/australia/superannuation basics
[ { "role": "user", "content": "I'm a chippy in Cairns working for a few different builders through the year. Someone mentioned long service leave in construction works differently up here. What do they mean?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "In Queensland, building and construction workers a...
kimi/australia/superannuation basics
[ { "role": "user", "content": "I've just started as a nurse with NSW Health. My mate said public servants in NSW have their own super setup. Is that right?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Spot on. NSW government employees are generally covered by State Super rather than a typical retail or...
kimi/australia/superannuation basics
[ { "role": "user", "content": "My grandad in Perth is about to retire and keeps asking if his super affects the pension. Does it?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "It can, yeah. Once you hit Age Pension age, your super balance counts towards Centrelink's means tests, both the assets test and...
kimi/australia/superannuation basics
[ { "role": "user", "content": "G'day, my daughter's in Year 10 down here in Wagga and we're starting to think about the HSC. When do we actually pick subjects?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "G'day! In NSW, students typically choose their HSC subjects during Year 10, and schools start thos...
kimi/australia/school terms, enrolments and HSC, VCE, QCE, WACE
[ { "role": "user", "content": "When do Victorian kids start Prep? My nephew turns five in April." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "In Victoria, children generally start Foundation (Prep) in the year they turn five, as long as they turn five by 30 April that year. Your nephew turning five in ...
kimi/australia/school terms, enrolments and HSC, VCE, QCE, WACE
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Are the Queensland school holidays the same as NSW ones? We're moving from Brissy to Lismore." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Not always, no. Queensland state schools run on their own term dates, and NSW sets its own too. They're often fairly close, but the s...
kimi/australia/school terms, enrolments and HSC, VCE, QCE, WACE
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Yeah go on, do the search." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "" }, { "tool_calls": [ { "name": "web_search", "arguments": { "query": "Queensland state school term dates current year" } } ] }, { "r...
kimi/australia/school terms, enrolments and HSC, VCE, QCE, WACE
[ { "role": "user", "content": "My son's in Year 11 in Perth doing ATAR subjects. What does he actually need to get the WACE?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "That's handled by the School Curriculum and Standards Authority, or SCSA. For the WACE, students need to meet a set of requirements a...
kimi/australia/school terms, enrolments and HSC, VCE, QCE, WACE
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Hey SHADOW, when does term one start in South Australia this year? Just rough is fine." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "I don't want to guess on exact dates, because SA term dates are set each year and I might be out of date. SA state schools usually start lat...
kimi/australia/school terms, enrolments and HSC, VCE, QCE, WACE
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Yeah sure, search away." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "" }, { "tool_calls": [ { "name": "web_search", "arguments": { "query": "South Australian state school term dates this year term 1 start" } } ] ...
kimi/australia/school terms, enrolments and HSC, VCE, QCE, WACE
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Do you know what the QCE is? My daughter's school in Toowoomba keeps mentioning it." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Yep. The QCE is the Queensland Certificate of Education, the senior certificate most students in QLD work towards in Years 11 and 12. It's over...
kimi/australia/school terms, enrolments and HSC, VCE, QCE, WACE
[ { "role": "user", "content": "We're in Hobart and my kid's in Year 12. What's the TCE and is it the same as the HSC?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "The TCE is the Tasmanian Certificate of Education, and it's Tasmania's version of a senior secondary certificate, like the HSC is NSW's. The...
kimi/australia/school terms, enrolments and HSC, VCE, QCE, WACE
[ { "role": "user", "content": "How do I enrol my boy in a Canberra public school? We just moved to Gungahlin." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Welcome to Canberra! For ACT public schools you enrol online through the Education Directorate. Each school has a Priority Enrolment Area, so living...
kimi/australia/school terms, enrolments and HSC, VCE, QCE, WACE
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Is NAPLAN still a thing? My granddaughter's in Year 5 in Darwin." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Yes, NAPLAN is still running. It's the national literacy and numeracy assessment for students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9, so your granddaughter sits it this year. It'...
kimi/australia/school terms, enrolments and HSC, VCE, QCE, WACE
[ { "role": "user", "content": "My daughter wants to do a TAFE course while she's in Year 11 in Geelong. Is that possible with VCE?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "It sure is. VCE students can do VET subjects as part of their program, and some students do a VCE Vocational Major pathway whic...
kimi/australia/school terms, enrolments and HSC, VCE, QCE, WACE
[ { "role": "user", "content": "When do kids in Adelaide usually start school? My little one turns five in November." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "In SA, children usually start school in term one of the year they turn five, if they turn five before 1 May that year. Since your child turns ...
kimi/australia/school terms, enrolments and HSC, VCE, QCE, WACE
[ { "role": "user", "content": "How many terms are in a school year in Australia?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Four terms is the standard across all states and territories. The term dates themselves differ by state though, so holidays don't always line up between, say, Queensland and Vic...
kimi/australia/school terms, enrolments and HSC, VCE, QCE, WACE
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Do private schools have to follow the state term dates?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Not strictly. Government schools follow the state term dates, but independent and Catholic schools set their own calendars within state registration requirements, so they ...
kimi/australia/school terms, enrolments and HSC, VCE, QCE, WACE
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Can you look up how good a school is? We're comparing two primaries in Newcastle." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "I can point you in the right direction. My School is the official government website with profiles of nearly every Australian school, including e...
kimi/australia/school terms, enrolments and HSC, VCE, QCE, WACE
[ { "role": "user", "content": "My son's doing the SACE in Adelaide. What does he need to actually finish it?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "The SACE is broken into Stage 1, usually Year 11, and Stage 2, usually Year 12. To complete it, students need at least 200 credits, with most coming ...
kimi/australia/school terms, enrolments and HSC, VCE, QCE, WACE
[ { "role": "user", "content": "We're moving to Brisbane from Melbourne. My daughter's doing VCE now, does that transfer to QCE somehow?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "There's no automatic transfer, but it's very manageable. The QCAA can grant credit for studies she's already completed, so...
kimi/australia/school terms, enrolments and HSC, VCE, QCE, WACE
[ { "role": "user", "content": "What age do kids have to be in school in WA? My nephew's parents are thinking of holding him back." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "In WA, schooling is compulsory from the year a child turns 6 until the end of the year they turn 17, or when they finish Year 12...
kimi/australia/school terms, enrolments and HSC, VCE, QCE, WACE
[ { "role": "user", "content": "My girl's in Year 12 in Sydney. How does she apply for uni through UAC?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "UAC is the Universities Admissions Centre, and most NSW Year 12s apply through them. She creates an account, lists her course preferences, and UAC uses her...
kimi/australia/school terms, enrolments and HSC, VCE, QCE, WACE
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Is there a central application system for uni in Victoria too?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Yes, that's VTAC, the Victorian Tertiary Admissions Centre. VCE students apply through VTAC for most Victorian uni courses, and VTAC calculates the ATAR for VCE stu...
kimi/australia/school terms, enrolments and HSC, VCE, QCE, WACE
[ { "role": "user", "content": "What's the AST? My nephew in Canberra keeps going on about it." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "The AST is the ACT Scaling Test, and it's part of how the ACT works out tertiary entrance ranks. In the ACT, students get the ACT Senior Secondary Certificate and a...
kimi/australia/school terms, enrolments and HSC, VCE, QCE, WACE
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Can you tell me the exact last day of term four in Queensland this year? Need to book flights." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "I'd rather not quote an exact date from memory, since QLD term dates are set year by year and I could be out of date, and flights ar...
kimi/australia/school terms, enrolments and HSC, VCE, QCE, WACE
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Yep, go ahead." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "" }, { "tool_calls": [ { "name": "web_search", "arguments": { "query": "Queensland state school term 4 finish date this year" } } ] }, { "role": "...
kimi/australia/school terms, enrolments and HSC, VCE, QCE, WACE
[ { "role": "user", "content": "How do I find which school my kid's zoned for in Perth?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "WA schools have local intake areas, and your address decides your local school. The WA Education Department has an online tool called School Finder where you punch in your...
kimi/australia/school terms, enrolments and HSC, VCE, QCE, WACE
[ { "role": "user", "content": "What's the difference between the QCE and an ATAR?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "The QCE is the certificate, the qualification you earn for finishing senior school in Queensland. The ATAR is a rank, a number used for uni entry. You can get a QCE without an ...
kimi/australia/school terms, enrolments and HSC, VCE, QCE, WACE
[ { "role": "user", "content": "My niece is in Year 11 in Darwin doing the NTCET. Who runs that?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "The NTCET is the Northern Territory Certificate of Education and Training, and interestingly it's run by the SACE Board of South Australia. The NT uses the same c...
kimi/australia/school terms, enrolments and HSC, VCE, QCE, WACE
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Is the Australian Curriculum the same in every state? The kids' reports look different." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Mostly, yes. ACARA developed the Australian Curriculum and states and territories base their teaching on it, but each state adapts and deli...
kimi/australia/school terms, enrolments and HSC, VCE, QCE, WACE
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Do schools in Tassie charge fees? Ours just sent a bill and I thought public school was free." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Tasmanian government schools don't charge tuition fees, but there are usually voluntary contributions and charges for specific things...
kimi/australia/school terms, enrolments and HSC, VCE, QCE, WACE
[ { "role": "user", "content": "My daughter missed a lot of Year 10 in Melbourne due to illness. Can she still do the VCE okay?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "She absolutely can, and there are a few pathways depending on how she's tracking. She could take an extra year, do the VCE Vocation...
kimi/australia/school terms, enrolments and HSC, VCE, QCE, WACE
[ { "role": "user", "content": "If a school offers a dodgy VET course, who's in charge of that?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "That'd be ASQA, the Australian Skills Quality Authority. They're the national regulator for vocational education and training, and that includes school based VET c...
kimi/australia/school terms, enrolments and HSC, VCE, QCE, WACE
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Are the HSC, SACE, TCE all worth the same? Like if an employer sees one versus another." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Yes, they're all senior secondary certificates at the same level on the Australian Qualifications Framework, so an employer treats them as ...
kimi/australia/school terms, enrolments and HSC, VCE, QCE, WACE
[ { "role": "user", "content": "G'day, my partner and I are looking at our first place in Newcastle, NSW. Something around 750 grand. Do we still pay stamp duty?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "G'day! Good news for you two. Under the NSW First Home Buyers Assistance Scheme, if you're both e...
kimi/australia/buying a first home, stamp duty and first home grants by state
[ { "role": "user", "content": "We're in Parramatta looking at a brand new apartment, first home. Is there a grant on top of the duty stuff in NSW?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "There sure is. NSW has a First Home Owner Grant for eligible first home buyers purchasing or building a new hom...
kimi/australia/buying a first home, stamp duty and first home grants by state
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Mate, first home in Sydney, budget's about 950k. I know I miss the full exemption but is there still some help?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Yeah, you're not out of luck. In NSW the full stamp duty exemption cuts out at $800,000, but concessional transfer ...
kimi/australia/buying a first home, stamp duty and first home grants by state
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SHADOW Assistant Data

All the training data for SHADOW Assistant: a small AI that reads, writes, does maths and code, looks at pictures, documents and video, listens to speech and sound, and remembers past conversations from disk, running offline on a normal laptop CPU. Trained from scratch, with a strong focus on Australia.

Roadmap: every step from data to release, and where we are now.

Why this dataset exists

Ready to train, so you do not pay for it again. Tokenizing and encoding all of this cost us about $400 of GPU time, plus weeks of work finding sources, checking licences, filtering and decontaminating. Everything here is already tokenized (Gemma tokenizer) and encoded: load one source or all of them and start training.

More than SHADOW needs. SHADOW reads only the 512-bit codes, but where the licence allows we also publish the encoders' vectors (int8, with a scale per token), so the same data works for other projects: your own model, image or audio retrieval, embedding research, or studying how each kind of data shapes a model. Results on how each part of the data shapes SHADOW will be published with the trained model.

Text pretraining 287B tokens (web, Australian, legal, code, maths, books, arithmetic, ARC puzzles)
Pictures and video about 9.5B picture tokens, with about 9.9B tokens of captions and questions
Audio about 37,700 hours (about 3.4B sound tokens), with transcripts and captions
Maths for the end of training about 10.7B tokens
ARC puzzles 445k puzzles, 1.26B tokens, checked against the ARC-AGI-1 and ARC-AGI-2 evaluation tasks
Tuning (SFT) about 7.4M text conversations, 1.74M vision, 1.34M audio, 29k Australian conversations

Browse the conversations in the dataset viewer above (Kimi, audio, vision and SmolTalk tuning sets). The token shards are binary and are read with the code in Loading.

Training plan at a glance

SHADOW's main run reads 325.0B tokens in six stages. The window grows stage by stage, and the learning rate follows a warm-up, a long flat stretch, then a decay (WSD).

stage window tokens learning rate
1 2k 183.5B warm-up over the first 2% (6.5B tokens), then flat at the peak
2 4k 29.5B flat at the peak
3 8k 41.9B flat at the peak
4 12k 41.9B flat at the peak (a full checkpoint is kept here, before the anneal)
5 12k, anneal 23.5B falls from the peak to 10%
6 32k 4.7B holds at 10% for 80% of the stage, then falls to 0

Peaks: 0.02 for the ternary body (Muon), 0.002 for everything else (AdamW), 0.01 for the Engram rows. Weight decay 0.1 in the flat stretch, none in the decay.

Why this shape:

  • Short windows first. Most documents are short, and short windows train fastest, so most knowledge is learned at 2k. Longer windows (with a larger RoPE base, so far positions stay distinct) come once the model already knows the language.
  • A long flat stretch. At a flat learning rate any checkpoint can be continued or branched, so others can pick up training from any stage; the full checkpoint before the anneal is kept for exactly that.
  • An anneal with the best data at the end. Lowering the learning rate while reading the cleanest maths, code and reference text locks in what was learned; this is where small models gain most on benchmarks.
  • The 32k stage at a small but real learning rate. Run at almost zero, the longest window would barely be learned; holding 10% (as DeepSeek-V3 and Qwen2.5 do when they extend the window) lets the model learn its full window and the index, and the last 20% brings it to 0 for clean final weights.

How SHADOW uses this data

 text, pictures, video, sound ──> 512-bit codes from one frozen table ──> 135M ternary body ──> next token
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   memory:  gist (RNN state, 26 KB)   window (last 32k tokens)   archive on disk + index   Engram (4B rows on disk)

SHADOW keeps four kinds of memory, and each is taught by part of this data:

memory what it is taught by
Gist 21 RNN layers carry a fixed 26 KB summary of everything read, whatever the length; it can be saved to resume a conversation instantly long documents: books, legal judgments, Hansard, long web pages (30B tokens in documents of 8k+)
Window 3 attention layers see the last 32k tokens exactly window stages from 2k to 32k on long documents
Archive and index everything older stays on disk; a word-match search plus a trained index fetch the best 2,048 tokens back into the attention layers, best block last archive practice on long documents: facts placed early, questions asked later (in a test, fetching lifted recall from 9% to 63%)
Engram 4B hashed 2- and 3-token memories read from disk: facts and phrases all the text (never picture or sound codes)

Pictures, video and sound share the same 512-bit space as words, so their captions and transcripts (about 10B tokens) teach the body what things look and sound like. More in the guide.

Use it for

  • Training a small model: the text shards, with their per-shard token counts for a unigram prior.
  • Tuning only: the conversation sets in sft/, including 29k Australian conversations.
  • Retrieval and embedding research: picture, video and sound codes and the int8 encoder vectors, with their text.
  • Clean evaluation: the held-out manifests and the lists in decontamination/.
  • The sets we may not post: scripts in rebuild/ that rebuild them from the original source.

Find your way: the map below says where everything is; the guide explains every design decision and why; AI agents should read AGENTS.md.

Map

I want... go to
text for pretraining knowledge/, code/, math/, creative/, arithmetic/, reasoning/arc/
Australian text only knowledge/fineweb_edu_au/, knowledge/dclm_au/, knowledge/legal/, knowledge/hansard/, knowledge/spaceai/, knowledge/joeyllm/
maths for the end of training (anneal) math/anneal/<source>/
pictures and video vision/images/<source>/, vision/video/<source>/
speech, sounds, music audio/speech/<source>/, audio/sounds/<source>/, audio/music/<source>/
tuning conversations sft/<set>/, sft/vision/, sft/audio/, sft/kimi/
the sets we may not post rebuild/ (scripts that rebuild them from the original source)
how to read the files Formats and Loading below
how SHADOW mixes it, stage by stage Training mix below
what was kept out of training, and why Clean evaluation below
why it is built this way GUIDE.md
what is done and what is next ROADMAP.md

What is in it

part tokens sources
Knowledge, global 107.6B FineWeb-Edu 72.6B, DCLM-Baseline 35.0B
Knowledge, Australian 34.3B .au pages of FineWeb-Edu 24.3B and DCLM 6.0B, Open Australian Legal Corpus 2.06B, JoeyLLM Australian 0.99B, Australian Wikipedia 0.37B, SpaceAI Australian Corpus 0.37B, House of Representatives Hansard 1998 to 2025 0.23B, Australian Dictionary of Biography 0.02B
Code 59.6B OpenCoder FineWeb code 52.0B, OpenCoder annealing 7.5B
Maths 53.9B Nemotron-CC-Math 4plus
Creative writing 3.6B Cosmopedia stories, Project Gutenberg books, poetry
Arithmetic 2.0B generated by us, every answer checked
Reasoning puzzles (ARC) 1.26B BARC / ARC-Heavy 364k puzzles (MIT, generated with GPT-4 models), RE-ARC 80k (MIT), ARC-AGI-1 and ARC-AGI-2 training tasks 1,015 (Apache 2.0): the rule in plain English, the example grids and the code that makes them
Maths for the anneal about 10.7B MegaMath Q&A, MathCoder2, TuluMath, DolminoSynthMath, GSM8K train
Pictures about 7.0B picture tokens FineVision, SynthChartNet, M4-Instruct, Atlas of Living Australia (256,874 photos), CORD-v2
Video about 2.5B picture tokens VISTA-400K, LLaVA-Video-178K, Vript, Video-STaR, FineVideo, ShareGPT4Video, ActivityNet Captions, YouCook2, Australian Roads Dashcam
Audio about 37,700 hours Loquacious Set, LibriSpeech, Australian English speech, AudioSet with AudioSetCaps, Clotho, WavCaps (FreeSound, BBC Sound Effects, SoundBible), MusicCaps

Tuning data (sft/): OpenCoder SFT, NuminaMath-CoT, Orca-Math, GSM8K train, ToolMind, Toucan, Glaive function calling, When2Call, SmolTalk (without conversations that name other models), Australian alignment and legal QA, JSON extraction, 29k conversations we generated for SHADOW (everyday Australian life, dates and the limits of what it knows, who SHADOW is, working with files, creative writing), and vision and audio conversations built from held-out shards.

Documents of 32k tokens or more hold about 6.6B tokens (books, legal judgments, Hansard, long web pages), enough to train a 32k context window natively.

What the Engram reads

The Engram is SHADOW's 4B-row memory of short phrases. For every text token it looks up the 2-token and 3-token sequence ending there (8 hashed tables) and adds what it finds to the body.

  • Hashed: all text, whatever the source: web and Australian text, legal, Hansard, books, code, maths, arithmetic, ARC puzzles, and the captions, questions, answers and transcripts that come with pictures, video and audio.
  • Not hashed: picture, video and audio codes (they are not words, and their 512-bit codes already carry them). The phrase restarts after every picture or sound and at the start of every document, so nothing is hashed across them.
  • Keys: tokens are normalised first (NFKC, lower case, the leading-space marker removed, all whitespace one key), so "The", "the" and " the" share one memory: the 262,144 tokens become 192,486 keys. Special tokens keep their own keys.
  • Trained in every stage with its own learning rate (0.01, no weight decay), kept as int4 the way it ships, and frozen during tuning.

Training mix

How SHADOW's main run uses this data: 325.0B tokens in six stages, each step about 0.5M tokens. The window grows from 2k to 32k; RoPE base grows with it.

stage window tokens what is in it
1 2k 183.5B first pass of the web, code, maths and Australian text; half of the pictures, video and audio
2 4k 29.5B the same sources, continued
3 8k 41.9B the same, plus a second pass of long documents (books, legal, Hansard, SpaceAI) and ARC puzzles
4 12k 41.9B as stage 3
5 12k, anneal 23.5B maths and code for the end of training, Australian Wikipedia and biographies, arithmetic, ARC, a second pass of pictures, video and audio; learning rate falls to 10%
6 32k 4.7B long documents (about 40%) and anneal maths and code; learning rate holds at 10%, then falls to 0
source tokens used passes stages
FineWeb-Edu 72.6B 1 1 to 4
Nemotron-CC-Math 4plus 53.9B 1 1 to 4
OpenCoder FineWeb code 52.0B 1 1 to 4
DCLM-Baseline 35.0B 1 1 to 4
FineWeb-Edu, Australian pages 24.3B 1 1 to 4
DCLM, Australian pages 6.0B 1 1 to 4
Maths for the anneal 10.7B 1 5, 6
OpenCoder annealing 7.5B 1 5, 6
Open Australian Legal Corpus 5.3B 2 1 to 4, 6
Cosmopedia stories 5.3B 2 1 to 4
Arithmetic 3.0B 1.5 1 to 5
Project Gutenberg and poetry 2.5B 2 1 to 4, 6
ARC puzzles 1.3B 1 3 (40%), 4 (40%), 5 (20%)
Australian Wikipedia 0.74B 2 1 to 5
JoeyLLM Australian 1.0B 1 1 to 4
SpaceAI Australian Corpus 1.0B 2 1 to 4, 6
Hansard 0.58B 2 1 to 4, 6
Australian Dictionary of Biography 0.06B 3 1, 5
Pictures (FineVision, SynthChartNet, M4-Instruct, CORD-v2) 28.6B 2 1 to 5
Atlas of Living Australia photos 0.16B 3 1 to 5
Video 6.3B 2 1 to 5
Speech 4.9B 2 1 to 5
Australian speech 0.08B 3 1 to 5
Sounds 2.4B 2 1 to 5
Music 0.01B 3 1 to 5

Picture, video and audio rows count their codes and their text. 10% of every picture, video and audio source is held out for tuning and never read here. The unigram prior SHADOW starts from is the sum of every text shard's .counts.npz (286.96B tokens).

Formats

Text shards (<source>_w<worker>_<number>.bin): raw tokens, 3 bytes each, little-endian; every document is <bos> text <eos>. Next to each: a .json (token and document counts, source files) and a .counts.npz (how often each token appears). Tokenizer: Gemma's 262,144 tokens (the EmbeddingGemma 2 tokenizer).

Picture and video shards (.npz): codes (one 512-bit code per picture token, 64 bytes), vec and vec_scale (the vision tower's int8 vector per token, where the licence allows), img (per picture: first token, token count, budget, width, height). A .jsonl gives each sample's text (captions, questions, answers), its pictures, and frame times for video. Photos use up to 280 tokens, documents up to 1,120, video one frame a second with up to 64 frames.

Audio shards (.npz): codes (25 tokens a second, 64 bytes each) and clips (per clip: first token, token count, length in hundredths of a second). A .jsonl gives each clip's id, source, kind (speech, sound, music) and text (transcript, caption, or questions and answers). Large sources are split into part_NN/ folders.

Tuning (sft/<set>/part_NNN.jsonl.zst): one conversation per line, {"messages": [...], "tools": [...], "source": ...}. Vision and audio conversations point at their shard and picture or clip instead of copying codes.

All codes use one rule for words, pictures and sound: the sign of a fixed projection of EmbeddingGemma 2's vector (see GUIDE.md).

Loading

import json, numpy as np
from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download
R = "QLNI/shadow-assistant-data"

# a text shard -> token ids, split into documents
p = hf_hub_download(R, "knowledge/legal/legal_w00_00000.bin", repo_type="dataset")
b = np.fromfile(p, np.uint8).reshape(-1, 3).astype(np.int64)
ids = b[:, 0] | (b[:, 1] << 8) | (b[:, 2] << 16)
starts = np.flatnonzero(ids == 2)                                   # <bos>

# an audio shard -> the codes of each clip, with its text
z = np.load(hf_hub_download(R, "audio/sounds/clotho/<shard>.npz", repo_type="dataset"))
lines = open(hf_hub_download(R, "audio/sounds/clotho/<shard>.jsonl", repo_type="dataset")).read().splitlines()
first, count, centis = z["clips"][0]
codes = np.unpackbits(z["codes"][first:first + count], axis=1)      # [count, 512] bits
text = json.loads(lines[0])["texts"]

Clean evaluation

  • Held-out tuning shards: 10% of every picture, video and audio source is kept for tuning only. The lists are in sft/vision/vision_sft_manifest.json and sft/audio/audio_sft_manifest.json; pretraining should not read them.
  • Benchmark test data kept out at build time: LibriSpeech test, Clotho evaluation, AudioCaps test and validation, MusicCaps evaluation, and WavCaps' AudioCaps/Clotho blacklist.
  • Skip lists for overlaps found after building: HellaSwag's validation and test items come from 3,299 ActivityNet videos that are in our video set; ESC-50, UrbanSound8K and VGGSound share 2,219 FreeSound clips and 15,510 AudioSet clips with our audio. Both lists are in decontamination/.
  • Text benchmarks: every text shard is scanned during training for 13-token sequences from nine text benchmarks (HumanEval, MBPP, GSM8K, MMLU, ARC, HellaSwag, PIQA, WinoGrande, OpenBookQA; 3.1M sequences); any document that shares one is skipped.
  • ARC-AGI: the ARC puzzles were checked against all 514 ARC-AGI-1 and ARC-AGI-2 evaluation tasks: 376 training tasks that are evaluation tasks and 13,476 puzzles sharing a grid (any rotation or flip) with an evaluation task were removed.
  • Disclosed, not removed: FineVision's authors report that 1.02% of its images match test images of 66 vision benchmarks; we use FineVision as released.

Published here or rebuilt

Published here, as tokens and codes (never raw pictures or audio): everything above except the sets below.

Rebuilt from the original source with the scripts in rebuild/, because their terms do not allow reposting: Nemotron-CC-Math, Australian Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), Australian Dictionary of Biography (CC BY-NC-ND), and the video sets for research use only or without a stated licence (LLaVA-Video-178K, Vript, Video-STaR, ActivityNet Captions, YouCook2). MusicCaps codes are kept private; its rebuild script will follow.

Left out on purpose

  • News sites and other sites whose terms forbid bulk downloading.
  • Sets that only ship file ids, and tuning sets written by models whose licences follow the trained model.
  • MovieChat-1K (no licence) and MAmmoTH-VL (mostly repeats FineVision).
  • Trove digitised newspapers: the National Library of Australia declined our request for an exemption to its API terms.
  • Senate Hansard, House of Representatives Hansard before 1998, AustLII, and several picture collections: not used.

Known issue: some code examples in sft/opencoder_sft_stage1 and stage2 contain API keys left in the original GitHub code by its authors (found by Hugging Face's scanner). They are not ours; we have not removed them yet.

Licence

QLNI Non-Commercial Research Licence (see LICENSE.md): free for non-commercial research and education, with attribution. Each part also keeps the terms of its source.

Thanks

Compute from CloudRift through their AI Builder Grant, for the picture, video and audio encodes and the test runs. The House of Representatives Hansard comes from Lindsay Katz and Rohan Alexander's database of the Australian Parliamentary Debates (Zenodo 17351233, CC BY 4.0). Every source above belongs to its creators; see each source's own page.

Citation

The frozen vocabulary this data is built for: Embeddings Are Overpriced?.

@misc{qlni2026shadowdata,
  title     = {SHADOW Assistant Data},
  author    = {Bathula, Sai Kiran},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {QLNI},
  url       = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/QLNI/shadow-assistant-data}
}

When you use this data, please mention QLNI and CloudRift, for example: "Training data from SHADOW Assistant by QLNI (https://huggingface.co/datasets/QLNI/shadow-assistant-data), encoded with compute from CloudRift (https://cloudrift.ai)."

Contact

Sai Kiran Bathula, QLNI, New South Wales, Australia. saikiranbathula@qlni.io

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