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A 21-year-old man who dangled off a high crane at Woolloongabba on Sunday faces a raft of charges including possessing MDA and public nuisance. Nine News

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The man who dangled from a crane at Woolloongabba early on Sunday morning has been charged by police with possessing MDA.

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He attacked a man with a beer bottle in the defining image of the Cronulla riots. Ten years on, he finally tells his story.

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France's far-right gaining in election

CARPENTRAS, FRANCE - DECEMBER 06: Marion Marechal-Le Pen vice President of the French far-right Front National (FN) party and candidate for the regional elections in the Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur (PACA) region speaks to the press as she leaves a polling station on December 6, 2015 in Carpentras, France. Voting is under way in France's regional elections, which are being held under a continued state of emergency following the Paris terror attacks. (Photo by Patrick Aventurier/Getty Images)

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A 21-year-old man who dangled off a high crane at Woolloongabba on Sunday faces a raft of charges including possessing MDA and public nuisance. Nine News

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Arabic News	11am - 11:30am	SBS Queensland
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The Ellen DeGeneres Show	11am - 12pm	Channel Nine Brisbane
Dr. Phil	11am - 12pm	Network TEN Brisbane

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ABC News at Noon	11am - 12pm	ABC QLD
Turkish News	11:30am - 12pm	SBS Queensland
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The Ellen DeGeneres Show	11am - 12pm	Channel Nine Brisbane
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