Courtney Wilson began her career as a journalist in central Queensland in 2010. She joined the ABC in 2013, working for two years in the roles of both producer and video journalist at the ABC's Ipswich bureau. Courtney is currently working out of Brisbane, reporting on a broad range of stories for ABC TV, radio and online. Contact Courtney on Twitter at @CWilsonQLD.
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| UpdatedMeet the couple on a cattle station in central western Queensland who are fighting the extremes of drought and heat to keep their award-winning garden alive.
Topics: gardening, lifestyle-and-leisure, drought, blackall-4472, qld, australia
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A growing global appetite for goat meat has driven prices to record highs, prompting efforts to improve productivity on Australian goat farms.
Topics: goat-production, livestock, rural, qld, eulo-4491
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A mysterious and growing scourge of Queensland sugarcane is prompting some long time canegrowers to diversify to stay afloat.
Topics: rural, sugar, agricultural-crops, qld, woodford-4514, maryborough-4650
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| UpdatedRadio remote control technology is allowing the cane train industry to transition to driver-only locomotives, revolutionising one of Australia's oldest industries.
Topics: agricultural-crops, agribusiness, rural, giru-4809
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| UpdatedA mother and her former de-facto partner are jailed for torturing a five-year-old girl, including forcing her to endure boot camp-style exercise to the point of exhaustion.
Topics: courts-and-trials, child-abuse, brisbane-4000, maroochydore-4558
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A central Queensland town is the third worst location in the country when it comes to car crashes involving animals, according to national insurance company AAMI.
Topics: accidents, disasters-and-accidents, qld, bundaberg-4670, greenvale-4816, charters-towers-4820, warwick-4370, dingo-4702
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| UpdatedA new specialist immunisation service is launched in Queensland to target children who are not vaccinated because of complex medical conditions.
Topics: vaccines-and-immunity, health, family-and-children, pregnancy-and-childbirth, public-sector, health-policy, qld, brisbane-4000
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A man charged with manslaughter over the death of 57-year-old Gregory John Hudson on Queensland's Gold Coast in 2014 has his second application for bail refused.
Topics: courts-and-trials, murder-and-manslaughter, brisbane-4000, qld, southport-4215
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| UpdatedAn elderly couple are lucky to be alive after an electric blanket sparked two fires at their home at the bayside suburb of Victoria Point, south of Brisbane overnight, emergency services say.
Topics: fires, disasters-and-accidents, victoria-point-4165, qld, australia
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| UpdatedTyson John Taylor is found guilty of both murder and attempted murder of Brisbane rugby league referee Tony McGrath.
Topics: courts-and-trials, murder-and-manslaughter, brisbane-4000
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Two men from the Gold Coast are among seven people arrested after a series of coordinated drug raids across Queensland and New South Wales.
Topics: drug-offences, southport-4215
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Former premier Campbell Newman and former attorney-general Jarrod Bleijie reach an out-of-court settlement in a defamation case involving Hannay Lawyers.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, government-and-politics, political-parties, liberal-national-party-queensland, alp, brisbane-4000, qld
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A Brisbane rugby league referee who was shot dead in 2013 had planned to leave his entire estate to a prostitute he believed was his fiancee, a Supreme Court jury hears.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, brisbane-4000, qld
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Brisbane rugby league referee Tony McGrath was killed in a "cold-blooded execution", a Supreme Court jury hears.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, courts-and-trials, brisbane-4000
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Medical staff at Nambour Hospital missed opportunities to act earlier and possibly prevent the death of six-year-old Lilli Sweet from meningitis in 2013, a Queensland coroner rules.
Topics: diseases-and-disorders, healthcare-facilities, children, courts-and-trials, brisbane-4000, maroochydore-4558
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| UpdatedA man accused of stabbing another man to death south of Brisbane in 2013 pleads guilty to interfering with a corpse, but contests the charge of murder.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, courts-and-trials, brisbane-4000
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A Gold Coast policeman is cleared over allegations he used excessive force in arrests, with a court finding him not guilty on four counts of common assault.
Topics: courts-and-trials, police, brisbane-4000, southport-4215
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| UpdatedAn inquest finds Queensland police officers were justified in using lethal force against two men, both of whom had mental health issues, shot dead in 2014. Troy Foster (pictured) was holding a meat cleaver when he was shot in front of his mother outside their Gold Coast home.
Topics: police, law-crime-and-justice, southport-4215, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedClive Palmer says "at no time" did he take money out of Queensland Nickel and he is "not at all" worried about the Federal Government seeking to appoint a special purpose liquidator to pursue him and his companies to recover almost $74 million.
Topics: mining-industry, mining-rural, clive-palmer, corporate-governance, government-and-politics, federal-government, townsville-4810, qld
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Maths and science classes are being taught by teachers untrained in those subjects in more than half of schools nationwide, and more than three-quarters of schools in Queensland, according to a survey by the Australian Education Union.
Topics: education-industry, education, mathematics-education, science, teachers, qld
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Despite a planned overhaul of Queensland's youth justice laws, increasing the age of criminal responsibility does not appear to be on the Government's agenda.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, youth, government-and-politics, qld
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| UpdatedQueensland mines can no longer be staffed entirely by FIFO workers, the Government announces, following years of controversy over the impact fly-in, fly-out has on local communities.
Topics: work, unemployment, mining-rural, mining-industry, rural, qld
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| UpdatedTownsville's Mayor calls on the Federal Government to extend a lifeline to the remaining 550 workers at Clive Palmer's Queensland nickel refinery, who will lose their jobs at 5:00pm today.
Topics: company-news, mining-industry, mining-rural, industrial-relations, unions, townsville-4810, yabulu-4818
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| UpdatedChildren who struggle to go to sleep on their own, and stay asleep, are more likely to have problems adjusting to school, new research reveals.
Topics: sleep-disorders, sleep, children, child-health-and-behaviour, queensland-university-of-technology-4000, brisbane-4000
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An ornithologist is out to find definitive proof Australian desert birds of prey intentionally spread fire to smoke out their unsuspecting targets.