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| UpdatedThe man who works around the clock to keep The Gabba in tiptop shape hopes the weather will be kind to the wicket this cricket season.
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Two men and two women have been killed on the Thunder River Rapids ride at Dreamworld on the Gold Coast.
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Australia is trying to lure more European backpackers with a $10 million campaign launched in London.
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| UpdatedThings have gone wrong at the Gold Coast's theme parks before — but nothing as tragic as the deaths of four people at Dreamworld.
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| UpdatedInvestigations are underway into how four people were killed on Dreamworld's Thunder River Rapids ride, with ambulance crews saying the ride malfunctioned, throwing two victims clear and trapping two more inside.
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| UpdatedOrphan, tradesman, gypsy and outback opal miner — Rudi Ravetti has done almost everything.
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Mariah Idrissi was walking through a shopping centre near Wembley in London when a woman stopped her, took a photo and asked for her phone number. She did not know it then, but that was to be a turning point in her life.
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| UpdatedSenator Arthur Sinodinos, who backed the spill motion that removed Tony Abbott as prime minister, tells a Q&A audience he does not rule out Mr Abbott returning to the role.
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| UpdatedMount Gambier's Alison Boomsma has become an AFOL — Adult Friend of Lego — creating and photographing elaborate scenes with Lego figurines.
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The Victorian Government will inspect and record the condition — intact or otherwise — of Melbourne's remaining stock of historic W-Class trams.
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| UpdatedA central Queensland tradie catches on film a huntsman spider clutching a small mouse and trying to drag it to the top of a fridge where it can eat in peace.
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In 2007 Steve Angel's home was destroyed by a bushfire. He rebuilt and is determined that he and his family will never be burnt out again.
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What went wrong in Beirut to put Sally Faulkner and the 60 Minutes crew in jail after an attempted child abduction.
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Sally Faulkner reveals what what wrong in the failed child abduction attempt in Lebanon that made international headlines.
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How a phone call triggered the unravelling of a plan to retrieve Sally Faulkner's children from Lebanon.
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| UpdatedAn army of "undead" limp and stagger through what could be the final Brisbane Zombie Walk, as the organisers weigh up future events following an increase in council fees.
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| UpdatedSocial media goes abuzz after a video is posted of a koala with a joey walking along the main street of McLaren Flat, seemingly unfussed by the presence of humans.
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| UpdatedQueensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk will not rule out sackings at Queensland Rail after major disruptions to Brisbane's network saw the cancellation of 100 trains on Friday due to a lack of drivers.
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| UpdatedThey say it is rude to stare, but dozens of people have done away with etiquette for an afternoon dedicated to gazing into strangers' eyes.
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Thailand's Government meets with representatives from Google, amid growing calls from Thai hard line royalists to bring those who insult the monarchy to justice.
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| UpdatedThey say it is rude to stare, but dozens of people do away with etiquette for an afternoon dedicated to gazing into strangers' eyes as part of the Human Connection Movement in Brisbane.
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| UpdatedThe discovery of more night parrots in a remote national park in central-west Queensland increases the known range of the world's most mysterious bird by four times, Australian Wildlife Conservancy says.
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| UpdatedMotorists in the US state of Arizona get a surprise when an emu appears on a busy highway, west of the capital Phoenix.
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