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| UpdatedQueensland's planned new coal mine could impact the climate, the Great Barrier Reef, water, and local species. Yet still it has been declared as "critical infrastructure" by the State Government.
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Cane growers in Queensland's Burdekin say the Singapore-based conglomerate that owns every mill in the region is attempting to squeeze their livelihood from them.
Topics: sugar, agricultural-crops, rural, agribusiness, ayr-4807, giru-4809, bowen-4805, townsville-4810, home-hill-4806, qld
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Bastien Finet, Hatchery Manager, Pacific Reef Fisheries a the new Prawn Nursery in Bowen
Topics: fishing-aquaculture, fish, food-processing, miscellaneous-animal-production, guthalungra-4805, bowen-4805
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The first prawn nursery in Australia has opened near Bowen in north Queensland just in time to boost prawn stocks ahead of the Christmas rush.
Topics: fishing-aquaculture, fish, food-processing, miscellaneous-animal-production, guthalungra-4805, bowen-4805
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The first prawn nursery in Australia opens near Bowen in north Queensland, just in time to boost prawn stocks ahead of the Christmas rush.
Topics: fishing-aquaculture, fish, food-processing, guthalungra-4805, bowen-4805
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Topics: family, family-and-children, awards-and-prizes, parenting, volunteers, aboriginal, bowen-4805
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Topics: family, family-and-children, awards-and-prizes, parenting, volunteers, aboriginal, bowen-4805
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Topics: family, volunteers, parenting, aboriginal, bowen-4805
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Regional Australia could reap huge economic benefits from hosting film and television production, industry groups say, with central and western Queensland promoting the region for film locations.
Topics: film-movies, film, activism-and-lobbying, regional, regional-development, television, rockhampton-4700, yeppoon-4703, byfield-4703, winton-4735, bowen-4805, townsville-4810, longreach-4730
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Topics: charities, charities-and-community-organisations, depression, mental-health, economic-trends, unemployment, bowen-4805
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Topics: charities, charities-and-community-organisations, mental-health, depression, bowen-4805
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A group of young north Queensland men go to great lengths to recognise Bowen's unsung heroes to boost the morale of their struggling city.
Topics: charities, charities-and-community-organisations, economic-trends, depression, mental-health, youth, volunteers, suicide, bowen-4805
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| UpdatedAlmost 100 people have returned to a seaside town to celebrate the arrival of their pioneering ancestors 150 years ago.
Topics: family, history, bowen-4805
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The second round of voluntary fishing net licence buybacks will ruin the Queensland fishing industry and make it harder to buy local fish claims Nathan Rynn, net committee chair with the Queensland Seafood Industry Association.
Topics: fishing-aquaculture, oceans-and-reefs, small-business, townsville-4810, bowen-4805, cardwell-4849
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A fishing industry spokesman says the second round of voluntary fishing net licence buybacks will make it harder to buy local fish.
Topics: fish, oceans-and-reefs, small-business, townsville-4810, bowen-4805, cardwell-4849
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| UpdatedFisher Nathan Rynn & net committee chair, Qld Seafood Industry Association
Topics: fishing-aquaculture, oceans-and-reefs, small-business, townsville-4810, bowen-4805, cardwell-4849
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A student on stage at Mirani State High School, west of Mackay, reacts as the earthquake hits central and north Queensland.
Topics: earthquake, earth-sciences, disasters-and-accidents, mackay-4740, qld, townsville-4810, bowen-4805
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An earthquake has shaken areas of central and north Queensland but there have been no reports of damage.
Topics: earthquake, disasters-and-accidents, earth-sciences, mackay-4740, townsville-4810, bowen-4805, qld
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| UpdatedThe second biggest earthquake ever recorded off the east Australian coast shakes parts of central and north Queensland but there are no reports of serious damage.
Topics: earthquake, disasters-and-accidents, science-and-technology, earth-sciences, townsville-4810, mackay-4740, bowen-4805, rockhampton-4700, qld
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| UpdatedThere might not be enough evidence to charge Robert Hytch with perjury over allegations he lied over the death of his teenage girlfriend Rachel Antonio 18 years ago, a legal expert says.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, community-and-society, missing-person, bowen-4805, townsville-4810