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Townsville author Krystal Sutherland rides the popular wave of young adult fiction to Hollywood.
Topics: author, arts-and-entertainment, books-literature, film-movies, youth, townsville-4810, sydney-2000
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Police guard the scene of a suspicious fire at the Mill Street Tavern in Toowoomba on Queensland's Darling Downs.
Topics: fires, industrial-fires, disasters-and-accidents, toowoomba-4350, qld, australia
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In the wake of mangrove diebacks along Australia's coastline, scientists call for more education about the trees' importance to environmental health.
Topics: oceans-and-reefs, research, environmental-impact, climate-change, environmental-management, cairns-4870, qld, nt, wa
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Farmers want Queensland's new Agriculture Minister Bill Byrne to 'hit the ground running'.
Topics: government-and-politics, rural, qld
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| UpdatedA clean-up is underway after wild storms bearing hail and damaging wind gusts battered south-east Queensland on Sunday, with 100 shipping containers tossed around by 160 kilometre per hour winds at the Port of Brisbane.
Topics: storm-event, weather, storm-disaster, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedA clean-up is underway after wild storms bearing hail and damaging wind gusts battered south-east Queensland on Sunday, with 100 shipping containers tossed around by 160kph winds at the Port of Brisbane.
Topics: storm-event, weather, storm-disaster, brisbane-4000, qld, bundaberg-4670, maryborough-4650, southport-4215
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On the fringe of Australia's 14th-largest regional city, Rockhampton, a tiny community is united after more than a century of frequent natural disasters.
Topics: floods, storm-disaster, disasters-and-accidents, regional, social-capital, rockhampton-4700
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Brisbane author Nick Earls says his multi-platform experiment, publishing five novellas in five months, is proving to be a risk worth taking.
Topics: novel, print-media, digital-multimedia, people, human-interest, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedThe Queensland Government charges five former executives of Linc Energy with environmental offences over the failed company's alleged contamination of huge swathes of prime farmland in the state's south-east.
Topics: industry, environment, courts-and-trials, oil-and-gas, company-news, law-crime-and-justice, activism-and-lobbying, chinchilla-4413, toowoomba-4350, bundaberg-4670, qld
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| UpdatedSevere thunderstorms lash parts of south-east Queensland for the second day in a row, with flights again delayed and planes hit with flying debris at Brisbane airport.
Topics: weather, brisbane-4000, bribie-island-4507, noosa-heads-4567, brisbane-airport-4007, strathpine-4500, gympie-4570, sandgate-4017
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| UpdatedMore than 100 participants in the 1956 Olympic Torch relay have gathered in central Queensland to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the event.
Topics: olympics-summer, athletics, rockhampton-4700, home-hill-4806, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedThousands of Queensland children are being pulled out of the classroom to be home-schooled by their parents, with figures more than doubling over the past five years.
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The ringleaders of a riot at the Cleveland Youth Detention Centre in Townsville are flown to Brisbane where they are expected to face criminal charges, with some youth justice workers caught up in Thursday's incident "too traumatised to return to work yet".
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, townsville-4810, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedAbout 7,000 flatback turtle eggs are about to be laid at Australia's only privately owned turtle rookery but only seven hatchlings are expected to live to adulthood.
Topics: environment, environmental-impact, environmental-management, environmental-policy, environmental-health, conservation, animals, human-interest, great-barrier-reef, oceans-and-reefs, mackay-4740, qld
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| UpdatedA man reported missing after his hang-glider was seen to make an emergency landing north of Noosa on Saturday afternoon has been found dead.
Topics: missing-person, community-and-society, emergency-incidents, rainbow-beach-4581
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| UpdatedThousands flock to Brisbane's Supanova pop culture convention, many of them in costumes they have spent the past months or even years working on, to meet and mingle with like-minded people.
Topics: people, human-interest, popular-culture, arts-and-entertainment, brisbane-4000
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Anna Meares, one of the country's most decorated Olympians, take the first lap around the $59-million international cycling venue officially named after today, ready for the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast.
Topics: cycling, commonwealth-games, sport, chandler-4155, qld
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| UpdatedBrisbane Airport resumes normal operations after its runway lights are turned back on following an outage caused by wild storms which also cut power to more than 17,000 properties around south-east Queensland.
Topics: weather, brisbane-4000, toowoomba-4350, boonah-4310, ipswich-4305, bundaberg-4670, qld
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Brisbane brothers Cameron and Jarred Bairstow live their childhood dream in the National Basketball League, teaming up on the court as players for the Brisbane Bullets.
Topics: sport, basketball, people, human-interest, nbl, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedA baby koala discovered in the bag of a woman Brisbane police stopped for questioning a week ago is reunited with the officer who found him as he continues to recover from his ordeal.
Topics: animals, human-interest, brisbane-4000
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Investigations are continuing into the deaths of a man and a woman after their bodies were found inside a unit in Southport on the Gold Coast on Friday evening.
Topics: police, crime, law-crime-and-justice, southport-4215
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A trophy gun captured on the Western Front nearly 100 years ago has undergone a dramatic restoration by a handful of far north Queensland craftsmen.
Topics: world-war-1, defence-forces, history, design, irvinebank-4872, cairns-4870, germany
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Adelaide United snap a run of four straight losses with a hard-fought 1-1 draw against Brisbane in Friday night's A-League clash at Hindmarsh Stadium.
Topics: a-league, soccer, sport, adelaide-5000, sa, brisbane-4000, qld, australia
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| UpdatedDonald Trump's shocking victory on the heels of an equally surprising Brexit vote in the UK is rattling the major parties in Australia, and in the Queensland city of Ipswich people could not be happier.
Topics: pauline-hanson, us-elections, foreign-affairs, minor-parties, one-nation, ipswich-4305
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Surf Life Saving Queensland says an augmented reality app may be the way to teach beachgoers about safety.
Topics: oceans-and-reefs, travel-health-and-safety, alexandra-headland-4572, coolum-beach-4573