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A new million-dollar safety alarm system will be rolled out to Gold Coast paramedics in an effort to curb violence.
Topics: assault, doctors-and-medical-professionals, southport-4215
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Dreamworld has vowed to act on hazards identified by a Workplace Health and Safety audit after last month's ride accident that claimed four lives.
Topics: workplace, accidents, death, upper-coomera-4209, southport-4215, qld
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| UpdatedQueensland Police officers find homemade machine guns, a weapons factory and drug labs during raids on the Gold Coast.
Topics: crime, drug-offences, law-crime-and-justice, southport-4215, brisbane-4000, qld, oxenford-4210, maudsland-4210, broadbeach-waters-4218, robina-4226
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Former Gold Coast Titans NRL player David Taylor is fined $1,000 after pleading guilty to possessing cocaine.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, nrl, rugby-league, sport, drug-offences, southport-4215, qld, canberra-2600, australia
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The Gold Coast Titans say an NRL investigation finds Jarryd Hayne has no case to answer after appearing on social media with a bikie.
Topics: nrl, rugby-league, law-crime-and-justice, sport, southport-4215
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| UpdatedA Chinese entertainment company outlines plans for a new Gold Coast theme park that would include "Indigenous" and "wild Australia" components, as a fifth airline prepares to offer Beijing-Brisbane flights.
Topics: company-news, regional-development, business-economics-and-finance, urban-development-and-planning, regional, local-government, government-and-politics, arts-and-entertainment, southport-4215, qld, australia
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| UpdatedA baton that is inspired by Australia's Indigenous heritage and features recycled plastic will be used in 2018 Commonwealth Games baton relay.
Topics: commonwealth-games, commonwealth-games-organising-committee, sport, broadbeach-4218, southport-4215, qld, mermaid-beach-4218
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A man who had "overall control" of a multi-million-dollar drug cartel is sentenced to 10 years in jail by a Brisbane court.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, drug-offences, crime, brisbane-4000, qld, australia, southport-4215
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Topics: commonwealth-games, commonwealth-games-organising-committee, paralympics, people, southport-4215
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Five-time paralympian Kurt Fearnley is named the fourth ambassador for the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.
Topics: commonwealth-games, commonwealth-games-organising-committee, paralympics, southport-4215
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| UpdatedA group of Sri Lankan asylum seekers claim victory both on and off the cricket pitch, after winning a national Twenty20 championship at the Gold Coast.
Topics: sport, cricket, refugees, immigration, community-and-society, southport-4215, sri-lanka, australia
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As if magpies were not enough, crows are increasingly swooping passers-by in efforts to protect their nests.
Topics: animal-attacks, animals, birds, animal-behaviour, southport-4215
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| UpdatedConsumer advocates welcome an Appeal Court decision which will allow the Commonwealth to ban Aboriginal Community Benefit Fund, a private business that provides funeral insurance almost exclusively to Aboriginals, from accessing the Government's Centrepay system.
Topics: aboriginal, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, courts-and-trials, government-and-politics, law-crime-and-justice, community-and-society, qld, southport-4215
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| UpdatedThe physiological effect of fighting fires includes rapid weight loss and serious overheating, new research into firefighting shows.
Topics: fires, disasters-and-accidents, industrial-fires, health, medical-research, research, occupational-health-and-safety, southport-4215, brisbane-4000, 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 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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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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| UpdatedA man convicted of killing his baby daughter could be out of jail within months, after being set a non-parole period of three-and-a-half years in the Supreme Court in Brisbane.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, brisbane-4000, southport-4215
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| UpdatedA 73-year-old man is in hospital after being attacked by an aggressive horned goat in Queensland's Gold Coast hinterland.
Topics: animal-attacks, people, mudgeeraba-4213, qld, australia, robina-4226, southport-4215
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| UpdatedIf you could know decades in advance that you would develop Alzheimer's disease, would you want to know? That's one of the issues a US scientist is thinking about as his research shows a simple eye test may provide early diagnosis.
Topics: alzheimers-and-dementia, diseases-and-disorders, health, medical-research, research, science-and-technology, neuroscience, eyes, southport-4215, qld, australia, united-states
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| UpdatedBrisbane residents will get an early taste of summer, with the city forecast to swelter through its warmest day since February as the mercury soars to 36 degrees Celsius.
Topics: weather, brisbane-4000, ipswich-4305, qld, australia, southport-4215
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| UpdatedResearchers using aerial drones to photograph coastline in a search for dugongs partner with Queensland artificial intelligence experts to speed up the identification process.
Topics: endangered-and-protected-species, research, oceans-and-reefs, university-and-further-education, marine-biology, biology, computers-and-technology, brisbane-4000, townsville-4810, cairns-4870, southport-4215, maroochydore-4558, bundaberg-4670, rockhampton-4700, mackay-4740, qld, perth-6000
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| UpdatedNRL star Jarryd Hayne is left red-faced after pornographic images are displayed on a screen in front of hundreds of students watching a school presentation on cyber security.
Topics: pornography, nrl, rugby-league, computers-and-technology, sport, robina-4226, qld, southport-4215, australia
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There are fears this summer could be the deadliest yet for Australian 'party drug' takers, with hundreds of new and unpredictable substances on the market, one of which a Brisbane woman tells the ABC "terrified" her.
Topics: drug-use, health, drug-education, education, drugs-and-substance-abuse, community-and-society, drug-offences, brisbane-4000, qld, australia, southport-4215, vic
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A reunion of the 16th Minesweeping Squadron is taking place at Surfers Paradise, where some of those attending helped safely destroy a 1941 German mine in 1966.
Topics: world-war-2, southport-4215
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There will be no more changes to the city train timetable for the rest of the year after weeks of frustration for commuters, with 333 fewer services to run Monday to Friday per week, Queensland Rail says.
Topics: public-sector, government-and-politics, activism-and-lobbying, unions, brisbane-4000, qld, australia, redcliffe-4020, maroochydore-4558, southport-4215