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| UpdatedBonuses have been paid to six executives at State Government-owned power company Stanwell Corporation while sub-contractors at two power stations remain unpaid, an Opposition MP says.
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| UpdatedToowoomba's Zimra Hussain, 10, is named the inaugural number one ticket holder for the Brisbane Lions AFL women's team.
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| UpdatedAfter being bedridden for 12 years, a Queensland woman with the rare condition known as stiff person syndrome is able to walk again thanks to the work of Brisbane doctors.
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The National Farmers Federation joins forces with Farmers for Climate Action to advocate for emission reduction that helps grow agriculture.
Topics: beef-cattle, vegetables, dairy-production, sheep-production, rural-youth, sydney-2000, launceston-7250, toowoomba-4350, clare-5453, rutherglen-3685, holbrook-2644
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| UpdatedThe Federal Government has announced a new taskforce to carry out water recovery without further damaging northern Murray-Darling Basin communities.
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The family of Annette Mason, who was bludgeoned to death in her bedroom when she was 15, is hopeful a new inquest will lead to the conviction of her killer.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, crime, brisbane-4000, qld, toowoomba-4350, australia
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Inmates at a Queensland jail take centre stage in a production of Macbeth, in a "beautiful escape" from prison life.
Topics: people, human-interest, prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, theatre, gatton-4343, qld, australia, toowoomba-4350
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| UpdatedA company contracted to Queensland Government power stations was hired with no industry experience and insignificant funds to complete the job, a liquidators report finds.
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| UpdatedThe Queensland Government warns taxpayers could be left with the clean-up bill at a failed UCG site on the Western Downs if liquidators are successful in a court challenge.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, oil-and-gas, government-and-politics, regulation, chinchilla-4413, qld, australia, bundaberg-4670, toowoomba-4350
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Police guard the scene of a suspicious fire at the Mill Street Tavern in Toowoomba on Queensland's Darling Downs.
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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.
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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.
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| UpdatedIn China, November 11 holds a different level of significance - it is known as singles day and has spawned the world's largest online shopping spree.
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| UpdatedThe Queensland Government succeeds in passing laws to tighten groundwater licence requirements for mines, while also appeasing Indian mining giant Adani.
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There is nothing unusual about Queensland Rail recruiting internally for new train drivers, Transport Minister Stirling Hinchliffe says.
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Darling Downs man Robert Trebeck is imprisoned for life for the murder of Goondiwindi mother Alexis Jeffery, whose body was found dumped on a riverbank.
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| UpdatedThe man in charge of the Swickers Bacon Factory says yesterday's fire will not put people out of a job, but some may need to relocate to other facilities.
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| UpdatedA large fire is extinguished at a pig abattoir at Kingaroy in Queensland's South Burnett, with dozens of firefighters at the scene and an exclusion zone set up.
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| UpdatedZimra Hussain is one of dozens of refugee children in Toowoomba on Queensland's Darling Downs who have been drafted into an AFL program to help their integration into the community.
Topics: people, human-interest, refugees, immigration, community-and-society, toowoomba-4350, qld
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A man aged in his early 20s is killed after a large gum tree fell in a national park on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.
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When chunks of concrete fell from the Toowoomba SES building this week, they took down part of the city's latest work of art with them.
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