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Marine taxidermist Steve Mathews is unable to find an apprentice to carry on his 40-year legacy.
Topics: visual-art, fish, apprenticeships, community-and-society, work, library-museum-and-gallery, cairns-4870, france, united-states, new-zealand
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Topics: fish, visual-art, craft, cairns-4870
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Topics: fish, visual-art, craft, cairns-4870
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| UpdatedThe driver of a stolen car that crashed in far north Queensland this morning, critically injuring two of its occupants, is on the run.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, cairns-4870, qld
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| UpdatedAn octogenarian yogi volunteers her time to teach yoga practices and techniques to mental health patients at Cairns Hospital.
Topics: mental-health, meditation-and-prayer, older-people, volunteers, women, cairns-4870
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| UpdatedQueensland's community legal centres now help seven times as many people with domestic violence issues as five years ago and are not coping with the demand, the sector's peak body says.
Topics: community-organisations, judges-and-legal-profession, federal---state-issues, domestic-violence, brisbane-4000, bundaberg-4670, cairns-4870, maroochydore-4558, rockhampton-4700, southport-4215, toowoomba-4350, townsville-4810
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Topics: sugar, agricultural-machinery, work, regional, cairns-4870
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An unusually strong agricultural production in 2016 is unlikely to be repeated this year, but Queensland missed out on the biggest production spike in a decade, the Australian Farm Institute concludes.
Topics: agribusiness, drought, economic-trends, regional, brisbane-4000, bundaberg-4670, cairns-4870, longreach-4730, mackay-4740, mount-isa-4825, rockhampton-4700, toowoomba-4350, townsville-4810
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Topics: swimming, disabilities, extreme-sports, cairns-4870
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| UpdatedA far north Queensland man whose passion for adventure landed him in a wheelchair is training for one of the toughest open water swims in Queensland.
Topics: swimming, extreme-sports, accidents---other, rehabilitation, disabilities, cairns-4870, townsville-4810, magnetic-island-4819, goondiwindi-4390
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| UpdatedThe first shipment of Australian lychees into the United States has been hailed a success by the exporter behind it. John Nardi from fresh food wholesaler, Favco, says the fruit was a hit with American consumers, arriving as it did just in time for Christmas. But Mr Nardy says it will require some bedding down of the stringent protocols on chemical use and other logistics before the full potential of the new export market is realised.
Topics: fruits, agricultural-crops, trade, cairns-4870, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedThe first shipment of Australian lychees into the United States is hailed a major success, despite the exporter losing money on the venture.
Topics: fruit, cairns-4870
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| UpdatedA marine creature captured on Queensland's Sunshine Coast that a Facebook user claimed to be a box jellyfish confuses locals not used to seeing the deadly animal in their waters.
Topics: marine-biology, biology, environment, animals, mooloolaba-4557, cairns-4870
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Topics: marine-biology, conservation, great-barrier-reef, cairns-4870, japan
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Staff at a Queensland-based commercial aquarium prepare to send sharks, rays and fish from the Great Barrier Reef to a Japanese theme park aquarium.
Topics: fish, marine-biology, conservation, arts-and-entertainment, great-barrier-reef, oceans-and-reefs, cairns-4870, japan
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| UpdatedA four-day heatwave will begin on Wednesday, bringing the same kind of conditions that saw more than 200 Queenslanders treated for heat stroke and dehydration last week.
Topics: phenomena, weather, emergency-planning, qld, australia, brisbane-4000, maroochydore-4558, southport-4215, toowoomba-4350, birdsville-4482, longreach-4730, mount-isa-4825, bundaberg-4670, cairns-4870, mackay-4740, rockhampton-4700, townsville-4810
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| UpdatedThe Great Barrier Reef has teetered on the edge of extinction in the past and recovered, a new study into its history reveals, but scientist say there are new threats.
Topics: marine-biology, biology, science-and-technology, marine-parks, conservation, environment, activism-and-lobbying, environmental-management, qld, cairns-4870, mackay-4740, rockhampton-4700, townsville-4810, bundaberg-4670, gladstone-4680
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| UpdatedA Cairns police constable has been fined and convicted after being caught driving at more than three times the legal limit.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, laws, courts-and-trials, police, alcohol, health, alcohol-education, cairns-4870, qld
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Residents and visitors to far north Queensland are being urged to stay out of floodwaters following six swift water rescues in the past few days.
Topics: floods, disasters-and-accidents, weather, tully-4854, innisfail-4860, cairns-4870