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Negotiations to secure a major international boxing match for Queensland are entering the final round, with authorities increasingly confident local fighter Jeff Horn will take on Filipino Manny Pacquiao at Lang Park in April.
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| UpdatedQantas will offer a refund or change of destination to passengers affected by the United States' new temporary ban on immigration.
Topics: air-transport, world-politics, travel-and-tourism, australia, united-states
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| UpdatedQueensland's iconic Big Pineapple site is set to be redeveloped as its new owners look to attract different audiences.
Topics: travel-and-tourism, human-interest, offbeat, lifestyle-and-leisure, community-and-society, history, woombye-4559
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A six-week old sea lion pup is the second of its species to be born into captivity in an Australian zoo in the past five years.
Topics: animals, animals-and-nature, government-and-politics, activism-and-lobbying, education, conservation, travel-and-tourism, coffs-harbour-2450
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| UpdatedAn Australian woman has been treated for multiple severe injuries after she got into a motorcycle accident while holidaying in Thailand, but her family says the hospital will not let her leave until the mounting medical bill is paid.
Topics: travel-health-and-safety, travel-and-tourism, accidents, thailand, valla-beach-2448, nsw
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| UpdatedThe re-elected president of Palau, Tommy Remengesau Jr, has begun his new term in office by introducing a move to ensure that wages for the country's lowest paid workers will rise on a regular basis over the next decade.
Topics: travel-and-tourism, pacific, palau
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This is the story of how the so-called "crazy garden of Cockington Green" came to be chock-full of small-scale buildings and miniature people.
Topics: gardening, travel-and-tourism, offbeat, lifestyle-and-leisure, community-and-society, canberra-2600
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Digital start-up Youcamp makes a play to change the way people think about camping by offering travellers the chance to stay on farms.
Topics: sustainable-and-alternative-farming, travel-and-tourism, rural-tourism, turlinjah-2537, bega-2550
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Tourists are flocking to Queensland's southern Darling Downs where vast, golden fields of sunflowers are proving the perfect subject for amateur and professional photographers.
Topics: people, human-interest, travel-and-tourism, photography, visual-art, allora-4362, toowoomba-4350, qld
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Investing in the tourism industry should be one of the top priorities for the next NSW premier, according to an expert who believes Sydney needs more top-ranked hotels, another cruise port and a high-speed rail link.
Topics: tourism, travel-and-tourism, lifestyle-and-leisure, states-and-territories, sydney-2000
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With Tasmania's proximity to Antarctica, it is no surprise that it's a popular posting for penguins. Here are some tips on where you can see them in the wild.
Topics: animals, environmental-management, travel-and-tourism, human-interest, tas, hobart-7000
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TigerAir is given the go ahead by the Indonesian Government to resume flights in and out of Bali from February 3.
Topics: air-transport, travel-and-tourism, lifestyle-and-leisure, wa, australia, bali
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| UpdatedAustralian woman Lucy Barnard is poised to embark on a three-year walk from Argentina to Alaska, even collecting poo samples for science on the way.
Topics: adventure, travel-and-tourism, women, human-interest, australia
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Topics: radio, radio-broadcasting, rural, rural-tourism, tourism, travel-and-tourism, beef-cattle, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedTourist operator Mick Hutton and shortwave radio supplier Garry Cratt say there are many people who depend on the ABC's HF radio service.
Topics: radio, radio-broadcasting, rural, rural-tourism, tourism, travel-and-tourism, beef-cattle, papua-new-guinea, darwin-0800, alice-springs-0870
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| UpdatedAn Australian outback tour operator says remote travellers depend on the ABC's HF shortwave radio service.
Topics: radio, radio-broadcasting, rural, rural-tourism, tourism, travel-and-tourism, beef-cattle, darwin-0800, papua-new-guinea, alice-springs-0870, pacific
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| UpdatedEngland's redundant red telephone boxes have new lives as salad bars, souvenir stores, tiny coffee shops, as well as housing defibrillators.
Topics: information-and-communication, travel-and-tourism, lifestyle-and-leisure, united-kingdom
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| UpdatedIndonesia's aviation watchdog defends its decision to ground Tigerair Australia flights last week, accusing the airline of selling one-way tickets from Bali to Australia which it says broke its charter licence rules.
Topics: travel-and-tourism, air-transport, bali, australia
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Efforts are underway in Tasmania to retrieve an anchor which broke away from one of the world's most exclusive cruise ships.
Topics: human-interest, travel-and-tourism, hobart-7000
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| UpdatedParts of Central Australian have welcomed more rain after a thorough soak weeks earlier, turning the Red Centre green.
Topics: rainfall, lifestyle-and-leisure, travel-and-tourism, rural, weather, beef-cattle, yulara-0872, italy, canada
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Tigerair will be allowed to fly stranded Australian passengers home from Bali, but the future for the budget airline's foray into Indonesia remains unclear.
Topics: air-transport, consumer-protection, business-economics-and-finance, travel-and-tourism, wa, perth-6000, bali, indonesia