Annie Guest is a journalist who reports on Queensland issues for the ABC Radio current affairs programs AM, The World Today and PM. She joined the ABC in 2000 and has worked around Australia with the national broadcaster, from the red dust of Western Australia's Pilbara, to the coral-bejewelled waters of far north Queensland to Tasmania's old growth forests and the hubbub of cities in-between.
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| UpdatedThe Queensland Government rejects allegations that it is dumping lockout laws because it has been bought by the alcohol industry.
Topics: alcohol, laws, states-and-territories, qld
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| UpdatedAbout 100 young foreigners allegedly lose up to $1 million to a Brisbane-based international education agency.
Topics: education-industry, industry, business-economics-and-finance, education, continuing-education, education-associations, educational-resources, university-and-further-education, law-crime-and-justice, corruption, brisbane-4000, australia, brazil
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| UpdatedOlder Australians living in nursing homes have some of the highest rates of depression and anxiety, but most are excluded from Medicare-funded psychological treatment available to the wider community, aged care advocates say.
Topics: depression, health, federal-government, mental-health, older-people, australia
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Researchers of bipolar disorder are one step closer to developing an imaging test that could help determine who is most likely to develop the devastating disease.
Topics: depression, diseases-and-disorders, mental-health, health, genetic-disorders, medical-research, australia
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| UpdatedA quadriplegic man who completed medicine with distinction says he now fears unemployment as he waits for a job offer from Queensland Health.
Topics: university-and-further-education, education, doctors-and-medical-professionals, health, accidents, disabilities, qld, australia
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Recreational fishers have renewed calls for a ban on the importation of uncooked prawns, after the discovery of the devastating white spot disease in Queensland prawns.
Topics: fishing-aquaculture, rural, environmental-impact, marine-biology, government-and-politics, logan-central-4114, qld, australia
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Unions are gearing up to fight a Fair Work Commission decision they claim gives employers a green light to sack striking workers.
Topics: unions, industrial-relations, mining-rural, qld, australia
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| UpdatedQueensland's Chief Magistrate rebukes one of his own judges for making supportive comments to protesters during sentencing.
Topics: judges-and-legal-profession, law-crime-and-justice, activism-and-lobbying, government-and-politics, immigration, refugees, community-and-society, qld
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Australia's ATAR university entrance system is confusing, inconsistent and misunderstood, according to a report by the Higher Education Review Panel.
Topics: education, education-industry, access-to-education, university-and-further-education, australia
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| UpdatedA Brisbane lawyer says she has received calls from witnesses to this week's deadly incident at Dreamworld and believes those found responsible could face jail terms and hefty fines.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, accidents, accidents---other, coomera-4209, qld, australia
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| UpdatedEfforts to mitigate the effects of climate change on sea turtles are being ramped up on the southern Great Barrier Reef coast, as a joint Federal and State Government program expands the use of shade cloth to reduce the temperature for turtle egg incubation.
Topics: conservation, environment, climate-change, environmental-management, environmental-policy, environmental-impact, mining-environmental-issues, federal---state-issues, government-and-politics, qld, australia
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| UpdatedIn an accidental discovery, Queensland researchers appear to have slowed the ageing process in the brains of laboratory mice, using ultrasound.
Topics: brain-and-nervous-system, diseases-and-disorders, health, research, medical-research, science-and-technology, alzheimers-and-dementia, australia
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| UpdatedA clinical trial being led by Queensland researchers is looking into whether the tropical fruit known as the mangosteen could offer a gentler treatment for schizophrenia.
Topics: alternative-medicine, diseases-and-disorders, brain-and-nervous-system, psychosis, medical-research, qld, australia
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There is widespread anger among deaf people after the High Court rejected an appeal over their eligibility to serve on Queensland juries.
Topics: hearing, judges-and-legal-profession, qld, new-zealand, united-states
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| UpdatedMuslims in Pauline Hanson's home state of Queensland say the senator is making racism mainstream and it marks a turning point in Australian history.
Topics: islam, race-relations, qld, australia
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While Queensland has the country's highest incarceration rate of Aboriginal youth, Indigenous-led programs could be the solution being overlooked, Amnesty International says.
Topics: youth, human, prisons-and-punishment, aboriginal, indigenous-culture, qld
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| UpdatedCommunity outrage over stories of abuse at the NT's Don Dale Youth Detention Centre prompts child advocates to warn that violence in some homes is far worse, and that corporal punishment by parents should be banned.
Topics: family, family-and-children, community-and-society, prisons-and-punishment, parenting, child-abuse, domestic-violence, australia
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| UpdatedAn Anglican prison chaplain, who has been visiting Queensland prisoners for 26 years, says the royal commission needs to cover her state.
Topics: royal-commissions, law-crime-and-justice, child-abuse, community-and-society, prisons-and-punishment, qld, australia
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An alliance of 800 disability advocates and ethical designers are calling for mandatory disability access in new homes.
Topics: disabilities, housing-industry, housing, multiple-sclerosis, australia
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| UpdatedA former principal of Aurukun's school defends Noel Pearson's controversial teaching model and says there has been a dramatic improvement since its introduction.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, education, educational-resources, distance-education, community-education, schools, aurukun-4871, qld, australia
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| UpdatedThe Queensland Government is accused of contributing to the crisis in the Indigenous community of Aurukun by overlooking a local tenderer for a major mining project.
Topics: community-and-society, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, rural, mining-rural, aurukun-4871, qld
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| UpdatedClive Palmer describes a damning administrator's report into Queensland Nickel as lies and fantasy and declares no court will find against him.
Topics: clive-palmer, company-news, mining-industry, management, corruption, qld
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| UpdatedA Queensland father is handed a two-year good behaviour bond for giving his sick daughter cannabis oil.
Topics: courts-and-trials, cannabis, brisbane-4000, cairns-4870
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| UpdatedSydney's Vivid LIVE festival has been targeted by ticket scalpers, angering music fans.
Topics: music, sydney-2000
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The grieving family of a Queensland policeman who took his life say the police psychologist did not have time to treat him.
Topics: police, suicide, mental-health, qld, australia