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A radio program created by and for teenagers aims to open up the discussion on mental health for high school students.
Topics: mental-health, child-health-and-behaviour, anxiety, depression, radio-broadcasting, secondary-schools, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedBusinessman and former federal MP Clive Palmer is to appear in the Federal Court in Brisbane as liquidators of his failed Queensland Nickel company look to question him over its demise.
Topics: courts-and-trials, company-news, clive-palmer, federal-government, brisbane-4000, qld, australia, townsville-4810
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| UpdatedSexist, obscene and other offensive slogans on vans and vehicles, found on holiday hire vehicles such as controversial Wicked Campers, are being made illegal in Queensland.
Topics: government-and-politics, parliament, state-parliament, brisbane-4000, qld
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| UpdatedA woman who is suing activewear retail company Lorna Jane began to suffer a mental health condition after being bullied in the workplace for her weight, a Brisbane court hears.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, discrimination, brisbane-4000, qld
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| UpdatedA Queensland scientist finds a new species of ant-eating spider and names it after a chance meeting with a new friend on Gumtree.
Topics: invertebrates---insects-and-arachnids, animal-science, animals, environment, human-interest, brisbane-4000, lord-howe-island-2898
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Former UK chief scientist Sir John Beddington
Topics: agricultural-policy, environmental-policy, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedA former UK chief scientist warns that in an era of 'anti-science', politicians are ignoring scientific evidence and making poor policy decisions.
Topics: climate-change, food-and-beverage, genetically-modified-food, greenhouse-gas, electricity-energy-and-utilities, agricultural-policy, sydney-2000, brisbane-4000, wagga-wagga-2650, wollongong-2500
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| UpdatedMore than 170,000 lightning strikes are recorded during Monday's storms around south-east Queensland, as the clean-up gets into full swing this morning.
Topics: weather, storm-event, emergency-incidents, brisbane-4000, qld, australia, ipswich-4305, gatton-4343, toogoolawah-4313
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Jeff Horn's dream fight with Manny Pacquiao is up in the air with the Filipino boxing great's tweets casting doubt over the mooted Brisbane bout.
Topics: boxing, sport, brisbane-4000, qld, australia
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Queensland researchers map muscle fibres and find calcium levels rising to high levels after a strenuous workout, increasing the risk of damage.
Topics: science-and-technology, research, health, medical-research, exercise-and-fitness, brisbane-4000, university-of-queensland-4072
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The Gulf country community of Georgetown has lost a leader and a woman whose heart was almost as big as the country she loved and represented so well. Noeline Ikin lost a battle against an aggressive brain tumour on Saturday. Georgetown was a community she adopted when she began working with the Northern Gulf Natural Resource Management (NRM) group. But it didn't take long for Noeline to make it her own, as her friend, colleague and mentor Barry Hughes recalls.
Topics: rural-women, community-and-society, cairns-4870, brisbane-4000
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To the public she was the woman who nearly toppled Bob Katter in the 2013 federal election, but it was Noeline Ikin's ability to connect that will be remembered most by those who knew her best.
Topics: rural-women, community-and-society, death, cairns-4870, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedAn evening of severe thunderstorms for south-east Queensland is over, according to the Bureau of Meteorology, following hours of wild weather which saw trees snapped and homes damaged north-west of Brisbane.
Topics: weather, storm-event, emergency-incidents, brisbane-4000, ipswich-4305, qld
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Former Archbishop of Brisbane Peter Hollingworth is found by the royal commission into child abuse to have prioritised the needs of an abusive rector over those of one of his victims and other children at risk.
Topics: child-abuse, law-crime-and-justice, royal-commissions, anglicans, sydney-2000, brisbane-4000, hobart-7000
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| UpdatedPolice allege a 21-year-old male nursing student repeatedly raped, assaulted and threatened a woman in his care north of Brisbane between July and November last year.
Topics: sexual-offences, courts-and-trials, assault, brisbane-4000
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Winemakers on the Granite Belt in Queensland have been watching their grapes around the clock to protect it from the abnormally hot weather.
Topics: viticulture, weather, human-interest, stanthorpe-4380, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedTemperatures across southern and south-east Queensland cool down after heat records tumbled across the state on Sunday.
Topics: weather, people, human-interest, brisbane-4000, qld, australia, toowoomba-4350, gympie-4570, st-george-4487, thargomindah-4492, ipswich-4305, southport-4215, maroochydore-4558, gatton-4343, kingaroy-4610, beaudesert-4285, birdsville-4482, oakey-4401
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| UpdatedSydney couple Claudine and Dave Fitzgibbon were facing the difficult decision to proceed with a pregnancy after another spina bifida diagnosis or to terminate, but then doctors offered a glimmer of hope.
Topics: medical-procedures, medical-research, doctors-and-medical-professionals, babies---newborns, people, brisbane-4000, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedThe Chiefs take out the inaugural Brisbane Global Rugby Tens title, beating the Crusaders 12-5 in Sunday's final.
Topics: sport, rugby-union, brisbane-4000, qld, australia, new-zealand
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| UpdatedA man is charged over the death of a 69-year-old man who was the victim of an alleged one-punch attack at a hotel near Ipswich, west of Brisbane.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, redbank-4301, brisbane-4000, qld, ipswich-4305, australia
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Men aged 40 and over account for 75 per cent of all motorbike deaths in Queensland, with the latest police figures challenging the notion that young men are the biggest risk.
Topics: road, people, grief, lifestyle-and-leisure, safety-education, brisbane-4000, mount-nebo-4520, qld
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| UpdatedHot weather records have tumbled across parts of south-east Queensland amid a relentless heatwave, including Toowoomba which experienced 40 degrees Celsius for the first time.
Topics: weather, fires, emergency-planning, brisbane-4000, qld, australia, ipswich-4305, maroochydore-4558, southport-4215, toowoomba-4350, longreach-4730, thargomindah-4492, birdsville-4482
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| UpdatedMelbourne City's second-stringers show their wares, earning a point with a gritty comeback to draw 2-2 with the Roar at AAMI Park.
Topics: a-league, soccer, sport, melbourne-3000, vic, brisbane-4000, qld, australia
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| UpdatedAs Queenslanders deal with extreme summer heat and closed beaches, records are predicted to tumble on Sunday in the state's south, the Bureau of Meteorology says.
Topics: phenomena, people, brisbane-4000, qld, australia, maroochydore-4558, southport-4215, toowoomba-4350
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| UpdatedThe Queensland Government talks up its jobs policies after a new opinion poll shows a surge in support for Pauline Hanson's One Nation in the state.
Topics: one-nation, political-parties, government-and-politics, alp, public-sector, elections, brisbane-4000, qld, australia