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| UpdatedA potentially lethal drug that can "bring down elephants" and is 10,000 times more potent than morphine is discovered at a Brisbane mail centre, sparking urgent police warnings.
Topics: drug-offences, crime, drug-use, brisbane-4000, qld, australia
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| UpdatedFormer Queensland premier Anna Bligh is appointed as CEO of the Australian Bankers' Association, an industry group representing 25 banks across the country.
Topics: banking, people, alp, regulation, brisbane-4000, qld, nsw
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| UpdatedThe Sunshine Coast electorate of Nicklin could be anyone's for the taking at the next state election, according to departing independent MP Peter Wellington, who says his voters will respond best to candidates on personal level.
Topics: state-parliament, parliament, nambour-4560, qld, brisbane-4000, maroochydore-4558
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| UpdatedSunshine Coast independent MP and the Speaker of the Queensland Parliament Peter Wellington drops a political bombshell by announcing he will not run in his seat of Nicklin at the next state election.
Topics: government-and-politics, state-parliament, people, states-and-territories, brisbane-4000, nambour-4560
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A north Queensland council has taken the unprecedented step of closing a public boat ramp as part of efforts to contain the spread of a devastating prawn virus. Northern prawn farmers are on heightened alert, ramping up their own biosecurity efforts to protect their stock from white spot disease. But Sunfish technical adviser Barry Pollock says boat ramp closures are a stop-gap measure and more education is needed.
Topics: fishing-aquaculture, cairns-4870, brisbane-4000
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Sunfish Queensland says authorities need to do more to stop the use of contaminated imported prawns as bait.
Topics: fishing-aquaculture, cairns-4870, brisbane-4000, mackay-4740, townsville-4810
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| UpdatedFrom parrots served at weddings to ox tail for afternoon tea, Queensland's dining past has been filled with creatures great and small.
Topics: food-and-cooking, history, community-and-society, human-interest, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedThe Indigenous Aurukun primary school run in partnership with Noel Pearson's Good to Great Schools organisation routinely overstated enrolments because there was a misunderstanding of policy, netting up to $815,000 in extra payments, a report finds.
Topics: education, access-to-education, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, aboriginal, activism-and-lobbying, schools, public-sector, aurukun-4871, qld, cairns-4870, townsville-4810, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedClive Palmer tells the Federal Court in Brisbane it is unfair to blame him for the collapse of Queensland Nickel, as he defends speaking to his nephew Clive Mensink despite the company's director being the subject of a court summons.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, company-news, clive-palmer, brisbane-4000, qld, townsville-4810
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| UpdatedAbout 140 passengers on the Sun Princess cruise ship come down with gastro, a fortnight after staff tried to rid the vessel of a norovirus upon returning from another trip.
Topics: health, diseases-and-disorders, infectious-diseases-other, hamilton-4007, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedNew 'no body, no parole' legislation means prisoners convicted of murder or manslaughter will need to identify the location of their victim's body before being eligible for early release under sweeping changes announced to the Queensland parole system.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, courts-and-trials, murder-and-manslaughter, state-parliament, public-sector, laws, brisbane-4000, townsville-4810, qld, australia
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| UpdatedSuper Netball is a new product of a long-standing popular code about to join the growing landscape of women's sport.
Topics: netball, sport, sydney-2000, sippy-downs-4556, brisbane-4000, melbourne-3000, perth-6000, adelaide-5000
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| UpdatedA Queensland's sugar industry report warns that the pain from increasing electricity prices under a new tariff proposal is almost guaranteed.
Topics: electricity-energy-and-utilities, agribusiness, industry, federal-government, irrigation, sugar, bundaberg-4670, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedClive Palmer tells a Brisbane court he cannot remember details of multi-million-dollar payments made by his mining empire while he was chairman.
Topics: clive-palmer, courts-and-trials, mining-industry, brisbane-4000, townsville-4810
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| UpdatedPrivate schools Brisbane Grammar and St Paul's School harboured sexual abuse and accused children of lying rather than properly investigating allegations against school counsellor Kevin Lynch, a royal commission finds.
Topics: sexual-offences, royal-commissions, secondary-schools, courts-and-trials, child-abuse, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedA woman suing company Lorna Jane over bullying claims breaks down in the District Court in Brisbane while testifying how the abuse led her to have suicidal thoughts.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, discrimination, brisbane-4000, qld
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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