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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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| UpdatedJeffery Lecke admits to being in denial about hitting his wife and says he would probably have breached the domestic violence order keeping him away from her if not for a newly formed police unit on the Sunshine Coast.
Topics: domestic-violence, community-and-society, family-law, people, police, maroochydore-4558, qld, australia
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| UpdatedFarmers, residents and conservationists on Queensland's Sunshine Coast say they are receiving contradictory information about plans for a multimillion-dollar land sale.
Topics: environmental-impact, environment, environmental-management, environmental-policy, sugar, agricultural-crops, rural, wetlands, conservation, yandina-4561, maroochydore-4558
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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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| 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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| 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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| UpdatedThere are concerns Australians suffering from the heart condition angina are at risk because of a national shortage of the vital drug used to treat it.
Topics: pharmaceuticals, heart-disease, health, diseases-and-disorders, maroochydore-4558, qld, australia
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Topics: discrimination, gympie-4570, maroochydore-4558
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| UpdatedThe Queensland Government is concerned the air is not fresh enough in national parks, citing air quality and passive smoking as key reasons for a partial smoking ban that comes into force tomorrow.
Topics: smoking, national-parks, state-parliament, qld, brisbane-4000, bundaberg-4670, cairns-4870, longreach-4730, mackay-4740, maroochydore-4558, mount-isa-4825, rockhampton-4700, southport-4215, toowoomba-4350, townsville-4810
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Queensland's horticulture industry plans to develop a new national 'ethical labour' certification for farmers, for those wanting to prove they are not exploiting their workers.
Topics: fruits, fruit, agricultural-crops, rural, vegetables, agricultural-marketing, agribusiness, farm-labour, work, community-and-society, brisbane-4000, maroochydore-4558
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| UpdatedA father who tortured and killed his newborn daughter in her home in Gympie in south-east Queensland is sentenced to nine years in jail.
Topics: courts-and-trials, murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, brisbane-4000, gympie-4570, qld, maroochydore-4558
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Residents on Queensland's Sunshine Coast vow to fund a $200,000 legal battle against a proposed sand mine.
Topics: courts-and-trials, activism-and-lobbying, mineral-sands, mining-environmental-issues, local-government, maroochydore-4558, qld, australia
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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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Australia's honey industry is battling against an invasive pest known as the Small Hive Beetle which can decimate bee hives.
Topics: beekeeping, livestock, rural, pest-management, maroochydore-4558, brisbane-4000, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedThe fire that has threatened homes in the Sunshine Coast community of Coolum for three days is contained following an afternoon storm.
Topics: bushfire, fires, emergency-incidents, disasters-and-accidents, coolum-beach-4573, maroochydore-4558
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| UpdatedFirefighters contain a large, fast-moving bushfire which was earlier threatening about 60 homes on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, bushfire, fires, emergency-incidents, coolum-beach-4573, qld, maroochydore-4558, australia
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Sunshine Coast pineapple farmers are concerned their fruit will burn and become unsaleable in extreme heat.
Topics: fruits, fruit, agricultural-crops, rural, weather, glass-house-mountains-4518, maroochydore-4558
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| UpdatedEasing conditions reduce the threat of a bushfire burning since yesterday afternoon at Coolum on Queensland's Sunshine Coast, as authorities reopen the Sunshine Motorway but warn smoke haze may impact visibility for motorists.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, bushfire, emergency-incidents, coolum-beach-4573, peregian-beach-4573, maroochydore-4558, qld, australia
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A group of Queensland and New South Wales dairy farmers fear they could lose up to $3 million if a major milk processor drops the price it pays to farmers.
Topics: livestock, dairy-production, rural, business-economics-and-finance, industrial-relations, agribusiness, agricultural-prices, brisbane-4000, maroochydore-4558, lismore-2480, toowoomba-4350, bundaberg-4670
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A national scientific agency says Queensland's UV index so far this summer is higher than in previous years.
Topics: weather, health, diseases-and-disorders, skin, skin-cancer, maroochydore-4558, brisbane-4000, townsville-4810
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| UpdatedHeatwave conditions are scorching southern Queensland for a second time in just over a week, with paramedics preparing for another spike in heat-related cases.
Topics: weather, emergency-planning, phenomena, brisbane-4000, qld, australia, ipswich-4305, southport-4215, chinchilla-4413, maroochydore-4558, toowoomba-4350, bedourie-4829, birdsville-4482
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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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A Queensland man dies while quad-biking through a Sunshine Coast forest, two weeks before his wife is due to give birth to their first child.
Topics: emergency-incidents, people, death, beerburrum-4517, maroochydore-4558, qld
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| UpdatedParts of south-east Queensland are hit by heavy rainfall and flash flooding after severe thunderstorms, described as "very dangerous" by the Bureau of Meteorology.
Topics: weather, rainfall, storm-event, brisbane-4000, ipswich-4305, southport-4215, toowoomba-4350, maroochydore-4558, thargomindah-4492, qld