Brisbane

• Free meningococcal vaccine to be available for Queensland teens

  By Nick Wiggins

  Posted February 19, 2017 11:40:06 | Updated February 19, 2017 13:42:03

  Johaan Kaa, who lost both his legs and arms to meningococcal in 2014, hopes Queensland parents will take up a new $6-million State Government program to provide free vaccines to all 15 to 19-year-olds.

  Topics: meningococcal-disease, diseases-and-disorders, health, government-and-politics, qld, brisbane-4000

• Lions beat Collingwood; GWS and Freo play out AFL Women's first-ever draw

  Posted February 18, 2017 15:11:14 | Updated February 19, 2017 12:20:55

  The Brisbane Lions make it three from three with a win over Collingwood while GWS and Fremantle play out the first ever AFL Women's draw.

  Topics: australian-football-league, sport, brisbane-4000, blacktown-2148, nsw, qld, collingwood-3066, vic, fremantle-6160, perth-6000, wa, australia

• Jeff Horn took up boxing as a way to deal with school bullying Video

  Video
  ABC News

  1min 2sec

  Posted February 18, 2017 12:48:46

  Jeff Horn took up boxing as a way to deal with school bullying. Now he's on the verge of facing all-time great Manny Pacquiao for the WBO world welterweight title in Brisbane.

  Topics: boxing, sport, brisbane-4000

• Jeff Horn's mum tried to talk Brisbane title contender out of boxing

  By Michael Rennie

  Posted February 18, 2017 09:31:11 | Updated February 18, 2017 12:48:46

  Jeff Horn's mother Leasa Dykstra says she never wanted him to become a boxer and tried to talk him out of it, yet Horn has become the great hope of Australian boxing and aiming to take on welterweight world champion Manny Pacquiao.

  Topics: boxing, sport, family, brisbane-4000

• How holidays inspire scratch-it designs

  ABC Radio Brisbane

  By Jessica Hinchliffe

  Posted February 17, 2017 15:31:57

  What inspires the designs that offer people the chance of early retirement or money for life all with the swipe of a coin?

  Topics: gambling, design, human-interest, brisbane-4000

• 'This drug will kill you': Lethal carfentanyl found at Brisbane mail centre

  Posted February 17, 2017 14:48:53 | Updated February 17, 2017 22:32:07

  A 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

• Anna Bligh appointed as Australian Bankers' Association CEO

  By Kristian Silva

  Posted February 17, 2017 11:00:10 | Updated February 17, 2017 17:11:23

  Former 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

• Pauline Hanson will run 'strong campaign' in Nicklin: departing MP

  By Bruce Atkinson and Chris O'Brien

  Posted February 17, 2017 10:52:10 | Updated February 17, 2017 14:55:01

  The 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

• Peter Wellington will not run in next Queensland election

  By Bruce Atkinson

  Posted February 16, 2017 19:07:30 | Updated February 16, 2017 22:08:54

  Sunshine 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

• Barry Pollock from Sunfish says removing infected prawns from supermarkets is the only way to eliminate white spot risk Audio

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  ABC News

  6min 35sec

  Posted February 16, 2017 18:54:18

  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

• Recreational fishers back calls for imported seafood recall

  ABC Rural

  By Charlie McKillop

  Posted February 16, 2017 18:54:18

  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

• Historical menus served native critters on a plate

  ABC Radio Brisbane

  By Jessica Hinchliffe

  Posted February 16, 2017 14:41:54 | Updated February 16, 2017 15:02:48

  From 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

• Aurukun school unwittingly received up to $815k in overpayments

  By Casey Briggs

  Posted February 16, 2017 12:55:59 | Updated February 16, 2017 17:32:29

  The 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

• Clive Palmer says blaming him for Queensland Nickel collapse unfair

  By Josh Bavas

  Posted February 16, 2017 12:15:19 | Updated February 16, 2017 18:42:48

  Clive 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

• 'People in hazmat suits' scrubbed cruise ship amid gastro outbreak

  Posted February 16, 2017 08:39:47 | Updated February 16, 2017 14:07:20

  About 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

• Murderers must tell where victims are before seeking parole

  By Leonie Mellor, David Chen and staff

  Posted February 16, 2017 06:49:37 | Updated February 16, 2017 16:16:49

  New '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

• Super Netball to build on women's sport momentum

  By Brittany Carter

  Posted February 15, 2017 18:56:41 | Updated February 16, 2017 12:17:27

  Super 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

• Ergon's Queensland electricity price hike unjustified, report says

  ABC Rural

  By Robin McConchie

  Posted February 15, 2017 18:32:09 | Updated February 16, 2017 18:42:48

  A 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

• Clive Palmer 'can't remember $15m payments', court hears

  By Kristian Silva

  Posted February 15, 2017 17:28:09 | Updated February 16, 2017 00:10:56

  Clive 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

• Brisbane schools 'failed to act' on Kevin Lynch sexual abuse allegations

  By Nick Wiggins and Matt Eaton

  Posted February 15, 2017 16:46:25 | Updated February 15, 2017 20:29:12

  Private 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

• Lorna Jane employee thought about 'ending her life' over alleged bullying

  By Lexy Hamilton-Smith

  Posted February 15, 2017 15:58:25 | Updated February 15, 2017 18:22:29

  A 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

• MentalMusic helps teenagers talk about mental health

  ABC Radio Brisbane

  By Jessica Hinchliffe

  Posted February 15, 2017 12:33:55

  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

• Clive Palmer to testify in court over Queensland Nickel's demise

  Posted February 15, 2017 11:26:31 | Updated February 15, 2017 12:56:37

  Businessman 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

• Offensive Wicked Campers vehicles face de-registration on Queensland roads

  By Gail Burke and Kristian Silva

  Posted February 15, 2017 06:50:37 | Updated February 15, 2017 11:00:35

  Sexist, 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

• Lorna Jane sued by ex-worker who was 'bullied over weight'

  By Louisa Rebgetz and wires

  Posted February 14, 2017 16:36:49 | Updated February 14, 2017 17:31:52

  A 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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