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| UpdatedA stand-off between a solar farm and electricity network provider delays the switch-on of a major solar project in Queensland's Gulf Country.
Topics: solar-energy, electricity-energy-and-utilities, normanton-4890
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Topics: distance-education, kids-games-and-links, primary-schools, secondary-schools, mount-isa-4825, normanton-4890, tennant-creek-0860
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Two women providing in-demand hairdressing services in far north Queensland take a 1,600km road trip every six weeks, working in halls, beer gardens and by the side of the road.
Topics: rural-women, television, television-broadcasting, regional, normanton-4890
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Topics: hair, travel-health-and-safety, television, normanton-4890
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Topics: hair, rural-women, rural-media, lifestyle-and-leisure, television, television-broadcasting, normanton-4890
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Topics: environmental-management, research, adult-education, rivers, oceans-and-reefs, normanton-4890, cairns-4870
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Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, environmental-management, research, adult-education, rivers, oceans-and-reefs, normanton-4890, cairns-4870
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Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, environmental-management, research, adult-education, rivers, oceans-and-reefs, normanton-4890, cairns-4870
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Indigenous ranger teams in Queensland's Gulf of Carpentaria are being trained to monitor the region's mangroves with the hope of identifying and preventing further diebacks.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, environmental-management, research, adult-education, rivers, oceans-and-reefs, normanton-4890, cairns-4870
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Taxpayers could be left with a $6 million bill to clean up hundreds of abandoned boats along Queensland's coastline.
Topics: sea-transport, safety, maritime, mackay-4740, southport-4215, qld, normanton-4890, brisbane-4000, bundaberg-4670, cairns-4870, townsville-4810
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Police in North West Queensland have flown across the state to hold forums in a desperate bid to educate local communities about the impacts of the drug ice.
Topics: police, drug-offences, drug-use, drug-education, normanton-4890, gununa-4871, doomadgee-4830, mount-isa-4825, cloncurry-4824
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Topics: drug-education, drugs-and-substance-abuse, police, normanton-4890
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Topics: marathon, charities, offbeat, regional, cairns-4870, townsville-4810, darwin-0800, mount-garnet-4872, normanton-4890
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Australia's real-life answer to Forrest Gump is aiming to be the first person to run across Australia solo without a support vehicle.
Topics: marathon, charities, offbeat, regional, cairns-4870, townsville-4810, darwin-0800, mount-garnet-4872, normanton-4890
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Topics: marathon, charities, offbeat, regional, cairns-4870, townsville-4810, darwin-0800, mount-garnet-4872, normanton-4890
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The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) says a proposed solar farm at Normanton, in north-west Queensland's Gulf Country, will be able to power the entire town.
Topics: solar-energy, normanton-4890, mount-isa-4825, longreach-4730, cairns-4870
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Three teenagers have been charged over a fire at an abandoned house in the Gulf Country in north-west Queensland.
Topics: courts-and-trials, residential, crime, arson, normanton-4890, longreach-4730, mount-isa-4825
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Deputy Prime Minister, Warren Truss, Mayor of the Quilpie shire, Stuart Mackenzie, Federal Agriculture Minister, Barnaby Joyce and Mayor of the Boulia shire, Rick Britton discuss the Federal Governments Drought Communities Programme.
Topics: drought, agricultural-policy, agricultural-subsidies, federal-government, community-development, boulia-4829, quilpie-4480, karumba-4891, normanton-4890, canberra-2600
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| UpdatedThe Federal Government announces three shires in remote Qld now eligible for Drought Communities Programme funding.
Topics: drought, agricultural-policy, agricultural-subsidies, federal-government, community-development, boulia-4829, quilpie-4480, karumba-4891, normanton-4890
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Nanango MP and the LNP's agriculture spokesperson Deb Frecklington said she won't go into the debate and comments surrounding her invitation to join the Queensland Rural Debt Taskforce that meets this week in the gulf.
Topics: rural, agribusiness, beef-cattle, livestock, wool, agricultural-crops, grain, normanton-4890, nanango-4615, kingaroy-4610
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| UpdatedThe members of the Queensland Rural Debt Taskforce have only just been made official on the eve of the first meeting in the north west of the state after angst over who would be the MP representing the LNP.
Topics: rural, agribusiness, beef-cattle, political-parties, agricultural-policy, drought, livestock, wool, normanton-4890, nanango-4615, kingaroy-4610
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Ergon Energy crews are working to restore power to hundreds of customers in north-west Queensland after another night of wild electrical storms.
Topics: storm-event, georgetown-4871, normanton-4890, karumba-4891, cairns-4870, mount-isa-4825
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| UpdatedOne of the country's largest single land clearings is investigated over concerns bulldozing in Queensland's Gulf Country may have affected threatened species and broken the law.
Topics: land-clearing, law-crime-and-justice, federal-government, croydon-4871, normanton-4890
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| UpdatedPolice say a man who was killed by lightning in north-west Queensland on Thursday was a 48-year-old cattle station worker.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, normanton-4890, cairns-4870, mount-isa-4825
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A 56-year-old man who allegedly attacked a Gulf of Carpentaria mayor earlier this week has appeared in court.
Topics: courts-and-trials, assault, normanton-4890, longreach-4730, cairns-4870, mount-isa-4825