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| UpdatedA nine-year-old girl missing from north of Brisbane since this morning, sparking an Amber Alert from Queensland police, is found safe and well.
Topics: community-and-society, missing-person, caboolture-4510, qld
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| UpdatedJohaan 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
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The Queensland Symphony Orchestra snares the talents of one of the world's most acclaimed conductors, Alondra de la Parra.
Topics: orchestral, arts-and-entertainment, qld
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| UpdatedThe 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
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Dancing is proving to be an effective way to refocus the minds of people with Alzheimer's and dementia, instructors say.
Topics: alzheimers-and-dementia, dance, human-interest, maroochydore-4558, qld, australia
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Pauline Hanson and her One Nation colleagues are asked to move their press conference from private property, February 17, 2017.
Topics: political-parties, government-and-politics, political-parties, one-nation, media, qld
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| UpdatedPauline Hanson and her One Nation colleagues are asked to move their press conference from private property, February 17, 2017.
Topics: political-parties, media, government-and-politics, one-nation, qld
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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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What had been shaping up as Australia's best mungbean season ever is spoiled by last week's extreme weather.
Topics: agribusiness, agricultural-crops, qld
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Topics: agribusiness, weather, agricultural-crops, qld
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| UpdatedThe Queensland Government declares an expanded "investigation zone" after the discovery of flammable levels of hydrogen in soil on the western Darling Downs.
Topics: oil-and-gas, electricity-energy-and-utilities, energy, environment, states-and-territories, hopeland-4413, chinchilla-4413, qld
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| UpdatedIt is a crime evoking bushrangers and cattle duffers but stock theft has become a modern crime and researchers are hoping to find a technological solution.
Topics: beef-cattle, miscellaneous-animal-production, weird-and-wonderful, crime-prevention, science-and-technology, university-and-further-education, research, central-queensland-university-4701, qld
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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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| UpdatedWith political heat flaring the length of the Murray-Darling, there are fears the future of the fragile water sharing deal hangs in the balance.
Topics: rivers, environment, water-management, water-supply, environmental-impact, environmental-management, environmental-policy, joyce-barnaby, turnbull-malcolm, howard-john-winston, murray-darling-basin, australia, sa, qld, vic, nsw
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| UpdatedA plan to overhaul Queensland's stock squad will see greater focus placed on tackling rural crime issues such as drugs, child exploitation and fraud.
Topics: police, livestock, crime-prevention, qld
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| UpdatedThe Bureau of Meteorology says Queensland may see its first cyclone of the season, to be named Alfred, form in the Gulf of Carpentaria on Sunday.
Topics: weather, cyclones, disasters-and-accidents, cairns-4870, kowanyama-4871, doomadgee-4830, qld, darwin-0800, burketown-4830, nt
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| UpdatedDeputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce is predicting an early state election in Queensland.
Topics: government-and-politics, elections, liberal-national-party-queensland, alp, one-nation, nationals, qld
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| UpdatedGrant Hackett's family has pleaded with him to make contact with them after revealing the champion swimmer has not been seen since this morning, February 16, 2017.
Topics: missing-person, swimming, sport, southport-4215, qld
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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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| UpdatedHow are primary producers battling the heat and what will it mean for consumers and their wallets?
Topics: agribusiness, sheep-production, dairy-production, vegetables, poultry-and-egg-production, fruits, rural, food-and-cooking, weather, australia, vic, nsw, qld, hay-2711, dubbo-2830, bordertown-5268, stanthorpe-4380, wamuran-4512, glass-house-mountains-4518
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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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| 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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| UpdatedMike Fitzpatrick reflects on the ups and downs of his 10-year reign as AFL chairman, including Essendon's doping saga, the AFL's expansion plans, gambling and the new women's league.
Topics: australian-football-league, sport, melbourne-3000, vic, australia, nsw, sa, wa, tas, qld, nt