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| UpdatedPreventing sexual violence is everyone's responsibility, but we need to be careful about how we do it, writes Bianca Fileborn from UNSW.
Topics: sexual-offences, law-crime-and-justice, community-and-society, australia, vic, tas, qld, sa, nt, nsw, wa
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| UpdatedLawyers for Clive Palmer's nephew, former Queensland Nickel director Clive Mensink, say he is still overseas but they are not sure where, as he risks an arrest warrant being issued for missing cross-examination over the company's collapse.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, brisbane-4000, townsville-4810, qld
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| UpdatedThere are plans to wipe out one in five of Australia's remaining feral rabbits with a new strain of the calicivirus to be released next week.
Topics: animals, human-interest, rural, animal-science, animal-welfare, australia, act, wa, qld, tas, nt, nsw, sa
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Some homes in the community of Borroloola on the Gulf of Carpentaria have been evacuated with 74 residents sheltering elsewhere, as they wait for Cyclone Alfred to make landfall about sunrise on Tuesday.
Topics: cyclone, weather, borroloola-0854, burketown-4830, doomadgee-4830, darwin-0800, nt, qld
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| UpdatedTropical Cyclone Alfred weakens to a tropical low as it begins to make landfall on the Gulf of Carpentaria's southern coast.
Topics: cyclones, rainfall, borroloola-0854, burketown-4830, doomadgee-4830, darwin-0800, nt, qld
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| UpdatedIt appears either Matt Renshaw or Usman Khawaja will miss out on selection for the first Test against India, after coach Darren Lehmann says "it's a tight call" between the Queensland pair.
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Three friends who had stopped in at a bottle shop in Spring Hill say a gunman forced their Uber driver out of his vehicle and warned them to 'move along', February 20, 2017.
Topics: armed-robbery, crime, law-crime-and-justice, spring-hill-4000, qld, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedThree passengers recount the moment an alleged gunman climbed into their Uber while parked outside a bottle shop in Brisbane, forcing the driver out of his car while warning them to "move along".
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, armed-robbery, spring-hill-4000, qld, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedThe coal industry's multi-million-dollar advertising and lobbying campaign in the run-up to the last federal election was bankrolled by money deducted from state mining royalty payments and meant to fund research into "clean coal".
Topics: coal, environment, activism-and-lobbying, federal---state-issues, australia, qld, nsw
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| UpdatedTiahleigh Palmer was one of 46 Queensland children in the child protection system who died in 2015-16, in a case the Government has described as "tragic". Take a look at what could be changing as authorities hope to prevent similar incidents.
Topics: family-and-children, community-and-society, law-crime-and-justice, crime, crime-prevention, government-and-politics, state-parliament, parliament, qld, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedQueenslanders are being urged to maintain a healthy weight, be sun smart and do more to take care of their health to reduce their risk of cancer, after diagnoses in the state rose by more than 20 per cent over three decades.
Topics: cancer, prostate-cancer, lung-cancer, bowel-and-rectal-cancer, breast-cancer, diseases-and-disorders, health, qld, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedThe Queensland Government will spend $6 million to improve communication between agencies when a child goes missing, as part of recommendations following the death Logan schoolgirl Tiahleigh Palmer.
Topics: family-and-children, community-and-society, law-crime-and-justice, crime, crime-prevention, government-and-politics, state-parliament, parliament, qld, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedHomes in the community of Borroloola on the Gulf of Carpentaria are evacuated, with 74 residents sheltering elsewhere while waiting for Cyclone Alfred to make landfall.
Topics: weather, cyclone, cyclones, disasters-and-accidents, borroloola-0854, burketown-4830, doomadgee-4830, darwin-0800, cairns-4870, townsville-4810, qld, nt
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| UpdatedThe ABC obtains a raft of Cabinet briefing documents prepared for the Newman government's razor gang showing it axed Ecofund despite being told it was a "profitable, cash flow positive and standalone entity".
Topics: climate-change, environment, state-parliament, parliament, government-and-politics, qld, australia
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Is year 12 really worth all the stress, and does it prepare you for the real world? Students who self-documented their entire final year for the ABC give their verdicts.
Topics: secondary-schools, schools, education, australia, wa, vic, tas, sa, qld, nt, nsw, act, kununurra-6743
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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