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Topics: beef-cattle, land-management, environmental-management, environmental-policy, rural, townsville-4810, bowen-4805, collinsville-4804
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Topics: beef-cattle, land-management, environmental-management, environmental-policy, rural, townsville-4810, bowen-4805, collinsville-4804
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Topics: beef-cattle, land-management, environmental-management, environmental-policy, rural, townsville-4810, bowen-4805, collinsville-4804
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| UpdatedGraziers help shape land management project in reef catchment first.
Topics: beef-cattle, land-management, environmental-management, environmental-policy, rural, great-barrier-reef, townsville-4810, bowen-4805, collinsville-4804
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| UpdatedFormer Queensland Nickel director Clive Mensink has been diagnosed with clinical depression and anxiety and returning to Australia to face a public court examination would prove difficult, a Brisbane court hears.
Topics: courts-and-trials, clive-palmer, company-news, law-crime-and-justice, brisbane-4000, qld, townsville-4810
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| UpdatedThe much-anticipated masterplan for the expansion of military training bases in central and north Queensland has confirmed the government's promise to overturn plans for forced buybacks, as it forges ahead with a $2.2 billion joint defence agreement with the Singaporean government.
Topics: beef-cattle, defence-forces, cairns-4870, brisbane-4000, rockhampton-4700, townsville-4810
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| UpdatedDefence has scaled back its plans to expand military training bases in central and north Queensland, promising in its masterplan not to force any landholder to sell their property.
Topics: defence-forces, beef-cattle, cairns-4870, brisbane-4000, rockhampton-4700, townsville-4810
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Mining giant Glencore confirms more freight will be on the road in north Queensland after rail company Aurizon lost its contract.
Topics: rail-transport, road-transport, mining-rural, mining-industry, mount-isa-4825, hughenden-4821, townsville-4810, richmond-4822
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An energy therapy clinic operating on James Cook University's Townsville campus has been shut down by the institution.
Topics: alternative-medicine, health, university-and-further-education, townsville-4810
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| UpdatedAs new evidence of coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef emerges, scientists warn the temperatures that caused last year's devastating coral die-off will be commonplace within decades.
Topics: climate-change, great-barrier-reef, marine-biology, cairns-4870, melbourne-3000, townsville-4810
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| UpdatedTourists may be forced to wear life jackets while snorkelling on the Great Barrier Reef, under a plan being considered by the Queensland Government following a spike in deaths.
Topics: great-barrier-reef, emergency-incidents, disasters-and-accidents, emergency-planning, cairns-4870, qld, townsville-4810
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| UpdatedHe's been on extended overseas holidays and cites medical conditions, now lawyers say they're fed up with former Queensland Nickel director Clive Mensink's "excuses" and want him to face questioning about the company's collapse.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, qld, brisbane-4000, townsville-4810
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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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Topics: education, townsville-4810
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Topics: education, townsville-4810
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Topics: education, townsville-4810
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For international students studying in Queensland universities the new academic year comes with a new language and new culture.
Topics: education, townsville-4810, mooloolaba-4557, cairns-4870, rockhampton-4700, 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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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
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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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| UpdatedWhile Darwin bore the brunt of World War II attacks in northern Australia, historians are calling for more recognition for places outside of Darwin that were bombed by the Japanese.
Topics: world-war-2, katherine-0850, milingimbi-0822, exmouth-6707, townsville-4810, darwin-0800
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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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Topics: irrigation, sugar, townsville-4810, cairns-4870
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| UpdatedClive 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