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Former 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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| UpdatedSexual abuse in Australia's Catholic schools didn't come from nowhere. It took hold in systems where violence was not just condoned, but encouraged.
Topics: catholic, religion-and-beliefs, community-and-society, royal-commissions, law-crime-and-justice, child-abuse, sexual-offences, brisbane-4000, qld, australia
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| UpdatedAllison Baden-Clay's former husband Gerard Baden-Clay will not get any of her money and her father Geoff Dickie has been made executor of her estate, the Supreme Court rules.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, murder-and-manslaughter, crime, brisbane-4000, qld
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| UpdatedVoters will now be able to see how much has been donated to political parties and candidates within a week of money changing hands, in a move the Queensland Government says should be adopted nationally.
Topics: political-parties, elections, government-and-politics, liberal-national-party-queensland, one-nation, minor-parties, state-parliament, parliament, alp, activism-and-lobbying, brisbane-4000, qld
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| UpdatedArdent Leisure, the operator of the Gold Coast's Dreamworld theme park, has reported a loss of $49.4 million hit by the impact of the October ride tragedy that killed four people.
Topics: company-news, tourism, stockmarket, markets, regulation, qld, australia
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| UpdatedNew Hope, the company behind the New Acland coal mine on Queensland's Darling Downs, is silencing nearby farmers in signed agreements, an environmentalist says.
Topics: activism-and-lobbying, courts-and-trials, mining-rural, mining-industry, coal, community-development, regional, regional-development, acland-4401, oakey-4401, qld, australia, toowoomba-4350
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| UpdatedFrontline services will be impacted as jobs are slashed from the federal Health Department, the public sector union warns.
Topics: public-sector, government-and-politics, health-policy, health-administration, australia, act, nsw, vic, tas, sa, qld, nt, wa
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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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| UpdatedAviation and community groups say there are too many developments hampering pilots and putting people at risk at Archerfield Airport, on Brisbane's outskirts.
Topics: air-transport, accidents, air-and-space, community-and-society, urban-development-and-planning, disasters-and-accidents, archerfield-4108, qld
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| UpdatedA man accused of attempting to extort $50,000 from a cafe manager threatened to "break his legs" if he did not pay up, a Brisbane court hears.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, qld, brisbane-4000, logan-central-4114
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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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A cloud is hanging over Jeff Horn's fight with boxing great Manny Pacquiao, with the Filipino legend's camp confirming the Australian is but one of a number of candidates for his next bout.
Topics: sport, boxing, brisbane-4000, qld, australia, philippines
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| UpdatedThe largest cruise ship to come to Brisbane, the Ovation of the Seas, has docked at Fisherman Island, as it is too big to fit under the city's Gateway Bridge.
Topics: human-interest, people, brisbane-4000, qld, australia
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The death of a Cairns pensioner, who lived with a disability, is being treated as suspicious after his body was found in his bedroom up to three days after he died.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, mooroobool-4870, qld, cairns-4870
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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