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| UpdatedTwo Queensland rugby union teams will be pitted against the rest of the country when they head to one of Australia's biggest Indigenous sevens tournaments.
Topics: rugby-union, womens-health, rugby-7, sport, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, women, rockhampton-4700, coffs-harbour-2450
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| UpdatedMeat processors say the rollout of new objective carcase measurement technology needs to stop until the commercial benefits to industry are clear, and a feasibility study is complete.
Topics: beef-cattle, food-processing, sydney-2000, longford-7301, bordertown-5268, rockhampton-4700, brisbane-4000, tamworth-2340
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South Sudanese and now-Australian citizen James Nien survived war to create a new life, but has had to turn to crowdfunding to bring his wife and young daughter to live with him.
Topics: refugees, immigration, people, rockhampton-4700, kenya
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Topics: agricultural-prices, beef-cattle, cloning, rockhampton-4700
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| UpdatedGraziers in central Queensland have taken the step of cloning a prize heifer, moving the technology from the lab into the paddock.
Topics: beef-cattle, cloning, rural, livestock, rockhampton-4700, vic
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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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A trend for barbered haircuts and cut-throat shaves has seen barber shops popping up on street corners throughout the country.
Topics: fashion, hair, arts-and-entertainment, popular-culture, rockhampton-4700
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Topics: education, rockhampton-4700
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Topics: education, rockhampton-4700
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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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A central Queensland teenager with congenital muscular dystrophy is elected vice-captain at his school by his teachers and peers.
Topics: disabilities, secondary-schools, leadership, rockhampton-4700
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Topics: disabilities, secondary-schools, leadership, rockhampton-4700
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Topics: disabilities, secondary-schools, leadership, rockhampton-4700
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Central Queensland off-road racer Billy Geddes competing in the 2012 Finke Desert Race.
Topics: sport, motor-sports, finke-0872, rockhampton-4700
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| UpdatedA grazier and quarry owner trades in his quiet life to compete in some of the United States' roughest off-road races.
Topics: motor-sports, rockhampton-4700
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Regions that offer adequate amenities for residents have the best chance of converting long-distance commuters into the sort of new residents who can sustain regional prosperity.
Topics: mining-rural, mining-industry, family, family-and-children, regional-development, regional, community-and-society, karratha-6714, port-hedland-6721, mackay-4740, rockhampton-4700, roxby-downs-5725, weipa-4874, newman-6753
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Topics: university-and-further-education, access-to-education, adult-education, distance-education, immigration, rockhampton-4700
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Topics: university-and-further-education, access-to-education, adult-education, distance-education, immigration, rockhampton-4700
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| UpdatedFrom working class England where education was of little significance, to leading one of Australia's largest universities, Scott Bowman is changing people's attitudes towards education and championing the underdog.
Topics: university-and-further-education, access-to-education, immigration, work, human-interest, people, rockhampton-4700, bathurst-2795, united-kingdom
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| UpdatedThe Federal Government has abandoned plans to compulsorily acquire farmland in Queensland which was to be used for joint training exercises with Singapore's military. The Defence Minister, Marise Payne, and Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce spoke to the Queensland Country Hour about the reason they have overturned the forced land buyout of prime grazing country in Marlborough, north of Rockhampton, and inland of Townsville; AgForce and affected landholders say they are 'over the moon' about the decision.
Topics: beef-cattle, defence-industry, cairns-4870, brisbane-4000, rockhampton-4700, townsville-4810
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Topics: hospitality, tourism, rural-tourism, rockhampton-4700