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| UpdatedSupreme Court Justice Debra Mullins sentences former Bandido bikie Lionel Patea to life in jail for the bashing murder of his ex-partner Tara Brown on the Gold Coast.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, courts-and-trials, domestic-violence, brisbane-4000
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A mother whose son contracted Q fever as a four-year-old calls for vaccinations and subsidies to make them accessible.
Topics: vaccines-and-immunity, livestock-welfare, veterinary-medicine, rural-youth, tambo-4478, sydney-2000, brisbane-4000
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Topics: vaccines-and-immunity, brisbane-4000
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A Brisbane woman is searching for women who own classic cars in the hopes of documenting the love affair that exists between them.
Topics: documentary, automobile-enthusiasm, women, community-and-society, lifestyle-and-leisure, human-interest, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedLabor's Environment Minister Steven Miles plans to relocate to the electorate of Murrumba to contest the next election because of boundary changes that will see his current seat of Mt Coot-tha merge with the LNP-held seat of Indooroopilly.
Topics: elections, alp, liberal-national-party-queensland, state-parliament, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedFormer Bandido bikie Lionel Patea pleads guilty to murder after running his ex-partner's car off the road and bashing her with a metal plate while she was trapped in the wreckage.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, murder-and-manslaughter, crime, domestic-violence, brisbane-4000, qld, australia, molendinar-4214, southport-4215
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| UpdatedThe Queensland Government is hoping financial incentives will help to bring working families into the foster care system as it seeks to find more homes for the rising number of children in urgent need of placement.
Topics: carers, child-care, public-sector, child-abuse, brisbane-4000
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Collingwood, the Giants and the NSW Swifts record Super Netball wins in round two at the expense of the Firebirds, Fever and Thunderbirds.
Topics: netball, sport, qld, collingwood-3066, vic, nsw, sydney-2000, brisbane-4000, adelaide-5000, sa, perth-6000, wa, australia
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Brisbane Roar miss a chance to move ahead in the battle for third spot, losing 2-1 to Wellington Phoenix at Lang Park.
Topics: a-league, soccer, sport, brisbane-4000, qld, australia
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A parked taxi erupts in a ball of flames in the Brisbane suburb of Taringa and a neighbour catches the drama on video, as the intense blaze sets a second car on fire.
Topics: emergency-incidents, fires, taringa-4068, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedPolice accuse a Brisbane man of deliberately grabbing the steering wheel of his ex-girlfriend's car, causing it to crash head-on into a ute and leaving her seriously injured.
Topics: courts-and-trials, assault, domestic-violence, brisbane-4000
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The Queensland Reds snatch a come-from-behind 28-26 win over the Sharks in their Super Rugby season opener.
Topics: super-rugby, rugby-union, sport, brisbane-4000, qld, australia
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The latest reshuffle of Queensland's electorates honours seven distinguished women from all over the state.
Topics: electoral-system, government-and-politics, state-parliament, parliament, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, qld, australia, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedIt would be unreasonable to expect former Queensland Nickel director Clive Mensink to fly in an economy-sized seat to Australia to face a public examination into the refinery's collapse, a Brisbane court hears.
Topics: courts-and-trials, company-news, clive-palmer, brisbane-4000, qld, australia, townsville-4810
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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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| UpdatedFind out what the Queensland Redistribution Commission's proposed boundary changes mean for your electorate, and where the lines and names are changing.
Topics: elections, state-parliament, electoral-system, brisbane-4000, qld
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| UpdatedA New Zealand man faces a Brisbane court after being extradited for allegedly abusing a boy offered by his fathers.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, brisbane-4000, qld
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| UpdatedSydney's Catholic Archbishop says reporting abuse to authorities that he heard about during a confession would be like "bugging the confessional".
Topics: royal-commissions, sexual-offences, catholic, child-abuse, sydney-2000, adelaide-5000, melbourne-3000, brisbane-4000, perth-6000
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| UpdatedQueensland's politicians, including Environment Minister Steven Miles and Shadow Treasurer Scott Emerson, are scrambling to come to terms with proposed electorate boundary changes, only months from an expected election.
Topics: political-parties, government-and-politics, liberal-national-party-queensland, alp, federal-elections, minor-parties, electoral-system, elections, qld, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedAn unusually warm winter and a second warm summer has the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority warning of "elevated and imminent risk" of bleaching, with a new report stating Australia has no plan for dealing with climate change impacts.
Topics: great-barrier-reef, environment, oceans-and-reefs, environmental-impact, environmental-management, environmental-policy, activism-and-lobbying, government-and-politics, cairns-4870, qld, townsville-4810, brisbane-4000
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Evocca College is closing more of its remaining campuses in Queensland and Victoria and a further 60 staff have been made redundant, the ABC understands, in the latest sign of instability in the scandal-plagued private training sector.
Topics: education, distance-education, university-and-further-education, education-industry, vocational, australia, qld, brisbane-4000, caboolture-4510, vic, geelong-3220, corio-3214, frankston-3199, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedQueensland children in residential care are being given medication to control their behaviour, without appropriate diagnosis and parental consent, the state's Office of the Public Guardian (OPG) says.
Topics: child-health-and-behaviour, health, public-sector, government-and-politics, drug-use, brisbane-4000, qld, australia
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A man who allegedly abducted a woman who was seriously injured after throwing herself out of a moving car in a bid to get away, is extradited from Queensland to Western Australia more than 10 years later.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, perth-6000, brisbane-4000, chittering-6084
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| UpdatedThe battle lines for the next Queensland election are released, in what is the biggest redistribution of boundaries in decades.
Topics: elections, government-and-politics, state-parliament, parliament, electoral-system, alp, political-parties, liberal-national-party-queensland, bob-katter, minor-parties, qld, brisbane-4000, mount-isa-4825