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Queensland's peak body for local governments calls for more centralised management of flying fox populations.
Topics: pest-management, pests, conservation, local-government, federal---state-issues, ingham-4850, qld, townsville-4810
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Queensland Parliament will urgently debate an Opposition bill aimed at forcing a long-running sugar industry dispute into arbitration, even though the Government has installed a mediator between the two bodies at the centre of the row.
Topics: state-parliament, sugar, judges-and-legal-profession, brisbane-4000, bundaberg-4670, cairns-4870, mackay-4740, rockhampton-4700, townsville-4810, qld
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| UpdatedThe Queensland Government scraps its appeal against a Federal Court ruling that police were racist in their response to riots sparked by the death in custody of Cameron Doomadgee on Palm Island in 2004.
Topics: state-parliament, parliament, courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, public-sector, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, brisbane-4000, qld, australia, palm-island-4815, townsville-4810
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Topics: irrigation, sugar, townsville-4810, cairns-4870
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| UpdatedSupport for One Nation and the Liberal National Party is neck and neck in the Queensland seat of Dawson, which is currently held by fractious LNP MP George Christensen — who has repeatedly threatened to leave the party if it does not return to its conservative roots.
Topics: liberal-national-party-queensland, one-nation, nationals, government-and-politics, federal-government, federal---state-issues, elections, ayr-4807, bowen-4805, mackay-4740, proserpine-4800, townsville-4810, qld, australia
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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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Residents in Queensland's Gulf country are criticising the State Government's flooded road closure policy, and are calling for a permit system.
Topics: floods, state-parliament, activism-and-lobbying, food-and-cooking, community-and-society, normanton-4890, qld, townsville-4810, croydon-4871
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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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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