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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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Former Young Queenslander of the Year Jean Madden says she will continue fighting charges she misappropriated more than $440,000 from a charity she founded, adding she has "never done a dishonest thing in my life".
Topics: charities-and-community-organisations, fraud-and-corporate-crime, courts-and-trials, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedA failure of the National Broadband Network's Sky Muster satellite leaves about 65,000 consumers across regional, rural and remote Australia without internet access just one day before a secondary satellite is decommissioned.
Topics: internet-technology, telecommunications, regional, rural, brisbane-4000, 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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| UpdatedMany Australians suffering from lung cancer are wrongfully accused of being long-term smokers and say they shy away from talking about their illness because they are afraid of being judged.
Topics: lung-cancer, diseases-and-disorders, health, smoking, medical-research, people, human-interest, brisbane-4000, qld, australia
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| UpdatedA debate to decriminalise abortion in Queensland is cancelled and the issue postponed until at least the next term of Parliament, after LNP MPs indicated they would not support the proposal.
Topics: abortion, laws, state-parliament, minor-parties, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedFormer Bandido Lionel Patea, who was sentenced to life in prison for murdering Tara Brown, has a history of breaching domestic violence orders and attacked the young Gold Coast mother a week before killing her.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, courts-and-trials, domestic-violence, qld, molendinar-4214, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedThe LNP says it cannot support an independent MP's bid to decriminalise abortion in Queensland because the proposed laws are flawed and could create "further risk and uncertainty".
Topics: abortion, state-parliament, laws, womens-health, alp, liberal-national-party-queensland, activism-and-lobbying, qld, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedThe options for the inaugural AFL Women's grand final are becoming clearer as the season enters its latter stages.
Topics: sport, soccer, english-premier, brisbane-4000, carrara-4211, qld, australia
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| UpdatedSugarcane farmers in Queensland concerned about a payment dispute give a not-so-sweet message to Canberra.
Topics: sugar, agricultural-crops, rural, agricultural-prices, agribusiness, brisbane-4000, canberra-2600
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Queensland Environment Minister Steven Miles admits he is "gutted" to lose his seat of Mt Coot-tha in a redistribution that merges it with Indooroopilly and confirms he will instead contest a different seat north of Brisbane.
Topics: elections, state-parliament, alp, brisbane-4000
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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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| UpdatedThe 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