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Australia's first drone pilot training school has opened in Port Macquarie on the New South Wales mid-north coast, with lifeguards among the first to graduate.
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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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Holding their breath underwater is still proving a challenge, but two Gold Coast boys are bucking the stereotype by joining a junior synchronised swimming squad.
Topics: synchronised-swimming, youth, olympics-summer, sport, southport-4215
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Topics: offbeat, religion-and-beliefs, anthropology-and-sociology, southport-4215
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| UpdatedMarkings found etched in historic homes could indicate magical practices by early settlers.
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Gold Coast downhill skater Adam Yates wins the masters division of the International Downhill Federation World Cup.
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| UpdatedA mortgage broker and a property developer are among the four men charged with more than 650 offences over an alleged Hells Angels-linked cocaine and ice operation on the Gold Coast.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, drug-offences, southport-4215
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| UpdatedGrant Hackett's family has pleaded with him to make contact with them after revealing the champion swimmer has not been seen since this morning, February 16, 2017.
Topics: missing-person, swimming, sport, southport-4215, qld
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| UpdatedGrant Hackett contacts his family to tell them he is safe, after they issued a public plea for help to find him when he went missing this morning, a day after his arrest over a disturbance at his parents' house.
Topics: olympics-summer, missing-person, mental-health, swimming, sport, southport-4215
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| UpdatedThe brother of Grant Hackett says his family is at the "end of the road" in their struggle with the deteriorating mental health of the Olympic swim star, who posted a photo this morning showing his bruised and bloodied face.
Topics: swimming, olympics-summer, mental-health, alcohol, sport, southport-4215
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Champion swimmer Grant Hackett has been released from police custody after a disturbance at his parents' house on Queensland's Gold Coast.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, people, swimming, southport-4215, qld
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Two king penguin chicks have been born in a breeding program on the Gold Coast.
Topics: animals, animal-science, lifestyle-and-leisure, zoos, conservation, southport-4215
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| UpdatedOlympian Grant Hackett is "there in body, but not in mind, soul or spirit", his brother says, following the swimmer's involvement in a disturbance at his parents' Gold Coast home.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, people, swimming, sport, southport-4215, qld, australia
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| UpdatedTemperatures across southern and south-east Queensland cool down after heat records tumbled across the state on Sunday.
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| UpdatedHot weather records have tumbled across parts of south-east Queensland amid a relentless heatwave, including Toowoomba which experienced 40 degrees Celsius for the first time.
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| UpdatedYou are in trouble in the Gold Coast surf and in urgent need of a lifesaver, but fear not when you find the man who comes to your rescue is old enough to be your grandfather.
Topics: volunteers, emergency-incidents, people, human-interest, southport-4215, qld, miami-4220, mermaid-beach-4218
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| UpdatedAs Queenslanders deal with extreme summer heat and closed beaches, records are predicted to tumble on Sunday in the state's south, the Bureau of Meteorology says.
Topics: phenomena, people, brisbane-4000, qld, australia, maroochydore-4558, southport-4215, toowoomba-4350
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| UpdatedConvicted conman Peter Foster pleads for bail on fraud charges over a 2013 betting scam, arguing his life is at risk in custody and admitting to a "shameful" past while insisting he is a changed man.
Topics: courts-and-trials, fraud-and-corporate-crime, southport-4215, byron-bay-2481
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| UpdatedA small pilot looking at whether ginger supplements can ease nausea caused by chemotherapy shows some promising results.
Topics: alternative-medicine, medical-research, cancer, southport-4215