Mark Rigby is the cross-media reporter at ABC Far North, producing online articles, photo stories and radio packages. Mark tweets under the handle @Mark__Rigby.
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| UpdatedA Queensland canine trainer urges dog owners to think twice before exercising their pets at off-leash areas.
Topics: dog, environment, community-and-society, cairns-4870
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An unofficial school bus service driven by community volunteers is increasing school attendance rates for some of far north Queensland's most underprivileged students.
Topics: primary, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, children, volunteers, poverty, cairns-4870
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Masig Island residents mourn the loss of a giant fig tree planted in honour of Queen Elizabeth II's meeting with Torres Strait Islanders in 1954.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, royal-and-imperial-matters, tree, community-and-society, torres-strait-islands, cairns-4870
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A pair of tech-savvy dads challenge Australians to raise money for charity by putting down their smartphones.
Topics: telecommunications, sleep-disorders, social-media, mobile-phones, digital-multimedia, charities, cairns-4870
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Wearing thongs, a truckie's singlet and a pair of work shorts, Damian Duffy takes far-north Queensland to the world through social media.
Topics: national-parks, animals, photography, offbeat, cairns-4870
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Pastor Andrew Adidi expresses his love of the Christian faith in an unconventional way.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, christianity, lifestyle, youth, regional, cairns-4870, solomon-islands
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| UpdatedQueensland scientists working on the Great Barrier Reef help discover the remnants of an undersea landslide more than 30 times the volume of Uluru.
Topics: great-barrier-reef, science-and-technology, research, marine-parks, cairns-4870
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A far north Queensland artist collective uses caffeine to do more than keep its members awake during late-night editing sessions — it is selling it to finance a film.
Topics: film-movies, community-and-society, offbeat, cairns-4870
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| UpdatedA photographic exhibition featuring doctors and medical professionals from regional Queensland gives audiences a look at the faces behind the surgical masks.
Topics: doctors-and-medical-professionals, regional, lifestyle, photography, cairns-4870, atherton-4883, innisfail-4860
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Two far north Queensland women vie for positions in the Australian squad at next year's World Kendo Championships.
Topics: martial-arts, international-competitions, women, regional, cairns-4870, japan, korea-republic-of
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Marine taxidermist Steve Mathews is unable to find an apprentice to carry on his 40-year legacy.
Topics: visual-art, fish, apprenticeships, community-and-society, work, library-museum-and-gallery, cairns-4870, france, united-states, new-zealand
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| UpdatedAn octogenarian yogi volunteers her time to teach yoga practices and techniques to mental health patients at Cairns Hospital.
Topics: mental-health, meditation-and-prayer, older-people, volunteers, women, cairns-4870
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| UpdatedA far north Queensland man whose passion for adventure landed him in a wheelchair is training for one of the toughest open water swims in Queensland.
Topics: swimming, extreme-sports, accidents---other, rehabilitation, disabilities, cairns-4870, townsville-4810, magnetic-island-4819, goondiwindi-4390
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Staff at a Queensland-based commercial aquarium prepare to send sharks, rays and fish from the Great Barrier Reef to a Japanese theme park aquarium.
Topics: fish, marine-biology, conservation, arts-and-entertainment, great-barrier-reef, oceans-and-reefs, cairns-4870, japan
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With New Year's resolutions fresh in their minds, people everywhere hit the gym and pound the pavements, but physiotherapists say the key to getting fit is staying injury-free.
Topics: lifestyle-and-leisure, exercise-and-fitness, sports-injuries, doctors-and-medical-professionals, cairns-4870
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There is a perception that farming and environmental preservation rarely go hand in hand, but one far north Queensland farmer is looking to change that.
Topics: sustainable-and-alternative-farming, rivers, sugar, fruits, conservation, bellenden-ker-4871, cairns-4870
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Imagine not being able to give your beloved pet what it needs: not being able to walk him as much as you would like, or pick him up to give him a bath.
Topics: older-people, animals, community-and-society, volunteers, cairns-4870
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Staff and students at a north Queensland kindergarten farewell a beloved teacher who has worked with children for 35 years.
Topics: teachers, children---preschoolers, community-and-society, play-and-learning, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, cairns-4870
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A community linen drive provides more than 18 cubic metres of linen to villagers in some of PNG's most remote areas.
Topics: charities-and-community-organisations, community-and-society, relief-and-aid-organisations, womens-health, treaties-and-alliances, cairns-4870, papua-new-guinea
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The creator of a Jurassic jungle uses prehistoric power to reconnect young Australians with nature.
Topics: botany, tourism, gardening, dinosaurs, environment-education, cairns-4870
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Spending five days in hospital after being stung by a potentially fatal Irukandji jellyfish will not stop Ayllie White snorkelling again.
Topics: animal-attacks, oceans-and-reefs, great-barrier-reef, doctors-and-medical-professionals, cairns-4870
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The Cooktown Re-enactment Association is dismissing criticisms levelled at it by independent media organisation New Matilda.
Topics: history, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, australia-day, journalism, information-and-communication, community-and-society, cooktown-4895, cairns-4870
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Pressure to hold the perfect children's birthday party is rising, but at what cost?
Topics: children, family, parenting, food-and-cooking, arts-and-entertainment, small-business, cairns-4870
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When photographs and literature were not enough to satisfy his thirst for historical knowledge, Col Walter turned to building miniature models.
Topics: craft, history, cairns-4870
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Queensland police take a non-traditional approach to tackling juvenile crime and take 130 homemade slingshots off the streets of Yarrabah.
Topics: crime, crime-prevention, police, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, offbeat, children, relationships, yarrabah-4871, cairns-4870