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Naponi survived a violent husband, then faced a new battle getting her community to believe her

The man Naponi married tried to kill her more than once. Even after he was finally taken to a psychiatric hospital, Naponi faced another battle: convincing her community to believe her story.




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Streetscape from the Toowoomba suburb where Naponi lives




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How Australia's largest swimming pool was built on a natural mineral spring at Helidon

For a time in the 1960s, a natural spring at the foot of the Great Dividing Range was home to Australia's largest swimming pool and legendary "mini-Woodstock" rock concerts.




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DIY recycled watering system that 'mimics rain' keeps garden alive in drought-stricken Queensland city

As Queensland's Darling Downs continues to experience one of its worst droughts on record, a scientist and a horticulturalist have developed a recycled watering system to keep their garden alive.




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Student climate striker Ariel Ehlers, 12, goes it alone in Chinchilla, a hotbed of coal and gas

A Year 6 student who lives in a town surrounded by mines and CSG wells demonstrated by herself during last week's climate strike. But the reaction to her protest proved she was anything but alone.




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Credit cards, drought, bad loans create crippling debt for rural Australians

In a small town in country Australia an elderly man is praying he won't live to 91, like his father. He doesn't have the money, and it feels like debt is closing in on him.




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Queensland farmers finding solace in glimpses of green as drought grinds on

Some southern Queenslanders say they're watching Midsomer Murders just to get a glimpse of flowing water. Despite the "pathetically dry" conditions, they are finding much-needed solace in their gardens.




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Ongoing drought, calicivirus decimate feral rabbit populations in Queensland's Southern Downs

A combination of drought, disease and concerted eradication efforts have seen a huge drop in Queensland's feral rabbit population to their lowest levels in more than 30 years.




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Bald Hills head-on crash cuts short Shahid Islam's life, days from a fresh start

The 36-year-old's family were preparing to embark on a new chapter in their lives, moving closer to friends and community. Now they're preparing the husband and father's funeral.




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Kurdish Queenslanders desperate to hear from families trapped in Syrian conflict

The battle between Turkey and Syria may be 13,000 kilometres from Toowoomba, but the effect of the war is being anxiously felt by the Queensland city's new Kurdish community.




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Job applicants forced to give blood tests, waive privacy rights to work on Shell's QGC project

A company working on the Shell-owned Queensland Gas Corporation project tells job applicants they will not be accepted until they submit to blood tests to check if they are at risk of heart attack, high cholesterol and other conditions.




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Women on SES emergency frontline hope to inspire others by debunking boys' club myth

One year ago, Tanya Wittmann couldn't swim. Today she is qualified in swift water rescue and hopes to encourage other women to join the SES.




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Commonwealth Games: Matilda enjoys the quiet life after shining in spotlight as 1982 mascot

Like anyone at the end of their working life, when Matilda the Commonwealth Games mascot retired she had one thing in mind travel. Curious Brisbane tracks her adventures these past 36 years, and reveals where she can be found today.




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How the WA town of Kulin reinvented itself and brought the tourists flooding in

It was the big idea that could have been a huge success or an expensive disaster, but more than 20 years later this little community is still reaping the benefits of a bold decision.




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Lifesavers were stopping drownings long before they hit the beach

Red-and-yellow flags are now planted on beaches up and down the coast, but surf lifesaving in Queensland originated from a need to watch over people in the Brisbane River.









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Hervey Bay scallops with nam phrik phao, crispy rice, turmeric and finger lime kosho




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In the era of smartphone apps that allow you to spy on your home remotely, what are the legalities?

Safety versus spying: the legalities of using hidden cameras in a world were technology allows you to protect your home remotely.




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Sunshine Coast woman caught up in $6 million love scam

A Sunshine Coast woman is duped by an "online lover" into handing over her bank details, allowing scammers to deposit $6 million they had just swindled from a South Korean business, police say.




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Queensland tsunami modelling shows how coastal communities will be impacted

Low lying areas are swamped, millions of people have hours to evacuate and destruction on a mass scale is predicted by scientists who have mapped the worst-case scenarios for how Queensland's coastline would be impacted if a one-in-10,000-year tsunami hit.




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Dairy farmer makes one final plea for milk price to increase to $1.50 a litre or industry will not survive

A Queensland dairy farmer says the only way the industry will survive is if people pay $1.50 a litre, with production costs skyrocketing in the drought.







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Farm rejects tradition and sets restaurant trends by growing unusual vegetables that suit the climate

Australians' growing appetite for exotic plant-based foods boosts business for a no-till regenerative farm that's setting trends in some of south-east Queensland's fanciest restaurants.




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Australian painter Wayne Malkin claims unofficial world record with matchstick portrait

Queensland painter Wayne Malkin claims a record for creating the world's smallest painting on the end of a matchstick, but he won't make it into the record books.




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Living the dream



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Transgender woman had to tick Australian Tax Office's mental illness box to get early access to super

Why does the Australian Tax Office require people to tick a mental illness box for early access to their superannuation to fund gender transition surgery?




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Birds believed killed in Bribie Island bushfire buried after washing up on Caloundra beach

Leisl Born says she was shocked to realise several dozen dead birds sat among the ash and debris that washed up on her local beach following the Bribie Island bushfires.




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Search for missing motorcyclist called off after body found at crash site

A body is found at a crash site in the Sunshine Coast hinterland during a search for a motorcyclist missing since Monday after he failed to return home.




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Queenslander joins Clipper Round the World Race in honour of brother-in-law

Sunshine Coast man John Broomfield could not sail at all until recently, but that has not stopped him from joining a year-long, 40,000-nautical mile yacht race.







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Two helicopters collecting water for extinguishing the fires



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Police evacuate residents from burning street



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Dramatic video shows Queensland police evacuating Peregian during bushfires

Video released by Queensland police shows the efforts of some officers helping to evacuate the Peregian area during wild bushfires on the Sunshine Coast on Monday.




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Paedophile tried to elicit oral sex from two boys with 'truth or dare' game in drain while on bail

A 25-year-old man lures two boys to a secluded location and offers to pay them $5 for oral sex, just months after he was given bail for possessing graphic and violent child porn material, a court hears.




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Stradbroke Island bushfire rages ahead of school holiday population boom

A large bushfire is continuing to burn through swamp and bushland on North Stradbroke Island, off Brisbane, ahead of an expected influx of 8,000 school holiday visitors.




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Artificial reef could fix beach landslip problem at Queensland's Inskip Point, expert says

Building an artificial reef could be the key to stabilising a popular beach at Queensland's Inskip Point that suffers from repeated landslips, a geotechnical expert says.




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Police urge patience between beachgoers and drivers after holiday clash

Police urge beachgoers and motorists to be considerate of each other after video emerges of a confrontation between a driver and holidaymakers who had set up camp along Rainbow Beach.




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Eumundi's last church closes its doors, as more Australians identify as having no religion

At Eumundi, in Queensland's Sunshine Coast hinterland, 43 per cent of people identify as having no religion, and now the town's last church has called it a day.




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Sylvia's daughter Clare, before she passed away later in life from a seizure.




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Bachelorette politician Jess Glasgow in strife as Noosa council considers code-of-conduct probe

A local politician's stab at finding romance on reality television could backfire, as the Noosa Mayor considers a code of conduct probe into Councillor Jess Glasgow.




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Waterbombing helicopters work to contain the blaze

Dozens of residents from the Peregian Beach area have evacuated.



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