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Traffic controller who witnessed wife's death at work wants better protection for road workers

What began as a great adventure led to the worst day of Colin Caudell's life as he watched a truck run over his wife while she was working as a traffic controller.




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For these women, contact sports' health benefits outweigh the risk of injury

As opportunities increase for women in contact sports, concerns about injury rates are also on the rise. But for some the health benefits outweigh the risk of injury.







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Why police divers do what they do despite what's lurking in the water

These police know bull sharks and crocodiles are around, and "you can't even see your hand in front of your face", but the challenge is the reward in a job that requires grit.




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Drovers and graziers compete for feed 'to keep cattle alive' as old stock routes revived

Drought conditions have revived the old practice of large cattle drives, but drovers face new challenges as competition for feed on previously abandoned stock routes heats up.




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Young Queenslander Samuel Dale Johnson makes his mark on European opera scene

He grew up behind the famously wonky Ettamogah Pub on Queensland's Sunshine Coast. Now at just 31, Samuel Dale Johnson is a principal singer with one of the world's biggest opera houses.




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CSIRO's Investigator voyages through Coral Sea to map seafloor and unlock seabird secrets

It's largely unknown what seabirds and marine mammals do when they are out in Australia's remote waters, but an ongoing project aboard at 94-metre floating laboratory is changing that.




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Ambulance service marks 100 years helping outback Queensland community of Longreach

Before the ambulance existed, if outback Queensland locals had an emergency, they had to drive to themselves to hospital.




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Findings from trawler Dianne sinking inquest condemn bureaucrats, urges inflatable vests for fishers

A Queensland coroner condemns the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for failing to share vessel monitoring data with police, in a string of safety recommendations over the death of six crewmen on the trawler Dianne.




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Professor Kerry Reid-Searl from CQ University is the driver behind the Poop it kit for children





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Various sketches of the different sizes and shapes of poo to be included in the Poop it kit



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Deportation of Tamil asylum seeker family interrupted midair by last-minute injunction

A Tamil asylum seeker family is granted a midair injunction to prevent their deportation to Sri Lanka, as Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton says the family has been found not to be owed protection.




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Deportation delayed for youngest daughter of Tamil asylum seeker family from Biloela

The youngest daughter of a Tamil asylum seeker family facing deportation to Sri Lanka will remain in Australia until Wednesday after a ruling by the Federal Court.




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Tamil asylum seeker family from Biloela taken to Christmas Island detention centre, lawyer says

The lawyer for a Tamil family facing deportation from Australia says she is deeply concerned about access to her clients now they have been relocated to Christmas Island.




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Jewfish dominate black market to meet Asia demand

Considered a delicacy and aphrodisiac, the bladder of the Black Jewfish now fetches up to $900 a kilogram, prompting higher fines in Queensland for trafficking as well as catch limits, catching commercial fishers unaware and out of pocket.




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Tamil asylum seeker family from Biloela 'terrified' for children after move to Christmas Island

The mother from the Tamil family at the centre of an immigration row says her children are constantly crying and pleading to leave a Christmas Island facility, as hundreds of people rally around the country to urge the Government to let them stay in Australia.




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Great Barrier Reef changes image from marine park to theme park with underwater statues and hotels

Underwater statues and submerged hotels are some of the latest attractions on the Great Barrier Reef, concerning an old-school dive operator.




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Tamil asylum seeker family from Biloela could be undone by father's travel history and refugee activism, immigration lawyer says

Pro-refugee activism and the travel history of a Tamil father could see a Biloela family at the centre of an immigration row deported, an experienced immigration lawyer says.





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Pacific nations hockey 5s teams get taste of Rockhampton generosity

A central Queensland community has donated thousands of dollars worth of food to visiting hockey teams from developing countries.





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The first ageless playgroup in regional Queensland has been launched in Rockhampton



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The first ageless playgroup in regional Queensland has been rolled out in Rockhampton



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19-month-old Anyala Johnson loves heading to the weekly ageless playgroup in Rockhampton




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Rockhampton Samantha Farley takes her child to a weekly intergenerational playgroup



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Rural patients left for hours with undiagnosed stroke, promoting calls for national telestroke service

The Stroke Foundation says patients with brain clots and haemorrhages are being left for hours untreated in rural hospitals which do not have the equipment or expertise to support them.




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Sarabah bushfire threat downgraded as authorities keep watch on blazes across Queensland

Fire-weary residents at Sarabah in Queensland's Scenic Rim get a reprieve as authorities downgrade the bushfire warning level in the area, but conditions are expected to worsen in southern Queensland on Saturday.




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Adani mining insider reveals she is leaking material to environmental activists

Sue*, a worker at a company bidding for an Adani contract, tells the ABC she is leaking information to environmental activists so they can target her employer, saying it's the "ethical, moral thing to do".




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Queensland forced to stop marine park shark cull for now, but Government wants laws changed

Drum lines used to kill sharks in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park will be removed after the Queensland Government lost a challenge in the Federal Court to continue its culling program in the protectedarea.




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Sunshine Coast teen aiming to take out her third Thai boxing world title

She might look like a normal Queensland teenager, but Skylah Hamill is an undefeated world champion in the growing sport of Muay Thai, or Thai boxing, and is about to defend her title in Turkey.




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United Nations asks Australia to take Tamil family from Biloela out of detention on Christmas Island

The United Nations Human Rights Committee asks Australia to end the "existing situation of detention" for the Sri Lankan Tamil family from Biloela being held on Christmas Island.





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Skin doctor Elamurugan Arumugam found not guilty of sexual assault on patients

A skin cancer specialist and plastic surgeon is acquitted of sexually assaulting three women during medical examinations.




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The Murri School takes year nine and ten students on a camp to Carnarvon Gorge each year



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Queensland's weather outlook for summer forecasts fewer cyclones, more severe bushfires

Fewer cyclones are forecast but the Bureau of Meteorology warns a "pretty dangerous cocktail" is brewing for the remainder of Queensland's fire season.




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Do you know where your barramundi comes from?

Sixty per cent of all barramundi consumed in Australia comes from overseas and half the fish-eating population, according to new research, has no idea.




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Piggery closes on Atherton Tableland amid spiralling grain costs, imported pork, in 'sign of the times'

Far north Queensland's largest and oldest piggery is closing after 49 years, impacted by drought, cheap imports, and rising costs as the agricultural profile of the area changes.




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New grouper fish species found at market, Queensland Museum says

A new species of rockcod, or grouper, is confirmed by the Queensland Museum after two years of testing its DNA, following the discovery of several specimens at a fish market in 2017.




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Ag college closures 'a sad day for agriculture' as final students graduate from 'universities of the outback'

As the school year wraps up, staff, students, alumni, and rural industries are saying a final farewell to agricultural colleges in central Queensland.




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Couple has second chance at love, tying the knot 60 years after their first engagement

Tom never gave up hope that he would be reunited with the lost fiancee of his youth, diligently attending their graduate reunion every 10 years in the hopes Judith would be there.




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Armed bandit with black-marker 'tattoos' jailed over robbery at Rockhampton service station

A 24-year-old man covered in fake tattoos drawn on with a black marker who robbed a service station with a replica gun in Rockhampton in central Queensland is sentenced to nearly four years in jail.







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Hail survives two weeks of heat buried on outback Queensland property

Despite a fortnight of hot, dry weather, Jack Walker's property in Theodore still has hailstones covered by a thin layer of dirt and debris.




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