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Loggerhead turtle lays winter eggs, four months out of season, leaving scientists baffled

Researchers are puzzled by the discovery of a nest of loggerhead turtle eggs in Queensland. The find seems to indicate that the creatures have been unseasonably frisky, which should be impossible.




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Internet romance scammers know what their victims are longing to hear, expert says

How can it be so easy to fall into a romance based on text messages, internet liaisons and phone calls? An expert says scammers know exactly what their victims want to hear.




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'Untourist' movement shuns global, mass tourism over local, unique and sustainable ventures

Tourism operators throughout Australia are being told to focus on relationships rather than destinations, or risk repeating the mass-tourism mistakes of Barcelona and Venice.



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Alleged violent carjacker charged after 200km Bruce Highway pursuit

A 23-year-old Wide Bay man is charged with dozens of offences, after allegedly leading police on a 200-kilometre pursuit, carjacking several people, and stabbing a woman earlier this month.




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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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I made a pact with a mum friend involving much pain and sacrifice. Here's why it was worth it

The road travelled by many a middle-aged working mum is full of obstacles and few obvious rewards, so running a half-marathon on a Sunday morning is nothing and in a sense everything.




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Living the dream



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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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Survey to determine future of rainbow steps




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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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Teenagers charged over Peregian Beach bushfire on Sunshine Coast

Police allege two teenagers gathered in bushland on Monday afternoon and deliberately lit the blaze, which gutted one home and tore through Sunshine Coast bushland.




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Vaping by teenagers on rise as tobacco companies try to hook a new generation on smoking

After the death of an e-cigarette user and the hospitalisation of many US teens, Australian health experts fear a "vaping culture" is developing among teenagers.




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Juvenile whale rescued off Queensland's Sunshine Coast



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Woolooga survives two floods and a bushfire, now faces drought before year's end

Residents in a small Queensland town are still counting their blessings 12 months after a bushfire destroyed more than 12,000 hectares of pasture, and now they are preparing to be in drought before the decade is out.




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Severe thunderstorms north of Brisbane flood homes and businesses

Severe thunderstorms brought more than 100 millimetres of rain to some parts of the Moreton Bay and Sunshine Coast overnight, flooding homes and businesses within minutes.




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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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Abuse survivor Diane Lynn wants to see the Jehovah's Witness Organisation change their practices.




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Warren Strange from Knowmore, a legal service for abuse victims




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Sylvia Marinus said the Jehovah's Witnesses Organisation did nothing to act on her daughter's child sexual abuse.




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Sylvia's daughter Clare was abused by her grandfather




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




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Sylvia's daughter Clare wrote an impact statement about her grandfather's abuse.




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Former Jehovah's Witnesses speak out about childhood abuse, say it was 'covered up'

Child abuse victims speak out against the Jehovah's Witnesses organisation, after it failed to opt in to the national redress scheme.




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Bachelorette contestant councillor Jess Glasgow under formal investigation for misconduct over 'crude' and 'highly offensive' behaviour

A formal investigation begins over the actions of Noosa Shire Councillor Jess Glasgow as a contestant on reality TV dating program The Bachelorette, with comments he made on the dating show described as "crude" and "highly offensive".




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Peregian Beach bushfire under control on Queensland's Sunshine Coast after homes evacuated

A bushfire that was threatening homes at Peregian on Queensland's Sunshine Coast is brought under control, with firefighters surrounding the blaze to keep it contained.




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High E. coli levels recorded at two popular swimming spots along Queensland's Mary River

An annual health check of Queensland's Mary River records E. coli higher than recommended levels at two popular swimming spots.






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Queensland Government allows timber industry to keep harvesting native forest, says it will save up to 500 Wide Bay-Burnett jobs

Thousands of hectares of native forest north of Noosa, which was due to become national park, will now remain open to the timber industry in order to save hundreds of jobs.




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Mary River repaired at Kenilworth, saving farmland and benefitting Great Barrier Reef

One of the most eroded stretches of the Mary River at Kenilworth has been transformed in an effort to stop valuable farmland washing away and polluting the Great Barrier Reef.




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Teewah bushfire threat eases allowing evacuate locals to return home

Severe bushfire conditions are expected later in the week as residents describe their terror at having to evacuate when a fast-moving bushfire threatened a township north of Noosa overnight.




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NT announces 'first significant step' in lifting COVID-19 restrictions

It has been three weeks since the NT's last COVID-19 diagnosis and this weekend some Northern Territory parks will reopen.




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'Mum, are you worried about coronavirus?': Professor pens book to help kids understand

When Professor Anna Ralph's six-year-old daughter starting asking about COVID-19, the infectious diseases specialist decided to write a children's book about finding a cure.




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'He should get a lotto ticket': Man survives crocodile attack

A 23-year-old man is lucky to be alive after being attacked by a 1.8 metre crocodile while fishing in Arnhem Land. Police say he managed to hold onto mangroves until the croc let go.