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Abbey Medieval Festival marks 30-year milestone with huge crowds and more than 1,000 re-enactors

A Queensland medieval festival has marked a milestone anniversary with huge crowds gathering to be immersed in 1,000 years of history, from the battleground to the bedroom.




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Dog lost on the Birdsville track 200km from anywhere reunited with owner at the Big Red Bash

Pip the dog was found wandering alone on the Birdsville Track, but a series of lucky breaks have led her to be reunited with her owner more than 220km away.







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




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If your coastal home could be threatened by flooding 80 years from now, would you want to know?

The threat of flooding to Australia's coastal areas due to climate change is very real for some with the luxury seaside shire of Noosa in Queensland formally declaring a "climate emergency".




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Security cameras were traditionally placed outside homes




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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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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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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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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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Micro Dame Edna portrait with 20 cent piece for comparison




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Artist Wayne Malkin with match painting




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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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Scientists prepare to farm puffy pink seaweed that stops cows burping methane

The native Queensland seaweed that can stop bovines burping out methane could cut the country's greenhouse emissions by 10 per cent, if it could be farmed on a scale to feed every cow in Australia, researchers say.




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Bruce Highway, Marlborough



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Sunshine Coast teenager Michael Ryan missing for almost two weeks as search continues

State Emergency Service volunteers from across the Sunshine Coast, Gympie and Noosa are continuing to search for a 14-year-old boy who has been missing for 12 days.





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Queensland transport bottlenecks set to worsen despite congestion-busting projects

Fast rail, a high frequency Metro, and a duplicate M1, are just some of the multi-billion-dollar "fixes" aimed at getting South East Queensland moving again. But is it enough to solve the transport woes?





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Noosa bushfire comes within metres of homes as Bribie fire continues to burn

Residents of Noosa Springs have a close call when a bushfire comes within metres of homes, while fires continue to burn on Bribie Island.




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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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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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Dogs will eat anything, as owners of pet who swallowed cement render learn the hard way

When the vet x-rayed their young dog and found a mass in its intestines, Duke's owners never imagined it would be a lump of cement.




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Former deputy principal accused of sexual assault of teen at her father's funeral wake

A former Queensland deputy principal indecently assaulted a teenager at a wake after the funeral of the girl's father in the 1990s, a court hears.