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| UpdatedA two-year-old boy drowns on a property west of Brisbane.
Topics: emergency-incidents, lockyer-4344, toowoomba-4350
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Scorching temperatures will greet visitors to the Toowoomba Royal Show in southern Queensland today.
Topics: lifestyle-and-leisure, community-and-society, community-and-multicultural-festivals, toowoomba-4350
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A German tourist has been arrested and charged after a fatal car crash on the Granite Belt in southern Queensland.
Topics: courts-and-trials, road, crime, traffic-offences, stanthorpe-4380, toowoomba-4350
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| UpdatedSevere thunderstorms rolling over south-east Queensland fizzle out into nothing more than rain, the Bureau of Meteorology says.
Topics: weather, qld, toowoomba-4350, southport-4215
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| UpdatedThe death of professional Queensland boxer Braydon Smith after a fight prompts the Australian Medical Association to renew its call to ban the sport.
Topics: boxing, health-policy, lifestyle-and-leisure, toowoomba-4350, qld
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| UpdatedPolice say a lack of public information is making it hard to solve a spate of armed robberies in Toowoomba in southern Queensland.
Topics: armed-robbery, toowoomba-4350
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Sexual health experts are hoping a two-pronged approach to HIV will help turn the tide on Queensland's rising rate of infections.
Topics: aids-and-hiv, health-policy, sexual-health, brisbane-4000, bundaberg-4670, cairns-4870, gladstone-4680, mackay-4740, maroochydore-4558, rockhampton-4700, southport-4215, toowoomba-4350, townsville-4810, mount-isa-4825, longreach-4730
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| UpdatedA Queensland boxer who collapsed after a bout on the weekend has died in hospital.
Topics: boxing, sport, death, toowoomba-4350
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SARCIS State Co-ordinator Mick Dowie said new police app aims to address the problem of under-reporting of crime in rural areas. Read more.
Topics: agribusiness, toowoomba-4350
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| UpdatedQueensland Police is using a new app to make it easier for people to report rural crime to a stock theft squad.
Topics: agribusiness, toowoomba-4350
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Police ramp up efforts to crack down on cattle theft after a spike across Queensland last year that amounted to millions of dollars in losses to producers.
Topics: police, beef-cattle, toowoomba-4350, tambo-4478, longreach-4730, mount-isa-4825
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Queensland police stock squad officers train on the state's Darling Downs in March 2015.
Topics: toowoomba-4350, longreach-4730, mount-isa-4825, tambo-4478
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An Indigenous medical group says it has not given up on securing funding for several major projects on southern Queensland's Darling Downs.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, activism-and-lobbying, programs-and-initiatives, federal-government, toowoomba-4350
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| UpdatedQueensland Health Minister Cameron Dick rules out mandatory fluoridation of the state's water supplies.
Topics: water-management, local-government, state-parliament, health-policy, dental, brisbane-4000, bundaberg-4670, cairns-4870, townsville-4810, mackay-4740, rockhampton-4700, maroochydore-4558, toowoomba-4350, longreach-4730, mount-isa-4825
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Undefeated Tasmanian boxer Luke Jackson overcomes many battles on his journey to Saturday's Australian featherweight championship fight against defending champion Will Young.
Topics: drug-education, clubs-and-associations, hobart-7000, tas, clarendon-vale-7019, toowoomba-4350
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A decade ago many farmers wouldn't have even bothered carrying a mobile phone, let alone consider using it to make crucial management decisions.
Topics: agribusiness, toowoomba-4350
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University of Southern Queensland researcher Brett Robinson said farmers have quickly embraced mobile phone apps. Read more.
Topics: agribusiness, toowoomba-4350
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The Inland Rail implementation Group says it is hoping to finalise the alignment of the Queensland section of the project by the middle of the year.
Topics: rail-transport, urban-development-and-planning, toowoomba-4350
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Regional parts of Queensland are beginning to bounce back from a real estate slump, the Real Estate Institute of Queensland says.
Topics: housing-industry, qld, cairns-4870, gladstone-4680, mackay-4740, rockhampton-4700, toowoomba-4350, southport-4215
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Queensland's environment department says it hopes to know by next week what has caused combustible gases to leach into soil on the Western Downs.
Topics: environmental-management, land-pollution, land-management, states-and-territories, hopeland-4413, chinchilla-4413, toowoomba-4350
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Queensland Speaker-elect Peter Wellington says he has asked the Premier to order an independent inquiry into the "inland tsunami" in that tore through Grantham, west of Brisbane, four years ago.
Topics: floods, state-parliament, grantham-4347, toowoomba-4350
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A woman has been charged after crashing her car into a house and a church in Toowoomba on southern Queensland's Darling Downs.
Topics: courts-and-trials, road, crime, traffic-offences, toowoomba-4350
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| UpdatedHealth authorities say traces of legionella found in a south-west Queensland hospital's water supply should not cause alarm.
Topics: healthcare-facilities, health, charleville-4470, toowoomba-4350, longreach-4730, mount-isa-4825
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The state Environment Department says testing has confirmed there is no threat to air and water supplies at Chinchilla, in southern Queensland, after combustible gases were found in soil on nearby farms last month.
Topics: environmental-management, land-management, water, water-management, water-supply, land-pollution, water-pollution, chinchilla-4413, toowoomba-4350