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Cattle stations in far north Queensland have been spared significant damage from Cyclone Nathan, which is weakening as it moves across Cape York Peninsula.
Topics: rural, agribusiness, cyclones, beef-cattle, weather, cairns-4870
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| UpdatedPolice are searching for nine people missing in a boat in the Gulf of Carpentaria in far north Queensland.
Topics: emergency-incidents, maritime, weipa-4874, mount-isa-4825
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| UpdatedTropical Cyclone Nathan is crossing the far north Queensland coast between Cape Melville and Cape Flattery, north of Cooktown.
Topics: cyclones, cyclone, emergency-incidents, emergency-planning, storm-disaster, weather, cooktown-4895
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| UpdatedTropical Cyclone Nathan is downgraded to a category three system after making landfall between Cape Flattery and Cape Melville in far north Queensland.
Topics: weather, cyclone, cyclones, disasters-and-accidents, cooktown-4895, cairns-4870, qld
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A two-year-old boy drowns on a property west of Brisbane.
Topics: emergency-incidents, lockyer-4344
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Quade Cooper is looking ahead to securing a berth for the World Cup, as he prepares to come back from injury.
Topics: super-rugby, rugby-union, sport, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedNearly 250,000 Australians with Hepatitis C hope new drugs to treat the disease will be approved by the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.
Topics: hepatitis, pharmaceuticals, health, health-policy, australia, qld
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| UpdatedFirefighters are trying to control a bushfire that has been burning near a central Queensland community for more than a day.
Topics: bushfire, fires, byfield-4703, yeppoon-4703, qld
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| UpdatedResidents in the Queensland towns of Cooktown and Hope Vale are bunkering down as Tropical Cyclone Nathan begins to cross the coast north of Cape Flattery with wind gusts up to 230 kilometres per hour.
Topics: cyclones, weather, cyclone, emergency-incidents, emergency-planning, cooktown-4895
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| UpdatedA healing program in an Aboriginal school in Brisbane has been so successful at raising retention rates it is now being rolled out in New South Wales.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, schools, education, access-to-education, family-and-children, acacia-ridge-4110, brisbane-4000
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North Queensland detectives believe foul play was involved in the disappearance of a father about five years ago.
Topics: missing-person, law-crime-and-justice, proserpine-4800, mackay-4740, whitsundays-4802, townsville-4810
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| UpdatedSecurity has been stepped up at a north Queensland youth detention centre after an increase in the amount of contraband being smuggled into the facility.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, youth, townsville-4810
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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 Burnett Heads' woman says non-existent internet will deter people from investing in the area, in southern Queensland.
Topics: information-and-communication, community-and-society, activism-and-lobbying, burnett-heads-4670, bundaberg-4670
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| UpdatedQueensland scientists are developing a rehydrating beer that reduces hangovers but does not affect the brew's flavour.
Topics: research, alcohol, offbeat, southport-4215, qld
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Creditors for a far north Queensland airline which shut its doors in January have agreed to allow the administrators to proceed with selling assets and recovering debts.
Topics: air-transport, weipa-4874, cairns-4870
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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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| UpdatedFar north Queensland banana farmers are bracing for the unprecedented challenge of a possible cyclone as they confront industry's most serious biosecurity outbreak.
Topics: bananas, cyclones, cairns-4870
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| UpdatedLarge parts of Queensland are continuing to bake in unprecedented hot autumn conditions with today's temperatures expected to reach up to 12 degrees above average.
Topics: weather, environment, longreach-4730, qld
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| UpdatedThe Rural Fire Service (RFS) says a bushfire on central Queensland's Capricorn Coast is still burning out of control.
Topics: bushfire, fires, byfield-4703, yeppoon-4703
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| UpdatedThe five Gold Coast players facing drug charges have returned to training ahead of Sunday's clash with Newcastle.
Topics: nrl, rugby-league, sport, robina-4226, qld, australia
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| UpdatedA category five Tropical Cyclone Nathan "cannot be ruled out" the Bureau of Meteorology says, as favourable conditions could lead to more periods of rapid intensification prior to landfall.
Topics: cyclone, cyclones, emergency-incidents, emergency-planning, cooktown-4895, hope-vale-4871, cairns-4870, qld, australia
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| UpdatedThe Roar fought out an enthralling 3-3 draw with Suwon Bluewings in their AFC Champions League match.
Topics: soccer, a-league, sport, robina-4226, brisbane-4000, korea-republic-of
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| UpdatedQueensland Treasurer Curtis Pitt says his first budget, to be handed down on July 14, will have "no frills and no surprises".
Topics: state-parliament, budget, qld
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| UpdatedA new study reveals koalas may be far more vulnerable to wild dog attacks than previously thought.
Topics: animals, environmental-management, environmental-impact, endangered-and-protected-species, animal-behaviour, animal-science, qld, ormiston-4160, redcliffe-4020