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Queensland government to reform residential parks as peak body says they are taking advantage of pensioners with rent increases

Queenslanders living in residential parks are experiencing housing stress due to unfair business practices, according to the state's peak body representing manufactured homeowners.

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The startling evidence of racism Queensland police couldn’t shrug off

Leaked audio from Brisbane’s watch house outraged Australia. Reporters Eden Gillespie and Ben Smee reflect on the game-changing scoop – and a ‘blue wall of silence’

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Manhunt under way for three escaped Queensland prisoners

Police have launched a search for three men who have escaped from a Queensland prison, south-west of Brisbane, on Sunday.

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Missing Queensland woman found a week after she went missing in Streaky Bay on SA's Eyre Peninsula

A Queensland woman last seen on South Australia's western Eyre Peninsula a week ago is found by a member of the public who saw her "wandering out of the scrub". Her family say she's now recovering in hospital.

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Photographer Melissa Mills captures 'invisible' bond between mothers and daughters

Melissa Mills believes there's no stronger bond than that between a mother and child – and she wants to capture it visually, forever. She is photographing women and their children at "matriarchal" sites in Queensland's Carnarvon Gorge.

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This Mother's Day will be bittersweet for Queensland mum Tia Bridge

Tia Bridge plans a low-key Mother's Day with her family, reflecting on being a mother to three children — Lachlan, Chelsea and a little girl she has nicknamed "Immy", who never drew a breath.

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Queensland Speaker of the house Curtis Pitt announces he is taking time off for mental health

Curtis Pitt says he will take time off to address his mental health after he missed time during the state parliament's historic sitting in his home town of Cairns this week due to illness.

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Former Qld police commissioner wants to keep door 'open' on GPS trackers for youth offenders

Bob Atkinson, who also sat on the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, says the use of GPS trackers may be a useful tool into the future, despite a low uptake during a Queensland trial.

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Police crackdown on nudity at Noosa beach sparks legalisation discussion

Queensland is the only mainland state where nudist beaches are illegal, but a recent police blitz has sparked a discussion about legislative change.

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Hunter locals join Shitbox Rally, driving old cars across inland Australia to raise money for cancer research

More than 400 people, driving cars worth less than $1,500, will drive from Newcastle in New South Wales to Townsville in north Queensland to raise funds for the Cancer Council.

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Zac Stanton suffered a serious head injury while playing for an AFL Queensland club. A battle with his insurer followed

The long-term effects of multiple head knocks and concussion in professional sport has recently been in the spotlight. But, as Zac found out, just one hit can be life-changing.

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‘Crime, coal, crocs’: Palaszczuk’s charm offensive met with blunt reality in north Queensland

Premier travels to Cairns for regional sitting week, but Robbie Katter steals limelight with talk of state’s ‘deep divide’

The Guardian - AU

Man facing 25 historic rape charges in Queensland granted bail to return to SA

The man, who is accused of treating a teenage girl in his care four decades ago like "a prize in a card game", will be allowed to return to his home in SA after facing court in Queensland today.

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New coal mine in Bowen Basin, Isaac River Mine, set for federal government approval

A metallurgical coal mine in Central Queensland has been flagged for approval by the federal government, but an environmental group says people who voted in favour of climate action have a right to feel betrayed.

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Charges against Carborough Downs mine operator to proceed years after miner Brad Duxbury was killed

After months of legal argument, appeals, and hearings, the president of the Industrial Court of Queensland ruled this month that matters can proceed against Carborough Downs Coal Management over the death of Brad Duxbury in 2019.

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Regional GP clinics say Queensland and federal incentives will not ease doctor shortage

Regional GPs say twin incentives to lure more health staff to Queensland and increase bulk-billing are a "shot in the arm", but could backfire in places where they're needed most.

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Through many rugby league lives and 300 NRL games, St George Illawarra's Ben Hunt has never stopped fighting

Ben Hunt has endured plenty of trials and tribulations through his long NRL career. Now preparing for his 300th first-grade match, the Queensland Origin star shows no sign of slowing down, writes Nick Campton.

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Morning Mail: aged care ‘gaming’ funding, coalmine approved, fears of ‘another Juukan Gorge’

Consultants advised providers to exploit subsidies before rule changes, while Labor faces wrath over green light for Queensland scheme

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Central Queensland's croc-handling course at Koorana Crocodile Farm opportunity for career change

These Australians are swapping their jobs for the croc cage. Do you have what it takes?

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Albanese government approves first new coalmine since taking power

Environment activists condemn expected decision by Tanya Plibersek to give green light to Isaac River project in central Queensland

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Missing woman Julie Schutt's brother appeals for clues as Streaky Bay search scaled back

The brother of Queensland woman Julie Schutt is pleading for anyone with information on her whereabouts to come forward, four days after she went missing at Streaky Bay on South Australia's western Eyre Peninsula.

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Police warn against 'vigilante behaviour' in Rockhampton as men face trespass charges

Tensions reached boiling point in Central Queensland on the weekend when a group of residents marched on the homes of alleged offenders in Rockhampton. Police today charged two men with trespassing.

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Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk promises to personally accompany First Nations people to British Museum to recover artefacts

After passing a "watershed bill" to establish Indigenous truth-telling and healing, the premier promised to accompany First Nations people to the British Museum to reclaim stolen artefacts.

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Queensland begins historic 'Path to Treaty' after bill passes in regional parliament in Cairns

Tears and applause greet the passing of a bill to establish a First Nations Treaty Institute and truth-telling and healing inquiry, during a regional parliamentary sitting in Cairns.

The Guardian - AU

Vigilante fears: Queensland man accused of chasing stolen car had ‘edged weapons’, police say

Two other men charged with trespass after mob descended on Rockhampton home on Sunday

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