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Swifts stay alive in Super Netball season

The NSW Swifts will be praying for a Melbourne Vixens victory - by at least five goals - to stay alive in Super Netball after beating the Queensland Firebirds.

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Queensland police to crack down on e-scooter riders ahead of new safety measures

The new rules are coming into effect in November, including changes to speed limits.

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Free period products in Queensland state schools to improve access, reduce stigma

How vending machines providing sanitary products for free in every Queensland state school will help to end a certain type of poverty, period.

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Kaufusi avoids ban, free to play Origin II

Felise Kaufusi will be able to play in State of Origin II for Queensland after avoiding a ban for his elbow to the head of Sydney Roosters playmaker Sam Walker.

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Glass House Mountains native logging proposal unites bikers, residents, environmentalists

Anger is brewing about a Queensland government proposal to log native forest near the Glass House Mountains just two years before it becomes conservation land.

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Queensland has eight coal-fired power stations. What's their future?

Queensland's eight coal power stations have had several unplanned outages recently, contributing to energy price increases. But what will happen to these stations in the future?

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Queensland Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll on containing COVID, discontent in the ranks and tackling domestic violence

It is now three years since Katarina Carroll took on the job of Queensland' first female Police Commissioner, with the honeymoon period usually afforded to new leaders to settle in their new role evaporating with catastrophic natural disasters and a global pandemic.

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‘Gloriously gnarly’: what professional botanists plant at home

Wild as some may look, botanic gardens are orderly places, where everything is planted for a reason. But home gardens are different, altogether more personal

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Winter wonderland in north Queensland as frosty temperatures blanket paddocks in ice

Temperatures plummet in "tropical" north Queensland, leaving paddocks and fields west of Mackay blanketed in white frost.

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Pets in Crisis program gets funding boost to help Queensland families escape domestic violence

A crisis accommodation program for the pets of families escaping domestic violence is set to get an extra $200,000 in funding from the Queensland government.

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International rodeo career beckons for breakaway roper Ariana Varischetti

Ariana Varischetti, from Mackay in north Queensland, joins an increasing number of Aussies from the bush who are pursuing a professional career on the international rodeo circuit.

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Police investigating fatal boat crash off Stradbroke Island

Queensland Police are investigating a fatal boat crash that happened in the Canaipa Passage. near North Stradbroke Island.

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Tongan volcano pumice expected to wash up on Townsville beaches this year

A geologist says it's not uncommon for black lumps of compressed sediment, or even coal, to wash up on Queensland beaches. But soon you could find pumice from Tonga's volcanic eruption.

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As the temperature cools, the heat is on Chris Bowen

Gas shortages, reported delays to major projects and coal-fired power woes are among the gifts handed to the new energy minister

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ABC News Queensland's Jenny Woodward on how weather presenting has changed over her 47-year career

ABC News Queensland weather presenter Jenny Woodward reflects on her career and how her job has changed over more than four decades.

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For 30 years, crooked cops extorted and intimidated these sex workers. Until the women fought back

For decades, a group of crooked Queensland cops known as the Rat Pack ran a murky system of bribes and extortion. But they never dreamed that the sex workers they exploited would bring about their downfall.

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Origin experience has Dearden wanting more

Tom Dearden has said a week in Queensland's Origin camp was the perfect way to work on his fitness and learn from some of the greats of the game.

AAP

No 'impediment' to Tamil family visa: PM

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has hinted the Nadesalingam family will be able to get permanent visas following their return to the Queensland town of Biloela.

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‘Love conquered all’: Biloela welcomes home Nadesalingam family after four years

Family ecstatic to be back in small Queensland town that fought so hard to free them, but they still seek permanent protection

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Qld forensic lab inquiry to probe police

A commission of inquiry into Queensland's state-run forensics lab will also look at the practices of police in dozens of cases stretching back to 2018.

ABC News

Townsville rapist sentenced to 13 years' jail for 'cruel, sadistic, callous' attacks on two women

A 20-year-old north Queensland man is sentenced to 13 years in prison over two attacks in Townsville that left physical and emotional scars on his victims.

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Biloela Tamil asylum seeker family make tearful return home after four-year struggle against deportation

Supporters wept, chanted and danced as the Nadesalingams got off the plane from Brisbane after four long and hard years away from home.

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Qld plans second pumped hydro project

The Queensland government will spend $35 million on a study for a pumped hydro project that could store up to seven gigawatts of electricity.

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Gold Coast man to appear in court after allegedly arranging to meet 13-year-old girl

Police allege a 42-year-old Queensland man arranged to meet a person he believed was a young teenage girl.

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Qld couple's teen killer could face appeal

The Queensland government is considering appealing the sentence of a teen who struck and killed Matthew Field and Kate Leadbetter with a stolen car.

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