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Pictured: Swimmer, 23, who was killed in a shark attack off the Great Barrier Reef 

He had been working on the southern Barrier Reef with a group of rangers when he was attacked on Tuesday afternoon.




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Carjacker on the run after stealing pregnant mother's car and fleeing with son in the backseat 

The mother, 31, was parked at the corner of Brightview Road and Grove Street in Glenore Grove, Queensland, at 6am on Tuesday when the incident happened.




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Mother creates a rotating 'sushi train' in her own HOME using a children's Christmas train set 

Vicki Thomas brought the magic of her favourite Japanese conveyor belt restaurant into her Brisbane home by arranging boxes of sushi on top of a children's train set.




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Qantas passenger shares photo of packed plane en route to Brisbane 2133186

The Qantas passenger claimed he was flying from Townsville to Brisbane on Monday afternoon on a plane crammed with travellers.




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Virgin Australia engineer fears for his family's future if embattled airline collapses 

Virgin Australia fleet engineer and Brisbane dad Tony Hill believes he'll struggle to find another job in Australia's embattled aviation industry if the airline can't survive the coronavirus crisis.




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Beautician says 50% of the industry are still operating under the table in Australia

A Queensland woman has lifted the lid on Australia's rogue beauticians, revealing many in the industry are operating illegally from home in the midst of the coronavirus lockdown.




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Darling Downs Zoo could be forced to close for good due to coronavirus lockdown 

Darling Downs Zoo, south-west of Brisbane in Queensland, is closed temporarily due to the pandemic.




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Apollo Jackson is charging $100 a month for fans to learn his magic tricks online

He previously struggled to make ends meet when work dried up after The Bachelorette. 




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Qantas scraps the middle seat after damning photo of a packed flight during the coronavirus crisis

The airline announced the changes after a photo surfaced of a packed plane flying from Townsville in far north Queensland to Brisbane last Monday.




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Australian petrol prices tipped to plunge by another 20 per cent to less than 75 cents a litre

Westpac senior economist Justin Smirk is expecting average petrol prices in Australia's biggest cities to plunge by a fifth by the end of June. This would see unleaded sell for less than 75 cents a litre.




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Coles worker proposed to by her boyfriend over the microphone in front of panic-buyers 

Sam Sargaison confessed his love for girlfriend Tegan Mangan while she was working at Coles Beenleigh, south of Brisbane, over the store's speaker system.




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Brisbane mother is slammed for trying to sell her massive stash of toilet paper 

The Brisbane woman has 21 packs of toilet paper, each with 18 rolls for sale online.  She's selling a pack of Quilton toilet paper for $20 - double the supermarket price.




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MAFS' Mishel Karen hits back at claims she broke lockdown rules going to the hair salon 

Married At First Sight star Mishel Karen has clapped back at trolls after she  inundated with hateful messages when she posted her visit to a hair salon for a colour and cut on Instagram, this week.




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Sunshine Coast Great grandfather to fund coronavirus vaccine by selling lavish beachside penthouse

Research into coronavirus treatments has been boosted by an unlikely benefactor - an 82-year-old great-grandfather who is selling his multi-million dollar beachside penthouse.




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Real estate guru says property investors should buy their next house now

A real estate guru has shared his tips on where to buy property during the COVID-19 crisis, urging investors to act now before prices rise again after the pandemic.




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Husband, 35, who stabbed his 23-year-old wife 20 times is jailed

An Indian man has been jailed for stabbing his wife more than 20 times during a frenzied attack at their Brisbane home after she asked for a divorce.




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Drunk driver who went on tequila bender managed to avoid a two-year ban through legal loophole 

Hefeng Li, 30, was found asleep at the wheel on Padstow Road at Eight Mile Plains, in Brisbane's south, by police at about 11pm on March 21.




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MORE NRL stars are caught breaking social-distancing rules as they eat lunch together at a park 

Brisbane Broncos' players, Darius Boyd and Jack Bird were caught in New Farm Park in Queensland on Friday afternoon, one day before social distancing restriction would be eased.




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Tragedy as man, 40, dies after losing control of his electric skateboard and hitting his head

A Queensland man has died after falling off an electric skateboard, hitting his head, police said on Sunday.




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Man in Rydges South Bank Hotel in Brisbane fined $1,500 for breaking mandatory quarantine twice

The 33-year-old arrived from Hawaii and was taken to Rydges South Bank Hotel in Brisbane to undergo the mandatory 14-day quarantine to slow the spread of COVID-19.




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Prisoner, 37, is mysteriously found dead in jail laundry 

The 37-year-old man was found about 4pm on Wednesday, in the laundry of the Woodford Correctional Centre north of Brisbane.




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Two prisoners die at a jail near Brisbane in just 24 hours with one dead in the laundry room 

Two prisoners have died in separate incidents 12 hours apart at Woodford Correctional Centre north of Brisbane.




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Mother who went on the run for TEN YEARS after robbing a Coles Express is finally arrested 

Natasha Lee Quirk tried to rob a Coles Express service station in Brisbane when she was 19-years-old on December 23, 2010.




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The new Qantas flights from Australia to the US and UK 

Australians hoping to fly home during the coronavirus pandemic have been given new options with Qantas announcing limited flights to Melbourne from Los Angeles and London.




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Boris Johnson restores the Tory whip to 10 Brexit rebels

Boris Johnson has restored the Tory whip to 10 of the 21 former Conservative rebels who were expelled after backing a bid to block a No Deal Brexit.




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10 battleground seats could decide 2019 December general election

These are 10 of the key battleground seats which are likely to determine the UK's Brexit fate at the next general election.




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Boris Johnson needs 50 Labour seats to offset SNP and Lib Dem losses

Boris Johnson will seek to rally his troops for the pre-Christmas showdown by attacking Jeremy Corbyn at what promises to be a brutal PMQs session in the Commons later.




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Nigel Farage: Brexit Party will NOT fight 600 election seats

The Brexit Party leader said he was offered a seat in the House of Lords last Friday, branding the offer 'ridiculous'.




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Boris Johnson ditches pledge to give MPs a free vote on bringing back fox hunting 

Boris Johnson has ditched the Tory party's pledge, made in 2015 and 2017, to give MPs a free vote on bringing back fox hunting. Meanwhile Labour is said to double wildlife crime officers.




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Conservatives lead Labour by 10 points a WEEK before election

Boris Johnson and the Tories have a 10 point poll lead over Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party with the general election now just one week away.




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Michael Gove gives out No10 phone number as he is grilled over PM's Andrew Neil dodging

Michael Gove gave out the No10 phone number live on radio as he was pushed over whether the PM is running scared of the interview.




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Election 2019: Almost a quarter of voters unsure who to vote for

Some 23 per cent of those quizzed by IpsosMORI said hey could yet alter their support. The analysis for the Evening Standard also showed that Boris Johnson is on course for a majority.




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The 40 seats most at risk for the Conservatives

These are 40 seats which the Conservatives are best-placed to take from Labour - and where Brexit Party voters should switch their allegiance to the Tories, or face a Marxist UK prime minister.




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Election 2019: Boris Johnson among the voters to cast their ballot

Going in to today, Boris Johnson had a narrowing lead in the polls and is hoping to secure a swathe of northern Labour seats. But Labour sources claim its vote is holding up amid a seemingly huge turnout.




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Boris Johnson set for 80-seat majority after election 'earthquake'

With Labour's 'red wall' of Leave-backing strongholds imploding, Boris Johnson said he had been given a 'powerful' vote of confidence by the British people.




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UK may be under EU control past 2020 as new trade deal struck

Boris Johnson says he will refuse to extend the Brexit transition period beyond the end of next year but EU politicians are considering asking for it to be pushed back themselves.




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PETER HITCHENS: Pity the Conservatives are now the main Left-wing party in the country 

PETER HITCHENS: Well, hurrah. After almost a decade of fooling around, chaos, waste and confusion, we have finally saved the Tory Party from richly deserved doom.




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Withdrawal Bill and £33billion for the NHS to be top of Her Majesty's address to parliament 

The Queen's Speech on Thursday, setting out the Government's agenda for the new Parliament, will give legislative force to the policy priorities which secured Mr Johnson's landslide win.




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'Blue Wall' of new Tory MPs arrives for first day at Parliament 

Triumphant Conservatives are reporting for duty in Westminster after demolishing Labour's 'Red Wall' of Leave-backing strongholds in the North, Midlands and Wales.




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Boris Johnson gathers Cabinet and announces Brexit Bill clause

The PM and his top team met in Downing Street after it was revealed that withdrawal legislation is being amended to rule out any extension of the transition period beyond December 2020.




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MPs get 3.1% pay rise, taking salary to £82,000 plus expenses

The increase - well above the 1.5 per cent rate of CPI inflation - comes after Boris Johnson hailed the new crop of MPs as a 'vast improvement' who could finally secure Brexit after years of dithering.




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Boris Johnson to start points-based immigration system in 2021

A new Australian-style points-based immigration system will be rolled out in the UK in 2021 as freedom of movement from the EU is brought to an end by Boris Johnson's new Tory government.




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2019 Election map shows Tory-Labour vote is split by old-young

The 'youthquake' Labour needed, but never materialised, would have won them 341 more seats than the 203 they took in December, analysis by Election Maps UK has found.




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Sales of new petrol and diesel cars could be BANNED by 2035 - five years earlier than planned

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps had announced a desire to speed up the current plan for a prohibition which would favour electric replacements by 2040.




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John Bercow reveals he was 'drawn' towards controversial Tory MP Enoch Powell in the 1980s 

Powell was sacked from the Tory shadow cabinet in 1968 for his 'rivers of blood' speech which warned of the dangers of unchecked mass immigration.




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Budget 2020 at a glance: Key points of Chancellor's speech

The Budget was about containing coronavirus's effect, but there was still room for plenty of other measures though. We reveal what you need to know.




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Budget 2020: Rishi Sunak cuts NI contributions for millions

From next month the threshold at which payments start will rise from £8,632 to £9,500, putting an estimated £100 a year back in the pocket of 31 million workers.




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UK diagnoses 407 new coronavirus cases in a day to total of 1,950

The Department of Health has confirmed 1,557 tests in England have come back positive, along with 136 in Wales, 195 in Scotland and 62 in Northern Ireland.




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Coronavirus UK: Government to pay 80% wages to stop layoffs

Chancellor Rish Sunak and Boris Johnson are unveiling a massive new coronavirus rescue package after furious complaints that they are not doing enough for ordinary people.




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Carrie Symonds and chief adviser Dominic Cummings 'at war' 

Carrie Symonds is backing ministers who say Dominic Cummings' aggressive approach is damaging, sources say. Insiders fear Mr Johnson is in danger of being caught in a damaging power struggle.