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Iconic Weengallon Pink Ladies Day bush charity event ends on high with record crowds

Every year for the past two decades, the tiny Queensland town of Weengallon has played host to huge crowds of women dressed in pink who gather for a good cause.




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Couple builds rain-mimicking sprinklers for garden

Using his experience as a scientist, Toowoomba gardener Peter Williamson and his horticulturalist wife Charmaine have developed a sprinkler system that simulates rain.




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DIY recycled watering system that 'mimics rain' keeps garden alive in drought-stricken Queensland city

As Queensland's Darling Downs continues to experience one of its worst droughts on record, a scientist and a horticulturalist have developed a recycled watering system to keep their garden alive.




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Student climate striker Ariel Ehlers, 12, goes it alone in Chinchilla, a hotbed of coal and gas

A Year 6 student who lives in a town surrounded by mines and CSG wells demonstrated by herself during last week's climate strike. But the reaction to her protest proved she was anything but alone.




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Dairy farmer says exodus could have been prevented if supermarkets passed on milk price increases

Another Queensland dairy farmer forced to send his herd to the meatworks says it may not have come to that if major supermarkets had passed on milk price increases.




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Roma Saleyards celebrate 50 years of cattle sales and look to the future despite ongoing drought

Over half a century, the Roma Saleyards in southern Queensland have become more than just a place to sell and buy livestock. They're a meeting point, a social occasion and even an unlikely tourist destination.




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Bushfire destroys home in Lockyer Valley town of Laidley as locals told to seek shelter

At least one home is destroyed and there are fears for several others as fire crews deal with a bushfire emergency at Laidley in Queensland's Lockyer Valley, west of Brisbane.




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Kurdish Queenslanders desperate to hear from families trapped in Syrian conflict

The battle between Turkey and Syria may be 13,000 kilometres from Toowoomba, but the effect of the war is being anxiously felt by the Queensland city's new Kurdish community.




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Job applicants forced to give blood tests, waive privacy rights to work on Shell's QGC project

A company working on the Shell-owned Queensland Gas Corporation project tells job applicants they will not be accepted until they submit to blood tests to check if they are at risk of heart attack, high cholesterol and other conditions.




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Spinal Muscular Atrophy test not available in Queensland, parents speak out

The simple genetic "heel-prick" test for newborns is saving the lives of children in New South Wales and the ACT, but elsewhere parents say their children aren't being afforded the same chance of survival in the face of rare diseases like Spinal Muscular Atrophy.




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Women on SES emergency frontline hope to inspire others by debunking boys' club myth

One year ago, Tanya Wittmann couldn't swim. Today she is qualified in swift water rescue and hopes to encourage other women to join the SES.




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AFL player 'heartbroken and devastated' over missing big brother

Demons footballer Michael Hibberd makes an emotional tribute to his older brother, who went missing while fishing earlier this week.




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How the WA town of Kulin reinvented itself and brought the tourists flooding in

It was the big idea that could have been a huge success or an expensive disaster, but more than 20 years later this little community is still reaping the benefits of a bold decision.





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Sunshine Coast man charged with rape, sexual assault and recording women using 'spy cameras' in towel racks

A Sunshine Coast man has been charged with rape and secretly recording a number of his female flatmates using hidden cameras, over the course of five years.













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Abbey Medieval Festival marks 30-year milestone with huge crowds and more than 1,000 re-enactors

A Queensland medieval festival has marked a milestone anniversary with huge crowds gathering to be immersed in 1,000 years of history, from the battleground to the bedroom.







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Dog lost on the Birdsville track 200km from anywhere reunited with owner at the Big Red Bash

Pip the dog was found wandering alone on the Birdsville Track, but a series of lucky breaks have led her to be reunited with her owner more than 220km away.






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Hervey Bay scallops with nam phrik phao, crispy rice, turmeric and finger lime kosho




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If your coastal home could be threatened by flooding 80 years from now, would you want to know?

The threat of flooding to Australia's coastal areas due to climate change is very real for some with the luxury seaside shire of Noosa in Queensland formally declaring a "climate emergency".




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Smoke detector hides tiny camera




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Internet romance scammers know what their victims are longing to hear, expert says

How can it be so easy to fall into a romance based on text messages, internet liaisons and phone calls? An expert says scammers know exactly what their victims want to hear.




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Alleged violent carjacker charged after 200km Bruce Highway pursuit

A 23-year-old Wide Bay man is charged with dozens of offences, after allegedly leading police on a 200-kilometre pursuit, carjacking several people, and stabbing a woman earlier this month.




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Dairy farmer makes one final plea for milk price to increase to $1.50 a litre or industry will not survive

A Queensland dairy farmer says the only way the industry will survive is if people pay $1.50 a litre, with production costs skyrocketing in the drought.









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Artist Wayne Malkin with match painting




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Australian painter Wayne Malkin claims unofficial world record with matchstick portrait

Queensland painter Wayne Malkin claims a record for creating the world's smallest painting on the end of a matchstick, but he won't make it into the record books.




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Scientists prepare to farm puffy pink seaweed that stops cows burping methane

The native Queensland seaweed that can stop bovines burping out methane could cut the country's greenhouse emissions by 10 per cent, if it could be farmed on a scale to feed every cow in Australia, researchers say.





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Sunshine Coast teenager Michael Ryan missing for almost two weeks as search continues

State Emergency Service volunteers from across the Sunshine Coast, Gympie and Noosa are continuing to search for a 14-year-old boy who has been missing for 12 days.