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News One of the region’s family-owned businesses have been announced as one of eight finalists in a national competition and here’s how you can help them win

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Politics LNP members — outraged that ex-presidents were on nemesis Clive Palmer’s yacht as the party lost the election — claim a top-down clean-out is needed.

Politics Steven Miles’ pledge to tear up a NSW quarantine bill has been dealt a blow following revelations Jackie Trad agreed to pay just weeks before she was deposed.

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News The live music festival suffered last year, but Aussie promoters are bringing it back — including the first touring festival in the world right now.

News A mother has shared a heartbreaking story of how her four-year-old choked on a pin the day of his brother’s birthday, before dying in hospital.

Breaking A man has died after a medical episode led to his car hitting a tree north of the Sunshine Coast.

Health The doctor at the centre of the Queensland vaccine bungle where two patients were given four times the correct dosage had previously been sanctioned.

Offbeat A man who allegedly stormed the US Capitol sent a text to his ex-girlfriend mid-siege to call her a “moron”. Then she delivered the ultimate payback.

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Politics It’s been described as a “crafty” move that could provoke a regional crisis but these five countries have united to pushback against Beijing.

Politics Anti-vaxxers have held a protest outside the Health Minister’s office to rally against the rollout of the country’s coronavirus vaccine.

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News Motorists are being urged to drive with caution in the area

Celebrity Prince Harry spent an entire afternoon with James Corden strutting around LA for a laid-back interview. But was the exercise a folly?

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Crime Kathleen Walsh was your typical 11-year-old Mount Isa girl. She loved Irish dancing, softball, swimming and playing the piano and was surrounded with friends.

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Crime North Queensland police have arrested and charged a man with more than 50 drug related offences, including trafficking and supply, after an ongoing operation.

Business Tourism leaders have warned whatever takes the place of JobKeeper when the axe falls next month may not be enough to prop up struggling businesses.

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Weather The Bureau of Meteorology is keeping a close eye on a potential tropical low that could develop into a cyclone off the Far North coast.

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Business A hammer blow set to drop on the tourism industry when JobKeeper dries up next month could be the wake-up call needed to push diversification.

Politics A senior minister has become the second member of the government to be vaccinated against the coronavirus.

Boxing Only two Australians have ever unified a boxing division — new ly-minted millionaire George Kambosos is vowing to become the third.

Opinion Mum-of-two media personality Tamara Wrigley’s hope for more children was cut short in her mid-30s when she was diagnosed with endometriosis. This is her story.

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Crime A man has avoided jail for stabbing his Buderim housemate’s friend who accused him of leaving faeces on the toilet seat.

Crime A former panel beater caring full-time for two of his children was busted with drug utensils with methamphetamine residue.

Crime A man on a bridging visa scammed foreign students to get their mobile phones. He then used money from the sale of the phones for his wife’s IVF.

Crime A criminology expert has made an outlandish claim that accused conwoman Melissa Caddick could still be alive, despite her foot washing up on a beach.

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Crime A grazier who was sold a lame nag instead of the fit stockhorse advertised on Facebook has been compensated after taking the seller to court.