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1 month ago | abc.net.au | Freya Jetson |Vanessa Jarrett

The Ingham region has received the biggest falls across parts of the state overnight with 123 millimetres at Abergowrie Bridge. Thunderstorm activity is expected today from the Whitsundays to the top of the Cape York Penisula and across to the Northern Territory border. Power supply will be connected by Sunday to the remaining 30,000 homes still without power across the state.

Jan 10, 2025 | abc.net.au | Freya Jetson

Changes to Meta's hateful conduct policy could lead to increased hate speech and real world safety concerns, according to a Queensland social media expert. Social media giant Meta will now allow allegations of "mental illness" or "abnormality" based on gender or sexual orientation on Facebook, Instagram and Threads. It also will now allow women to be referred to as "household objects", and for content arguing in favour of "gender-based limitations of military, law enforcement, and teaching jobs".

Jan 6, 2025 | abc.net.au | Freya Jetson |Louise Miolin

It scars your lungs and makes it hard to breathe. Black lung mostly effects coal miners, but other workers are also at risk.

Jan 1, 2025 | abc.net.au | Aaron Kelly |Freya Jetson

As Declan Hamilton swims through the balmy, crystal-blue waters of Australia's Cape York while spearfishing with friends, he is confronted by six sharks. Swimming for his life, he fends them off with his bare hands, but they are not deterred. As an aggressive bull shark lurches for his leg, he manages to scramble back into the group's boat just before it bites. "We went up to Cape York in November (2024) with a couple of friends spearfishing at a reef off the coast there," Mr Hamilton said.

Dec 7, 2024 | abc.net.au | Amy E. Sheehan |Freya Jetson

The last rays of afternoon sun are flickering through the spear grass on the banks of the Dawson River in Central Queensland as Yakani Bayles jogs eagerly toward the water. The animated seven-year-old hopes to land a "big yellowbelly" for dinner. He fishes at the weir most afternoons with his grandfather Jimmy Bayles on the outskirts of the town of Theodore. "Come on wild old man," Yakani says to his grandad as he prepares to cast his line.