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afr.com | Tom Rabe |James Hall |Ronald Mizen
Tom Rabe, James Hall and Ronald MizenApr 3, 2025 – 7.13pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Exporters say they can ride out Donald Trump’s direct tariff hit on Australia in part because America’s big burger chains need Aussie beef to lift the quality of the patties they sell by the millions every day.
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afr.com | Zoe Samios |James Hall
Mar 28, 2025 – 5.38pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? In the small town of Narbonne on the French coast, former Wallabies captain Rocky Elsom knew his time was running out. It was 2016 and the town’s rugby club, Racing Club de Narbonne Mediterranee, which he owned and ran, had struggled to win a game and was being threatened with relegation.
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afr.com | James Hall |Zoe Samios
Mar 27, 2025 – 5.31pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? One of Star Entertainment’s two major Hong Kong-based investor concealed its relationship with criminal junket operator Alvin Chau from the regulators, according to a long-secret Queensland government inquiry.
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afr.com | Tom Rabe |Phillip Coorey |James Hall
Tom Rabe, Phillip Coorey and James HallMar 18, 2025 – 6.21pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber?
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ourcommunitynow.com | Joanna Mather |James Hall
As the Gold Coast braced for its first tropical cyclone in 50 years, staff at Sea World were preparing for the worst. The park has a population of more than 20 dolphins who are dependent on finely calibrated filtration systems for survival. Too much rain can disrupt the salinity levels, with potentially deadly consequences. CONTINUE READING
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1 month ago | 
afr.com | Joanna Mather |James Hall
Mar 12, 2025 – 4.50pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? As the Gold Coast braced for its first tropical cyclone in 50 years, staff at Sea World were preparing for the worst. The park has a population of more than 20 dolphins who are dependent on finely calibrated filtration systems for survival.
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afr.com | Tess Bennett |James Hall
Mar 11, 2025 – 6.44pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? When Jacquie Tapsall and her business partner, Jessica Sexton, quit their jobs and poured their life savings into opening a cafe in Brisbane two years ago, the quotes they received for flood insurance made their eyes water.
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afr.com | James Hall |Tess Bennett
Mar 10, 2025 – 7.29pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Industries across northern NSW and Queensland have begun counting the cost of a widespread shutdown caused by ex-cyclone Alfred, where beef producers were dealt a hit to lucrative exports, fruit and vegetable farmers braced for a wipeout of crops and freight companies had operations paused.
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1 month ago | 
afr.com | Joanna Mather |James Hall
Mar 10, 2025 – 7.25pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Major developers say the effects of ex-tropical cyclone Alfred will worsen workforce shortages and productivity problems that mean every project in south-east Queensland already costs 20 per cent more than it should.
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afr.com | James Hall |Lucy Slade
Mar 6, 2025 – 3.01pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Authorities pushed back the time they expect Cyclone Alfred to smash into the coast near Brisbane and warned its slower pace and erratic pattern posed an even bigger threat of destructive winds and flooding.
