
Jessica Ross
Journalist and TV Producer at Freelance
Freelance Journalist at Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
ABC Sunshine Coast journalist, proud mum to children, chickens 👧🏻👦🏼🐓 Trying to make the world a better place, one pun at a time. Views are mine 💁🏼♀️
Articles
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6 days ago |
abc.net.au | Jessica Ross |Sheridan Stewart
Morgan Hunter was just nine months old when she lost her parents and two sisters in a horrific car accident. The 31-year-old, from Queensland's Sunshine Coast, thought she had no memories of her mother Kerrie — until recently. "I was able to watch a family video for the first time and I heard her laugh," Ms Hunter said.
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1 week ago |
abc.net.au | Jessica Ross
Showers are expected to hit Queensland over the long weekend, including on election day. Some isolated areas could receive up to 100 millimetres of rain, while the state's south-east will experience more moderate falls. Conditions are likely to begin to ease on Monday, with "pretty good" weather by Tuesday, according to the weather bureau. Falls of up to 100 millimetres could hit parts of Queensland over the Labour Day long weekend, after days of picture-perfect autumn weather.
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2 weeks ago |
abc.net.au | Jessica Ross |Josh Dye
In Bonza's first year of operation more than 650,000 passengers eagerly boarded jets bound for cities and the many regional towns the big airlines had ignored. Based on Queensland's Sunshine Coast, the carrier was marketed as a cheap and cheerful alternative to the major players and took to the skies in early 2023. But a mere 15 months later the mood was grim.
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1 month ago |
abc.net.au | Jessica Ross |Zachary Bruce
Leon D'Aulnais was six years old when he fell in love with ballet and went on to learn the art form as a teenager. In his 70s, after a long and illustrious career as a hairstylist to the stars, he rediscovered his passion for dance.
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1 month ago |
abc.net.au | Josh Dye |Jessica Ross
Police are investigating an alleged assault on Queensland's Sunshine Coast that left a 60-year-old woman with broken ribs and spinal fractures after an altercation with a dog owner. Kathy McKenzie was walking alone on Peregian Beach about 9:15am on Tuesday when she saw a man approaching with a dog off leash, despite dogs being banned on that part of the beach. Acting Sergeant Justin Zuanetti said Ms McKenzie confronted the man, telling him that dogs were not allowed on that beach.
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