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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Tobi Loftus |Claudia Williams |Julius Dennis
Not so long ago Queensland was considered an integral part of Peter Dutton's path to the Lodge. Instead, Labor gained seven seats in the Sunshine State, including five from the LNP. Suburban Brisbane seats once considered home to Howard's battlers — and later Scott Morrison's quiet Australians — turned away from the Coalition on a scale beyond even Labor insiders' predictions. Forde, to Brisbane's south, and Petrie to its north, are prime examples.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Julius Dennis
Ashley Pettit bought the Moorooka block in 2019 hoping to subdivide it like others on his street. Brisbane City Council told him he couldn't due to stormwater flow risk. A local councillor says planners are not being practical about the proposal. When Ashley Pettit bought a double block in Brisbane's inner south in 2019, he planned to subdivide and build.
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Dec 19, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Julius Dennis
Oyster reefs filter water and provide habitat for fish and other sea creatures. The "deployment" was the largest undertaken by the Moreton Bay-based restoration project. Current law limits reef restoration in the marine park, but project organisers hope new legislation will allow them to expand. More than 3,000 man-made oyster reefs have been dropped in Moreton Bay as part of an effort to bring shellfish back into the ecosystem.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Julius Dennis
A Brisbane artist has been targeted twice by thieves who stole thousands of dollars' worth of paintings ahead of the Christmas period. Michelle Sparks says someone smashed the front door of her Coorparoo art gallery on November 8 and stole three paintings. She installed security cameras at the inner-south gallery, but at 4:20am on Sunday morning, men smashed the front door again, getting away with another six artworks.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Julius Dennis
An aviation regiment leader was told an investigation found no evidence of a technical malfunction with a helicopter that crashed off the Queensland coast killing four men, an inquiry has heard. Captain Danniel Lyon, Lieutenant Maxwell Nugent, Warrant Officer Class 2 Joseph Laycock and Corporal Alexander Naggs died in the tragedy on July 28, 2023.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Julius Dennis
A senior crewman flying behind an army helicopter when it crashed off the Queensland coast has described it breaking apart as his team searched for survivors. Captain Danniel Lyon, Lieutenant Maxwell Nugent, Warrant Officer Class 2 Joseph Laycock and Corporal Alexander Naggs died during a night-time training for exercise Talisman Sabre in north Queensland on July 28, 2023.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Julius Dennis
On disused cane farms on the Sunshine Coast, the federal government is trying to put a price on nature. They're planning a nature repair market, similar to the carbon market, where large companies will pay landholders to build ecosystems. But it's a work in progress. Either side of Yandina Creek, a tributary of the Maroochy River, researchers are opening the gates that kept salt water off the fields for a century. With the water, life has flowed back onto the flood plain.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Julius Dennis
Two people have died after a truck crash on the Cunningham Highway, 120 kilometres south-west of Brisbane. Two trucks heading in opposite directions collided near Tregony, on the Southern Downs, causing both to rollover. The driver and passenger of one of the trucks died at the scene. A further six people were taken to hospital with minor injuries. The highway is closed in both directions while emergency services continue to clear the scene.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Julius Dennis
The LNP is projected to form government in Queensland, wresting power from Labor for the first time in almost a decade. David Crisafulli will become the 41st premier of the state after defeating the Steven Miles-led Labor Party. ABC election analyst Antony Green said the LNP would likely form a majority government. "It's certainly not the landslide everyone thought a month ago," he said. Mr Miles did not concede defeat, but said the party was unlikely to win a majority.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Jessica van Vonderen |Julius Dennis
The LNP's health spokeswoman has a pro-life political party second on her how-to-vote card, as leader David Crisafulli attempts to reassure voters their abortion rights are not at risk. Abortion has been repeatedly brought up during the election campaign since Katter's Australian Party leader Robbie Katter said he would introduce a bill to repeal Queensland's abortion laws.
