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Lottie Twyford

Canberra

Reporter, @ABC News via @Riotact. Views mine etc. Often nattering in 🇫🇷 or pounding the pavements 🏃‍♀️

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  • 1 week ago | rnz.co.nz | Lottie Twyford |Johanna Marie

    By Lottie Twyford and Johanna Marie for ABC NewsAustralian police have confirmed human remains found almost two weeks ago are those of missing Queensland teenager Pheobe Bishop. The 17-year-old from the Wide Bay area was last seen on 15 May when she failed to board a flight from Bundaberg airport. Her housemates - James Wood and Tanika Bromley - have since been charged with one count each of murder, and two counts each of interfering with a corpse.

  • 1 week ago | abc.net.au | Lottie Twyford |Johanna Marie

    Police have confirmed human remains found almost two weeks ago are those of missing Queensland teenager Pheobe Bishop. The 17-year-old from the Wide Bay area was last seen on May 15 when she failed to board a flight from Bundaberg airport. Her housemates, James Wood and Tanika Bromley, have since been charged with one count each of murder, and two counts each of interfering with a corpse. Police found human remains on Friday, June 6 in the Good Night Scrub National Park area near Gin Gin.

  • 1 week ago | abc.net.au | Lottie Twyford

    Researchers have uncovered an increase in a potentially deadly disease affecting dogs on Australia's east coast. Rat lungworm disease, which dogs generally pick up by eating slugs and snails, has also been linked to wet weather. Researchers say more education about how to avoid infection, by keeping dogs away from snails and slugs, is needed. Researchers are warning dog owners to be vigilant as a new study reveals a wet weather-driven spike in a potentially fatal disease.

  • 2 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Lottie Twyford |Ciara Jones

    A woman who allegedly lured people from Papua New Guinea to Australia with the promise of fully-funded scholarships has been charged with human trafficking. Australian Federal Police allege the 56-year-old woman forced 15 people — aged between 19 and their late 30s — to work on farms against their will instead of receiving the education they had been promised.

  • 2 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Lottie Twyford

    On George Adil's cane farm in Far North Queensland, the day-to-day of life and work keeps him busy. It means he doesn't always have time to be vigilant of crocodiles on his Mareeba property, inland of Cairns, especially when he has to get into the river to service his irrigation equipment and pump by hand. "It is definitely worrying when you have to get into the river," he says.

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20 Apr 24

The ACT has Australia's longest emergency room wait times, but the government says things are improving https://t.co/9QamWXFuz3 via @ABCaustralia

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17 Apr 24

Good news palate cleanser: Critically endangered northern corroboree frogs spotted in Namadgi National Park for the first time in five years https://t.co/TXqJJ9w0uG via @ABCaustralia

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Lottie Twyford @lottietwyford
13 Apr 24

Coercive control is insidious and costing lives. Here's what states, territories and the Commonwealth are doing about it https://t.co/AFu5jaRmJB via @ABCaustralia