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Locals have met for a candlelight vigil this morning in Biloela, calling for a Tamil family to be released from detention.   Today marks three years since Priya and Nades Murugappan and their Australian born daughters, Kopika (now five years old) and Tharnicaa (now three) were taken into detention from their home...

  A foreign shipping company and the chief officer of one of its vessels has been fined thousands of dollars for dumping garbage into the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. The Australian Maritime Safety Authority says crew onboard a Liberian-flagged bulk carrier dumped the equivalent of a 120-litre household bin full of...

Health officials are scrambling to find eight people who stayed on the same floor as a person with a highly infectious strain of coronavirus in a Brisbane quarantine hotel. The suspected super-spreader is one of six passengers who tested positive after flying into Brisbane on a Qatar Airways flight, on February...

A teenager has died after he was stung by a box jellyfish in Far North Queensland.  The 17-year-old was stung at Patterson Point, near Bamaga about 40kilometres from the tip of the Cape York, last week.  He was airlifted to Townsville Hospital, but he couldn't be saved.  A Queensland Police spokesperson says the...

Flying in a police helicopter and arresting someone might seem scary to other seven-year-olds, but for Savannah Burns it is a dream come true. Tragically, the Ipswich girl is putting up the biggest fight of all as she battles terminal in cancer. To celebrate her birthday, Gatton police yesterday recruited her as...

Conservationists are warning of an environmental catastrophe if Clive Palmer’s proposed Central Queensland coal mine gets the green light. The Mackay Conservation Group is imploring the State Government to block the plan, saying the mine will wipe out precious reef ecosystems, fish habitats and wetlands. On Friday, the environment department made the...