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Police are investigating a large amount of money placed in a suspicious bet on the NRL match between the North Queensland Cowboys and Canterbury Bulldogs....
Wednesday 1 September 2010 -
When one looks at the swathe of seats in regional Queensland lost by Labor in the federal election, there is clearly a 'state of origin' factor in play. Queenslanders are a parochial lot, as the enduring interstate rugby league contest attests - globalization and the diminution of distance by ...
Tuesday 31 August 2010 -
For a long time Townsville's nightclub strip has been a hot-spot for alcohol related violence. Now the Queensland State Goverment is introducing a Safe Drink Precinct around Flinders Street that they hope will make it a safer place to relax. ...
Monday 30 August 2010 -
Bowen's lack of emergency accommodation has many of those in crisis sleeping rough....
Wednesday 25 August 2010 -
The Cultural Fest provides vibrant relief from the weekend's political focus....
Friday 20 August 2010
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When Susan Maushart first decided to pull the plug on all electronic media at home, she realised her children would have sooner volunteered to go without food, water or hair products. At ages fourteen, fifteen and eighteen, her daughters and son didn't use media. They inhabited media. Just ...

Monday 2 August 2010 -
The School Magazine is Australia's oldest literary magazine, and it's the oldest literary magazine for children anywhere in the world. It began in 1916 as a free publication for NSW primary school children, with the noble aim of presenting Australian writers for Australian children. ...Monday 30 August 2010
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Colin Darcy makes a new start in life as he and his two best mates, Damien and Johnny, from Whyalla, form a hip hop group called Shadows....
Thursday 2 September 2010 -
The Body Farm is the name of a research facility at the University of Tennessee - a workbench of forensic science, monitoring processes as nature does its work - and tonight we visit this institution but we're also inside a large building - a corporate corpse - where a mysterious death has minions and ...
Wednesday 18 August 2010 -
Darren Jones was a talented young musician who was randomly murdered on a train in 2006. In this moving documentary his family and friends pay tribute to his life and his music. They also explain how his death has affected the close-knit community of musicians in the Dandenong Ranges, east of ...Friday 3 September 2010
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