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Councillor Chris Loft is dismissed as the Fraser Coast Mayor amid “serial breaches”, Queensland Local Government Minister Stirling Hinchliffe says.

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A man is charged with assault over a domestic dispute with a 16-year-old boy who was shot by police in Ipswich, west of Brisbane, after the teen allegedly charged at officers with a knife.

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Surfers are “frothing” about big waves being whipped up along Queensland’s southern coastline, as the Bureau of Meteorology issues a hazardous surf warning for the state’s Fraser, Sunshine and Gold coasts.

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The call Jennifer McLeod had both hoped for and dreaded finally came. She thanked the clinic, then hung up the phone and cried.

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Death threats, verbal abuse, and trolling — it comes with the territory when you’re running a local community Facebook group.

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Teenager Jai Hunt was shot less than two minutes after police arrived at his home, south-west of Brisbane, a neighbour’s CCTV footage reveals. But it took more than 26 minutes for paramedics to take him away to hospital.

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When spiders are disturbed by the rumble of an idling diesel 4WD, they become agitated beyond sense and abandon their normal self-preservation instinct to run towards danger. An Australian arachnologist is using the phenomenon to unearth large amounts of hard-to-find spiders at one time.

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A man has a close encounter with a lightning strike at Esk, west of Brisbane, as severe storms batter Ipswich with large hailstones, cutting power to thousands of homes.

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A man has a close encounter with a lightning strike at Esk, west of Brisbane, as severe storms batter Ipswich with large hailstones, cutting power to thousands of homes.

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Put down the chocolate — some of Cadbury’s limited-edition Caramilk blocks are being recalled after small pieces of plastic were found.

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