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Bluey's Christmas episode is about to drop — here's why the show works so well

ABC News: Top Stories - Mon, 2019-12-02 04:41

My two-and-a-half-year-old daughter and I go to visit the "creative, beautiful sausage factory" Ludo Studio, where the internationally acclaimed animation series Bluey is created from nose to tail.

She doesn't know it, but baby Maya is cause for a special celebration

ABC News: Top Stories - Sun, 2019-12-01 13:19

Australia's largest provider of continuity of midwifery care, My Midwives, has celebrated the birth of the 1,000th baby born through its Toowoomba practice.

Man's body found in search for Queensland 'bush boy' Trent Grose

ABC News: Top Stories - Sun, 2019-12-01 12:46

A man's body has been found outside Maxwelton in Queensland's north-west after a land and air search for 25-year-old Trent Grose, who was last seen two weeks ago when he borrowed a four-wheel drive from friends.

'I want him alive': Mother's anguish amid outback search for 'bush boy' after car found

ABC News: Top Stories - Sun, 2019-12-01 12:46

A distraught mother appeals for help to find her 25-year-old son who has been missing in remote country in north-west Queensland for several days.

Veteran with 'approved assistance dog' hits out at Qantas treatment

ABC News: Top Stories - Sun, 2019-12-01 08:21

Ted Tiessem was preparing to fly from Brisbane to Townsville last month when a Qantas staff member took him aside and told him he could not fly with his dog, Scout — a Qantas-approved assistance animal.

Almost 25,000 knife-related crimes committed in Queensland last financial year

ABC News: Top Stories - Sun, 2019-12-01 08:21

A dramatic rise in young people carrying knives prompts a Logan detective to start a campaign warning of the risks, with new statewide figures showing a 40 per cent increase in knife-related crimes.

South-East Queensland Police on the beat

ABC News: Top Stories - Sun, 2019-12-01 08:21
Officers stop a number of men with knives in their possession during intercepts in South-East Queensland.

Sports supplement industry fears review will lead to 70,000 products pulled from shelves

ABC News: Top Stories - Sun, 2019-12-01 08:21

Major Australian retailers say up to 70,000 sports supplements could be pulled from the shelves and hundreds of jobs lost after the Therapeutic Goods Administration proposed a raft of reforms to reclassify some health supplements as therapeutic goods or medicines.

Plenty of reasons to be angry at the Murray-Darling plan, but canning it solves none of them

ABC News: Top Stories - Sun, 2019-12-01 04:30

The Murray-Darling Basin Plan has caused enormous economic and social upheaval but scrapping it risks a worse outcome for farmers, as Clint Jasper explains.

Gretel Tippett wins Liz Ellis Diamond award, may finally have won naysayers over

ABC News: Top Stories - Sat, 2019-11-30 20:40

Gretel Tippett earns Australian netball's highest honour, winning the Liz Ellis Diamond for her brilliant work at goal attack for the Firebirds and Diamonds.

As Christmas looms, grieving mums push for change after deaths of young daughters

ABC News: Top Stories - Sat, 2019-11-30 11:49

It has been almost seven years Summer Steer, four, died after swallowing a button battery. Her mum wants to see better regulation around the notoriously dangerous product, and she's not alone.

Sew, rent, thrift or just don't wash your clothes so often

ABC News: Top Stories - Sat, 2019-11-30 11:34

Fashion is the second most polluting industry on the planet, but we all have to wear something. We found four ways people are dressing more sustainably.

Next-gen astroturf: Fake sports fields are helping clubs beat the drought — and the water bills

ABC News: Top Stories - Sat, 2019-11-30 08:07

A new $1.5 million sporting field in Brisbane has been laid with fake grass, winning over not only the groundsman as he battles drought-like conditions, but the older, sceptical footballers who are reporting softer falls and less injuries.

Whooping cough cases spike 50pc in Queensland

ABC News: Top Stories - Sat, 2019-11-30 08:07

With only a third of pregnant Queensland women getting vaccinated, doctors worry that cases of whooping cough in newborns will continue to spike across the state.

How cheap beer set one Chinese-Australian on a path to the top of Australia's Army Reserve

ABC News: Top Stories - Sat, 2019-11-30 05:31

When Darryl Low Choy came home one day singing a song mocking people of Chinese ancestry, his mother decided it was time to tell him the truth.

Inquiry launched after Paradise Dam reports show wall issues stem from construction

ABC News: Top Stories - Fri, 2019-11-29 15:40

The Queensland Government announces an inquiry into the structural issues of Bundaberg's Paradise Dam, after technical reports show the faults originate with its initial construction.

'Your thoughts and prayers aren't enough': Student climate change protesters take to the streets

ABC News: Top Stories - Fri, 2019-11-29 12:21

A student who lost her home in a bushfire tells the Prime Minister climate change is a crisis, and she wants him to act like it is and take action, as students walk out of school in protest nationally.

'Hundreds of millions' expected in payouts after court rules in favour of Queensland flood victims

ABC News: Top Stories - Fri, 2019-11-29 10:44

Flood victim Frank Beaumont weeps as the Supreme Court finds water authorities breached their duty of care over the 2011 floods in South-East Queensland, handing a victory to thousands of victims in a landmark class action.

Baby girl dies days after her twin sister was found dead in Brisbane home

ABC News: Top Stories - Fri, 2019-11-29 07:17

A second baby girl dies days after she and her twin sister were found unresponsive at a home in Sunnybank Hills on Brisbane's south.

How growing pea-sized brains could help to solve big grey matters

ABC News: Top Stories - Fri, 2019-11-29 06:41

Scientists in Queensland are growing mini-brains in the hope that their research could help to unlock treatments and cures for a range of conditions.

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