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Family of slain police officer say her final message was withheld from them for months
The families of Constables Rachel McCrow and Matthew Arnold tell an inquest into their deaths they are "forever broken".
Published: Source: ABC NewsTopic: Police
Duration: 2 minutes 46 seconds
Paranoia, hideouts and 'the Rubicon': What we've learned from the Wieambilla shooting inquest
A marathon five-week inquest into the devastating Wieambilla shootings, which claimed the lives of two young police officers and an innocent neighbour, has reached its final day.
Published: Source: ABC NewsTopic: Police
Ballistic police vest would not have saved officer killed at Wieambilla, inquest hears
It's the fifth and final week of an inquest into the 2022 tragedy, which claimed the life of two police officers and a neighbour.
Published: Source: ABC NewsTopic: Police Sieges
'Grave fears' held for Toowoomba man missing since walk near home 18 days ago
The family of 61-year-old Dale Cook say they are "devastated" by his disappearance, as police on foot with dogs resume their search of dense bushland nearby.
Published: Source: ABC Southern QldTopic: Missing Person
Skydiver with more than 600 jumps dies after landing accident in south-west Queensland
Authorities are investigating the death of a 25-year-old experienced skydiver at Tarawera, near Goondiwindi, after his landing went wrong.
Published: Source: ABC Southern QldTopic: Accidents and Emergency Incidents
How everyday Australians can help improve biosecurity
Residents' backyard observations could be the key to keeping a biosecurity disaster such as bird flu, varroa mite, or fire ants at bay.
Published: Source: ABC RuralTopic: Biosecurity
'No reprieve in sight' to unseasonably hot weather after new winter records
It may be the last week of winter but temperatures are rising across Australia — and in several places, winter heat records have already been broken.
Published: Source: ABC NewsTopic: Weather
Broken leg and all, wagon riders re-create history on Queensland's famed Cobb & Co trail
Nothing was going to stop Col Anderson from realising a long-time dream of taking part in this weekend's centennial re-enactment of the final Cobb & Co mail run — not even the leg she busted on a training run.
Published: Source: ABC Southern QldTopic: History
Duration: 1 minute 34 seconds
Cheap rent and HECS debts wiped out: The incentives that are bringing teachers to rural schools
A teachers' union wants these incentives expanded to help deal with crippling teacher shortages in regional schools.
Published: Source: ABC Western QldTopic: Teachers
Highlights from the Gympie Music Muster 2024
Sarah Howells from ABC Sunshine Coast presented a brilliant live broadcast from Gympie Music Muster 2024, with an array of special guests joining her to play live and chat.
Published: Source: ABC CountryTopic: Country Music
Queensland mother found to have deliberately killed her four children in highway crash
Charmaine McLeod and her two daughters, Aaleyn, 6, and Matilda, 5, and her two sons Wyatt, 4, and Zaidok, 2, died in a highway collision near Kingaroy on May 27, 2019.
Published: Source: ABC NewsTopic: Courts and Trials
Police union boss named as Queensland cross-border commissioner
Queensland's southern border residents hope law and order will be a priority of the state's new cross-border commissioner, Ian Leavers.
Published: Source: ABC Southern QldTopic: Regional Communities
Sergeant tells Wieambilla inquest he was reluctant to ask police to send officers to property before deadly ambush
A NSW sergeant tells the inquest they knew one of the shooters had a dislike for police before Queensland officers were sent to the property and killed in a religiously motivated attack.
Published: Source: ABC NewsTopic: Courts and Trials
At 14, Daniel doesn't have L-plates. It hasn't stopped him from cutting laps in his family's hatchback
For one weekend every year the streets of Leyburn are closed to traffic so drivers aged from 14 to 84 can race classic cars near the location of the 1949 Australian Grand Prix.
Published: Source: ABC Southern QldTopic: Automobile Enthusiasm
Forget muster dogs, meet the wannabe muster cat Smitten
Seventeen-year-old Smitten is trying to earn her keep as a muster cat on her Western Downs cattle property, and isn't afraid of the 500kg cows she kicks up dust with.
Published: Source: ABC RuralTopic: Cats
Duration: 1 minute 15 seconds
Research to make strawberries tastier, bigger and less likely to unexpectedly rot in the fridge
Finding spoiled fruit in your fridge is frustrating but research is underway to make strawberries last longer.
Published: Source: LandlineTopic: Agriculture
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