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Macadamia oil is used in a range of products, from fine foods to beauty treatments.

The good oil on a very versatile oil

AUSTRALIANS are going nuts for macadamia oil sourced from plantations up and down Australia’s east coast, including Bundaberg.

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2:15 PM May 23rd

A changing culture for permaculture

INCREASING numbers of landholders are looking for more sustainable ways to produce crops and raise animals.

1:30 PM May 23rd
Peter And Bevly Hughes

New cane varieties show promising yield

A NEW variety of sugarcane is available to growers in the southern growing region, after endorsements from the Variety Adoption Committees.

1:00 PM May 23rd

Landholders get the hard word on hardwood

FRASER Coast landholders have the opportunity to learn important forest management skills on Friday.

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Anzac Day in Gympie 2013

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Freight train smashes into car

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Queensland

Opposition bill to ban un-vaccinated kids from childcare

CHILDCARE centres could refuse to enrol children not fully immunised under a new policy the Opposition plans to introduce into Queensland Parliament today.

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1:45 PM May 23rd
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THE Queensland Government will have forked out $1.32 billion over three years in an effort to keep power costs down for regional towns.

Money
1:39 PM May 23rd

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GOOD CONDITIONS: Field peas have proven to be a valuable winter cover crop in the Wide Bay.

Field of peas becomes Steve's field of dreams

WEATHER conditions over the past few years have seen many canegrowers in the Wide Bay unable to plant peanut and soybean crops.

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2:45 PM May 23rd

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HUNDREDS of thousands of people around the world have thrown their support behind little Patrick O’Sullivan and his family.

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Thousands rally behind little battler Paddy's recovery

A PASSER-BY has given a shocking first hand account of her encounter with the two men who allegedly murdered a soldier in Woolwich on Wednesday.

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Brave witness tells of confrontation with soldier's attackers

<strong>UPDATE 12PM:</strong> Sunshine Coast MP Peter Slipper fronted the Canberra Magistrates Court on Thursday pleading not guilty to three charges.

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Peter Slipper pleads not guilty to dishonesty charges

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Peter Slipper outside Canberra Magistrates Court

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Baby's life saved with groundbreaking 3D printed device

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Xbox One gaming console unveiled

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F-111 finds new home at Queensland Air Museum

The RAAF has gifted a F-111 to the Queensland Air...

Regional News

Official cash rate record low

THE Reserve Bank of Australia’s decision this month to cut the official rate to 2.75% takes the cash rate to a record low since reporting began in the 1990s.

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12:00 PM May 24th

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TOURISM Noosa is gearing up to host the British & Irish Lions by hosting Retailer Trader Forums.

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1:51 PM May 23rd

Retailers get ready for Lions recovery visit

FORGET about trying to fit your hand in your mouth. At one time, Nadine Hoffman could fit her fist between her abdominal muscles.

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1:36 PM May 23rd

Mums gather to rebuild healthy bodies after childbirth

THERE'S another not-so-little bundle of joy on the way at Australia Zoo.

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Australia Zoo celebrates more baby news

Two cars have crashed at the corner of Ibis Blvd and Maryborough-Hervey Bay Rd in Eli Waters.

At least one person taken to hospital after Eli Waters crash

AT LEAST one person has been taken to hospital after a two-car crash a the corner of Ibis Blvd and Maryborough-Hervey Bay Rd at Eli Waters about 1pm.

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1:19 PM May 23rd
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NEW figures show Hervey Bay Hospital has a higher rate of golden staph infection than other hospitals of its size and patient base.

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12:57 PM May 23rd

Higher rate of golden staph infection at Hervey Bay Hospital

MARYBOROUGH’S Classic Country Music Stampede will return for its sixth year and it promises to be bigger and better than ever.

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Classic Country Music Stampede to celebrate sixth year

WOOD-fired pizza, homemade pavlova and delicious coffee will be on the menu when Gatakers by Night returns to Maryborough on Saturday, May 25.

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A feast for tastebuds and the senses at Gatakers by Night

Australian music icon Daryl Braithwaite.

40 years on Braithwaite now an Australian icon

WHEN a fresh-faced Daryl Braithwaite was fronting the band Sherbet, he'd have been the last person to imagine he'd be going just as strong four decades later.

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HE'S Ipswich's First Dog and he's lucky to be alive.

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A very lucky escape for Sammy Pisasale

IPSWICH will have four new schools built over five years, as the Queensland Government responds to increased population growth across the region.

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New schools for Ipswich

A MAN who claimed flood benefits he wasn’t entitled to and drove disqualified will be behind bars for three months.

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Time behind bars for flood fraud and driving disqualified

Police arrest suspects in shopping centre ram raids

A TOOWOOMBA man has been remanded in custody and two of his associates were being questioned after a series of arrests in relation to shopping centre ram raids.

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2:41 PM May 23rd
Stuart Cumming

MEDICAL student Rachel Preisenberger says her rural placement through a Toowoomba training group has given her hands-on experience early in her career.

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2:30 PM May 23rd

Rural placement invaluable for medical students in training

CARERS Queensland is urging companies to get behind a program designed to help assist the 3000 unpaid carers living on the Darling Downs.

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2:15 PM May 23rd

Carers put call out for corporate sponsors

HAVING twice crashed her car which she then ran up a gutter in front of a police patrol, Tanya Szogi didn’t try making excuses.

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1:51 PM May 23rd

I’m drunk, I’m guilty: Crash driver admits all to police

Offbeat News

This image of the unidentified flying object was was captured by reader Chelly Milzewski on Saltwater Creek Rd in Maryborough about 5.20pm on Monday.

No UFO but planets align, according to astronomy enthusiasts

A STRANGE light spotted on the western horizon of the Fraser Coast on Monday evening is most likely a planetary alignment, say Hervey Bay astronomy enthusiasts.

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Planets don't move from over head to the horizon in 40 minutes. They do not move sideways. They do not grow trails of fire. They do not flash. It looked nothing like a planet.

Maggie_Macleod from Toogoom

A MAN who swore at police as they conducted an RBT came before Gladstone Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday on charges of public nuisance and obstructing police.

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Public nuisance yells at RBT police to 'do some work'

INCREDIBLE footage has captured the moment a grinning Russian soldier had an AK-47 machine gun bullet removed from his head with a pair of pliers.

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Russian soldier has 'bullet removed from head with pliers'

A 55-year-old Grafton man told Grafton Local Court he was not interested in giving up his habit of smoking cannabis.

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I’ll keep smoking: defendant

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