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Crime A NEW national study of criminal behaviour among 12 and 13-year-olds shows fewer than 10% are engaged in criminal or delinquent behaviour.

News A FORMER Grantham quarry worker has recounted his shock at seeing people clinging to a ute “spinning” in raging water during the 2011 flood that killed 12 people.

Crime A SUNSHINE Coast sex offender landed back in jail because he stopped taking medication that lowered his libido.

News INDIAN mining giant Adani has denied it has started dismissing employees on its multi-billion dollar Carmichael mine project in the Galilee Basin.

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News AS MANY as 219 of the children whose cases fell through the cracks following a huge IT bungle are at “immediate” risk of sex abuse.

News YOUNG Aussies are hitting the turps more than adults, new research shows.

News BRONWYN Bishop’s Melbourne to Geelong helicopter flight may lead to MPs’ travel entitlements being overhauled, Tony Abbott has hinted.

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News A LANGUAGE barrier has caused a delay in the case of a man who was charged over a drug bust where more than 50kg of cocaine was found in barrels in Mackay.

Crime A STRING of callous and heartless text messages between two Toowoomba teens hatching a plan to kill their “boring” friend does not read like a joke.

News THE Northern Rivers may play host to an all-star cast of Hollywood celebrities, with Mel Gibson planning to film his latest film in NSW.

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News THE owner of the quarry that has been blamed for contributing to the 2011 Grantham flood says some stories heard during the inquiry did not “ring true”.

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News A JUDGE has ordered an airline to pay a man’s travel costs for a medical exam after he suffered a back injury from sitting next to an overweight person.

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Crime A FORMER Sunshine Coast man was “distressed and upset” when he found out the man he raped had HIV.

News THE owner of the Grantham sand plant which some residents argue worsened the 2011 flood has accepted part of one of the quarry’s walls could have been human-made

News THE Premier has been accused of ignoring warnings about fundamentalist Christian groups operating within schools and only acting once radical Islam became an issue.

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Crime A WOMAN whose teacher fondled her on a bus during a pattern of sexual assault lasting seven years and involving two pregnancies has been awarded $1.2 million

News A CORONER says doctors should be able to find out about a patient’s prescription history and drug dependence, following the tragic death of a Toowoomba nurse.

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News THE NSW Government’s $100,000 investment into trialling a sonar shark warning system and research into shark-deterring technologies is moving ahead.er.

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News THE Jehovah’s Witness church identified more than 1000 of its members in Australia as child sex abuse perpetrators but never told the police.

News TECHNOLOGY is fuelling Australia’s ice epidemic as addicts turn to online classified advertising giant CraigsList to buy their next fix.