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The Cairns Post

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She was eventually cut free by the man who allegedly left her there, who then made her walk on a dirt track for about 1.5 kilometres.

The man has been charged with 14 domestic violence offences in southeast Queensland including strangulation, deprivation of liberty and assault occasioning bodily harm.

A woman has had her hands zip tied behind her back and her feet bound before being abandoned in a Queenslan...

Premium Content Subscriber only The Gympie region is continuing to claw its way toward being a major food bowl, with plans unveiled to transform a 39ha Wolvi property into a red claw crayfish farm. Owen and Kaitlyn Warhurst have asked for permission to transform the property, southwest of the Toolara Forest and on Counter Rd, into a farm capable of producing 6.5-8 tonne of crayfish a year. To do this they will need to build 3ha of grow-out ponds on the property, each with a 2200sq m surface are...

Premium Content Subscriber only UPDATE 6PM: A woman is being flown to Sunshine Coast University Hospital after suffering serious injuries in a crash between a car and a truck on Tin Can Bay Rd on Monday afternoon. The two vehicles collided near the roads intersection with Neerdie Rd just before 4pm. Police said the car collided with the back of the truck, and then burst into flames. The woman, in her 40s, was suffered head and neck injuries; she was taken to hospital in a serious but stable ...

Community advocates are urging the Gympie region’s housing crisis be fixed as it continues to impact some of the highest socio-economically disadvantaged neighbourhoods in the country. Census data captured in 2016 (the most recent available) revealed Tin Can Bay and the Toolara Forest areas were not only the most socio-economically disadvantaged in the Gympie region – based on its SEIFA (Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas) score – but in the country; 94 per cent of other Australian...