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Kirrily mop up begins but heavy rain risk remains

Hundreds of energy restoration crews, volunteers and low-security prisoners are pitching in to help clean up Townsville after the region was hit by a cyclone.

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Weather tracker: Tropical Cyclone Kirrily brings 170km/h gusts to Queensland

Cyclone downgraded after dense fog hits parts of the US and India while drought affects Philippines and southern Africa

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Aussie Emerson Jones charges into girls' Open final

Emerson Jones is out to become the first local player since 1995 to win the Australian Open girls' singles title after the Queenslander stormed into the final.

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‘Like a ghost howling’: ex-Tropical Cyclone Kirrily to bring heavy rain to Queensland as Townsville residents survey damage

Premier Steven Miles says ‘we’re not out of the woods’ with BoM weather warnings issued as former category three cyclone downgraded

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Morning Mail: ‘I don’t want to die,’ new AOTY says, Kirrily hits Townsville, Dunkley voters give tax cuts verdict

Prof Richard Scolyer talks movingly about his terminal cancer after joint award for work on melanoma; cyclone makes landfall in north Queensland

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Kirrily downgraded to tropical low as tens of thousands without power – as it happened

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Clean-up from Kirrily begins following 'tense' evening

Central and western Queensland are set to cop a deluge as ex-Tropical Cyclone Kirrily heads inland, with heavy rain and flash flooding predicted.

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Shock discovery while mustering spurs surprise industry

A pastoralist who stumbled across a surprise discovery while mustering sheep has helped put outback Queensland on the map.

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Queensland town within 0.1C of state’s record temperature as Australia swelters under heatwave

Heat warnings in place over large swatches of the country with temperatures over 40C expected across inland and eastern Australia

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Community calls for shelter as cyclone looms

An Indigenous community off Queensland's coast has called for an evacuation centre to be built as they take shelter from Cyclone Kirrily in their own homes.

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Afternoon Update: Queensland residents prepare for Kirrily; PM begins selling stage-three tax cuts; and Captain Cook statue toppled

Townsville residents issued a ‘shelter in place’ order as Kirrily is updated to category 3 and expected to make landfall on Thursday evening

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Queensland move best Origin prep for NSW captain Apps

Kezie Apps has made the call to play in Queensland before State of Origin in a bid by the NSW captain to ensure she doesn't enter the high-profile series cold.

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Cyclone crosses Queensland coast at Townsville

Storm downgraded after making landfall Thursday night but could still see deluge on inland areas

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Queensland residents brace for cyclone – as it happened

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Heatwave persists as inland temps nudge 50C

Some inland towns have sweltered through temperatures as high as 49.4C as heatwave conditions sent the mercury soaring some 6C to 12C above average.

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Cyclone Kirrily crosses Queensland coast in Townsville

Cyclone Kirrily has crossed the Queensland coast in Townsville, bringing strong winds and heavy rain, after strengthening into a category three system.

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Australia’s wholesale power prices fall by almost half as carbon emissions drop

Grid faces fresh strains as heatwave roasting inland Queensland and NSW extends to Sydney

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Man extradited months after road rage shooting

A man accused of shooting at another driver in an alleged road rage attack on the Gold Coast has been extradited to Queensland from NSW.

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Frustrating wait continues for evacuated residents

People evacuated from a flood-hit far north Queensland community don't look like returning any time soon due to a damaged pump at a waste treatment plant.

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Tropical Cyclone Kirrily: are back-to-back summer storms normal for Queensland?

Above-average sea surface temperatures are fuelling the state’s second cyclone of the summer, but weather experts say it’s not uncommon for consecutive storms to form close together

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Three dead after being pulled from water off Phillip Island – as it happened

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Region battens down the hatches as cyclone forms

A tropical cyclone is finally set to form before intensifying as it heads toward the north Queensland coast, with strong winds and heavy rain forecast.

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Cairns watch house worker sounds alarm over ‘massive deterioration’ in children’s physical and mental health

Exclusive: anonymised notes reveal concerns about injuries, self-harm, security incidents and sickness in overcrowded cells

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Man released without charge after death of neighbour

Days after the sudden death of a neighbour, a 55-year-old man has been released by Queensland Police without charge on the Sunshine Coast.

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Shelter still rolling out to Queensland cyclone victims

People at a flood-hit far north Queensland community have received temporary accommodation, more than a month after the region was devastated.

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