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The Queensland government has interfered with the state’s literary awards – again

The Queensland government has announced the state’s literary awards will move from their current home at the State Library of Queensland to “an alternative provider” – along with the blackwrite! fellowships for emerging First Nations writers. The move has been framed in the language of safety and hate speech –…

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Award judges resign after Queensland state library strips writer’s prize over Hamas tweet

One resignation letter expresses ‘disgust’ over library’s decision to rescind First Nations author’s $15,000 award after arts minister weighs in

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A First Nations writer’s fellowship was withdrawn by Queensland’s government. What’s going on?

This week, Martu writer Karen Wyld had her A$15,000 blackwrite fellowship withdrawn – just hours before the (cancelled) ceremony at State Library of Queensland, where she was to receive it for a fiction manuscript on the Stolen Generations. The Queensland arts minister, John-Paul Langbroek, and premier David Crisafulli had directly…

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First Nations writer speaks out after being stripped of $15,000 State Library of Queensland award over Gaza tweet

Library says it will review all its awards after last-minute cancellation of ceremony to present black&write! fellowship to Karen Wyld

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Queensland’s state library launched an AI war veteran chatbot. Pranksters immediately tried to break it

Less than 24 hours after the bot was launched, internet users were already attempting to ‘jailbreak’ the program

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‘I wanted to do something useful’: the teenager who drew edible maps for Australia’s wartime pilots

Rulers and rice paper became tools of war for a young cartographer whose work is mapped out in a new collection donated to Queensland State Library

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Remembering Archerfield Speedway on its final race day after 44 years of 'magic moments'

It's a place where champions from around the world have come to race – and where families have gone to watch them be born.

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Generations ago, families were ripped apart in the Pacific — now, these women are working to reunite them

After thousands of people were taken from islands in the Pacific in the 19th century and brought to Australia to work, their only link home was storytelling and song — now, with the rise of social media and affordable travel, their descendants are working to reunite families that were torn…

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Tennis legend Pat Rafter shares childhood memories of growing up in Queensland mining city Mount Isa

Australian tennis legend Pat Rafter opens up about his barefooted childhood as one of 10 kids – and an emotional homecoming to visit his brother's grave.

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Army honours largest ever First Nations battalion in 80-year WWII commemoration

When war was on the doorstep to Australia's north 80 years ago, nearly 900 Torres Strait Islanders signed up to help protect the country despite not being able to enter pub, earn a fair wage, or be counted in the Commonwealth census.

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Ellen Francis Cartwright awarded posthumous Bravery Medal after house fire tragedy

As her home was burning, Ellen Francis Cartwright handed her three-year-old daughter to her husband and went back inside to find others. She never came back.

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Brisbane's Queen Street Mall celebrates 40 years of attracting visitors in their droves to the CBD

What started as a dirt strip hosting horse and carriage traffic in the 1800s had long attracted fashion conscious shoppers — but it wasn't until 1982 that the mall was created.

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Popular Cairns beaches could be doomed to disappear as mudflats march on

A leading geoscientist says two popular Cairns beaches will become mudflats over the coming decades, a revelation that would affect the beaches' waterfront home owners.

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The First Nations women fighting to reclaim childbirth to improve the health of women and children

My mum's story has haunted my family, and it's helping me understand why some First Nations women avoid hospitals, writes Carly Williams.

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Brisbane's South Bank celebrates 30 years since its opening. And Donna Smith has been working there the whole time

At the South Bank Parklands you could ride a boat or visit Gondwana Land when it opened 30 years ago this week.

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'I said no' – Nie's refusal and the troubling question of Pacific slavery in Australia

In 1881 Nie (also known as Nai), a Pacific Islander woman, walked off “Virginia” plantation, south of Maryborough, in the colony of Queensland.

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As Australians mark Anzac Day, chance find sheds light on female veteran's WWI story

The album was found in a cupboard during renovations to an aged care home. At first Martha Burns, Queensland's first female dentist, was though to have been its owner — but that doesn't match up with the history of her service during the war.

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They fed Australia when the men went to fight, but it took 40 years for the Land Girls to be allowed to march on Anzac Day

It's been 80 years since a group of trailblazing young women went to work on farms across Australia to fill the gaps left behind by men sent to fight in World War II.

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Calls for statue to honour Annie Wheeler, known as Mother of Anzacs in World War I

When Australian Annie Wheeler found herself in London in 1914, she wanted to help the war effort. She started writing an index card for every Queensland soldier she met.

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Brisbane floods: pondering the wisdom of placing our major galleries, libraries and theatres on the banks of a flood-prone river

As a historian, I spend many hours at the State Library of Queensland looking out the large glass panels gazing at the Brisbane River. Its tranquil brown water quietly meanders past, offering an ideal place to watch the CityCat ferries and the occasional passing rower.

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Paradise started as a gold mining town and now lies beneath a dam of the same name

One of Queensland's most controversial structures, Paradise Dam, hides a history of a late-1800s gold mining town few people know about.

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