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‘Geographic narcissism’: the battle to fund aged care providers in rural Australia

Regional communities are coming up with local models to meet growing aged care needs but say they have to ‘beg and scrape’ to get equal funding to the cities

The Guardian - AU · Jun 7, 2025

Residents told not to return home as bushfires burn

Bushfires are continuing to burn in central Queensland, ensuring residents who evacuated their homes days ago still can't return.

AAP · Oct 19, 2023

Man 'drove to Qld to pick up drugs that never arrived'

Osman El-Houli has been accused of driving from Melbourne to Queensland to pick up drugs that never arrived after a plane loaded with cocaine crashed in PNG.

AAP · May 22, 2023

Queensland police say there is no footage of shooting death of Indigenous man

Family of Aubrey Donahue had requested body-worn camera vision of incident in Mareeba but police say none exists

The Guardian - AU · Mar 28, 2023

Protests in north Queensland town of Mareeba after family say man killed by police was unarmed

Police statement released after 27-year-old Aubrey Donahue was shot alleged he had held a knife

The Guardian - AU · Mar 27, 2023

Protesters take to streets in Far North Queensland after Indigenous man shot dead by police in Mareeba

The protest in Mareeba comes after an Indigenous man was shot dead by police on Saturday.

ABC News · Mar 27, 2023

Queensland police shoot man dead after siege in Far North Queensland town of Mareeba

A man has died after being shot by police in Mareeba, west of Cairns.

ABC News · Mar 25, 2023

Police had eyes on 'black flight' drug run between Mareeba and Papua New Guinea, court told

A light aircraft crashed during take-off and prosecutors allege it was carrying more than 500kg of cocaine.

ABC News · May 30, 2022