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Video of this baggage handler carelessly throwing boxes onto a conveyor belt has gone viral.

Internet condemns careless baggage handler

A CARELESS baggage handler has become the latest to earn internet notoriety after video of him clumsily throwing boxes onto a conveyor belt was uploaded.

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Jewel heist ends in farce amid bungled attempts to sell gems

A SPECTACULAR spectacular jewel heist in which armed robbers coolly snatched £30 million in diamonds from a plane at Brussels airport ended in near farce.

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'Mutant' pumpkins produced from Qld flood water

A Gayndah farmer's pumpkin crop has produced strange shapes and colours after being planted in a flooded paddock.

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Sausage roll theft earns year in prison

IT WAS the world’s most expensive sausage roll. The theft of it proved the last straw for a woman who was jailed after previous history for stealing.

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Crime spree puts man, 34, in jail again

A MAN who has spent less than 15 months out of prison in the past 10 years will be going back to jail after two crime sprees in Gatton and Wacol.

A 28-YEAR-OLD woman appeared lucky not to have been seriously injured after her car slammed into a tree on Tuesday.

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Sunwater attempts to raise raw water supply costs by 780%

SUNWATER has opened the floodgates on ratepayer pain with an attempt to raise the Central Highlands council’s raw water supply costs by 780% to $2.2 million.

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11:33 AM Jun 19th
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The mining boom is entirely to blame. Mining is a greedy business and greed always follows in its wake. We find the same thing happening wherever there is a mining boom. The cost of everything from rent to electricity to food will all continue to...

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RESTRICTIONS on how much alcohol Palm Island community members can drink will continue after a High Court ruling.

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11:08 AM Jun 19th

High Court dismisses Palm Island alcohol appeal

<strong> BREAKING 10AM: </STRONG> POLICE are this morning following fresh leads for missing Rockhampton duo Chantal Barnett and Robert Martinez at Mt Morgan.

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Search around Mount Morgan being conducted for missing duo

SENSING the heat was on, Deanne Marree Margriet Gillbee handed over the reigns to her drug-trafficking business.

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Drug business transfer to ex didn't go smoothly for mum

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So far this year 48 sharks, 27 considered dangerous, have been caught at Rainbow Beach with shark-control equipment.

"I know my sharks mate: that's a great white'

A MASSIVE great white shark that menaced fishermen in two small boats on the weekend has done it before, a veteran off-shore fisherman says.

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11:38 AM Jun 19th
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The news report I watched last night said the shark was between 3-4 m long. So it is not the "5.8 m monster" described by Mr McDade.

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ADRIAN Bayley will be kept in jail until he is at least 76 after he was sentenced to life for the murder of Melbourne woman Jill Meagher.

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11:29 AM Jun 19th

Jill Meagher's killer to stay in jail until at least 76

THE Australian Industry Group has described the government’s crackdown on temporary overseas work visas as a “redneck campaign run by some people in the union”.

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'No evidence to support government's 457 visa rorting claims'

THE brother of slain nurse Lorraine Wilson has travelled from NSW to attend the last day of the inquest into the 1974 murders of his sister and another nurse.

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Surprise witness expected at last day of murder inquest

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