Bree Dwyer
Maroochydore, QLD
Bree Dwyer is a multi-platform reporter with ABC Sunshine Coast, based in Maroochydore.
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Sunshine Coast girl found safe and well after going missing on Wednesday
The girl was reported missing on Wednesday night. Police and emergency services searched a nearby park and bushland for her.
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Could prison book clubs help combat Australia's domestic violence crisis?
A book teaching men to heal from their trauma will be given to domestic violence perpetrators in Australian prisons in an effort to lower rates of reoffending.
Identical twin sisters give birth within minutes in same hospital
When Sunshine Coast mum Nicole Baillie started having contractions, her sister Renee came over to mind her daughter — then Renee's waters broke too.
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Apple Maps wrongly lists restaurant 'permanently closed' which owner says has cost him thousands
When Chris Pyatt found out his small business had been listed as "permanently closed" on Apple Maps, with the pin in the wrong location, he realised he had a costly problem on his hands.
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Man behind Sunshine Coast double child murder banned from applying for parole
The man who raped and murdered two young girls, Patricia Leedie and Leanne Oliver, in 1995 has been barred from making any parole bid for at least another eight years.
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Homicide investigation underway after man dies in Queensland unit complex
A 55-year-old man has been taken into custody after the death of a 53-year-old in a Sunshine Coast residence.
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Budget carrier Bonza works to build trust after weeks of cancellations
Bonza vows to "put things right" after weeks of cancellations negatively impacted as many as 1,600 customers while the airline awaited regulatory approval from the Civil Aviation Safety Authority.
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When Judy's grandson told her she'd gone viral, she thought she'd made people sick
Gangsta Granny now has more than 1.7 million followers on TikTok, making her one of Australia's "mega influencers".
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Rescuers winch seriously injured man to helicopter after 20m fall from mountain
A rock climber has been airlifted to hospital with head, shoulder and leg injuries from the accident in Queensland's Glass House Mountains.
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Very 'intense storm' smashes Fraser Coast, Gympie and Sunshine Coast with huge hail
The Bureau of Meteorology says the size of hail reported by residents may potentially rival a 16-centimetre record from 2021, as damage to houses, cars and farming crops in south east Queensland is reported.
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Is Australia's craft brewing gold rush over, or can the industry bounce back?
Australia's once-booming craft beer industry is navigating troubled waters, with many brewers struggling to stay afloat.
Firefighters rescue 'very cold, shivering dog' stranded for hours on Mount Ngungun cliff ledge
Cooper the bull mastiff cross spent nearly seven hours trapped on a 25-metre cliff ledge in Queensland's Glass House Mountains after being spooked by a lightning storm.
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Federal government says Sunshine Coast rail is Olympic 'priority,' weeks after saying it had no 'confidence' about costs
By Jessica Black and Bree Dwyer
This week state Infrastructure Minister Steven Miles and Queensland mayors and industry leaders met with the federal infrastructure minister in Canberra over funding concerns.
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Elderly Sunshine Coast couple held captive by armed men in 'terrifying' home invasion
Police say four armed men smashed their way into a Sunshine Coast home and held a couple in their 70s hostage before stealing personal items and fleeing the scene.
Double amputee makes triumphant return to the sport she loves at National Sprint Championships
Shona Muckert relies on a wheelchair for many day-to-day activities but when it comes to competitive canoeing, her disability does not hold her back.
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Two men accused of stealing brass plaques from graves and selling metal
Police allege the plaques were taken from gravestones at Sunshine Coast cemeteries in early November and sold to second-hand metal dealers with the names removed.
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Video shows moment two men are saved from sinking life raft after plane crash off Sunshine Coast
By Owen Jacques, Bianca Clare, and Bree Dwyer
Paramedics say it's incredible no one was hurt after two people were winched from a life raft after a light plane crash off the Sunshine Coast.
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Thousands of plastic beads wash up on Sunshine Coast beaches days into turtle nesting season
The local environmental group has described the spill as a "pollution event of an industrial scale".
'Beats doing nothing': 72yo competes in every Noosa Triathlon for past 40 years
Peter O'Neill is a man who has well and truly gone the distance, competing in the world's largest Olympic-distance triathlon every year since 1983.
420 bushfires in days exhaust firefighters and 'worst fire season in 70 years' is just beginning
After a rugged week, Queensland is facing up to a "generational fire season" the state hasn't experienced since the 1950s, according to the rural fire brigade chief.
Queensland Police First Nations Advisory Group calls for union boss Ian Leavers to resign
The Queensland Police Union boss has been urged to step down after widespread condemnation of his controversial comments about the state's Path to Treaty legislation, with the police's advisory group saying his views display "outwardly racist ideology".
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What's behind foul smells and weird colours on some of Queensland's most popular beaches?
A "rotting fish" stench and wild water colours are confusing beachgoers at some of Australia's most popular holiday spots. So what's behind the strange phenomenon?
Tenants forced to consider leaving coastal towns as rent rises hit 'severe crisis' levels
A report into spiralling rent prices has found some Sunshine Coast residents are spending up to 60 per cent of their income on rent, with social housing groups saying some locals are being forced out.
Step carefully as snake activity surges with warmer weather, warns busy catcher
Hot and dry weather conditions off the back of several wet seasons is sparking an increase in snake activity across South East Queensland, with call-outs for professional wrangling on the rise.
Fatal Sunshine Coast crash driver had loaded gun, methamphetamines, court documents allege
Court documents allege Izak Kane Sefton-Bennett had a loaded rifle in the car and drove while under the influence of drugs when involved in a crash that killed Queensland aged care worker Christella Tan last week.