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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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Emergency crews in Anchorage Drive Park

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.
A group session.

Ruby was born within 22 minutes of her cousin Zavian

Ruby was born in the hospital foyer early on February 8.
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Duration: 12 seconds

The twins at a joint gender reveal party

The families held a joint gender reveal party, where they discovered they were having a boy and a girl.
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Duration: 30 seconds

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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Twin sisters holding babies

Doctor found not guilty of raping woman he met on Christian dating site

Yohannes Abate Faris, 45, is found not guilty of five counts of raping a woman at his Maroochydore unit in March 2022, with the court accepting a majority verdict for one of the charges.
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A doctor with a stethoscope around his neck talks to a patient.

Girl accused of torturing and filming alleged assault of child in Noosa granted bail

The 12-year-old girl, who has been placed on a support plan under the National Disability Insurance Scheme after being recently diagnosed with autism, is facing charges of deprivation of liberty and the assault of a 13-year-old girl.
Outside of Maroochydore courthouse

The human body doesn't come with a manual, so here's a list of regular services every owner needs

Robyn gets her car serviced every year, so she thought she should do the same for her herself. Doctors found a hole in her heart.
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a doctor checks a patient's blood pressure

Jury retires in trial of doctor accused of raping woman he met on Christian dating site

The defence tells a Queensland District Court that Yohannes Abate Faris "honestly believed" the encounter was consensual as the jury retires to consider its verdict.
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A man smiles while sitting on a couch

Rare dolphin, only photographed six times, believed spotted in Australian waters

Researchers believe they have recorded one of the world's most unusually coloured dolphins for the first time in Australian waters.
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A speckled dolphin.

Residents in Sunshine Coast social housing say heatwaves unbearable

Suellyn Lott's Sunshine Coast social housing apartment has no air conditioning.
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Duration: 2 minutes 57 seconds

Planes at major Queensland airport landing without a single firefighter on duty

The firefighters union is demanding the aviation regulator takes action after five Boeing 737s and a further 59 planes arrived at Sunshine Coast Airport with too few firefighters working in the past two months.
Two aviation firefighters stand in front of a specially designed, bright yellow fire truck.

Young couple call time on gourmet mushroom business amid tough economy, failing infrastructure

The business a young couple crowdfunded to grow a head-turning array of tasty, colourful fungi closes as failing machinery and crop losses due to constant rain prove too much to overcome.
A split image of a young man and woman in a cool room, and the view inside a box full of colourful mushrooms.

From dripping on bread to biofuels and skincare, demand for tallow is surging

It started as a war-time snack that reduced waste during food scarcity, but now tallow is making Australia one of the most significant players in biofuel exports.
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A young woman stands next to a batch of jars filled with tallow products.

A Google search would have revealed paedophile's past offences before he got lifeguard job – but nobody did one

A basic internet search that would have revealed the criminal convictions of paedophile Dean Carelse was never done when he was screened for a job as a children's lifeguard at a UK family fun park, the ABC has confirmed.
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Terminally ill woman unable to die at home as recurring power outages plague small community

Residents of this regional town say it feels like they are stuck in the "Middle Ages," with the area still experiencing constant power losses.
Group of people at tables inside pub

Woman, 68, living in new social housing forced to take showers and hide in car to cool down during heatwave

Sixty-eight-year-old Suellyn Lott's Sunshine Coast apartment complex was officially opened less than 12 months ago, but she says living there is unbearable when the temperature spikes.
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An older woman with white hair sits on a couch. A temperature gauge in the foreground read 30 degrees Celsius.

Queensland court hears rape-accused doctor met alleged victim on dating site

A court has heard a woman made it known she did not want to have sexual intercourse with Yohannes Abate Faris, who is accused of raping her on their first date in Maroochydore during early 2022.
Outside of Maroochydore courthouse

Queensland paedophile and former water polo coach employed as children's lifeguard in UK

An ABC investigation tracks former Sunshine Coast teacher and coach Dean Carelse to a family holiday park in south-west England. 
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group of lifeguards, most with faces blurred

Couple calls for changes to sunset clause laws after contract for dream unit terminated by developer

Julia and Matthew Mooney thought they'd be celebrating the new year in their new unit on Queensland's Sunshine Coast. Instead, they're back to square one in their property search.
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A man and woman standing in front of a unit construction site

Almost 170,000 air conditioners remotely turned down six times during blistering summer heat

Queensland’s state-owned power grid quietly forced almost 170,000 air-conditioners in homes and businesses into low-power mode six times over summer.
Sun shimmers through powerlines and trees at The Gap in Brisbane.

Camping, wedding receptions, RV parking — bowls clubs bend tradition to stay alive

Many Australian bowls clubs are battling to stay open, but one establishment has bucked the trend by offering camping in the hope of developing a national trail for tourists.
A smiling woman holds up a bowling bowl on the green, with caravans parked behind her.

Pioneering family farmer and Maroochydore's largest landowner passes away on Sunshine Coast

Eighth-generation farmer Peter Wise, whose family had been working land on the Sunshine Coast since 1901, has passed away after a short stay in hospital at the age of 82.
An elderly man leans against a rusty old tractor

Politician's post sparks cries of 'amateur error' in great potato cake debate

South Australians will argue it's a fritter, while Victorians tend to call it a potato cake — hence the backlash over the Queensland-born opposition leader's post on Sunday where he didn't call it a scallop.
Blonde woman, with man and another lady smiling at camera

This grazier was caught out by a cyclone that cost him $100K. Here's what to do before Cyclone Kirrily arrives

From sandbags to generators, this is what you need to know ahead of a tropical cyclone forecast to make landfall in north Queensland between Cardwell and Bowen.
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Man in high-vis yellow shirt and weathered hat looking concerned