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What you can do in your own backyard to help minimise the spread of cane toads

Here's what you can do to prevent cane toads from making themselves at home on your property and how to humanely euthanase any you do find in your garden.
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A close-up of a cane toad standing side-on to the camera, surrounded by blades of grass.

Adam uses a screen reader at uni — but it takes weeks for the coursework to be made accessible for him, meaning he's falling behind

Following COVID lockdowns, it's clear flexible study works. So why aren't universities taking a "more proactive approach" to ensure people of all abilities can access higher education?
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Disabled university student Adam Whitehead sitting in front of a large computer screen

Passionfruit growers in a race against time to ensure fruit's future in Australia

Australia's passionfruit farmers have a problem — no matter how well they care for their vines, yields of the delicious fruit are declining. But a solution could be on the horizon.
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A hand holding a cut passionfruit and whole passionfruit with plants in the background.

UQ's COVID vaccine technology finally moves to human trial phase after 2020 false start

A human trial has been launched into the University of Queensland's second-generation COVID vaccine, more than two years after the original technology was abandoned amid patients falsely testing positive to HIV. 
Associate Professor Keith Chappell in a lab.

'Enormous' coral find revealed off popular Sunshine Coast beaches

An abundance of healthy, thriving coral along a heavily developed coastline — far beyond what the team expected — has been uncovered by divers and researchers.
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Underwater diver examines bright red coral

Knocked back from 30 rentals, Saoirse turned to living in a tent with her assistance dog

People with assistance dogs are allowed by law into any accommodation in Queensland, but people say those laws are not strong enough to stop real estate agents and aged care facilities from discriminating. 
A large black dog wearing an assistant dog vest in front of a tent.

Ian Frazer invented the cervical cancer vaccine, but says his true legacy will be his students' work

Professor Frazer, who will turn 70 in January, is widely hailed for his contribution to medical science as the co-developer of a human papilloma virus vaccine that has already protected millions of women from cervical cancer.
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Ian Frazer standing outside a sandstone building.

How hail saved in a freezer is helping researchers learn more about extreme weather

Recording-breaking hail has been analysed in a bid to develop better models and forecasting for severe storms.
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Hail cut in half to show what is inside

Brisbane ferry terminal repair timeline pushes out to December

The council's transport committee chairman Ryan Murphy says North Quay and the Regatta terminals will take the longest to repair after sustaining the most damage during February's floods.
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Damage to floating pontoons and boats is seen at a ferry terminal

Dance album in endangered tongue brings bangers with 'the Paul Mac sheen'

Noongar Wonderland celebrates the ecology of WA's south-west with an irresistible blend of ancient and contemporary flavours.
A man in orange and blue body paint on stage with people silhouetted in background

Why do so many bodybuilders suffer from image disorders?

Also called reverse anorexia or bigorexia, muscle dysmorphia is characterised by obsessive thoughts, compulsive behaviours and body image distortion, with sufferers seeing themselves as smaller than they are.
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Bodybuilder generic

'Fishing became the way that I fed myself': From homeless teenager to TV shark expert and higher educator

Shark researcher Daryl McPhee is giving back to international students doing it tough in Australia by offering annual travel bursaries.
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Image of teenage school boy on left and current image of same person aged 50-years of age on right.

Ziggy the bag man's mission to access his money and help other vulnerable people

Ziggy has lived in parks around Brisbane's western suburbs for years and usually likes to keep to himself. But recently his friends reached out to help him with a big problem.
A social worker speaks to Ziggy, a homeless man who lives in Toowong

Can the tech behind our advanced COVID-19 vaccines revolutionise pest control in agriculture?

Targeting the essential genes of the whitefly by using its own RNA against it, much like the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines fight COVID, is within reach against one of global agriculture's worst pests.  
Close-up of a whitefly.

Ferry terminals to reopen across Brisbane, 90 days after floodwaters pulled debris through the city's centre

Brisbane commuters will again to able to travel on the city's popular ferry network from Thursday with 13 terminals to reopen, including popular inner-city terminals Riverside and South Bank.
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Brisbane City Cat ferry called Gilwunpa, with purple and yellow Queensland Firebirds promotion painted on it, on Brisbane river.

'Angle-grinding at 4am': Sleepless months ahead for Brisbane residents during $180m roadworks

Residents near the Indooroopilly roundabout upgrade say they are sleep-deprived and exhausted after weeks of night-time roadworks on the multi-million-dollar project.
A drone video of a large roundabout with a car sales yard in the centre

3,000 flood-affected Brisbane streets need kerbside collection, council defends standing down Mud Army

The "mammoth task" of kerbside collection and emptying large temporary waste sites is underway across Brisbane, its Lord Mayor says, and it will continue until the flood-damaged debris is all gone.
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A suburban street with flood destroyed furniture and foods on both sides

More night ferries, faster services scheduled for Brisbane ferry services

The Lord Mayor says the people have spoken and the council is acting, but the Opposition says calls to reinstate the Norman Park ferry are still being ignored.
A CityCat ferry crosses the Brisbane River in June 2018.

'Deflated and abandoned': Farmers shocked by UQ's decision to close vet clinic after 34 years

The specialist clinic has operated for more than three decades training vet students and supporting the Moreton Bay region's farmers.
A large white veterinary building with a ute in front of it

Council releases West End green bridges designs for public comment

Designs for two green bridges linking West End to Toowong and St Lucia have been released by Brisbane City Council for public consultation.
A concept image shows Brisbane with two green bridges

Brisbane Metro construction permanently closes North Quay at Adelaide Street

Brisbane City Council says work has begun in the city's centre on the Adelaide Street tunnel.
A concept image showing a tunnel under Adelaide Street in Brisbane

Brisbane tower residents alarmed after uni students moved in for quarantine

More than 50 university students who are possible close or household contacts in the latest Delta outbreak have been moved to quarantine in a Brisbane city private student accommodation provider, catching other residents off guard.
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Student One's neon sign at night.

COVID exposure sites extend from Brisbane to central Queensland

Locations in Milton, Toowong, and other suburbs across Brisbane are now on a growing list of exposure sites in Queensland, along with Rookwood Weir near Rockhampton.
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Moggill Village Coles was a COVID-19 exposure site

Queensland has recorded its highest daily number of community COVID cases in almost a year. See the exposure sites list

Contact tracers are investigating more possible COVID-19 exposure sites in Queensland. See the full list of locations as they are released.
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A masked woman carries a large box with a sign in the foreground asking people to stay 1.5m apart.

UQ backs down on plan to demolish UQ Union and Schonell Theatre buildings

UQ Vice-Chancellor Deborah Terry says the Schonell Theatre will stay in some form in the university's plans.
The Schonell Theatre in black and white as it was in 1970.