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The Papua New Guinea Hunters are expecting a backlash in tomorrow's top of the table Queensland Cup clash against Townsville in Kokopo. The PNG Hunters are among the form teams in the Queensland Cup. Photo: SP PNG Hunters. The Hunters ... >> view original

Townsville couple appeal tribunal decision that they must remove their tree ...

A COUPLE has been ordered to get rid of a 25-year-old tree that flowers for only six to 10 weeks a year, because a neighbour complained she was highly allergic to its pollen. But the tall Indian siris tree in the yard of Lisa and David Leonardi's ... >> view original

Townsville Airport to have 12 Australian Border Force staff to handle ...

Federal Minister for Immigration and Border Protection Peter Dutton was in Townsville on Friday to launch a recruitment drive for ABF staff to work at the airport. Dutton said he expected 12 positions would be required in Townsville to process ... >> view original

Record VK balloon flight gets in news media

The high altitude flight by a standard foil party balloon launched from a Williamstown park in Melbourne Australia, which lasted eight weeks, travelling more than 110,800 kilometres, has been covered by the news media. Andy Nguyen is a network engineer ... >> view original

Ten of the best science photos you'll see

FROM the fading tendrils of a long-exploded star to the new connections between nerve cells in our brains, these are some of Australia's best science photos. As part of Australia's most comprehensive national science awards, three finalists and seven ... >> view original

The Bee Preacher: Man finds calling in bee hives

Tom Francis of Bees By The Sea in Surfside Beach inspects a frame of bees in a meadow in Brookgreen Gardens. Francis rapidly outgrew his back yard operation and is keeping some of his 20 colonies in a secluded meadow in Brookgreen Gardens where ... >> view original

Extinction events linked to prehuman global warming

RAPID warming killed many mammoths and other large beasts before humans arrived on the scene, new research shows. The paper published Friday in Science Express combines DNA analysis of fossils with detailed paleo-climate data from ice and ... >> view original

World's Biggest Flower Blooms in Tokyo

Titan Arum said to be the largest flower in the world has bloomed in Tokyo's Jindai Botanical Garden for the first time in five years. Titan Arum is an herbaceous plant and is also known as Amorphophallus Titanium. Titan is also to be the largest ... >> view original

Fat Sense: Scientists show we have a distinct taste for fat

FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2009 file photo, Bernard Roques checks a Roquefort cheese as it matures in a cellar in Roquefort, southwestern France. On Thursday, July 23, 2015, researchers at Purdue University announced findings that show people ... >> view original

Initiative version of SETI: $100m Breakthrough, the startling fact

The Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope in Pocahontas County will be one of two large telescopes used in a 10-year, $100 million search for extraterrestrial intelligence, called Breakthrough Listen, from Stephen Hawking, a famed physicist, and Yuri ... >> view original