Isobel Roe is a reporter and video journalist for ABC News in southern Queensland where she files stories for radio, television and online. Since graduating with a Bachelor of Journalism from the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane in 2012, Isobel has worked for commercial radio news in regional Queensland and at the ABC in Townsville. She now works in Toowoomba covering a wide range of stories from across south and south-west Queensland. Isobel tweets from @isobelroe.
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Divers are searching Isabella Creek in far north Queensland after police hit a roadblock in their investigation into the suspected murder of a well-known Cooktown woman.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, cooktown-4895, qld
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A Queensland researcher who has travelled the world to milk venom from lizards now hopes to replicate its blood-thinning powers.
Topics: medical-research, health, animal-science, science-and-technology, indonesia, brisbane-4000, qld, australia
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Dangerous collisions between boats and whales like the incident near Gloucester Island last weekend are likely to increase, as 30,000 of the mammals migrate up the coast this year, an expert says.
Topics: emergency-planning, emergency-incidents, disasters-and-accidents, animals, human-interest, maritime, accidents, mackay-4740, whitsundays-4802, southport-4215, magnetic-island-4819, townsville-4810, hervey-bay-4655, brisbane-4000, qld, australia
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The pub is gone and all remains is dirt roads and a few homes. This is Baking Board — a tiny locality that is home to the highest percentage of "ordinary" Australians, according to Census data.
Topics: population-and-demographics, community-and-society, federal-government, government-and-politics, elections, chinchilla-4413, toowoomba-4350, qld, australia
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A Queensland women's group is sewing reusable, fabric sanitary pads to send to remote Indigenous communities, in the wake of a report revealing some girls felt forced to skip school during their period.
Topics: womens-health, regional, women, coomera-4209
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Girls in remote Indigenous communities who are normally law-abiding feel forced to steal costly pads, and some are missing classes because the school bathrooms do not have sanitary bins, a Queensland report finds.
Topics: indigenous-policy, indigenous-culture, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, adolescent-health, health, education, health-policy, womens-health, water-management, qld, brisbane-4000
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Ten lung cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy at Toowoomba Hospital were administered half-strength doses of the drug, but the Health Minister insists it was not a mistake.
Topics: cancer, lung-cancer, diseases-and-disorders, health, health-administration, healthcare-facilities, toowoomba-4350, qld
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Candice Hedge, one of three Australians injured in a terror attack in London, was trying to hide from one of the terrorists when he spotted her, doubled back and stabbed her in the throat, family members tell the ABC.
Topics: terrorism, unrest-conflict-and-war, emergency-incidents, disasters-and-accidents, brisbane-4000, qld, australia, united-kingdom, dalby-4405, toowoomba-4350
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More chilling details emerge about the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old policeman and the subsequent siege with 40-year-old Rick Maddison, west of Brisbane.
Topics: police, law-crime-and-justice, crime, police-sieges, gatton-4343, qld, australia, toowoomba-4350
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A $2.4 million project including the planting of 20,000 trees is underway in a Lockyer Valley creek to prevent a repeat of the massive devastation to farm land and waterways caused by the 2011 Queensland floods.
Topics: floods, emergency-planning, environmental-management, environment, environmental-impact, disasters-and-accidents, lockyer-4344, qld, australia, laidley-creek-west-4341, laidley-4341
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The search continues for a time capsule at a Queensland school that was meant to be unveiled at the school's 150th anniversary celebrations last month.
Topics: public-schools, regional, history, human-interest, allora-4362
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A former Queensland ambulance officer is sentenced to 13 years in jail for "depraved" sexual abuse of 22 young girls across several states over a 10-year period.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, sexual-offences, child-abuse, warwick-4370, toowoomba-4350, qld, australia, nsw, vic
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Liquidators of a failed coal ash company are pursuing government-owned power generator Stanwell Corporation for $1.7 million, alleging it continued using failed company Coal Reuse knowing it was insolvent.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, coal, industry, company-news, business-economics-and-finance, brisbane-4000, qld, australia, nanango-4615, bundaberg-4670
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A fire has razed a number of buildings at Queensland's fourth oldest school, in Dalby west of Brisbane, with staff racing to the scene in the early hours of the morning and police saying the blaze may have been deliberately lit.
Topics: emergency-incidents, disasters-and-accidents, industrial-fires, fires, dalby-4405, qld
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Western Downs' "quiet pieces of country", which once attracted tourists, are being gradually boxed in by Queensland's large scale development.
Topics: mining-environmental-issues, mining-rural, urban-development-and-planning, regional-development, tourism, chinchilla-4413, miles-4415, toowoomba-4350
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Safe exposure limits for toxic firefighting foam chemicals that have contaminated land and water near Army bases are dramatically reduced by Food Standards Australia and New Zealand, prompting a class action seeking compensation from the Defence Department.
Topics: army, environmental-impact, environmental-health, regional, regional-development, air-force, oakey-4401, toowoomba-4350, williamtown-2318, newcastle-2300
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A gas company is given federal approval to clear 54 hectares of koala habitat for new coal seam gas wells on Queensland's Western Downs.
Topics: environmental-impact, oil-and-gas, dalby-4405
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The owner of an alleged puppy farm in southern Queensland where dogs were kept in "appalling conditions" is charged with 215 animal welfare-related offences - the most ever issued by the RSPCA against one person.
Topics: animal-welfare, law-crime-and-justice, glenarbon-4385
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Fraser Island dingoes that have threatened humans and are destined to be put down should be allowed to live at Queensland's only sanctuary for the animals, a wildlife park owner says.
Topics: endangered-and-protected-species, activism-and-lobbying, animal-welfare, people, durong-4610, qld, eurong-4581, australia, maryborough-4650
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Former police officer Ben Dyball, accused of being "blatantly insubordinate", hiding evidence in his personal locker and sleeping in his patrol vehicle, is unfit to hold a gun licence, the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal rules.
Topics: courts-and-trials, police, warwick-4370, toowoomba-4350
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An unusually strong agricultural production in 2016 is unlikely to be repeated this year, but Queensland missed out on the biggest production spike in a decade, the Australian Farm Institute concludes.
Topics: agribusiness, drought, economic-trends, regional, brisbane-4000, bundaberg-4670, cairns-4870, longreach-4730, mackay-4740, mount-isa-4825, rockhampton-4700, toowoomba-4350, townsville-4810
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Josh Frydenberg gives his approval to the controversial $900 million coal mine expansion on Queensland's Darling Downs, but the project has more hurdles to clear before it can go ahead.
Topics: mining-rural, mining-environmental-issues, rural, environment, federal-government, states-and-territories, acland-4401
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About 3,500 Syrian and Iraqi refugees bound for Queensland will be settled in the state's south-east in Brisbane, Logan, the Gold Coast and Toowoomba, the Federal Government confirms.
Topics: refugees, immigration, community-and-society, people, human-interest, regional, federal---state-issues, brisbane-4000, logan-city-dc-4114, qld, australia, toowoomba-4350, southport-4215, dalby-4405, rockhampton-4700, townsville-4810
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The Toowoomba council caused "humiliation" by publicly naming a homeowner who could not pay their rates bills, a Queensland Ombudsman report finds.
Topics: local-government, public-sector, government-and-politics, toowoomba-4350, qld, australia
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A teenager is cautioned for snapping a Queensland town's brand new Christmas tree in half, in what the local council calls a horrible case of "the Grinch stole Christmas".
Topics: christmas, lifestyle-and-leisure, courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, local-government, tara-4421, qld, toowoomba-4350
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