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Disaster recovery minister urges caution as up to 350mm of rain expected in ‘very dangerous forecast’ for south-east of state

Letters and Short Takes: Time for apathetic Australia to change

The prime minister and opposition leader have wished Australians a Merry Christmas and expressed their gratitude to those giving up their day to help others.

Cooktown was one of the worst hit by record rainfall caused by Tropical Cyclone Jasper but locals still welcomed evacuees from a flood-hit Aboriginal community.

The reason Anthony Albanese cited for declining sounds very familiar. Almost like the Coalition said much the same thing

Rain is finally easing, but emergency alerts remain for parts of the state’s far north, with communities from Cooktown to Innisfail cut off by record flood waters

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Defence force personnel deployed in region as Barron River catchment records 2,200mm of rain in last week, causing spill of flood water

Here’s what’s at stake as millions go to vote this December in Africa’s second-largest country by size.

The Islamic State Central Africa Province recently attacked and killed two foreign tourists and a citizen in a Ugandan nature park. Located in the country’s west near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Queen Elizabeth National Park is about 400km from the Ugandan capital Kampala.

At issue is a court ruling that the state’s abortion ban conflicts with government rules mandating the provision of emergency care