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Tributes for Tangles – Max Walker, former test cricketer, author and commentator, succumbs to melanoma.

Another report calls for urgent action to save the reef, but it’s not all bad news.

The federal government defends its backpacker tax backflip, but critics say damage has already been done.

And a new state of the art aviation training centre takes off at Brisbane airport.

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