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Kate Banville is a news reporter at the Townsville Bulletin, covering Defence, Education and Health. She draws on her personal experience as a 7-year Army veteran to report on matters relevant to the defence community. Kate was awarded the 2018 Ossie Awards for Investigative Journalism by an undergraduate for her ABC 7.30 report and ongoing coverage of a group of combat veterans’ fight against the Home Affairs Department to have their Afghan interpreters relocated to Australia on humanitarian grounds. The case has since been overturned by a Federal Court decision. She has previously worked at WIN News in Townsville and ABC Gold Coast where she started as an intern. Kate is a wife and mother of two young boys.

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Townsville

Mother of dead soldier takes aim at Veteran Commissioner review

A grief stricken mother of a veteran who suicided on Anzac Day last year believes her family is being “shafted” by a new commission reviewing deaths among ADF members.

Townsville

FULL RECOVERY: The diagnosed patient was a 53-year-old male who worked at the Kingaroy Woolworths Store.

Regional health HQ promise for North

Townsville will become home to Queensland’s first Office of Rural and Remote Health, if ALP is re-elected.

Townsville

Curtains drop on local cinema

Movie buffs are reminiscing about stars walking the red carpet and lighting up the big screens of a popular cinema, as it draws the curtain closed forever.

Townsville

Real reason behind exit of One Nation’s Thuringowa candidate

A high-profile One Nation candidate in a key battleground north Queensland seat was axed by the party due to fears his past could emerge and spark a repeat of the disastrous 2017 sex shop scandal campaign drama.

Townsville

Bindal Elder Eddie Smallwood at the Bindal sign in Douglas. Picture: Evan Morgan

Indigenous tourism to shine in $60m National Parks plan

Indigenous rangers and tourism operators to be the winners in a $60m ALP plan to protect and grow Queensland’s National Parks.

Townsville

‘It’s lawlessness’: Police barricaded as tensions flare on Palm Island

Officers were forced to barricade themselves inside after a mob of youths attacked the police station on Palm Island overnight.

Police & Courts

‘It’s lawlessness’: Police barricaded as tensions flare on Palm Island

Officers were forced to barricade themselves inside after a mob of youths attacked the police station on Palm Island overnight.

Townsville

STAY IN YOUR LANE: Scooter riders told to travel safely

Scooter riders have been given stern warning about the electric joy ride’s limitations after some were found abandoned in strange parts of the city.

QLD News

Act for Kids Occupational Therapist , Josh Denman . Picture: Alix Sweeney

Queensland city filled with child heartache

Shocking figures have revealed 800 children, some as young as three, are growing up amid terrible scenes including drug abuse, violence and sexual assault in just one Queensland city, with a child safety charity in such high demand it was forced to relocate it’s national base there.

Townsville

The heartache our children face in Townsville homes

Shocking figures have revealed hundreds of Townsville children, some as young as three, are growing up amid scenes of drug abuse, violence and sexual assault.

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