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Kate BanvilleDefence reporter

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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Our children are crying out for help

Our children are crying out for help

AN experienced trauma clinician is imploring the community to listen to children, to watch for behaviours that may indicate they’re being abused, to protect our most vulnerable.

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The ‘toxic culture’ of Child Safety is unbearable

Defeated and feeling helpless in a child safety system overwhelmed by caseloads and “crippled by politics”, a North Queensland officer reveals what “broke her”.

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*BEST OF SPORT 2019*Budd Williamson rides Rata Tat Tat . 2019 PBR Australian Grand Finals in Townsville, Queensland. Picture: Alix Sweeney

RIDE ‘EM: Nation’s best bull rider to be crowned in Townsville

The nation’s best professional bull riders will be down to the wire in a fierce battle for this year’s PBR Australia title at Townsville Entertainment Centre.

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Vietnam veteran Garry McGlone speaks about his time during the battle of Nui Le, 49 years ago. Picture: Alix Sweeney

Vietnam vet recalls horror of war

A Townsville digger still hears the sound of gunfire and death as if it was yesterday, almost 50 years on from Australia’s last and most brutal fire fight in South Vietnam.

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Twin sister honoured after bush tragedy

Twin sister honoured after bush tragedy

A Charters Towers schoolgirl killed in a tragic farm accident is being remembered as a girl with ‘an indomitable spirit’.

‘Love you darling’: Friends grieve for schoolgirl

‘Love you darling’: Friends grieve for schoolgirl

Heartfelt tributes are flowing for twin sister Mackenzie Guild who was killed in a freak cattle station accident, as her little sister recovers in hospital.

‘Love you darling’: Friends grieve for schoolgirl

‘Love you darling’: Friends grieve for schoolgirl

Heartfelt tributes are flowing for twin sister Mackenzie Guild who was killed in a freak cattle station accident, as her sister recovers in hospital.

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Cracks form in HomeBuilder foundations

Townsville builders have pinned hopes on new construction incentives to rebuild a dire past of slow business, but Queensland’s peak industry body has cast doubts over the scheme’s success.

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Annastacia Palaszczuk at the Police academy at Oxley. Pic Annette Dew

POLICE BOOST: Biggest recruitment in decades

Townsville has been named among Queensland’s ‘key’ regions to be handed hundreds of new police officers.

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‘Dishonest’ NQ cop stood down

A Northern Region police officer has been stood down for ‘inappropriate behaviour’ and ‘dishonesty’.

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