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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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Chelseann Osborne, 19, has featured in 'Fearless' a film highlighting people living with disability. Picture: Shae Beplate.

Osborne finds her strength on water

An inspirational film series featuring a Townsville teenager is throwing stereotypes out the window as it documents the lives of Australians living fearlessly with disability

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Australian troops are still serving in war-torn Afghanistan. Female

‘We knew it would be bad’: Former 1RAR CO responds to inquiry

A FORMER senior Army Officer says his “family” has been ripped apart in the fall out of a damning report into alleged war crimes in Afghanistan.

Generic Pics Around Townsville. Buildings, streets, shops, port, ent centre. Key words, generic, building street, icon, 2018. CYDC, The Cleveland Youth Detention Centre on Old Common Rd, Belgian Gardens.

Detention centre bosses delay calling riot squad

Staff members have spoken out against Cleveland Youth Detention Centre management after the centre was put into a three hour lockdown.

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Veteran community in mourning over death of 1 RAR digger

Veteran community in mourning over death of 1 RAR digger

TOWNSVILLE’S veteran community is mourning the loss of one of their own, after a former 1RAR soldier has died.

BOWEN, AUSTRALIA - JULY 22: An Australian infantry soldier from 2 RAR (Royal Australian Regiment) walks along the beach after disembarking in an amphibious operation on July 22, 2019 in Bowen, Australia. Exercise Talisman Sabre 2019 is the largest exercise that the Australian Defence Force (ADF) conducts with all four services of the United States armed forces. The biennial exercise focuses on crisis action planning and humanitarian missions, enhancing participating nations' capabilities to deal with regional contingencies and terrorism. It is the first time the NZDF has been invited to participate fully, with NZDF personnel to be working as part of a large force led by the Australians and NZDF military assets will be integrated with those of the ADF and the US armed forces. (Photo by Ian Hitchcock/Getty Images)

CULL THEM: Soldiers call for heads over ‘blood lust’ findings

Two special forces soldiers who began their careers in Townsville have called for the Chief of the Defence Force to step aside amid damning allegations of war crimes committed in Afghanistan between 2007 and 2013.

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A riot at Cleveland Youth Detention Centre on Thursday night left several people injured. Picture: DOMANII CAMERON

‘Quit or be killed’: Cleveland employees speak out

Fudging data, intimidation and failure to protect staff. These are some of the issues behind Cleveland Youth Detention Centre’s ‘dysfunction’, employees allege.

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Sobering insight into the frontline of domestic violence

Sobering insight into the frontline of domestic violence

A Townsville police officer has opened up on the complexities facing frontline cops who respond to domestic violence incidents.

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Australian Army soldiers from Special Operations Task Group and their Afghan National Security Force partners board a US Army CH-47 Chinook helicopter at Multi-National Base Tarin Kowt, Uruzgan province, southern Afghanistan, in 2012. *** Local Caption *** Australian Army soldiers from Special Operations Task Group (SOTG) are deployed to Uruzgan province in southern Afghanistan to conduct population-centric, security and counter-network operations alongside their Afghan National Security Forces partners against Taliban insurgents. SOTG comprises personnel from the Special Air Service Regiment, 1st and 2nd Commando Regiments, Incident Response Regiment, Special Operations Logistics Squadron and a variety of supporting units from the ADF. Picture: Department of Defence

BATTLE LINES DRAWN: ‘Disgusted’ ex-soldiers speak out

As the ADF begins to grapple with its “moral authority” now in tatters, two former Townsville soldiers turned special operators spoke of the cost at which war has come.

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Townsville for White Ribbon; Cowboys Coach Todd Payten, Chief Superintendent Craig Hanlon, Mayor Jenny Hill, Aaron Harper MP, CEO of NQDVRS Mandy Thompson, Commander of 3rd Brigade Brigadier Kahlil Fegan, Yumba-Meta's Brenda Lucas and Anil Kaithakulath, TEL CEO Patricia O'Callaghan. Picture: Alix Sweeney

UNITED FRONT: Fight to end our DV plague

In Townsville where property crime is talked about as the scourge tearing the city apart, police are attending the same number, if not more, domestic violence related incidents every day.

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Despite the Townsville City council pulling out Jono Pearson, Sally Vujica, CK Kern and Dan Wilschefski are going ahead with a Christmas event at Victoria Park in South Townsville. Picture: Evan Morgan

SILENT NIGHT: Foodies step up after carols get canned

Townsville City Council has canned the carols, leaving pop-up food truck owners in the lurch as it opts for a virtual Christmas celebration.

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