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Madeline Grace is a journalist for the Sunshine Coast Daily covering court, crime, breaking news, business, human interest, health, and education across the region. She spent more than two years covering news for the Courier-Mail and Quest News in Brisbane and its surrounding suburbs. She got her start as a cadet journalist at the South Burnett Times in 2018.

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Sunshine Coast

‘They say I’m terminal … but I’ve got other plans’

A glamorous Qld mum and successful TV and wedding makeup artist refuses to accept an incurable diagnosis.

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WATCH: TikTok mum’s ‘tone deaf’ chopper tragedy vid amid ill baby bombshell

A video has surfaced of the high-profile Queensland woman facing explosive claims she was drugging her child reacting to the SeaWorld tragedy in a ‘tone-deaf’ way. VIDEO HERE.

Sunshine Coast

‘Overwhelmed, emotional’: Footy coach tackles kidney cancer

A beloved Queensland rugby league coach known for encouraging young girls to play footy has devastatingly been diagnosed with an aggressive kidney cancer – saying he’s “overwhelmed” and “very emotional” by all of the support he’s received.

Sunshine Coast

Mum accused of drugging daughter claims ‘god healed her’ from deadly disease

A high-profile influencer mother, under police investigation for claims she drugged her one-year-old to fake an illness, had also claimed “god healed her” from a chronic life-threatening illness.

Sunshine Coast

Businesses support ‘sick’ baby before police investigation

A Queensland woman who documented her infant daughter’s illness on social media platforms is now under investigation by police over claims she was drugging her child.

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Thumbnails only for Queensland police investigation into harm to a one-year-old child in November 2024. Artwork: Eliza Barr

Funds to high profile woman accused of drugging child blocked

A high profile Australian woman facing explosive claims she was drugging her child has been blocked from receiving money from a fundraiser for her family. A police investigation is now under way.

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A teenager is fighting for life after his car ran into the back of a crane on the Bruce Highway near Cooroy.

Photos reveal freak crash on Bruce Highway as teen fights for life

A teenager is fighting for life after suffering significant head, chest, and leg injuries after crashing into a crane truck on the Bruce Highway, causing extensive delays. PHOTOS

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Police continue negotations with the man at Urangan as a paramedic remains on standby. Photo: Phillip Fynes-Clinton

Man charged after alleged incident involving gun

A man has been charged after an alleged incident involving a gun in Hervey Bay. VIDEO.

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A PSPA has been declared in Nambour over a suspicious substance left in a bottle near the suburb's police station.

Sprite bottle at cop shop shuts down town centre

Fire crews have determined the mystery substance that shut down a Sunshine Coast town centre is safe almost six hours after police locked down a main road.

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Jody Milward, mother in law of Zachary, daughter Lucy - the gardener who died in that freak crash in Mooloolaba. Picture: Patrick Woods.

‘It’s not that he’s gone, not that he’s away. He’s dead.’

A woman who lost her fiance in a freak accident involving a 67-year-old driver with a known medical condition says she can’t escape the unbearable weight of her grief, still setting his place at the dining table. WATCH THE VIDEO

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