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Peter MichaelNorth Queensland Correspondent

Peter Michael is a crime writer, correspondent and investigative journalist who has worked in South Africa, the UK, Indonesia, China, Papua New Guinea, Hong Kong and Australia. In a 28-year career, he’s covered disaster and conflict zones; terrorism; crime; corruption; people smuggling; crocodile, shark, dingo attacks; cyclones and floods. He interviewed Nelson Mandela on South Africa’s apartheid-era killings; won a United Nations award for exposing an international child sex slavery ring; and was on the frontline of the SARS epidemic in Hong Kong. He reported on Ireland’s heroin barons; Chinese triad kingpins; Bali bombings; Snowtown bodies-in-the barrel murders; Kokoda plane crash; and the Mulrunji aboriginal death-in-custody. He’s a Australia-Indonesia Institute and Asia Pacific Journalist Centre fellow. Peter now lives in Cairns, works in the solo NQ Bureau, and has the best job in journalism (shh, don’t tell anyone)

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Senior Sergeant Ed Lukin giving an update on Victorian man Milan Lemic missing in the Daintree. PICTURE: STEWART MCLEAN

Police reveal new theory behind man’s disappearance

A possible sighting of missing Victorian man Milan Lemic picking mangoes in Daintree Village has prompted police to suspend a 10-day search using drones, quad bikes and riders on horseback, as they reveal a new likely scenario behind his disappearance.

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PICTURES ON HOLD Marine biologist on Daydream Island Johnny Gaskell made it his mission this year to dive as many reef sites as possible along the length of the Great Barrier Reef. He went to 100 sites from Lady Elliot island in the south to Raine Island, off the tip of Cape York in the North

Watch: Proof of life for our endangered Reef

An Insta-famous diver says climate change and coral bleaching are real, and need urgent action. But his stunning underwater photography shows all might not be lost for our greatest living treasure. WATCH NOW

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