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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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Townsville
Event Cinemas Townsville City general manager Arlene Valantine with an reel of film. Picture: Evan Morgan

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.

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.

Original URL: https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/journalists/kate-banville/page/11