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Ashley Little Boy Big Disease

Saving Ashley: What a life is worth

HE’S only five and has a deadly disease he can’t yet pronounce. It would cost us $240,000 a year for the only drug that will save him but who should pay? This is the battle to keep one cheeky, gap-toothed, puppy-loving special little boy alive.

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Life on planets orbiting red dwarf stars is likely to have faced a completely different set of evolutionary challenges to our own.

Take a tour of TRAPPIST1

ALIENS just got real. NASA’s discovery of six new Earth-like worlds certainly stacks up the odds. But any life-forms on those planets will have been shaped in very strange ways.

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A couple cycle on the esplanade along Machans Beach near Cairns during high tide & strong winds, result of tropical cyclone Justin. Queensland / Weather

Unique Far North weather

PART THREE: Cyclones are a part of life in Far North Queensland. Weather enthusiast Jacob Grams tells of his passion for storm chasing and what makes weather in the Far North unique.

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02/02/2011 NEWS: 02/02/2011 NEWS: Jenny Bolton , with her son James Friel , 9 mths, she is very worried her house will not survive, is among over 700 people take shelter in the town shire hall ahead of extreme Cyclone Yasi , hitting the town later tonight, Innisfail, FNQ.

How cyclones affect the Far North

PART TWO: Cyclones are a part of life in Far North Queensland. What’s in store for us in the future and how we’re preparing. Cairns has been lucky to avoid direct hits, but how long can that luck last?

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Ex Cairns to the Courier Mail , 20.03.2006. Cyclone Larry Devasttaes InnisfailPICS by BRIAN CASSEY - story Michael Madigan & others Aerial of Innisfail.PIC: by BRIAN CASSEY - NOT FOR NEWSPIX

A history of destruction in the Far North

PART ONE: Cyclones are a part of life in Far North Queensland. Each year from November until April, we wait to see what the Coral Sea will throw at us. Gordon Goes survived the destruction of both Larry and Yasi but would not live anywhere else.

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