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Nikki Sorbello
Bundaberg, QLD
Nikki Sorbello is an experienced journalist, working across print and radio in the Wide Bay for the past 20 years. She is a news reporter for ABC Wide Bay, based in Bundaberg. Follow her on Twitter @NikkiSorbello.
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From being a hero to drawing one: Retired paramedic now illustrates world-famous Phantom comics
Illustrator Shane Foley traded in his paramedic uniform to draw the costumed crusader, but one thing he won't give up is using pen and paper to bring the world's oldest comic character to life.
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Graziers 'can't just sit and hope for rain'. Industry leaders say it's time to destock
Queensland graziers are being urged to sell their cattle as the state's bushfire emergency exacerbates an already dire national feed shortage.
Pub-goers, pensioners join the frontline as 1 in 5 struggle to put food on the table
Community-led food pantry pop ups gaining popularity as people look to help their neighbours through cost-of-living crisis.
It's machinery on sticks, out in the sticks
83-year-old Jim Sauer has spent the past three years sourcing old pieces of machinery and lifting them on top of old power poles for 'a bit of fun for an old chap'. He doesn't consider himself and artist - just someone who wants to put a smile on people's faces.
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'Anyone got a helicopter?': Three-year pole installation may not be quite finished, says Jim
It started as a "bit of fun for an old chap", but now people from all over the world are visiting this out-of-the-way art installation in rural Queensland.
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In the parts of Queensland where the No vote was strongest, voters reflect on the referendum
By regional Queensland staff including Owen Jacques, Lily Nothling, Tobi Loftus, Katrina Beavan and Nikki Sorbello
Not a single Queensland electorate outside of the state's south-east voted to support the referendum, and the firmest of those against it all fall within Queensland. We ask voters why.
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Coastal houses at risk of flooding as town's foreshore 'one big storm' away from collapsing
Approvals to fix a dangerously eroded Queensland beach south of Bundaberg drag out as residents fear their slice of paradise is slipping away into the ocean.
Completely new fish species found 'in plain sight' on Great Barrier Reef
The Lady Elliot shrimp goby is the first new fish species discovered on the reef since 2019, much to the delight of the researchers who stumbled across it by chance.
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A place that looks after its most vulnerable, Bundaberg becomes a beacon for the homeless
Three hot meals a day, food hampers, a shower and a place to rest — simple services are making life easier for those on the streets of Bundaberg.
Two men jailed for three years over their role in growing $100m cannabis crop
In sentencing, Judge Tony Moynihan KC took into account that the men were paid a wage of $3,000 a month but would not be receiving any profit from the crop.
Tiny homes solving a big problem with former flood accommodation housing the homeless
An unused and neglected caravan park in Gympie becomes a haven for the homeless as they transition to permanent accommodation.
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Heart attack survivor fulfills Kokoda Track dream, now fights to save cardiac lab that gave him second chance
When Adrian Frick suffered an "unsurvivable" heart attack at just 52, a specialist cardiac service in Bundaberg pulled him back from the brink. Now the service itself needs saving.
Getting a bird's-eye view of the beach could frighten endangered species out of dwindling habitat
Drones in coastal areas have been added to the list of threats to one of Australia's most endangered species — the eastern curlew.
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These students' school day includes restoring their very own forest
After they mourned the death of 400 trees during the drought, the students at Gooburrum Primary School are now making the forest their classroom.
This cardiologist should be planning his retirement, but he worries about his patients' future
Hermann Wittmer, 65, is one of the founding doctors of his region's only advanced cardiology unit. But he says red tape and a shortage of Australian-trained doctors are putting the service at risk.
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