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The first PinksBlush fruit were found on a branch of another variety of custard apple.
The PinksBlush variety provides a colourful contrast to standard green custard apples.
Phones allegedly stolen from hospitalised father whose wife, daughter were killed in Christmas Day car crash
A man has allegedly stolen two mobile phones belonging to a hospital patient injured in a car crash that killed his wife and one of his daughters on Christmas Day, police say.
Queensland's new agriculture and fisheries minister Mark Furner pictured in the port of Cairns
NASA inspires speed-breeding program that cuts a decade off new grain varieties
NASA experiments to grow wheat in space inspire Australian scientists to develop a world-first speed-breeding program that cuts a decade off the time it takes to deliver new varieties.
Wheat under lights
Dr Lee Hickey
Fake owls not an effective option for deterring pesky birds, expert says
Fake owls have become a popular tool for fending off birds as part of an ongoing battle with humans, but one expert says they don’t work.
Outback couple build solar farm to prove fringe-of-grid power generation need
In Queensland’s Gulf of Carpentaria, one couple has built a solar farm big enough to power their shire in a move to prove the benefit of decentralising electricity and positioning generation sites at the end of the grid.