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    Backpackers, get a farm job or fly home: MP

    premium_icon Backpackers, get a farm job or fly home: MP

    News WITH many backpackers here jobless and at a loose end, the message is to fly home or find a job picking fruit.

    Massive harbour operation to send 1300 crew home

    Massive harbour operation to send 1300 crew home

    News 1300 crew head home as cruise ships depart

    Hostels open, party over for backpackers

    Hostels open, party over for backpackers

    News It comes as visitors on visas are asked to head home

    Qantas comes to the rescue of stranded Aussies

    premium_icon Qantas comes to the rescue of stranded Aussies

    Travel Qantas secures flights for Australians stranded in Europe

    Visa holders: Who can stay and who can’t

    premium_icon Visa holders: Who can stay and who can’t

    Politics As a frustrated Federal Government moves to expel backpackers amid the coronavirus crisis, there is a class of visa holder who’ll be allowed to stay.

    ‘Overwhelming relief’: Australian’s escape locked-down Nepal

    premium_icon ‘Overwhelming relief’: Australian’s escape locked-down Nepal

    Travel The expedition to Everest base camp paled in comparison to the tumultuous journey home, for a group of Australians who became trapped in Nepal.

    Iconic resort shuts and 80 staff stood down

    premium_icon Iconic resort shuts and 80 staff stood down

    Business An iconic resort has been forced to shut down for the first time in its 94-year history.

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        Dawson MP George Christensen has called for North Queensland to be locked down to stop the spread of coronavirus. Photo: Zizi Averill

        premium_icon LOCKDOWN: Calls for North Queensland to be cut off from the...

        premium_icon Snap at a croc at this unique Whitsunday business

        DJI Mavic Mini flying over Mooloolaba

        premium_icon Chandler Powell takes on a crocodile at Australia Zoo

        Guides

          Surfing: Where to start when you don't know how

          Surfing: Where to start when you don't know how

          Lifestyle PART 1: Learn the basics of surfing with Robbie and Carlene Sherwell, of XL Surfing Academy in this series aimed at getting you in the water.

          VIDEO: Coast's best, secret freshwater swimming holes

          VIDEO: Coast's best, secret freshwater swimming holes

          Lifestyle All most people want to do during the heatwave is cool off

          10 common snakes and how to identify them

          premium_icon 10 common snakes and how to identify them

          Pets & Animals Snake catcher Richie Gilbert has seen it all

          Five of the best to places to bushwalk

          Five of the best to places to bushwalk

          Travel Popular pass time offers something for everyone

          Tourism

            Tourism season in serious doubt due to restrictions

            premium_icon Tourism season in serious doubt due to restrictions

            News Businesses that rely on grey nomads and the influx of Easter holiday-makers are set take to take a huge economic hit.

            New job lifeline for Aussie workers

            premium_icon New job lifeline for Aussie workers

            Careers Tourism and hospitality workers should consider a career pivot

            Thousands of backpackers may be sent home

            premium_icon Thousands of backpackers may be sent home

            News More than 100,000 backpackers may be forced to return home

            More Cairns flights linked to confirmed virus cases

            More Cairns flights linked to confirmed virus cases

            Health Health authorities start contact tracing Cairns flight arrivals