Queensland Oil and Housing Issues
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Queensland faces dual challenges with a potential major oil reserve identified in the Taroom Trough, sparking extraction interest, while evictions from public housing have tripled in one year under a new behavior policy. The region also anticipates windy and rainy weather, and police are investigating the suspicious deaths of two women.
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