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Jared Hartley runs a tattoo removal studio in Canberra and was baffled when his business Instagram account was suspended last October.

Meta said the account had violated community standards; Hartley said it wasn't true.

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He followed Meta's instructions to appeal the ban, had the account reinstated, only to have it suspended again – twice.

Then Meta disabled his personal Instagram account, and in doing so wiped away years of memories, photos and chats with Hartley's late sister, who died in 2025.

He says his desperate attempts to recover the account went nowhere.

"They said they couldn't do anything," he told nine.com.au.

"When you lose your account, they say you can download your information … but all the file contains is your settings."

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One teenager is dead and another is fighting for life after the pair fell while hiking in the Glasshouse Mountains on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.

It is believed they were part of a group of three who were climbing Mount Beerwah earlier today, when two of them, both 18, fell down rock face.

A teenage girl suffered severe injuries after falling about 60 metres and died at the scene.

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A man believed to be her boyfriend fell about 90 metres and suffered critical head injuries.

He was airlifted to hospital after paramedics arrived and was taken to Sunshine Coast University Hospital, where he was fighting for life.

Search and rescue teams climbed up the mountain to ensure the safety of the other climber, who was uninjured but suffering from shock.

It is believed she is the sister of the teenager who died.

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The mountain has been closed to the public for nearly a week after heavy rainfall in south-east Queensland had made the area unsafe for walking.

"This closure is a precautionary measure following high rainfall events," a statement on the Queensland Parks and Forests website said.

"The risk of large rockfall above the summit route is much higher after heavy rain."

There is signage in the area highlighting that the mountain is closed to the public.

The closure was set to be lifted tomorrow, but it is not known if it will now be extended due to today's accident.

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Heavy rainfall in Far North Queensland has sparked rescues for motorists stranded in floodwaters.

Rescuers become life savers for the 65-year-old woman stuck on top of her car at Mossman, north-west of Cairns, about 6am today.

An hour later at Redlynch in Cairns, two people in their fifties managed to escape to safety having been caught out by flash flooding after more than 200 millimetres of rain fell in just six hours.

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"Wet season rain in Queensland is always challenging, it's even more challenging when it comes on top of big rainfall and swollen catchments already," Premier David Crisafulli said.

Hundreds of kilometres south in the Central West outback town of Longreach, it's been a week-long waiting game for a major flood that's now arrived in the community of just under 4000 people.

"There's about five kilometres of an inland ocean out there coming off the Thomson River," Mayor Tony Rayner said.

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The river rose to 6.12 metres by 9am with the peak of 6.5 metres expected late today.

Many residents including the owner of the Longreach Caravan Park weren't taking any chances, sandbagging and moving furniture to higher ground having gone under water in the February 2000 disaster.

Those inundated face power and water being cut off.

The Landsborough Highway to Winton was cut off.

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"A lot of food comes up and down that highway a lot of livestock so any closure has an impact," Rayner said

But while the river's rise has been slow it's fall is expected to be relatively fast as it feeds down into Lake Eyre.

"That means there's still water going through to Bedourie and to think a community impacted by really large rain over a fortnight ago are still waiting for floodwaters to reach its peak is equally incredibly frustrating," Crisafulli said.

Emergency services were called to the scene about 8.05pm.

A newborn baby has been caught up in an alleged drink driver's rampage in a Sydney car park.

A woman is accused of smashing into multiple cars on the upper north shore while allegedly more than five times the legal limit.

A simple reverse out of the Turramurra car space spiralled out of control, smashing into three cars at once.

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It ploughed into a fourth, which had little Florence in the back seat.

"As I unclipped her I could see a car in my peripherals just accelerating at me," father Joshua Quaife said.

"She got ejected out of her car seat because it was unbuckled and it was just traumatising to see her like that."

The driver hit a fifth car, scraping and scratching free – before the first car copped it again.

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"If it was a few seconds earlier, I would have been holding her getting her out of the car, and would have been crushed, so it was lucky I was two or three seconds too slow to settle her," Quaife said.

The woman behind the wheel threw what looked like a bottle into a bush just before she left the trail of destruction.

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Police arrested a 62-year-old in a nearby toilet yesterday afternoon.

A test at Hornsby police station allegedly showed her blood alcohol level was more than five times the legal limit.

She was charged with high range drink driving and negligent driving.

Florence, who turns five weeks old tomorrow, was unhurt and unbothered.

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A six-time State of Origin player has been arrested on the Gold Coast in relation to alleged domestic violence offences.

Chris Walker, who played for multiple NRL clubs, was arrested on Saturday night after he allegedly fled from police who tried to arrest him at his home.

Police allege fled in a ute down a nearby street, before abandoning the car and running on foot, jumping over fences and into a nearby backyard.

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Police units combed the streets surrounding Whitsunday Drive in Currumbin Waters.

He was eventually found after a two-hour search, allegedly hiding under a pontoon in nearby canals.

Walker, 46, who it is believed was wanted on alleged domestic violence offences, was taken into custody.

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He has not been charged.

"Police located and arrested the 46-year-old Currumbin Waters man … is currently assisting police with inquiries," police said in a statement.

Walker is best known for playing at the Brisbane Broncos and Sydney Roosters in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

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He scored 40 tries in 67 games for the Broncos, and scored a try in the Roosters' grand final defeat to the Bulldogs in 2004.

Walker played six times for Queensland between 2001 and 2002, scoring four tries and helping the Maroons to one series win and one draw.

He also played for the South Sydney Rabbitohs, Melbourne Storm, Gold Coast Titans and Parramatta Eels in the NRL, retiring in 2011.

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Video shows a downed traffic light and glass strewn across an intersection.

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A vape has caught fire on a flight from Brisbane to Melbourne, causing a mid-air call for help.

Virgin Australia flight VA328 from Brisbane made an urgent call after the vape ignited, the airline said this evening.

Emergency services were put on standby as the plane landed in Melbourne.

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"The Boeing 737 aircraft landed safely and taxied to the gate where passengers were able to disembark normally," a statement from Melbourne Airport said.

Virgin Australia said Aviation Rescue Firefighters followed the aircraft "as a precaution" and "removed the device from the aircraft."

A PAN call means possible assistance needed and signals an urgent call for help but not an emergency.

The flight took off from Brisbane just before 1pm (2pm AEDT) and landed in Melbourne just before 4.30pm.

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