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The organiser of Tasmania's Dark Mofo has apologised after the arts festival received backlash over plans to cover a Union Jack flag in Indigenous blood.

The festival put out a call on its Instagram account for Indigenous people to donate a small amount of blood, facilitated by a medical professional before the event.

The blood would then cover the Union Jack for an art project called Union Flag by Spanish artist Santiago Sierra.

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"We've heard the community's response to Santiago Sierra's Union Flag," festival director Leigh Carmichael said.

"In the end the hurt that will be caused by proceeding isn't worth it.

"We made a mistake, and take full responsibility.

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"The project will be cancelled. We apologise to all First Nations people for any hurt that has been caused. We are sorry."

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Prior to the apology, the festival defended its decision on Monday, after it was "overwhelmed with responses" from Indigenous and non-Indigenous people.

"We understand, respect and appreciate the many diverse views in relation to this confronting project.

"Self-expression is a fundamental human right, and we support artists to make and present work regardless of their nationality or cultural background.

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"The range of perspectives reflects the conversations we had with Tasmanian Aboriginal people prior to announcing the project.

"It's not surprising that the atrocities committed as a result of colonising nations continue to haunt us."

There are 805,200 people in Australia who don't have a job.

Last week Tim Walls became another one.

The father of seven-week old son Frankie was made redundant from his job of more than two years.

Tim worked at Keppel Prince.

The company is the only manufacturer of wind turbines in Victoria, but last week laid off 40 staff.

A multinational company had opted to use steel from a foreign company.

Another 100 jobs at Keppel Prince are now at risk.

This morning, 33 hours after leaving his home in western Victoria, Tim arrived in the nation's capital.

Along with colleagues and officials from Australian Manufacturing Workers Union, and the Australian Workers Union he took take his plea to preserve local manufacturing jobs, to politicians inside Parliament House.

Tim added his voiced to a union campaign calling on the federal government to boost local content and help protect and save jobs.

About 1005 kilometres from his home, Tim stood in a hall which has been graced by prime ministers, ministers and MPs from around the country.

And he wept.

Tim cried for his future, for his baby, for his family.

"It's not nice," he said.

"The government wants to sit there talking about creating jobs, jobs jobs.

"Enough is enough.

"It's not a very nice feeling to go home, you don't sleep properly.

"It's hard to deal with."

His lip quivered, tears rolled down his face.

This was a man feeling the pressure of looking after his family, without an income to help.

He said it is his partner Siarle and son Frankie keeping him going.

"I just have to step up, and move forward," he told me.

I asked him if Frankie had helped make him smile.

It was the only time during this interview he managed a smile.

A brief chuckle.

"Yeah, yep," he said.

Then more tears, as the hand of a mate patted him on the back, as if to say "you'll be right".

Hopefully for the sake of his family, and for himself, Tim will be.

He spent the day in Parliament House, campaigning to save jobs like the one he lost.

Tomorrow he heads home, still without a job but with mates who say they've got his back.

And Tim's not alone.

There's 805,200 Australians just like him.

Police have launched an investigation into the death of a man found with a stab wound in Rockhampton.

Emergency services were initially called to the Cypress Avenue, Norman Gardens address just after midday yesterday following reports of an assault. 

A 51-year-old man was found at the scene having sustained a single stab wound to his chest.

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He was taken to Rockhampton Hospital, where he later died.

A 48-year-old woman, also from Norman Gardens, is assisting police with their investigations and a crime scene was declared at the address. 

Detective Inspector Darrin Shadlow said the death was being treated as a "domestic incident" and suspicious.

"We'll continue to speak to further people … as well as the 48-year-old woman, but we're still conducting our investigations." Inspector Shadlow said. 

Detectives are encouraging anyone with information to come forward and speak with police.

If you come across a baby turtle when walking along the beach, don't put it back in the water.

Wildlife rescuers warn that beached turtle hatchlings will probably die if they are put back into the surf.

The warning comes as the wild weather battering the NSW coast is leaving an unusually high number of endangered loggerhead hatchlings beached.

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Instead of travelling out to richer feeding grounds around New Zealand and New Caledonia, the hatchlings are getting caught in big swells and ending up on Sydney and South Coast beaches.

Australian Seabird Rescue is taking care of baby loggerheads before they can be released back into the ocean.

"Baby turtles washing up on southern beaches can be problematic because they haven't been able to go where they need to go for their natural environment," general manager Olly Pitt told nine.com.au.

"Another concern is hatchlings that are washing up and don't make it, we are finding plastic in their tiny little guts."

Loggerhead turtle hatchlings tend to be about five or six centimetres, but fully grown can reach up to 110 centimetres.

It takes about 30 years for loggerhead turtles to reach maturity and start breeding. They can live as long as 67 years.

But at their youngest, loggerheads turtles are very vulnerable.

Ms Pitt said the best thing to do if you find a beached hatchling is to call Australian Seabird Rescue.

"The only thing we ask is please do not put them back in the water, it's likely they will not survive," she said.

"They've been impacted somehow."

Hatchlings rescued from the South Coast will likely be taken further north to be released in more suitable waters.

Loggerhead turtles are endangered, but have a broad geographical range.

The turtles are found off the coast of nearly every country on Earth, save for the west and south of South America.

Severe thunderstorms are among a number of new concerns Southern Queenslanders are set to face down this evening, as the state's wet weather week continues. 

The new warning released Tuesday afternoon by the Bureau of Meteorology tops off another day of flood warnings and 60mm plus rainfalls for the rinsed region. 

Coastal areas such as Coomera Waters all the west to the Tablelands have recorded 50-100mm since 9am Tuesday, with multiple flood warnings remaining in place. 

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At Wongawallan in the Gold Coast Hinterland, more and more bridges and floodways are being cut-off by ever-rising rapids, with one crossing having no water on it to be submerged in just 60 minutes, nudging the one-metre mark. 

New warnings have also been released for a number of Brisbane creeks, including the Pine & Caboolture River and the Upper and Lower Brisbane River. 

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Though all eyes will be on parts of the Maranoa & Warrego regions heading into Tuesday night, with Severe Thunderstorms considered likely to hit central townships like Roma, St George and Charleville.

The further flood warnings come as a video, posted to Twitter by Transport and Main Roads Queensland, was filmed from a line of cars showing a car being swept away in waters,

Another car, further out, is parked on a flooded causeway, already shoved to the edge by the streaming floodwaters.

As people watch, the car is in short order tipped off the road and into the flood on the other side, where it is swiftly swept away.

"This vehicle stalled on the causeway and the driver was able to get out safely before the water consumed it," Transport and Main Roads wrote Twitter.

"With a lot of roads already closed, our best advice is to stay home if you can. If you do need to go out, make sure you've got a #PlanB, and if you're faced with floodwaters just #BackItUp."

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More than 200mm of rain drenched the Gold Coast in just a few hours overnight, with "intense flash flooding" soaking the region.

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