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  Toowoomba couple shuns seachange by moving to Lebanon to work with refugees Posted August 26, 2016 14:56:14 Two semi-retired teachers from Toowoomba have made a life change of a very different kind. Jack and Anne Kamst's journey from the leafy suburbs of Toowoomba to a small apartment in Lebanon overlooking refugee camps, comes via Christmas Island and Nauru. It all started with a comment a friend made while waiting at an airport."She said 'I know an older couple livi..

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• Toowoomba taxi driver robbed at knife point

  

  A Toowoomba taxi driver has been left shaken after he was robbed of his cab at knifepoint.The driver was sitting in his cab at Lindeman Court, Wilsonton when a man came up to his window and threatened him with a knife just after 4am on Friday. A taxi was dumped a short distance from where it was stolen in Toowoomba. Photo: Louise Kennerley The driver was forced out of his cab before the thief got into the vehicle and sped off.Police said the man dumped the taxi at a nearby estate and fle..

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• Child drowns in dam in Helidon

  

  Paramedics have been unable to revive a two-year-old child found face down in a dam on a private property near Toowoomba.Paramedics were called just before noon on Friday to Helidon to reports of a child in water and, upon arrival, conducted CPR on the patient. A child has drowned in a dam near Helidon. Photo: Supplied A spokesman for Queensland Police confirmed the child, a two-year-old boy, had died and that there were no suspicious circumstances.

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