Daily Archives: 16/03/2025

Stem chasers in Epic mercy dash for Mia

The frantic race to save 22-year-old Mia Preston seemed like a mission impossible, involving an epic 13.000km trek and a one-in-50-year cyclone. Months of preparation and precision timing to deliver stem cells from the US to the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital for the leukaemia patient’s “one chance at life” transplant were upended when Cyclone Alfred prevented the flight landing in Brisbane. Continue reading

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Free meals for cyclone victims

Charity Turbans 4 Australia has handed out more than 700 free hot meals to Cyclone Alfred affected Queenslanders. Rice and lentil curries prepared at the Brisbane Sikh Temple in Eight Mile Plains were packed in coolers and distributed to Queens-landers worst hit by the Cyclone on Saturday. Continue reading

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