Lucy Cooper

ABC Pacific Beat multi-platform reporter. Previously ABC Rural Reporter via Townsville and Toowoomba. Posts and likes are my personal views not those of the ABC

[Stephen Dziedzic @stephendziedzic]

The village of Satapuala is ready to welcome Anthony Albanese to Samoa later this week for CHOGM and they are, like everyone, very much getting into the spirit. But they may have just inadvertently cost the PM the next election by revealing he has a middle name and it is “Norman”

[Lucy Cooper @LucyKCooper]

#ParalympicGames2024 Aussie Rollers v USA!
@abcsport

[Tracey Holmes @TraceyLeeHolmes]

I have learned one of the world’s great hockey players, Rosie Malone, has been excluded from the #Hockeyroos team to be named next week for the #Paris2024 #Olympics. Why? In December she was finalist for international player of the year, six months later it appears she’s not in the @AUSOlympicTeam🤷🏻‍♀️

[Fraser Barton @FraserBarton95]

Katter's Australia Party leader @RobKatter3 has just moved a motion in state parliament to form a separate state of North Queensland. #qldpol

[Lucy Cooper @LucyKCooper]

Had the most wonderful time with the Landline team last week.
Can't beat the sunrises at Wambiana Station outside Charters Towers.

[Lucy Cooper @LucyKCooper]

Latest story for 7.30 … full of heart and emotion and extremely grateful to witness the handover of Indigenous artefacts https://t.co/Y5QAQlh9A3

[Lucy Cooper @LucyKCooper]

Great Barrier Reef gillnet fishers say rules to safeguard protected species are putting their lives at risk https://t.co/xOusBpPE1a via @ABCaustralia

[Lucy Cooper @LucyKCooper]

So many questions ...
https://t.co/Xpveu7LHPV

[Matt Brann @MattBrannRURAL]

Maddie Staff at Nicholson Station on the WA/NT border has tickets to see @taylorswift13 in Sydney... but is flooded in 💧

"I'm looking around at Charter Flights to get me out of here on Friday.

"I need to get to Sydney, but in all honesty I'd be happy to get to Halls Creek"

[Lucy Cooper @LucyKCooper]

Are supermarket specifications for produce too strict? What happens when a cyclone affects fruit like bananas? Delved into this issue for my latest yarn. https://t.co/EeehmOSZgx via @ABCaustralia

[Batshit Australia @batshit_auspol]

Journo @domgiannini_ from the AAP newswire deserves a Walkley for this line alone

[RFTTE @rftte]

Speaking of water, this is Kynuna Station in QLD… this is what happens when the great Diamantina River gets a belly full… and some!

[Lucy Cooper @LucyKCooper]

Australian hockey has always performed consistently and in an outstanding manner on the world stage ... this is wrong on so many levels

[Sandra Sully AM 📺🎧📲🏑🌺 @Sandra_Sully]

That's right the Kookaburras one of Australia's most iconic sporting teams are not able to find a major corporate sponsor 7 months out from the Paris Olympics even after securing a silver in Tokyo.

[Lucy Cooper @LucyKCooper]

We're all ready to bunker down in Townsville tonight! Thinking of all primary producers, some need the rain, but for many, the ground is already very saturated.

[Bureau of Meteorology, Queensland @BOM_Qld]

The Tropical Cyclone Advice has been reissued, TC Kirrily is now a Category 2 Tropical Cyclone with wind gusts near the centre expected to reach 130km/h. The TC is expected to cross the coast near Townsville tonight.

[Lucy Cooper @LucyKCooper]

A new episode of the 'Make me feel good' podcast is out featuring me and the beautiful people of Bec Climie's mail run in NW Queensland! Listen here, or on the ABC Listen App https://t.co/GmGn4PI6t8 via @ABCaustralia

[Lucy Cooper @LucyKCooper]

Checked in on some North Queensland Mangoes this morning ... despite much later flowering than usual (thanks to a mild winter), can confirm they taste incredible 🥭

[Monte Bovill @MonteBovill]

PSA my fellow Tasmanians: this is what Queensland’s new Premier said about the island state in 2020 🥸

[Lucy Cooper @LucyKCooper]

Farmer startups bringing chocolate capsicum and pink custard apple to supermarket shelves https://t.co/kxDPa97HuO via @ABCaustralia

[Batshit Australia @batshit_auspol]

Please enjoy the infectious laughter of the Australian senate struggling to keep its composure while grilling a man about getting semen out of a bee