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Tuesday 9th February, 2010

  • One day SEO Training Course to be held in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney

    PR Web

    Bruce Clay Australia has announced that they will be running a one day Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) training course on the 17th February in Sydney, 7th April in Brisbane, 12th of May in Melbourne ...

  • More senior roles for women in councils: Boyle

    ABC News

    Queensland's Local Government Minister Desley Boyle says too few women are employed in senior council roles. Ms Boyle launched the "Year of Women in Local Government" today. She has told Parliament ...

  • Team sent to help laid-off Darling Downs workers

    ABC News

    The Queensland Government is sending a rapid response team to the Darling Downs west of Toowoomba to help workers stood down from a local abattoir. 230 jobs are in jeopardy after the Leitch Pastoral ...

  • Sexual assault trial gets underway

    ABC News

    The District Court has heard a man broke into a woman's home north of Brisbane in the middle of the night and sexually assaulted her. Craig William Thom, 37, has pleaded not guilty to several offence...

  • Fire closes Townsville roads

    Courier Mail

    EMERGENCY services have blocked roads in Townsville around a large industrial fire. The blaze broke out earlier this afternoon in a building on Leyland St, Garbutt. It is believed that one building ...

  • Turnbull set to cross floor as he slams Abbott plan

    Brisbane Times

    Video settings THE former opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull has labelled Tony Abbott's climate change policy as ''a recipe for fiscal recklessness on a grand scale'' that would increase taxes and fai...

  • Qld Parliament debates A1 GP on first day back

    ABC News

    The Queensland Government has spent the year's first sitting of Parliament again mopping up from the A1 GP motor race collapse. Two reports last week outlined numerous mistakes by the Government and ...

  • Tigers close in on first innings points

    ABC News

    Tasmania was in the box seat at the close of play on day two of its Sheffield Shield clash with Queensland at the Gabba thanks to half-centuries from Rhett Lockyer and Alex Doolan. Chasing Queensland...

  • Conscience vote scheduled this week on surrogacy

    ABC News

    Premier Anna Bligh expects new surrogacy laws will have enough support to pass a conscience vote in the Queensland Parliament. This week, MPs will debate a Government bill to decriminalise altruistic...

  • Man 'put camera under housemate's bed'

    News.com.au

    Joel Nyima Keohane, 24, moved in to his high school friend's home at Manly West in February 2008, the Brisbane District Court was told today.In November that year he set up a surveillance camera in hi...

  • Cosy deals behind talking heads kept out of news

    Brisbane Times

    THEY are the faces of finance on the nightly news taking us through the ups and downs of the day's trading on the stockmarket. But behind the talk of bulls and bears there lies an industry worth milli...

  • Plumbers, truckies on Qld's immigration wish list

    Brisbane Times

    Another Queensland resources boom would be at risk if changes to Australian skilled migration rules failed to attract enough labour to the state's resource-rich areas, the Chamber of Commerce and Indu...

  • Coalition to offer six months off to parents

    Brisbane Times

    A SIX-MONTH scheme of paid parental leave and plans to extend to nannies similar pay and conditions as childcare workers are at the heart of a Coalition policy being designed to woo family and female ...

  • Tai Chi could beat obesity, diabetes and depression

    ABC News

    University of Queensland (UQ) researchers say an ancient Chinese form of meditation could be the key to tackling some illnesses reaching epidemic proportions in western society. UQ scientist Liu Xin ...

  • Bligh 'did not help Kaiser' get high-paying job

    ABC News

    Ms Bligh says she was sad to see Mr Kaiser (pictured) leave her office, but she did not recommend him for the new job. (ABC TV News - file image)

  • Teenager fronts court over alleged football attack

    ABC News

    A Sunshine Coast teenager has appeared in a Brisbane court charged with attacking a football opponent. Police allege Ben Young, 18, assaulted Shannon Anthony Smith during a game in the western Brisba...

  • Brisbane soldiers arrive in East Timor

    ABC News

    Soldiers from Brisbane's 8th and 9th Battalion have arrived in East Timor. The 78 soldiers will replace a contingent of more than 250 Australian soldiers who have been serving in the International St...

  • Tigers cruising at tea

    ABC News

    Tasmania was in a strong position in its run chase after the second session of day two in its Sheffield Shield clash with Queensland at Bellerive Oval on Tuesday. Chasing 327 for first innings honour...

  • Hoteliers against raising legal drinking age

    ABC News

    The Queensland Hotels Association (QHA) has dismissed the idea for the legal drinking age to be lifted to 21. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd told 200 young people on the ABC's Q-and-A program last night t...

  • Son saw mum swept away

    Courier Mail

    A TEENAGE boy says he's tormented by memories of his mother's face as she was swept to her death in a flash flood in Queensland. Pauline Grieve, 47, died when a flash flood hit Bouldercombe Gorge, so...

  • Shooting victim clings to life

    Courier Mail

    A RAINBOW Beach man shot by bandits in South America a month ago is now clinging to life in a London hospital after his condition deteriorated during a medical evacuation to Brisbane. Sandy Brosnan s...

  • Microsoft Surface brings Minority Report to life

    Brisbane Times

    Video settings Microsoft Australia today began selling its $21,000 Surface touchscreen coffee table computer, which responds to natural hand gestures and real-world objects and will soon be deployed i...

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