| City tower safety concerns after glass plane falls
ABC News
A Brisbane city councillor says safety issues with an inner-city tower need to be sorted out quickly. A pain of shattered glass fell from the 19th floor of Waterfront Place yesterday but no one was...
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| GoMA hosts major Bennett exhibition
ABC News
An exhibition of work by Indigenous artist Gordon Bennett opens at Brisbane's Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) this weekend. The major retrospective, on loan from the National Gallery of Victoria...
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| Man killed on motorway
Courier Mail
A MAN was killed when up to four cars hit him on the Pacific Motorway last night, emergency services said. Early investigations indicate the man ran in front of traffic on the southbound lane of the...
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| Fine for power firm
Courier Mail
A THIRD Queensland electricity retailer will be issued with a fine over its handling of pensioners' power bills. Queensland Energy Minister Geoff Wilson said today the regulator had made formal...
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| USS Cleveland docks at Hamilton
ABC News
The American Navy ship USS Cleveland has arrived in Brisbane. It is here for weekend commemoration ceremonies marking the 66th anniversary of the Battle of the Coral Sea. The ship has been in the...
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| Arrest warrant issued for Qld art thief
ABC News
An arrest warrant has been issued for a Gold Coast man who was due to be sentenced in the Lismore District Court today for Australia's biggest art heist. Justice James Black issued a New South Wales...
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| Police worker on porn charge
Courier Mail
An employee with the Queensland Police Service has been stood down after being charged with one count of possessing child exploitation material. The employee, a civilian officer from the Sunshine...
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| Dead baby found in car
ABC News
Police say a dead baby has been found inside a car in Toowoomba, west of Brisbane. The baby was found in a car parked outside a Catholic Primary School in South Street. It is believed the parents...
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| Conviction overturned for kitten-killer
News.com.au
A TEENAGER who kicked a kitten to death has had his conviction and jail sentence overturned. Despite describing his actions as cowardly and cruel, a Brisbane judge today allowed the appeal...
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| Murray-Darling prospects still grim
ABC News
Grim outlook... the Murray-Darling Basin Commission says water levels in the lower lakes are the lowest in living memory. (user submitted: Alan...
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| Police warn of stolen detonator dangers
ABC News
Police say two detonators that were stolen from a railway station in Toowoomba could be highly dangerous. The detonators were reported stolen today but it is not known exactly when they were taken. ...
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| Compulsory meters urged on Murray-Darling
ABC News
A Murray irrigators group says compulsory water metering across the entire Murray-Darling Basin would show which areas are wasting water. Chairman of the Murray Irrigators Group Tim Whetstone says...
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| PM petitioned over electorate GP shortages
ABC News
A petition has been presented to the Prime Minister's office calling on him to take action over the shortage of doctors in his Brisbane electorate. Doctor numbers in the inner Brisbane suburb of...
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| Man dies in house fire
News.com.au
A MAN has died in a house fire in south-east Queensland. Authorities were alerted to the blaze at a property on McGuire Road at Wattlecamp, near Nanango, north-west of Brisbane, about...
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| Thieves target Gold Coast pharmacy
ABC News
Thieves have stolen cold and flu tablets from a Gold Coast pharmacy. Police Superintendent Jim Keogh says they broke a window at the Carrara store. &Two male offenders ... got inside and they were...
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| Another window shatters in high-rise
News.com.au
Yet another window has fallen out of the high-rise tower housing Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's Brisbane offices, sending shards of glass to the ground. A 19th floor window - the fifth in the...
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| Kitten kicker in the clear
Courier Mail
A BRISBANE teenager who kicked a kitten to death after it affectionately rubbed up against him in a suburban park had his conviction overturned this morning. Last November, Shane Moore, 18, of...
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| Emergency depts struggle with patient influx
ABC News
New figures show emergency departments in Queensland are struggling on the Gold Coast and at Cairns. The figures are contained in the latest report on the performance of Queensland's public...
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| Qantas to resume Brisbane-Mackay service
ABC News
Qantas says it will reinstate services between Mackay, in north Queensland, and Brisbane, before the end of June. Earlier this year, the airline suspended the daily QantasLink service, blaming a...
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| Truck driver, motorcyclist killed
News.com.au
A WOMAN motorcyclist has died in a collision with a street sweeper in Brisbane's east. Police said the 19-year-old's bike struck the street-sweeping vehicle as it did a u-turn in Whites Road, Lota...
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| Libs meet to discuss Nats merger
News.com.au
Senior members of the Queensland Liberals will meet tonight to discuss a proposed merger with the Nationals. The Liberal Party's state council meeting in Brisbane follows a ballot in which 97 per...
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| Man to be sentenced for art heist
News.com.au
A GOLD Coast man will be sentenced today for the theft of more than a dozen paintings from a studio in 2004, including a work that the owner claimed was a Cezanne worth $50 million. Brett Michael...
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