Wednesday 8th September, 2010
Gas leak in Townsville's mall
SEVERAL inner-city roads and pedestrian thorough-fares in Townsville have been cordoned off after an excavator ruptured a gas main in Flinders Street Mall.
Cougar, Qld Government reach agreement
Cougar Energy says it has reached an agreement with the State Government over the company's underground coal gasification (UCG) project in the South Burnett region of south-east Queensland. The compa...
Witness 'cleaned up' blood at crime scene
The Brisbane Magistrates Court has heard that a large pool of blood was cleaned up at a strip club where a murder is alleged to have occurred. The prosecution is alleging that Kevin Stanley Brack was...
Bligh promises action on Redcliffe rail
ABC NewsQueensland Premier Anna Bligh says she will be holding Prime Minister Julia Gillard to a promise to help build the Redcliffe rail line, north of Brisbane Ms Bligh says regional Queenslanders will ben...
Man stabbed with screwdriver, veteran assaulted
ABC NewsPolice are looking for two men who stabbed a man with a screwdriver during a robbery at Redlands on Brisbane's bayside. A man, 60, was wounded in the chest when he disturbed the pair who were trying ...
Stress taking toll on child safety workers
ABC NewsThe Queensland Public Sector Union (QPSU) says more child safety workers are quitting their jobs due to growing workloads and too much stress. Recent figures show the Child Safety Department is strug...
Schwarten to clean hotel rooms
ABC NewsQueensland Information Technology Minister Robert Schwarten says Premier Anna Bligh's "Walk a Day in my Shoes" program is not about winning favour with voters. Ms Bligh wants all Labor MP's to spend ...
Queensland road toll rises sharply
News.com.auQueensland has now lost 166 people on the roads.A man died after a semi-trailer and a ute collided on the Warrego Highway at Bowenville, east of Dalby, about 9.15 on Wednesday.A Department of Communit...
Harsh words led to machete attack
News.com.auA FEW harsh words outside an end of school term party escalated into a night of mayhem in which a drunken teenager assaulted four people using a machete and trolley handle, a court heard today.
Toyota recalls 116,507 vehicles
News.com.auThe recall to check support brackets is for 116,507 petrol and turbo-diesel HiLux vehicles produced between January 2005 and February 2010.Hilux two-wheel-drive vehicles are not affected, Toyota Austr...
Lions show Cats the way
Brisbane TimesAlastair Lynch, pictured with Mal Michael after Brisbane's 2003 grand final win, says he sees huge similarities between the Lions finals series of that year and the challenge that Geelong faces after ...
Mayor vows no CSG salt waste dumping
ABC NewsA southern Queensland mayor says he will not let coal seam gas (CSG) companies dump salt waste on the western Darling Downs. There are several options open to CSG companies to dump salt brine from th...
Titans in finals firing line: Fittler
ABC NewsThe idea was to invite Brad Fittler in for some encouraging words ahead of the Gold Coast Titans' NRL finals clash with the New Zealand Warriors on Friday night. But the Titans may not have liked wha...
Lions re-sign rising trio
ABC NewsA day after losing Michael Rischitelli, the Brisbane Lions have re-signed vice-captain Jed Adcock and rising youngsters Todd Banfield and James Hawksley. The new deals were announced on Wednesday mor...
One dead as truck, ute collide
News.com.auA Department of Community Safety spokeswoman said a semi-trailer and a dual-cab ute collided around 9.15am.“The semi-trailer has rolled,” she said. “There are reports one man is dece...
Fire breaks out in jewellery store
News.com.auA small fire was located in the kitchen area of the store on Harbour Town Drive at Biggera Waters around 8.15am. A Department of Community Safety spokeswoman said no one was there at the time and it o...
Naked cops still waiting
News.com.auSIX police officers involved in a naked run around a van at a busy Brisbane intersection during a bucks party a year ago will have to wait a bit longer to find out if they can return to the Special Em...
How Gillard beat Abbott
Brisbane TimesLAST Wednesday night Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott made a critical tactical decision that rang serious alarm bells for Tony Abbott and his camp. Late in the evening, having been locked up at their r...
MP doubts Gillard will build Toowoomba bypass
ABC NewsThe Member for Groom Ian Macfarlane says the Toowoomba bypass will not be built under a Gillard Labor minority Federal Government. Two regional independents, Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott yesterday ...
Hundreds stay despite Birdsville exodus
ABC NewsA tent sits in the middle of a vast pool of water resulting from heavy rains at Birdsville in far west Queensland. (User submitted: Christine Gray)
Lawnmower man walks 2,000kms for charity
ABC NewsA 67-year-old man has pushed his lawnmower up the Queensland coast from the Gold Coast to Cairns to raise money for charity. Claude Harvey left the Gold Coast in the state's south-east in July and ar...
Man charged over Gold Coast murder
ABC NewsPolice have charged a 52-year-old man over the death of a woman at Palm Beach on Queensland's Gold Coast. Police say they were called to a property on Coolibah Drive around 5pm (AEST) where they foun...
Bennett holds off on future talk
ABC NewsSt George Illawarra coach Wayne Bennett will reassess his future at the completion of the NRL finals, with a return to the Dragons for 2011 his only guarantee. The subject of talk he will return to h...
Independents holding Australians hostage: Palmer
ABC NewsBillionaire mining boss Clive Palmer says the majority of Australians want another federal election and resent being "held hostage" by the independent MPs who returned Labor to power yesterday. Mr Pa...
Biosecurity Qld steps up fire ants fight
ABC NewsBiosecurity Queensland says it will lay baits in parts of south-east Queensland's Lockyer Valley to prevent the spread of fire ants. A colony has been found at Mount Mort, about seven kilometres away...
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