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Palmers $40m cash drain
Mining magnate Clive Palmer's Mineralogy budgeted to burn through more than $40 million in cash in the first half of last year, financial accounts seen by Fairfax Media show. The internal management accounts show a significant part of the forecast cash drain was due to the repayment to Mr Palmer of a $20 million loan. They also show that in seven months Mineralogy, Mr Palmer's ...
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Power reliability may suffer
The government’s proposed power reforms could lead to a less reliable electricity network, an interdepartmental report suggests. The report, looking at the electricity sector found the prescriptive security and reliability standards which apply to the power network, were key factors driving cost increases. The report recommended replacing those standards ';that drive network ...
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Mackay council officer reprimanded for allowing party in SES shed
Mackay 4740 The Mackay Regional Council in north Queensland says clear guidelines for the use of State Emergency Service (SES) facilities need to be developed, after claims of misuse by a councillor.A senior council officer has been reprimanded following an investigation into the use of the Grasstree Beach shed for a private function.Cr Paul Steindl held a party for his daughter at the shed ...
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Historian says theres more L marking spots in Ludwig Leichhardt research
Longreach 4730 An historian who has studied the fate of explorer Ludwig Leichhardt says he has found some evidence of more trees marked 'L' in Queensland's west. Darrell Lewis has released a book into what happened to Leichhardt and his party, who set out from Queensland in 1848 heading for Swan River in Western Australia but disappeared.Mr Lewis say Leichhardt marked trees ...
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Qld police plead for Rockhampton baby death clues
Rockhampton 4700 Police in central Queensland are appealing to anyone with information about a Rockhampton baby's murder to come forward.They say the 11-week-old boy died from horrific injuries last month. Detectives have been following several leads but so far no charges have been ...
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Qld police quiz Agnes Water shooting victim
Agnes Water 4677 Police are waiting to interview a 40-year-old man who was shot in the stomach in central Queensland yesterday. The man was shot in the stomach while walking in bushland at Agnes Water, south of Gladstone, about 4:00pm (AEST). The bullet went straight through his body.He is in a stable condition at the Bundaberg Base ...
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Saibai Island kids screened for skin disease that can lead to kidney failure
Torres Strait Islands Health authorities are screening all children on Saibai Island in the Torres Strait, off far north Queensland, to try and contain a highly infectious skin disease outbreak.The director of Tropical Public Health Services in Cairns, Dr Richard Gair, says four residents have been treated for acute post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis, which can affect the kidneys.Symptoms ...
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Health Minister Lawrence Springborg joins talks on Moura hospital future
Moura 4718 Health Minister Lawrence Springborg is today attending a public meeting at Moura, south-west of Rockhampton in central Queensland, to discuss the future of the local hospital. In April, the region's health board announced a new hospital would be built by expanding the local medical centre but beds will be cut from 10 to four.Debbie Elliot from the community's health ...
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Police hunt man over double stabbing at Gold Coasts Surfers Paradise
Surfers Paradise 4217 Police are searching for a man after a double stabbing on Queensland's Gold Coast.A man limped into a kebab shop in central Surfers Paradise about 5:15pm (AEST) yesterday with a life-threatening leg wound.A doctor from a nearby medical practice applied a tourniquet.Another man had been stabbed in the stomach.Both were taken to hospital and police searched for a third ...
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Qld Government to push for more Mount Isa kids to get lead level tests
Mount Isa 4825 Queensland's chief health officer Jeannette Young says new strategies will be rolled out over coming months to get more children tested for lead levels in Mount Isa in the state's north-west.Research published yesterday in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Pollution found lead levels in dust from Xstrata's operations "form a significant pathway" ...
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Man shot in arm south of Brisbane
Police said few details were available, but the victim is not believed to have life-threatening injuries.Officers were alerted about 4.30am (AEST) and found the injured man in the Logan suburb of Marsden.Police said a woman who'd been with the man was helping with ...
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Not again NRL star damaged car
REPORTS have emerged of another NRL player in off-field strife with a South Sydney star allegedly involved in an incident in ...
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Valley takes music to the streets
Talks are underway for a new live theatre venue in Fortitude Valley, the chair of Fortitude Valley’s Economic Development Board, John Cotter has confirmed. Lord Mayor Graham Quirk on Monday unveiled Brisbane City Council’s $4 million vision for ...
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Valley theatre plans unveiled
Talks are underway for a new live theatre venue in Fortitude Valley, the chair of Fortitude Valley’s Economic Development Board, John Cotter has confirmed. Lord Mayor Graham Quirk on Monday unveiled Brisbane City Council’s $4 million vision for ...
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ACCC accuses door-to-door seller Titan Marketing of Indigenous rip-off
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has launched Federal Court action against a company it has accused of ripping off people in Indigenous communities, including Queensland's Cape York. The ACCC says Titan Marketing representatives engaged in misleading and unconscionable conduct when making door-to-door sales of first aid kits and water filters in Queensland, New ...
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Winter westerly whips up chill
Temperatures were expected to dip to 7C in Brisbane early this morning and 7C tomorrow.A cold westerly buffeted city workers, with Brisbane Airport yesterday making a top of just 13.2C with a wind chill factored in. Brisbane dropped to 8.9C overnight, while the coldest place in the state was Applethorpe on the Granite Belt, with -3C.It will be colder still tomorrow and Wednesday when the ...
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Man shot in chest in Brisbane
Police said the victim, a man aged in his thirties, is not believed to have life-threatening injuries.Officers were alerted about 4.30am (AEST) on Tuesday, and found the injured man in a street in the Logan suburb of Marsden.He has been taken to the Princess Alexandra Hospital.More to come ...
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ATOs war on facilitators
The Tax Office has declared war on the top end of town accountants and lawyers who have helped Australians avoid tax by setting up secretive offshore companies and trusts. ''I am going to target the facilitators,'' warned the deputy commissioner of serious non-compliance, Greg Williams. ''I am a pretty simple bloke but I don't wake up in the morning and say, ...
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Parents in dark over BSHS split
A merger between Brisbane State High School and Coorparoo Secondary College would likely see separate junior and senior campuses established, though the lack of firm detail from the state government has left parents reeling. Education Minister John-Paul Langbroek defended the absence of a definite proposal for the new super-school, which he said remained the subject of community consultation. ...
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Airport to spread its wings
Brisbane Airport could have a new terminal for low-cost airlines, more public transport facilities and a passenger lounge for resource sector workers by 2033 if a new master plan wins approval. The developments are contained in a draft 20-year strategy document the airport corporation is currently finalising with key stakeholders including state and local governments. BAC CEO and managing ...
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LNP toes line on Flegg
Singing from the same songbook, members of the LNP have had one thing to say about the Flegg tapes: Nothing at all. Since News Limited began transcribing a series of conversations, allegedly recorded by the member for Moggill Bruce Flegg, ranging from alleged inducements for Dr Flegg to vacate his seat for premier Campbell Newman to commentary on other LNP MPs, including treasurer Tim Nicholls, ...
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Two stabbed on Surfers Paradise street
A HEATED argument between three men, believed to be friends, led to a brutal double stabbing in Surfers Paradise last night with one blood-soaked victim dragging himself into a nearby kebab shop, begging shocked witnesses for help.Police were called to the Sahara kebab restaurant on Surfers Paradise Boulevard about 5.15pm following reports a 38-year-old man had been stabbed in the leg and a man ...
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Swan gives constituents a voice
CONSTITUENTS in Treasurer Wayne Swan’s north Brisbane electorate will be given a new opportunity to complain to their local ...
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Bundy flood bill tops $1 billion
THE Bundaberg flood bill has risen to at least $1 billion and hundreds of houses in the city remain at risk of future ...
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Obesity a big issue for airlines
Virgin Australia boss John Borghetti says obesity was "a big issue" for the airline because of the care taken to carry just the right amount of fuel for the ...
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Cost of driving is becoming punitive in Brisbane
Is driving in Brisbane becoming punitively expensive? With the recent toll increases, on top of those made in 2006 and 2008, as well as last year, and the recent mis-management surrounding the privatisation of major roads in Sydney, it seems that using major roads in Brisbane is going to become even more expensive.
Brisbane, like many cities across Australia, is facing a mounting budget deficit in the wake of the near-crippling financial crisis and ensuing recession, as the state capital, it must also oversee Queensland’s plunge in revenues, which has created a budget deficit of over $2.3 billion for the state. Read more
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