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Newman flags development of surplus crown land
Brisbane 4000 Queensland Premier Campbell Newman has asked business leaders for ideas to develop state-owned land. Mr Newman says the State Government owns about $90.7 billion worth of land.He has told an infrastructure industry lunch that the Government is considering selling or developing surplus property."Ladies and gentlemen, we expect to see land unlocked, that will offer ...
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No charges over Qld University enrolment scandal
Brisbane 4000 The Crime and Misconduct Commission (CMC) says it will not recommend criminal charges be laid over an enrolment and nepotism scandal at the University of Queensland.The corruption watchdog is preparing a report for Parliament about the 2011 incident. Vice chancellor Paul Greenfield and senior deputy vice chancellor Michael Keniger resigned after an investigation found a relative ...
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Enzyme blocker offers breast cancer treatment boost
Brisbane 4000 Queensland researchers say human trials into better treatments for women with a severe type of breast cancer could begin within five years.They have discovered than an enzyme - known as CD73 - inhibits treatments such as chemotherapy in patients with triple-negative breast cancer, which has a 20 per cent fatality rate. Professor Mark Smyth from the Queensland Institute of Medical ...
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Meninga booted from Brisbane bar
EXCLUSIVE: MAROONS coach Mal Meninga was asked to leave a Brisbane bar by security in the early hours of Wednesday morning as the Queensland camp celebrated Billy Slater and Cameron Smith's 30th ...
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Meninga evicted from Brisbane bar at 1am
Queensland coach Mal Meninga was asked to leave a bar in Brisbane on Tuesday night while celebrating the birthdays of Maroons stars Billy Slater and Cameron Smith. While the NSW preparation to the second State of Origin match next Wednesday has been marred by incidents involving Blake Ferguson and James Tamou, Queensland's lead-in also took a sour twist north of the border. Meninga was ...
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I havent been asked to quit Flegg
LNP member Bruce Flegg has denied he has been approached to leave the party, claiming reports he could be forced out are ';mischief making';. Dr Flegg said he had ';absolutely not'; heard anything regarding his possible expulsion from the party or his seat. ';In fact, the approaches have been to the contrary,'; he said. News Limited have revealed a series of ...
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Reporter specialised in speaking the truth
He reported from war zones and brought down a top American general with a hard-hitting profile. But now American publishers and readers are mourning the death of young award-winning journalist Michael Hastings, who died on Tuesday in a car accident in Los Angeles. Hastings, who was 33, was described by many of his colleagues as an unfailingly bright and hard-charging reporter who wrote stories ...
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US media mourns gun young reporter
He reported from war zones and brought down a top American general with a hard-hitting profile. But now American publishers and readers are mourning the death of young award-winning journalist Michael Hastings, who died on Tuesday in a car accident in Los Angeles. Hastings, who was 33, was described by many of his colleagues as an unfailingly bright and hard-charging reporter who wrote stories ...
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State of Origin Queensland needing attitude adjustment ahead of game two
Brisbane 4000 Queensland coach Mal Meninga admits his all-conquering team's attitude is a major concern ahead of the Maroons' must-win State of Origin II clash.But Cameron Smith reckons he is not losing sleep over the thought of being the first Queensland captain to lose an Origin series since 2005.Meninga may have masterminded an unprecedented seven straight Origin titles but ...
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2013 Lions Tour George North declared fit to face Wallabies in first Test
Brisbane 4000 The British and Irish Lions have received a much-needed boost after their loss to the Brumbies with winger George North cleared for Saturday night's first Test in Brisbane.Lions assistant coach Rob Howley has declared North fully fit and ready to confront the Wallabies after overcoming a worrying hamstring strain.The 110-kilogram star winger passed a fitness test on ...
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Murdered nurses brother voices frustration outside Brisbane inquest
Brisbane 4000 A man has told an inquest into the cold-case murders of two women west of Brisbane that he feared he would be killed if he went to police with his evidence.Sydney nurses Lorraine Wilson, 20, and Wendy Evans, 18, disappeared in 1974 while hitchhiking from Brisbane to Goondiwindi.Two years later, their remains were found in bushland at Murphys Creek in the Toowoomba ranges, west of ...
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Man dies after Outback sleepout
EXCLUSIVE: THE same-sex marriage debate is set to heat up in the Senate with a new call for marriage to be defined in the constitution as between a man and ...
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Raped and left for dead
They were abducted, raped, bashed and left for dead. The coronial inquest into the 1974 murders of Sydney nurses Lorraine Wilson and Wendy Evans has heard extraordinary evidence from a fresh witness who claimed a friend confessed to being one of men involved in the killings more than three decades ago. Ms Wilson and Ms Evans - two nurses from Sydney's St George Hospital - headed to ...
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Reef operators fear backlash
Far north Queensland tour operators fear negativity about the Great Barrier Reef could affect tourism in the region. The UNESCO World Heritage Committee will list the natural wonder as “in danger” next year if state and federal governments do not address priority conservation issues. “If you read all the media being generated as a result of UNESCO, you would think it was all ...
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Townsville prison farm escapee pleads guilty
Townsville 4810 A convicted sex offender has been jailed for nine months for escaping from a north Queensland prison farm in April.Algana Tiers, 26, fled from the low-security facility in Townsville, sparking a major manhunt. He was captured a day later. Tiers appeared in the Townsville Magistrates Court today and pleaded guilty on four charges, including contravening a supervision order, ...
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No charges over uni nepotism CMC
THE Crime and Misconduct Commission will not refer charges against Paul Greenfield, the University of Queensland vice-chancellor ousted after a nepotism scandal two years ...
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Private sector to fast-track projects
The Newman government is preparing a new wave of public-private partnerships to get road projects - and future health and school projects - finished sooner than expected. Premier Campbell Newman has told an Infrastructure Partnerships Australia function in Brisbane that he was working with Transport Minister Scott Emerson on a new "availability PPP" model for road projects. Under an ...
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Let crossing carry cars RACQ
The RACQ supports a single-lane road bridge stretching from Bellbowrie at Birkin Road to Sumner Road at Riverhills with a wide cycling and pedestrian path. ‘‘I believe Brisbane City Council looked at a smaller scale bridge there and perhaps at some alternative locations,’’ he ...
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Leadership issue is behind us
Labor MP and Rudd-backer Joel Fitzgibbon declines to be drawn on leadership number counting, but Liberal MP Josh Frydenberg says it's only a matter of ...
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IBM quietly axes Australian jobs
IBM Australia is in the midst of axing up to 1500 Australian staff in a reshuffle that will send many jobs offshore to Asia and New Zealand, according to sources. Affected staff have told Fairfax Media between 1200 and 1500 local jobs are being made redundant this year in several ...
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Clive Palmers nickel firm drops Townsville basketball sponsorship
The Townsville Fire basketball team says it is urgently seeking a major sponsor after losing the support of Clive Palmer's business, Queensland Nickel. The north Queensland side placed second in the competition last season. The team says Queensland Nickel indicated it was happy with the Fire's performance, but has been forced to cut sponsorship due to internal ...
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Final witnesses to face nurse inquest
"I would have been shocked at the time but I don't remember any of it," Ms Sandercock said.Mr Chowdhury said Ms Sandercock's statement said the woman told her two men picked up the girls and called them "p---k-teasers" because they wouldn't have sex with them and wanted to teach them a lesson.He said Ms Sandercock's statement said one of the women was ...
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Man jailed for explicit cartoons
The Brisbane District Court was told Corey Daniel Daly, 21, of Caboolture began downloading his bizarre collection when he was at age 13.Daly's lawyers said that although the collection was large, more than 90 per cent of it involved depictions of cartoon characters engaged in acts unlikely to be seen on mainstream television.Barrister Bruce Mumford, for Daly, said his client had no idea ...
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Legionnaires linked to pipes
A deadly legionnaires’ disease outbreak at a Brisbane hospital has been linked to its pipes, prompting an investigation into an earlier death at the facility and a probe into a defunct household energy efficiency program. Queensland Health has revealed there was a deadly case of legionnaires' disease at Brisbane's Wesley Hospital two years ago. A patient died in October 2011 of ...
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Newman told to keep quiet
Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie has advised Premier Campbell Newman and his ministers not to make further comment on the Flegg tapes unearthed last week. "I did take the view that the Premier ought not be making any comment on the recordings," Mr Bleijie said. "Because although recordings are legal in Queensland between private citizens and individuals, when you publish those ...
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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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