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Lions win lightens the mood for Voss
"I've been impressed with the way the players have really taken accountability for their performances and what they're doing behind the scenes to turn that around," Voss says. It probably wasn't deliberate but Michael Voss could be forgiven for taking his sweet time on a brighter than usual Monday morning at the Gabba. Instead of waiting in the sun on the playing ...
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Bond student missing at Kosciuszko
A police search is underway in the Kosciuszko National Park for a Canadian bushwalker who has been missing in freezing conditions for a week. Law student Prabhdeep Srawn parked his car in the Charlotte Pass Village on Monday 13 May. It is believed the 25-year-old intended to walk to Mt Kosciuszko and then to another unknown mountain ...
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Budget boost for beleaguered PM
Kenneth Davidson: Swan as prepared the way for Austerity Abbott Julia Gillard has arrested a three-month decline in her standing with voters, to be back level with Tony Abbott as preferred prime minister, although Labor would still be beaten if an election were held now. Both leaders sit on 46 per cent as preferred PM - an 8-point improvement for Ms Gillard since April and just 4 points below ...
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Suns Smith the AFLs latest ACL victim
Carrara 4211 Gold Coast ruckman Zac Smith has become the latest AFL player to rupture his ACL and will miss the rest of the season following knee surgery.Smith injured his right knee early in the Suns' win over the Western Bulldogs at Carrara on Saturday night.The club confirmed on Monday that surgery would be required."Unfortunately the scans have shown that Zac will require ...
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Man jailed for possession of exploitation material
Brisbane 4000 A man has been sentenced to 15 months' jail after he was caught at Brisbane Airport with child exploitation material.The 66-year-old was stopped by Customs officers after he arrived on a flight from China in January.A baggage inspection found multiple electronic devices containing almost 100,000 images and more the 85 video clips.He is due for parole after three ...
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Statewide health alert after Queensland nurse catches highly contagious measles from mine worker
A NURSE has been diagnosed with measles after treating a Central Queensland mine worker with the contagious infection this month, sparking a statewide warning. The Moranbah Medical Centre nurse caught the measles from the fly-in fly-out mine worker and was in contact with many patients while infectious from Tuesday May 14 to Thursday May 16. She is now recovering in home isolation. Public Health ...
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Manslaughter trial of Samuel Collins after David Alan Eldridge fatally run down by vehicle at Alberton
IN THE early hours of a winter's morning at Alberton, south of Brisbane, a frightened Samuel Collins allegedly moved his sister's car into gear as she sat in the driver's seat with her foot on the accelerator. Moments later she hit and killed her boyfriend, smashing the car into a brick pillar at his parent's house in Alberton. Collins, 19, has pleaded not guilty in the Brisbane ...
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Aussie given 10 years in Dubai jail
Jailed: Matthew Joyce One Australian executive has been sentenced to 10 years' jail in Dubai but his junior colleague acquitted in a spectacular climax to their four-year battle against property fraud charges. In a verdict on Monday, described as a travesty of justice by Matt Joyce's supporters, the Ruler's Court rejected his defence against claims that he received $6 million ...
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Teen driver charged after fatal crash
A 19-YEAR-OLD driver involved in a horrific crash on Saturday which killed a Regents Park father-of-two has been arrested and charged by police on unrelated ...
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Boy hurt at fete set to stay in coma
Family prays for 'little mate' to wake up The grandfather of a five-year-old boy in a coma after being thrown from an amusement ride near Toowoowomba says he is "a great little ...
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Boy 5 in coma after fete ride fall
Family prays for 'little mate' to wake up The grandfather of a five-year-old boy in a coma after being thrown from an amusement ride near Toowoowomba says he is "a great little ...
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Lyssavirus questions troubling horse industry
Warwick 4370 The Australian Horse Industry Council says it is concerned by the recent lyssavirus death of a horse on Queensland's Darling Downs. A horse died and seven people have been offered treatment after a case of the deadly disease was confirmed at Allora on the Southern Downs last week. A second horse on the property died a fortnight ago and 20 other horses are being monitored. It ...
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Lions turn the clock back with Bombers win Voss
Brisbane 4000 Brisbane coach Michael Voss has hailed the Lions' 10-point boilover against Essendon as the club's best victory in four years. Voss admitted on Monday that the Lions' backs-to-the-wall win at Docklands, where they started $12 underdogs, outdid any other since they last made the AFL finals in 2009.That season, Voss's first in charge at the Gabba, Brisbane ...
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Townsville backpacker lodge damaged by fire
Townsville 4810 Fire has damaged a Townsville backpackers hostel in north Queensland.Emergency crews managed to contain the blaze to one room of the Sturt Lodge this afternoon. No-one was injured, but detectives have been called in to ...
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Motorists in for a good run home from work with only minor traffic delays across the city
MOTORISTS are in for a good run home from work this evening with only the minor delays across the major arterials. The Australian Traffic Network said most of the majors are pretty clear except for the usual congestion on the M1 southbound which is at its usual crawl from Eight Mile Plains to Springwood. The Gateway is slow northbound from Nudgee to Deagon and Sandgate Road is sluggish heading ...
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Oil well leaking 47000l a day
AN EXCLUSION zone has been set up around an oil well in southern Queensland, which has been leaking about 50,000 litres a day for almost a ...
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Case building on mall gunman
Police are still looking through CCTV footage and gathering witness statements as they prepare a case against the accused Queen Street Mall gunman, a court has heard. Lee Matthew Hillier, from Caboolture, was allegedly involved in a 90-minute standoff with police which forced the evacuation of thousands of people from the busy shopping mall in Brisbane's CBD on March 8. Hillier allegedly ...
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Unions and MBA speak out against IR changes
Brisbane 4000 Queensland union members have rallied outside State Parliament in Brisbane to protest against proposed new industrial laws.A parliamentary inquiry is today hearing submissions on the bill, which includes a requirement for unions and employer groups to hold a referendum of members before spending more than $10,000 on political campaigns.LNP committee member Verity Barton ...
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Jury out to consider hot water assault
A JURY has retired to consider its verdict after a four day trial over whether a maximum security prisoner threw scalding water on a prison guard's ...
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State acting on school zones
Transport minister Scott Emerson has defended the government against suggestions the state has taken too long to deliver an election promise to make school zones ...
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Boy who stood up to the church
The teacher who molested John Saunders made him feel ''special and wanted'', so this abuse was not the main cause of the emotional distress that shattered his later life. This is the conclusion of a clinical psychologist's report that the Catholic Church did not want Saunders or his lawyers to see. After a 13-year battle, it has finally handed over the report. Rick ...
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Santos confirms uncontrolled leak at oil and gas well in Queenslands remote southwest
AN EXCLUSION zone has been set up around an oil well in southern Queensland, which has been leaking about 50,000 litres a day for almost a week. Santos today confirmed it discovered the leak, near Jackson, and brought in international experts to bring it under control late yesterday. The well, in the company's Zeus field, may have been leaking earlier but it was only detected mid last ...
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From high school drop-out to billionaire
It's a mind-boggling amount of money for anyone, let alone a once socially awkward teenager who dropped out of high school at the age of 15. Remarkably it was Karp's mother, teacher Barbara Ackerman, who suggested her son drop out of high school at the age of 15 so he could be home-schooled and continue an internship at an animation production company, Frederator ...
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Memorial to teen crash victims vandalised
Ipswich City Council is now offering a $5000 reward to anybody with information which leads to the capture of those responsible for fire-bombing the small monument dedicated to Matt Prior, 18, Brittany Bramwell, 17 and Nicholas Saxby, 16.The group was killed in April 2011 after an unlicensed driver ploughed in to their car near the intersection of Brisbane Rd and Bertha St. The teens, along with ...
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Decision looming on reef mega-port
A DECISION on a "mega port" for the Great Barrier Reef will be made within 40 days, the Australian Marine Conservation Society ...
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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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