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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Brisbane News.Net http://www.brisbanenews.net/ en-us Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:42:16 -0500 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:42:16 -0500 30 Weather Bureau forecasters warn of damaging winds, heavy rain, flash flooding and large hail.Meantime, the Balonne River at St George, which exceeded the March 2010 flood level of 13.4m yesterday, ... http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203291088&cat=eb6df49795f04561 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:41:46 -0500 News.com.au http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203291088&cat=eb6df49795f04561 At 12.30am the mercury hit 25.1C, two degrees above average, while the apparent temperature - how hot it actually feels when you consider the humidity - was 30.1C.The average temperature overnight ... http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203291089&cat=eb6df49795f04561 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:41:42 -0500 News.com.au http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203291089&cat=eb6df49795f04561 Townsville Bulletin reports ."I did not give him permission to sleep with me," she told a committal hearing in Townsville Magistrates Court after coming face to face with the defendant ... http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203291090&cat=eb6df49795f04561 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:41:37 -0500 News.com.au http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203291090&cat=eb6df49795f04561 Wivenhoe Dam engineer John Tibaldi leaves the reconvened floods inquiry in Brisbane. He stood down from his role on Friday. Picture: Lyndon ... http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203291091&cat=eb6df49795f04561 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:41:31 -0500 News.com.au http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203291091&cat=eb6df49795f04561 Photo: Cameron Atfield People who worked at a landmark Brisbane building in the 1980s and early '90s have been urged to get health checks after a terminally ill man was last week awarded ... http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203291086&cat=eb6df49795f04561 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:27:35 -0500 Brisbane Times http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203291086&cat=eb6df49795f04561 A WOMAN who says she was the teenage mistress of John F. Kennedy has written a memoir describing how he both abused and confided in her during an 18-month affair which ended only with his death. ... http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203291087&cat=eb6df49795f04561 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:27:22 -0500 Brisbane Times http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203291087&cat=eb6df49795f04561 Sanjay Tamanz, Farcas Achim and Gerewini Tarapata at the Dalby Flood Evacuation Centre inside the Dalby Showgrounds, which is housing St George flood ... http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203286153&cat=eb6df49795f04561 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:33:24 -0500 Brisbane Times http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203286153&cat=eb6df49795f04561 ONE of the six flood heroes who raced to save the life of little Darcy Sheahan as he and his mum were swept away from their car, has told of his disgust at onlookers filming the incident on their ... http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203280749&cat=eb6df49795f04561 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:00:01 -0500 News.com.au http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203280749&cat=eb6df49795f04561 A VIRGIN Australia pilot is suing the airline for more than $1 million in lost earnings and medical expenses because he was not supplied with an iPad to store work-related ... http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203280748&cat=eb6df49795f04561 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:59:59 -0500 News.com.au http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203280748&cat=eb6df49795f04561 Kerry Douglas, Georgie Robson and Holly Westaway camp outside Ascot State School to try and obtain placement for their children. Pic: Mark ... http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203280752&cat=eb6df49795f04561 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:59:55 -0500 News.com.au http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203280752&cat=eb6df49795f04561 Knight Templar Robert Kent lay dead and undiscovered in a caravan park for almost two weeks. Now Queensland's Masonic order have said it will take care of his burial if no family can be ... http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203280753&cat=eb6df49795f04561 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:59:54 -0500 News.com.au http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203280753&cat=eb6df49795f04561 COMMUTERS are working new go card incentives to their advantage, saving hundreds of dollars in train fares following the introduction of free travel after the first 10 journeys each ... http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203280754&cat=eb6df49795f04561 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:59:49 -0500 News.com.au http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203280754&cat=eb6df49795f04561 MARK Twain, responding to his obituary in a New York newspaper, announced: "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated." So, too, is Premier Anna Bligh's claim that ... http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203280756&cat=eb6df49795f04561 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:59:45 -0500 News.com.au http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203280756&cat=eb6df49795f04561 FOUR fire engines were sent to Indooroopilly Shopping Centre tonight after a popcorn machine at the centre's cinema complex caught on ... http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203275521&cat=eb6df49795f04561 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:47:46 -0500 News.com.au http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203275521&cat=eb6df49795f04561 Their car left the road at the intersection of Beachcreast and Mains roads just before 8 o'clock tonight and hit a tree.One patient had serious injuries but all five were taken to ... http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203275522&cat=eb6df49795f04561 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:47:44 -0500 News.com.au http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203275522&cat=eb6df49795f04561 The 44-year-old man suffered serious burns after a disturbance at a Taylor St home just after 8am.The man is now in a serious but stable condition at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital.A ... http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203275523&cat=eb6df49795f04561 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:47:39 -0500 News.com.au http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203275523&cat=eb6df49795f04561 Video settings The economy will be the political battleground in 2012, Prime Minster Julia Gillard said today, as she refused to be drawn on questions regarding leadership tensions with Kevin Rudd. ... http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203269961&cat=eb6df49795f04561 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 06:04:26 -0500 Brisbane Times http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203269961&cat=eb6df49795f04561 The Balonne River is at 13.54m, 14cm above its March 2010 record but may not make the predicted 15m, at which point most of the houses in the cotton town of 3000 will be flooded.The Balonne is ... http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203267587&cat=eb6df49795f04561 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:15:38 -0500 News.com.au http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203267587&cat=eb6df49795f04561 A DRUG addict who had sex with a 15-year-old girl the week before she took her own life was jailed for carnal knowledge today after DNA linked him to the policeman's ... http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203267588&cat=eb6df49795f04561 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:15:33 -0500 News.com.au http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203267588&cat=eb6df49795f04561 TWO southside members of the Odins Warriors Outlaw Motorcycle Gang have been charged with firearm and drug offences after police raided two industrial sheds in Boniface St, Archerfield, last ... http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203267589&cat=eb6df49795f04561 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:15:27 -0500 News.com.au http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203267589&cat=eb6df49795f04561 Premier Anna Bligh launched the Premier's Disaster Relief Appeal today, using the same name as the fund she established during last year's flood and cyclone disasters.She said the fund ... http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203267583&cat=eb6df49795f04561 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:14:55 -0500 Courier Mail http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203267583&cat=eb6df49795f04561 MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Indonesia's Bakrie Group have snapped up the remaining stake in Brisbane Roar to wholly own the Australian domestic champions in a landmark investment hailed by the ... http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203264658&cat=eb6df49795f04561 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:01:19 -0500 SBS http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203264658&cat=eb6df49795f04561 FLOOD victims considering a $1 billion-plus class action against the government have been buoyed by evidence heard during the recalled flood ... http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203265665&cat=eb6df49795f04561 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:27:02 -0500 News.com.au http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203265665&cat=eb6df49795f04561 Ms Hodge, a volunteer with Zonta, is no stranger to making do with what's in the pantry, even when it comes to feeding hundreds of hungry mouths.Ms Hodge also worked behind the scenes in the ... http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203265664&cat=eb6df49795f04561 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:27:01 -0500 News.com.au http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203265664&cat=eb6df49795f04561 The 64-year-old was mowing his front lawn on Greenway Circuit when he was hit by a passing sedan on Saturday.He was taken to the Princess Alexandra Hospital with serious head injuries around 6pm.The ... http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203265666&cat=eb6df49795f04561 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:27:00 -0500 News.com.au http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203265666&cat=eb6df49795f04561 The operators of Brisbane's biggest dam may have waited two days longer than claimed to proceed to a key water release strategy in the lead-up to the city's devastating flood, two senior ... http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203265662&cat=eb6df49795f04561 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:17:40 -0500 Brisbane Times http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203265662&cat=eb6df49795f04561 A park'n'ride facility near Carindale Shopping Centre may yet go ahead after Transport Minister Annastacia Palaszczuk agreed to facilitate discussions on the project, a month after ... http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203265663&cat=eb6df49795f04561 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:17:34 -0500 Brisbane Times http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203265663&cat=eb6df49795f04561 The company looking to fund a class action over Wivenhoe Dam management says flood-affected residents and businesses could seek hundreds of millions of dollars for property damage they suffered ... http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203263914&cat=eb6df49795f04561 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:29:09 -0500 Brisbane Times http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203263914&cat=eb6df49795f04561 A "suspicious item" has been discovered in a car parked at the Toowoomba Hospital, prompting authorities to establish an exclusion zone and send outpatients to other nearby hospitals. ... http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203263915&cat=eb6df49795f04561 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:29:02 -0500 Brisbane Times http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203263915&cat=eb6df49795f04561 "Again we are seeing thousands of Queenslanders affected and it is heartbreaking to see these families forced from their homes again - some having flooded three years in a row," Ms Bligh ... http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203262596&cat=eb6df49795f04561 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:02:20 -0500 News.com.au http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203262596&cat=eb6df49795f04561 SUBJECT OF PARODY: The popular My Family stickers have prompted a nasty parody featuring a noose around the necks of family members which, police say, is offensive but not illegal. Picture: Nathan ... http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203262597&cat=eb6df49795f04561 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:02:16 -0500 News.com.au http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203262597&cat=eb6df49795f04561 Giants coach Tom Coughlin is revelling in another Super Bowl triumph. That's two for him now with the New York side. "To have a finish like that, that goes down in history, that's a ... http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203262595&cat=eb6df49795f04561 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:53:41 -0500 Brisbane Times http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203262595&cat=eb6df49795f04561 DAM engineer John Ruffini has been chipped for bad language while appearing at the flood inquiry to defend his poor record keeping in handling Wivenhoe Dam during the January ... http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203261501&cat=eb6df49795f04561 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:26:11 -0500 News.com.au http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203261501&cat=eb6df49795f04561 JOB advertisements spiked sharply in January driven by strong demand for mining workers in Queensland and the Northern Territory, a survey ... http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203261502&cat=eb6df49795f04561 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:26:07 -0500 News.com.au http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203261502&cat=eb6df49795f04561 Researchers studied six Perth hospital emergency departments before and after the introduction of a "four-hour rule'' which aimed to discharge or admit 90 per cent of patients within ... http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203261504&cat=eb6df49795f04561 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:25:57 -0500 News.com.au http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203261504&cat=eb6df49795f04561 A Brisbane City Council spokeswoman said two planes had been sent to the flooded town in Queensland's southwest to evacuate some of the remaining few hundred of its 3000 residents.The 22 ... http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203260684&cat=eb6df49795f04561 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:25:30 -0500 The Daily Telegraph http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203260684&cat=eb6df49795f04561 Photo: Alex Ellinghausen The Greens leader Bob Brown has declared the "unrelenting criticism" of Prime Minister Julia Gillard is sexist and said male media commentators were the biggest ... http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203261500&cat=eb6df49795f04561 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:15:46 -0500 Brisbane Times http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203261500&cat=eb6df49795f04561 The Balonne River is at 13.54m, 14cm above its March 2010 record but may not make the predicted 15m, at which point most of the houses in the cotton town of 3000 will be flooded.The Balonne is ... http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203260234&cat=eb6df49795f04561 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:43:13 -0500 News.com.au http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203260234&cat=eb6df49795f04561 Election home Analysis Health Education Cost of living Mining and jobs Economy Law and order Flood inquiry ... http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203260235&cat=eb6df49795f04561 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:43:02 -0500 News.com.au http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203260235&cat=eb6df49795f04561 THE Liberal Nationals will be forced to fight the looming election on multiple fronts with unions lining up to launch third-party ... http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203260233&cat=eb6df49795f04561 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:42:25 -0500 Courier Mail http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203260233&cat=eb6df49795f04561 Police said 30 homes have been inundated in St George at this stage.Door knocking will continue this morning.All residents who wish to stay in St George are urged to go to the showground.Beardmore ... http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203258692&cat=eb6df49795f04561 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:03:48 -0500 News.com.au http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203258692&cat=eb6df49795f04561 Mark Bowyer … still in the dark. EVEN in this day and age, Goliath can still be humbled by a David - in this case a small businessman who went to the regulators after Google arbitrarily ... http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203258690&cat=eb6df49795f04561 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:55:55 -0500 Brisbane Times http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203258690&cat=eb6df49795f04561 Video settings Labor MPs have expressed anger that they are being counted among supporters of former prime minister Kevin Rudd, who is accused of inflating his numbers in caucus to destabilise the ... http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203258691&cat=eb6df49795f04561 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:55:48 -0500 Brisbane Times http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203258691&cat=eb6df49795f04561 Video settings JULIA GILLARD has been handed a lifeline with the latest Herald/Nielsen poll showing support for the Prime Minister and her government increasing sharply. Despite a tumultuous ... http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203257361&cat=eb6df49795f04561 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:18:10 -0500 Brisbane Times http://feeds.brisbanenews.net/?rid=203257361&cat=eb6df49795f04561