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Witness saw women tied up on road
Sydney :: Australia | 1 month ago
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Sydney nurses that he saw the two women tied up on the side of the road but thought it was a prank. Melvin Oliver was the first witness to take the stand at Toowoomba Magistrates Court on day two of the inquest into the double murders of Sydney
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Cost for water on the rise in southeast
Brisbane :: Australia | 2 months ago
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Queensland Council areas, including Brisbane, will pay an extra 3.9 per cent for water and sewerage this coming financial year. Confirming the news this afternoon, Queensland Urban Utilities, which services the Brisbane, Ipswich, Lockyer Valley,
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Grantham home relocation saved 'tens of millions'
Sydney :: Australia | 3 months ago
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Lockyer Valley Regional Council mayor Steve Jones said many of those relocated residents watched the latest flood from their verandahs above the chaos. The whole response we had in Grantham after the 2011 flood in relocating people has been a real
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Malaysian farm worker dies in Queensland floods
Melbourne :: Australia | 4 months ago
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A Malaysian and a Taiwanese who were driving separately to work on the same corn farm in Queensland, died when their cars plunged into a swollen river in Lockyer Valley. Andrew Leong, 34, from Subang Jaya, Selangor and Pan Yukun, 25, from Taiwan both
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Floods may cause temporary banana shortage
Brisbane :: Australia | 4 months ago
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THE floods in Queensland and northern NSW may cause a temporary shortage of bananas, but those fearing the sky high prices of 2011 can rest assured that this time it will be shortlived. Woolworths chief executive Grant O'Brien says that while the
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Fears Qld flood death toll will climb
Brisbane :: Australia | 4 months ago
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Four people have already died in the state's ongoing flood crisis, and it's feared the toll could rise with others still missing. The latest cases involve two men, aged 25 and 34, who were travelling the same route west of Gatton early on Sunday...
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Residents returning to flood-hit Laidley
Brisbane :: Australia | 4 months ago
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More than 110 people spent the past two nights in an evacuation centre as Laidley Creek swamped the centre of town. Publican Paul Emmerson says the creek also rose rapidly on Sunday at his property near Mulgowie. He says several buildings in Mulgowie
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Lockyer Valley on alert as floods threaten
Brisbane :: Australia | 4 months ago
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Lockyer Valley mayor Steve Jones says the centre is monitoring local creeks and issuing alerts through Facebook, and the council's website. "Information from the state-of-the-art river and creek gauges installed over recent months is being fed into
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Pub owners seek compensation for flood effort
Sydney :: Australia | 4 months ago
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Owners James and Lynette Barns sought $246,712 compensation from the Department of Communities, Queensland Police Service and Lockyer Valley Regional Council for out-of-pocket business expenses accrued during the 2011 flood disaster. The documents
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Grantham healing two years after floods
Sydney :: Australia | 4 months ago
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Tasmanian bushfire victims need to remain positive and fight on, Lockyer Valley Mayor Steve Jones says. Two years to the day after 12 people died when floods ripped through his community, Mr Jones says his thoughts are with those who are now being
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