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Schoolies numbers drop, arrests increase
Sydney :: Australia | 4 days ago
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Despite a drop in numbers there was an increase in arrests, including a teenager from NSW nabbed for stealing a handbag and punching a girl. A total of 42 schoolies were arrested, up from 27 on the same night last year. Superintendent Jim Keogh told reporters...
Tags: Australia, Sydney, Schoolies week, Schoolies, Supt, Surfers Paradise Queensland, Law Crime, Gold Coast Queensland, Australian culture, Tourism in Australia, Queensland, Alcoholic beverage
Chappell into Hall of Fame
London :: United Kingdom | 4 days ago
Credibility Chappell was not born a Queenslander but says that only makes his induction into the Queensland Sporting Hall of Fame even more special. It's a great honour, especially given I was an outsider," said Adelaide-born Chappell, regarded as one of Australia's...
Tags: Queensland, Adelaide-born Chappell, Greg Chappell, Greg Chappell, Brisbane Convention Centre, Australian Cricket Academy, South Australia, United Kingdom, London, Arthur Beetson, Wayne Bennett (rugby league), Brisbane, Jeff Thomson, Human Interest, allnews, Wisden Cricketers of the Year, Wally Lewis
CMC probes grant to Qld Rugby Union
Melbourne :: Australia | 5 days ago
Credibility The inquiry, which began in Brisbane on Monday, heard a $1.4 million payment was used to meet up-front costs rather than facility improvements. The CMC is investigating allegations that her senior policy adviser, Simon Tutt, siphoned a further $200,000...
Tags: Queensland Rugby Union, CMC, Australia, Melbourne, Sport in Queensland, Crime and Misconduct Commission, Police misconduct, Politics, Queensland, Anna Bligh, Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, University of Queensland
Bureaucrats pay 'a slap in face' to teachers
Brisbane :: Australia | 5 days ago
Credibility It also shows no-one received wages that high in the previous 2007/2008 financial year. The revelation follows a protracted pay dispute between state school teachers and the Government that included strike action. It ended this month with across-the-board...
Tags: Queensland, Australia, Brisbane, Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, Bruce Flegg, Teacher, Education, Labor
Qld govt spends $1.5m on alcohol blitz
Melbourne :: Australia | 5 days ago
Credibility Premier Anna Bligh said the crackdown would deliver a minimum of 16,000 additional police hours and was aimed at reducing property damage, drunken violence and sexual assaults associated with heavy drinking during Christmas and New Year. Besides ensuring...
Tags: CBD, Australia, Melbourne, Politics, Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, Queensland, Anna Bligh
Two more dead in Queensland road toll
Brisbane :: Australia | 5 days ago
Credibility Police believe the car was travelling on a straight stretch of the gravel Burke Developmental Road when it left the road and then lurched violently right, rolling several times before stopping on its roof. The driver died at the scene and his male front-seat...
Tags: Queensland, Australia, Brisbane, Spinal cord injury, Disaster Accident
Firm sets trend for cheap remote housing
Sydney :: Australia | 6 days ago
Credibility Remote Housing Australia showed off its first house a week ago which was built in north Queensland in 15 days using mostly local Indigenous workers. The Territory Government has been under immense pressure over its $672 million remote Indigenous housing...
Tags: remote housing, Northern Territory, Australia, Sydney, Queensland, States and territories of Australia, Termite
Qld kids potentially exposed to asbestos
Sydney :: Australia | 6 days ago
Credibility Greater Brisbane is the next with 18,747, followed by the Sunshine Coast on 7,448...Of the 78,204 confirmed or presumed asbestos sites, more than 11,000 have slight to major damage and more than 100 are in an "unstable" state. Education and Training Minister...
Tags: Queensland, Australia, Sydney, Occupational diseases, Asbestos and the law, Mesothelioma, Asbestos, Fibers, Occupational safety and health, Education
Big opportunity for Scots but Robinson faces a mighty task
Glasgow :: United Kingdom | 6 days ago
Credibility Andy Robinson on the eve of his first meeting with a rugby superpower as Scotland coach, which may have contrasted with the brighter weather at Murrayfield but definitely pointed to an acute awareness of the heightened intensity that will be unleashed...
Tags: Scotland, Benn Robinson, Andrew Robinson, Australia, Queensland, Edinburgh, Glasgow Warriors, Fiji, England, ve got, United Kingdom, Glasgow, Australia national rugby union team, Matt Giteau, Scotland A national rugby union team, Wycliff Palu, Chris Cusiter, Rocky Elsom, New South Wales Waratahs, allnews
The alternative Whitsunday
Sydney :: Australia | 6 days ago
Credibility Andrew Bain discovers nature trails, huge tides and a tiny community on resort-free Keswick Island. The Whitsunday Islands are said to account for about one-third of all tourists to the Great Barrier Reef. In the year to March, about 700,000 people visited...
Tags: Keswick Island Guest House, keswick islands, Andrew Bain Andrew Bain, Brian Kinderman, Brisbane, golf cart, Australia, Sydney, Queensland, Keswick South Norfolk, Environment, Whitsunday Islands, Keswick Island, Great Barrier Reef, Hospitality Recreation
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