Queensland News

News ‘The numbers there are already in significant decline’

Offbeat Queensland Rail has admitted it is paying employees to clap and clang bamboo in an attempt to chase birds from a car park.

• 21st Jan 2020 8:31 AM
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Environment A major push is on to give land status to a sandbank which has become a tourist attraction and a roosting spot for migratory birds.

• 21st Jan 2020 7:32 AM

News A post Christmas dumping spree at Cairns Regional Council-run waste transfer stations included one seriously grisly offload discovered in a discarded freezer.

• 21st Jan 2020 7:28 AM

Politics A nuclear reactor could be built in north west Queensland because the uranium deposits are there and barely anyone lives out there , Federal MP Bob Katter has said.

• 21st Jan 2020 7:22 AM
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Politics The PM is resisting pressure to adapt to a post-fossil fuel world, declaring his government will have a balanced policy which doesn’t put resources jobs at risk.

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News This self-proclaimed scientist was planning to make CBD oil from his prized plant, only to have it destroyed by police

News Mayor Ludwig wanted defence to train their soldiers to fight fires but they aren’t heeding his call.

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News Firefighters who stared down a 70m-high wall of flames amid “fire tornadoes” during the Peregian bushfire have spoken for the first time about what they saw.

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News Queenslanders desperate for help from the NDIS saying they are being left on the verge of “mental and emotional breakdowns” from dealing with the system.

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News A prison officer who was spat on by an inmate says he is too frightened to kiss his family goodbye as he anxiously awaits test results.

News Two males were spotted high on a crane. By the time police officers went in he was apprehended 15 floors up.

News A Queensland child protection group is pushing for Australia to adopt a system used in the US and UK to deal with those at risk of offending against children.

News A young man has been taken to hospital after being attacked with a knife during an altercation on a bus.

Business A builder favoured by Sunshine Coast councils has gone into liquidation, with the extent of debt still unknown.

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News A THIEF’S guilty conscious got the better of him when the Gladstone man decided to return to the victim’s home and give back the items he stole.

News If it is flooded, forget it.

Council News A TOOWOOMBA councillor has slammed Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk’s plan to fast-track the Warwick to Wivenhoe pipeline, saying the TRC had not been consulted.

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Crime A police officer ran from a random breath test site to avoid being hit by drink driver James Leonard William Lyric Meehan, who crashed his car seconds later.

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News TWO people have been injured after a truck crash on the Bruce Highway.