Posted February 01, 2020 09:05:13 Photo: Mr Swadling feels firefighters are being bullied into getting blue cards. (ABC News: Anna Hartley) Terrifying images of Australia’s bushfire crisis have inspired many people to volunteer as firefighters, but senior Queensland Fire and Emergency Service (QFES) leaders in Queensland are worried they will be hit hard by a
news, latest-news Former Queensland state of origin player turned Townsville mayoral hopeful Greg Dowling has received $500,000 from a company owned by Clive Palmer. Three donations from Mr Palmer’s Mineralogy Pty Ltd have been made to Greg Dowling, who says he is running as an independent. The 61-year-old announced he was running for mayor on
A man with a distinctive tattoo of Medusa has skipped bail over his alleged role in a plan to import a quarter of a tonne of the drug ice into Australia. Jim Soukoulis, 54, is due to face trial in April for the alleged conspiracy to bring 255kg of methamphetamines into the country via light
A former prison guard charged over the murder of three friends on an outback motorcycle adventure four decades ago has been granted bail. Some of the evidence against Bruce John Preston may have been exaggerated, a judge says. The 64-year-old is accused of the 1978 murders of Karen Edwards, 23, Timothy Thomson, 31, and Gordon
A man with a distinctive tattoo of Medusa has skipped bail over his alleged role in a plan to import a quarter of a tonne of the drug ice into Australia. Jim Soukoulis, 54, is due to face trial in April for the alleged conspiracy to bring 255kg of methamphetamines into the country via light
(Reuters) – Australia’s No. 2 lender Westpac Banking Corp <WBC.AX> said on Saturday a class-action lawsuit, naming former Chief Executive Brian Hartzer and interim CEO Peter King as defendants, has been filed in a U.S. court on behalf of its shareholders. The lender said the lawsuit represented purchasers of Westpac’s shares on the New York
PUBLISHED: 09:20 31 January 2020 | UPDATED: 10:51 31 January 2020 Ethan Warne, from Taverham, was awarded man of the match in England U18 Schoolboys’ friendly against Australia. Picture: English Schools’ FA Archant Two talented footballers have been presented with their official England shirts – ahead of one half of the duo scoring his first
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Established in the 1930s when Indigenous people sought work as fettlers at Eveleigh railyards, the Block occupies just 8,000 square metres. In 1973, acknowledging the rental racism exercised against them, Gough Whitlam created the Aboriginal Housing Company and gave it the land bounded by Vine, Eveleigh, Caroline and Louis streets, and the 27 houses upon
“After spending a long time looking at the figures,” wrote Anne Enright in her much-discussed LRB essay from 2017 on the under-representation of women writers in both publishing and reviewing, “anything over 40 per cent feels like a miracle and anything under 30 per cent a crime.” The fact then that last year 60 per
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