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Hockey's junkets to Cairns | dailytelegraph.com.au

TREASURER Joe Hockey made 13 taxpayer-funded trips to sleepy Cairns — the town where he owns a farm — while in opposition. The revelations come just a week after it emerged speaker Bronwyn Bishop had billed taxpayers $5227 for an 80km flight ... >> view original

Authorities give all clear in Cairns suburb of Mooroobool after chemical ...

HAZARD: Dozens of homes were evacuated in Mooroobool as authorities worked to contain a chemical leak this afternoon. It has now been resolved. PIC: ISAAC EGAN, THE CAIRNS POST Source: Supplied. AUTHORITIES have left the scene at Lois St in ... >> view original

The case behind the Far North murder of Bruce Schuler | Cairns Post

JUSTICE: The murder victim's daughter Lisa Schuler, son Bruce Schuler Jr and wife Fiona Splitt outside Cairns Courthouse after the verdict. PICTURE: HARRY CLARKE Source: News Corp Australia. IN a murder mystery which harks back to the wild days of ... >> view original

Stephen Struber and Dianne Wilson Struber found guilty by Cairns court of ...

The murder trial lasted two weeks in the Cairns Supreme Court. Key witnesses in the Crown's case were the three gold prospectors who were with Bruce Schuler when he vanished from Palmerville on the morning of July 9, 2012. There trio testified they ... >> view original

James Cook University Professor Steve Turton says Cairns campus could become ...

HISTORY: The official opening of the JCU Cairns Campus. December 1995. Standing in front of building A1 (left to right): Rector of the JCU Cairns campus, Professor Philip Courtenay; Peter Dodd, member for Leichhardt; Vice-Chancellor Professor Ray ... >> view original

Cairns counts down to North Queensland Games

START THE COUNDOWN: Councillor Jessie Richardson ,competitors Theo Watson and Mikaela Bretz and Major sponsor RACQ Branch manager Darren McTaggart promote the North Queensland Games which will be held in Cairns in one year's time . >> view original

Stacking cairns to commune with nature - TheSpectrum.com

Stacking cairns to commune with nature. Jud Burkett, jburkett@thespectrum.com 5:19 p.m. MDT July 24, 2015. Ethan Burkett stacks a cairn at the end of the Riverside Buy Photo. Ethan Burkett stacks a cairn at the end of the Riverside walk Trail and the ... >> view original

Cairns inquest to investigate coral trout fisherman's death at Bowden Reef ...

A coroner will examine the death of a coral trout fisherman on a north Queensland reef at in inquest in Cairns, in far north Queensland, today. Glenn Anthony Wilson, 39, was employed as a commercial fisherman at Reef Pacific when he died at work in ... >> view original

Warning not to copy 'stupid' Tower Bridge jump stunt

People are being warned not to copy a "stupid" stunt after a teenager almost drowned after jumping off Tower Bridge. Faisal Shinwari, who has more than 28,000 subscribers to his YouTube channel, was rescued by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution ... >> view original

Grace Mugabe: From Chivu to Gracelands

NEVER in her wildest dreams when she was growing up in a dusty rural Chivu village with her mother while her father was an immigrant worker in apartheid South Africa would First Lady Grace Mugabe — who turned 50 yesterday — have imagined living in ... >> view original