Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Last Top Stories: Late night buses will run in Cairns on New Year’s Eve | Cairns Post

  • Late night buses will run in Cairns on New Year’s Eve | Cairns Post

    Late night buses will run in Cairns on New Year’s Eve | Cairns Post
    CAIRNS Regional Council will spend $16,000 to extend bus services until 1.30am on New Year’s Eve following feedback from the community.Hundreds of frustrated partygoers spent hours waiting in taxi lines last New Year’s Eve, sparking calls for more readily-available public transport from the Cairns CBD.Councillors approved the plan at this morning’s general meeting, which includes about $1000 for marketing and promotion of the increased services.The routes expected to be operational past midnight..
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  • Cairns woman happy that HIV diagnosis no longer a ‘death sentence’ | Cairns Post

    Cairns woman happy that HIV diagnosis no longer a ‘death sentence’ | Cairns Post
    LONG ROAD: Jennifer Tasker, 49, was diagnosed with human immunodeficiency virus in 2007. PICTURE: JUSTIN BRIERTYSource:News LimitedHIV sufferer Jennifer Tasker tells her story2:27Cairns woman Jennifer Tasker speaks to Cairns Post reporter Bianca Keegan about her experience dealing with HIVTRYING to reverse the stigma attached to HIV takes a brave woman.Jennifer Tasker, 49, was diagnosed with human immunodeficiency virus in 2007 and admits not “fitting the mould” led to her late diagnosis and now..
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  • Meet the Japanese police liaison officer making waves in sunny...

    Meet the Japanese police liaison officer making waves in sunny...
    Keiko Berry, Australia's first Japanese Police Liason Officer. (Queensland Police Service) She’s the beat cop with a difference: Keiko Berry, Queensland’s first Japanese Police Liaison Officer (PLO).In a post as part of Queensland Police’s regularJust One Shiftseries, Sergeant Cary Coolican has lavished praise on PLO Berry’s day-to-day work on the streets of Cairns, Far North Queensland.The story,sharedto the Queensland Police Service’s official Facebook page, has already receive..
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  • Cairns florist spruces up store in time for Christmas | Business News | Business and Finance News | | Cairns Post

    Cairns florist spruces up store in time for Christmas | Business News | Business and Finance News | | Cairns Post
    Cairns florist spruces up store in time for Christmasby:NICK ANSELLFrom:The Cairns PostNovember 25, 20156:30AMEARTHY AMBIENCE: Kearley Dent’s Christmas window display features products from her store. PICTURE: ANNA ROGERSSource:News LimitedA CAIRNS florist has taken a novel approach to decorating her store to win over voters for ‘Christmas in the City’, sprucing up her Bungalow store in original products.Kearley Dent, who operates Cairns Floral Supplies, has decorated her shopfront in products ..
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  • Wide World of Sports breaking news and live scores

    Wide World of Sports breaking news and live scores
    Jurors in the London perjury trial of former New Zealand cricket captain Chris Cairns retired to consider their verdicts on Tuesday and were told to return to court ...
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  • Yorkeys Knob development approved by Council

    Yorkeys Knob development approved by Council
    Yorkeys Knob development approved by Councilby:Dominic GeigerFrom:The Cairns PostNovember 25, 20153:06PMCairns Regional Council counsellor Linda Cooper was concerned about a development at Yorkeys Knob not going to public consultation before being approved.Source:News LimitedA SEVEN storey, 54 unit development has been given the go ahead despite some opposition at this morning’s Cairns Regional Council meeting.It’s the third time a development has been proposed for the Atherton Street block, wit..
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  • Man charged with Aurukun murder flown to Cairns to face court | Cairns Post

    Man charged with Aurukun murder flown to Cairns to face court | Cairns Post
    Man charged with Aurukun murder flown to Cairns to face courtby:Grace UhrFrom:The Cairns PostNovember 25, 20155:30AMAccused murderer Russell James Woolla, 43, is lead to a waiting police van after being flown back to Cairns from Aurukun. PICTURE: JUSTIN BRIERTYSource:News LimitedA   MURDER accused was flown into Cairns yesterday, three  days  after  the death of a man in a Cape York ­community.Russell James Woolla, 43, was charged over the death of the 30-year-old Aurukun man during riots in the..
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  • More charges for Cairns man accused of child pornography | Cairns Post

    More charges for Cairns man accused of child pornography | Cairns Post
    KEWARRA BEACH man Garry Amey, who disappeared from Cairns’ northern beaches after being charged with producing and possessing child exploitation material, is now facing an additional 12 charges.Mr Amey’s lawyer Bebe Mellick told the Cairns Magistrates Court this morning that the fresh charges were of a similar nature.The total number of charges he faces which relate to child exploitation is 17.The 60-year-old was found severely disoriented and dehydrated at Wangetti Beach, 20km from where he was..
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  • Siobhan McKenna joining Roger Corbett at Gordon Cairns' Woolworths | afr

    Siobhan McKenna joining Roger Corbett at Gordon Cairns' Woolworths | afr
    Now thatWoolworths chairmanGordon Cairnshas appointed his new chief consulting officer (CCO)Roger Corbett, he can turn his mind to shaping the embattled retail giant's board of directors.Cocksure Cairns will front the company's annual general meeting tomorrow in Sydney's CBD (Corbett, Bella Vista's favourite son, may need directions – it might be at the Wesley Mission on Pitt Street but that's still a long way from God's country), and announce the appointment of a new non-executive director: non..
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  • 386 aged-care beds in FNQ are yet to be opened

    386 aged-care beds in FNQ are yet to be opened
    The Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Board Acting Chair Carolyn Eagle, Member for Cairns Rob Pyne and Neami National CEO Arthur Papakotsias at the official opening of the $10 million Cairns Community Care Unit yesterday. PICTURE: ANNA ROGERSSource:News Corp AustraliaAN investigation into the Far North aged-care industry has found 386 beds have been approved but have not been made available.Eighty of those allocated beds were applied for more than six years ago and still have not been de..
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