Friday, February 5, 2016

Cairns mayor claims he's being shunned by Premier over CPAC and other top stories.

  • Cairns mayor claims he's being shunned by Premier over CPAC

    Cairns mayor claims he's being shunned by Premier over CPAC
    IN HAPPIER TIMES: Cairns Mayor Bob Manning and Queensland Premier Annastasia Palaszczuk at the Cairns Indigenous Arts Fair last year. PICTURE: BRENDAN RADKETHERE were five people in the meeting at Cairns Regional Council’s Spence St headquarters in June last year. Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk was in the north for Cairns Indigenous Art Fair and she visited the council building flanked by two advisers.Mayor Bob Manning took one council officer with him, and he was eager to brief Ms Palaszczuk abo..
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  • Cairns disaster expert Professor Jon Nott among staff to be cut from ...

    Cairns disaster expert Professor Jon Nott among staff to be cut from ...
    UNCERTAINTY: The Cairns Post understands three senior JCU academics will be made redundant, including disaster expert Professor Jon Nott. PICTURE: NORBERT VON DER HEIDTA HIGHLY regarded disaster expert is among five Far North Queensland professors who have been told their jobs may go due to James Cook University’s restructure plans.A total of 35 positions are to be axed from JCU’s Townsville and Cairns campuses, including 15 in Cairns, as the university targets savings of about $8.5 million.Amon..
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  • Cairns Taipans vs Adelaide 36ers: Taipans take win, but drop out of ...

    Cairns Taipans vs Adelaide 36ers: Taipans take win, but drop out of ...
    Match Results: The Cairns Taipans might have managed to record a six point win over the Adelaide 36ers on Friday Night as round 18 of the NBL rolled on, but it wasn’t enough to help them stay in contention for the play-offs. It was a night of losses for both teams, as the 36ers went down for their second consecutive loss, while the Taipans finals hopes were ended. Coming into the game, they sat in sixth position, with the possibility of tying in terms of games won and lost with the Adelaide 36e..
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  • Bureau of Meteorology to axe staff from all regional stations except ...

    Bureau of Meteorology to axe staff from all regional stations except ...
    Bureau of Meteorology to axe staff from all regional stations except Cairns Updated February 05, 2016 13:16:28 The Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) will axe regional staff from its stations across Australia with the exception of Cairns, with observation duties to be automated.More than 30 employees in 24 regional stations will be affected, with plans to redeploy staff who are prepared to move.The decision comes after a review of staff that was part of BoM's 2015 strategic pl..
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  • Tourism boom helps fill up Queensland resorts, but mining towns ...

    Tourism boom helps fill up Queensland resorts, but mining towns ...
    Cairns occupancy rates rose above 80 per cent. Tourism Queensland  Tourism is surging in the traditional Queensland holiday destination hotspots like Noosa, Surfers Paradise Cairns, and Port Douglas, boosting hotel occupancy, room rates and returns to owners and operators.On the Sunshine Coast, the key measure of hotel performance revenue per available room (revPAR) rose 16 per cent in the year to December according to leading hotel research fi..
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  • FNQ man penalised for 23-year-old drink driving offence

    FNQ man penalised for 23-year-old drink driving offence
    SERIOUS: Derek Francis George Carman had registered a blood alcohol reading of 0.101 per cent when pulled over by officers on Palm Tce at Ingham on November 13, 1993. PICTURE: iSTOCKTHE law has finally caught up with a man after he lost his ­licence for a month and was fined $450 over a 23-year-old drink driving charge.Derek Francis George Carman, 43, had gone to the Cairns police station on Thursday over another matter when their records showed he had failed to turn up to court in 1993 to face ..
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  • Assange offered consular help by Bishop

    Assange offered consular help by Bishop
    Julian Assange says the UK and Sweden must let him go free after a UN ruling in his favour.Assange offered consular help by BishopForeign Minister Julie Bishop has offered WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange consular assistance and is seeking legal advice about the implications of a UN panel ruling that the UK and Sweden caused him to be arbitrarily detained.The 44-year-old Australian is likely to remain holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London after both the UK and Swedish governments rejected..
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  • First Zika case in Qld confirmed

    First Zika case in Qld confirmed
    QLD has confirmed its first case of Zika as the world deals with the threat posed by the virus.First Zika case in Qld confirmedQueensland has confirmed its first case of Zika as the globe deals with the threat posed by the virus.A woman is recovering from Zika on the Gold Coast after returning from El Salvador in Central America where the mosquito-borne virus is spreading quickly."She has been discharged from hospital and there is no risk to her, her family or the general public from the virus,"..
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  • Australian experts' fears about Zika

    Australian experts' fears about Zika
    ZIKA: Senior WHO Doctor Talks About Zika Virus Risks to Pregnant Women February 043:51Dr. Anthony Costello, director of the World Health Organization?s department of maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health, describes the risks to pregnant women potentially caused by the Zika virus that has sparked a global public health emergency. Though the virus presents relatively mild symptoms in average patients, it is linked to microcephaly in unborn babies of pregnant women who have contracted..
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  • Stocks fall as US data muddles Fed outlook

    Stocks fall as US data muddles Fed outlook
    Stocks fall as US data muddles Fed outlookGlobal stock markets have slumped and the US dollar has rallied after a key US jobs report painted a mixed picture of the labour market and left investors with a muddled view on interest rate hike prospects.Oil prices dipped on Friday, ending the week lower after two weeks of gains.Wall Street ended lower, led by plunging technology shares after poor results from data company Tableau Software and networking platform LinkedIn.The S&P 500 information techn..
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Cairns man bailed over alleged shock attack goes on alleged ... .Mozzies released in Cairns research project could help stop Zika virus .
Cairns man faces 122 child sex-related charges .Cairns' hotels on a high after great year .

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