Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Cairns Regional Council to embark on extensive consultation plan and other top stories.

  • Cairns Regional Council to embark on extensive consultation plan

    Cairns Regional Council to embark on extensive consultation plan
    Cairns Regional Council is preparing to launch ‘Our Cairns’ - an extensive community consultation program to shape its new Corporate Plan. PICTURE: BRENDAN RADKECAIRNS residents will have their say on the good, the bad and the ugly of Cairns Regional Council under an unprecedented new community consultation program.Councillors are today expected to show their support for Our Cairns – which will be a centrepiece of the organisation’s new Corporate Plan.According to a council report, Our Cairns wo..
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  • Sunbus Cairns drivers' bladder prayers finally answered

    Sunbus Cairns drivers' bladder prayers finally answered
    Sunbus drivers claim the buses are always running late because they have a lack of facilities — including toilets! Sunbus driver and Cairns Union representative Keith Goldie. PICTURE: STEWART McLEANCAIRNS’ public transport workers will no longer be “bus-ting” for a toilet break with some new amenities to be finally built for them in the city centre.Sunbus drivers early yesterday told the Cairns Post they were threatening to strike over a lack of toilets they could use along their busy routes, a ..
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  • Motorist who hit Cairns schoolboy on Tuesday urged to come forward

    Motorist who hit Cairns schoolboy on Tuesday urged to come forward
    Finn Kincaid, 11, who was hit by a car while riding to school on Tuesday morning. PICTURE: ANNA ROGERSA CAIRNS mother has gone public in her search for a motorist who hit her son as he rode to school.About 7.45am yesterday, Finn Kincaid was riding his new bike across the busy Anderson Rd-Macnamara St intersection in Manoora when he was knocked down by a car.The crash left the 11-year-old Manunda boy bruised and shaken, and rendered the bike unrideable.Finn said the driver stopped to check if he ..
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  • Police appeal for public assistance to help locate missing Cairns boy

    Police appeal for public assistance to help locate missing Cairns boy
    A WOREE woman has appeared in the Cairns Magistrates Court after allegedly trying to hit her partner and father of her child with a vehicle.
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  • Cairns overnight media wrap, Wednesday May 25

    Stealing and fraud charges, Cairns: A 28-year-old Edge Hill man was charged yesterday following investigations into the theft from an Edge Hill business premise on April 24. It will be alleged the man entered a Collins Avenue restaurant at around 10am on that date and stole a bag belonging to one of the employees. It will be further alleged that the man used a debit card from the bag to make a number of fraudulent transactions. Officers executed a search warrant at a Mazlin Street residence jus..
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  • Gen Ys bite the bullet and start their own businesses in Cairns

    Gen Ys bite the bullet and start their own businesses in Cairns
    Owner of Ice Ice Baby Jono Russo. PICTURE: ANNA ROGERSAFTER eight years of working for other people, Jono Russo took the future in his own hands and started a business.The 24-year-old’s firm Ice Ice Baby Air Conditioning and Refrigeration is going gangbusters and he is surprised at the success in just two months.Mr Russo’s foray into business is the first in a series “Gen Y in Business” being published in Businessweek each Wednesday.“The first day after I graduated from high school (St Aug­ustin..
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  • Cairns mayor and business owners back FNQ power price petition

    Cairns mayor and business owners back FNQ power price petition
    CAIRNS small business own-ers are switching on to a petition calling on the State Government to lower electricity prices. Since 2007, the Queensland ...
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  • Dave Cairns: Premier's sniggering fat joke undoes great words of ...

    Dave Cairns: Premier's sniggering fat joke undoes great words of ...
    Premier Daniel Andrews spoke about inclusion ... after making a fat joke.“SPEAKER, it’s never too late to put things right. It’s never too late to say sorry — and mean it.”It was with these words in State Parliament on Tuesday that Premier Dan Andrews started an eloquent, poignant and moving apology to those convicted under unjust laws against homosexual acts.The inspirational speech affirmed Victorians’ right to be different.“Being who you are is good enough for me — good enough for all of us,”..
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  • Teachers evacuated from Aurukun won't return for remainder of term ...

    Teachers evacuated from Aurukun won't return for remainder of term ...
    Community in crisis2:02The government has called for an urgent safety and security audit for all frontline services working in the remote town at Aurukun, following a shocking assault on the weekend UPDATE: QUEENSLAND Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has announced teachers being evacuated from Aurukun today will not return for the remainder of the school term.For the remainder of the ordinary teaching period, which ends on June 24, students from the town’s Cape York Aboriginal Australian Academy w..
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  • Inquest into Cairns fisherman death sparks coroner ...

    Inquest into Cairns fisherman death sparks coroner ...
    Inquest into Cairns fisherman death sparks coroner recommendation for safer AMSA working practices Posted May 25, 2016 11:44:00 A coroner has recommended the nation's maritime safety authority review its systems after the death of a far north Queensland fisherman.Cairns commercial fisherman Glen Anthony Wilson, 39, drowned on Bowden Reef, off the north Queensland coast, in July 2013.He was working as a dory operator for commercial fishing vessel 'Norlaus'.Coroner Kevi..
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Cairns man charged with child porn offences .US lifts arms embargo on Vietnam .
'Sleeping giant' glacier may lift seas two to three metres .Cairns man jailed for six years over violent kidnapping and assault .

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