Baden jumps Olympic qualifier in Cairns
Australian high jumper Joel Baden is set to go to Rio after posting his first Olympic qualifying jump. The 20-year-old cleared the qualifying mark of 2.29m at the North Queensland Games in Cairns on Sunday, equalling the personal best he set in 2014 in Melbourne. It means Baden is now eligible for Olympic selection in the event alongside already-selected Brandon Starc.>> view originalIndigenous FNQ lawyer keen to make a difference after making ...
Tanay Ropeyarn from Injinoo has been admitted as a solicitor in the Cairns Supreme Court. PICTURE: BRENDAN RADKEA TRAILBLAZING young lawyer who defied the odds is being hailed as an inspiration for Far North indigenous communities. Tanay Ropeyarn made history in Cairns Supreme Court yesterday, when she became the first person from Injinoo, 750km north of Cairns, to be admitted as a solicitor.It was a landmark moment for the 23-year-old, who aspired to become a lawyer since her early teens.The y..>> view originalAlun Cairns: EU funding 'did not have an impact'
Assembly members should work out why communities receiving large sums of EU funding voted for Brexit, the Welsh secretary has said.Alun Cairns said it was "strange" that places in the valleys, which benefited from EU aid, registered the strongest Leave vote in the referendum.But he said that European policies did not have a "connection" with the public.He told the BBC's Sunday Politics Wales the funding had not had an impact.Under current EU funding programmes, due to run between 2014 and 2..>> view originalCult of Hockey: Edmonton Oilers select LD Matthew Cairns No. 84 ...
Cult of Hockey: Edmonton Oilers select LD Matthew Cairns No. 84 overall Published on: June 25, 2016 | Last Updated: June 25, 2016 11:59 AM MDT The No. 84 selection originally belonged to the Florida Panthers, but was shipped to the Edmonton Oilers in the trade deadline deal that saw right wing Teddy Purcell head south. With the pick, the Oilers drafted left-shot defenceman Matthew Cairns from the OJHL’s Georgetown Raiders. “It’s an honour to be picked by them.” #Oilers 84th sel..>> view originalPhotograph shows little girl in crocodile creek in Cairns as her father ...
A father has been slammed on social media for allowing his two young children to play in a known crocodile creek in the same week as one of the deadly creatures was spotted there.The man was seen standing by the edge of shallow water at the entry to Deep Creek off Kewarra Beach in Cairns, north Queensland, as his little boy and girl played. A photograph of the family showed the girl paddling in the water, looking straight ahead towards the creek while her father has his back turned to her. It wa..>> view originalPharmGirl Adventures: Arches, canyons and cairns
Large crocodiles spotted near Daintree beach where woman killed ...
Saltwater crocodile, estimated to be 3.5m long, photographed basking on the banks of Cooper Creek, not far from Thornton Beach — where Cindy Waldron was attacked by a croc three weeks ago. PHOTO: Lee RandallTWO crocodiles, including one believed to be larger than the animal that killed Cindy Waldron, have been spotted not far from the scene of the fatal attack three weeks ago.It comes as rangers reveal a smaller croc was observed swimming off Lizard Island, another site of a croc attack late la..>> view originalUK's Labour in crisis after Brexit vote
Britain's opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn (pic) has sacked his shadow foreign minister.The post-Brexit crisis enveloping British opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has deepened with reports saying up to half his shadow cabinet planned to resign after shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn was sacked."It is with a heavy heart that I have this morning resigned from the shadow cabinet," shadow health secretary Heidi Alexander said on Twitter, posting a photograph of her letter to Cor..>> view original
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