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Former Army dental nurse planned to blow up HMAS Cairns after rape claims ...

A far north Queensland court has heard a former Army dental nurse planned an attack on Cairns naval base after she was allegedly raped by a fellow soldier. Kalisa Winn, 32, appeared at the Magistrates Court in Cairns yesterday, charged with possession ... >> view original

Cairns Navy bomb plotter released from custody after guilty plea

Winn searched Cairns Hospital and the HMAS Cairns navy base on Google maps, and also researched office locations for the Inspector General of the Australian Defence Force. “She expressed to her mother that the army and police were dead,” Sgt Rose ... >> view original

Cairns fisherman Rob Macdonald helps catch tiger shark

He, his brother Tom and mate Dan Brabin, used a 25kg yellowfin tuna as bait to lure the predator to their canoe about 500m off the beach, north of Cairns, just before dawn last Wednesday. Rob, who works on Fitzroy Island, said it was the first tiger ... >> view original

LL Golf: Solanco captures the Section Two title; Mules' Cairns is low medalist

Cairns finished with a 6-over 78 and was the day's low medalist. He's been low medalist or tied for low medalist in four of the seven Section Two matches this season. Rush shot 79, his best score of the season, as was Lasko's 84. "I knew (the race ... >> view original

BMX Queensland State Championship coming to Cairns this week

CAIRNS will host the biggest ever BMX Queensland State Championship this week in another boost for the highly successful club. The revamped Scott St track will welcome more than 1500 riders from today until Sunday, the most to ever attend a Queensland ... >> view original

Cairns Out, Montgomery Up at Publishing Technology

Publishing Technology has announced that CEO Michael Cairns has stepped down, effective immediately. Current Chief Technology Officer David Montgomery has been named acting CEO. The news of Cairns' departure came in an earnings update that ... >> view original

Teen harasses women on Cairns track

Women harassed on Cairns trackYahoo7 News >> view original

Fear and hatred should not be how we deal with refugees

As I wrote a couple of weeks ago, we're all migrants or refugees here in Cairns. I think back to my home town in the UK, which was host to French prisoners of war in the Napoleonic wars, and then in the Second World War, Polish refugees arrived. After ... >> view original

Dylan Walker & Aaron Gray improving in Intensive Care3:33

NRL: South Sydney duo Dylan Walker and Aaron Gray's condition has improved overnight at St Vincent's Hospital where they remain in Intensive Care. September 23rd 2015; 4 hours ago; /video/video.news.com.au/Sport/NRL/. OXYCODONE, colloquially ... >> view original

Wallabies confident in combinations

The Wallabies finally get their World Cup campaign underway against Fiji and are confident in the combinations of Will Genia and Bernard Foley in the halves and Michael Hooper and David Pocock at seven and eight. 23/09/15. Rugby World Cup: Wallabies ... >> view original