Last Top Stories: Inaugural Sail Cairns Festival Cup Regatta launches in Trinity Inlet

Inaugural Sail Cairns Festival Cup Regatta launches in Trinity Inlet

The Cairns Yacht Club and the Cairns Cruising Yacht Squadron have combined their resources for the festival, which aims to show off the sport and attract more participants. Up to 30 crews will compete in categories that make up the Mayor's Cup ... >> view original

Cairns Chamber floats idea of 24-hour trading in the city's CBD

SUPPORTIVE: Alive Discount Pharmacy owner Nick Loukas thinks 24-hour trading in Cairns CBD is a good idea. PICTURE: STEWART McLEAN. BARGAIN hunters would have the chance to shop around the clock under a bold new plan to introduce 24-hour ... >> view original

Qld police morale at 'rock bottom': union

Ongoing disillusionment within Queensland's police force is far from being alleviated, the state's police union says. Source: AAP. 5 Sep 2015 - 3:30 AM UPDATED 5 HOURS AGO. Commissioner Ian Stewart continues to cop heat from Queensland's police ... >> view original

Peter Greste meets the letter writers who helped set him free

Peter Greste has urged the Australians who wrote letters to him in prison to show the same support to his colleagues who remain behind bars, Mohammed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed. Greste told a gathering of some of those letter writers in Sydney on Friday ... >> view original

Search for missing yacht to resume tomorrow after bodies wash up on beach ...

Searches to find a yacht believed to have been carrying two men whose bodies washed up on a beach north of Newcastle will resume tomorrow. A 77-year-old man from Smiths Gully, Victoria, and a 71-year-old from Duns Creek, New South Wales, left from ... >> view original

William Tyrrell investigation turns to grandparent support groups

Detectives investigating the disappearance of William Tyrrell have examined two grandparent support groups, one of whose former members included two paedophiles, after looking into washing machine repairman Bill Spedding. Mr Spedding, 63, became a ... >> view original

A FACE image of a man police would like to speak to. Source: Supplied

POLICE are hunting a “suspicious loiterer” who put pornographic images in a primary school toilet block in Melbourne's east. Boroondara investigators were told the man entered the boy's toilet block at the primary school in Balwyn Rd, Balwyn North, ... >> view original

Tony Abbott unmoved by Liberal calls for more Syria refugee help

Tony Abbott appears to have shut the door on a further increase in Australia's intake of Syrian refugees even as his cabinet moves closer to approving air strikes on the war-torn nation. The Prime Minister on Saturday seemed unmoved by impassioned ... >> view original

Peter Dutton orders deportation of former bikie boss Sam Ibrahim

Jailed underworld figure Sam Ibrahim could swap his prison cell for immigration detention after federal government minister Peter Dutton ordered his deportation. The Immigration Minister cancelled Ibrahim's transitional permanent visa on Thursday when ... >> view original

Four charged for violent SA home invasion

FOUR men have been charged in connection with a violent home invasion in Adelaide. POLICE will allege five men forced their way into a Marden apartment just after 1am on Friday in a targeted attack. Two of the suspects were armed with machetes and ... >> view original