Provides the latest RSS feeds for Brisbane News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Australian Herald.com http://www.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/10/id/eb6df49795f04561/ en-us Sat, 17 May 2008 02:24:28 -0400 Sat, 17 May 2008 02:24:28 -0400 30 A MAN has been stabbed three times in the back after trying to intervene in an argument outside a hotel at Rosewood, west of Brisbane, overnight. Police allege the 34-year-old man was attacked after... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14887295/ Sat, 17 May 2008 01:14:59 -0400 News.com.au http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14887295/ FIRE saftey experts are investigating Brisbane's Palace backpackers hostel to see if the building meets safety requirements following a fire overnight. A Queensland Fire and Rescue Service spokesman ... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14886956/ Sat, 17 May 2008 00:28:36 -0400 Courier Mail http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14886956/ THE condition of convicted child killer Valmae Faye Beck, formerly known as Fay Cramb, has improved and it is believed she is out of a coma. The Department of Corrective services said Beck was now i... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14885406/ Fri, 16 May 2008 22:34:44 -0400 News.com.au http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14885406/ THIS joey, dubbed Hobart, is the sole survivor of a senseless killing spree at a far north Queensland crocodile farm that police are treating as sabotage. The tiny eight-month-old paddymelon was foun... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14885061/ Fri, 16 May 2008 21:49:27 -0400 Courier Mail http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14885061/ TWO men and two girls involved in a police chase in Brisbane's inner southeast overnight were injured when their car crashed. One man is in a crictical condition. About 2.15am a police officer observ... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14885060/ Fri, 16 May 2008 21:49:25 -0400 Courier Mail http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14885060/ A fire safety officer is investigating Brisbane's Palace backpackers hostel to see if the building meets safety requirements following a fire overnight. A small overnight fire forced up to 200 backpa... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14885910/ Fri, 16 May 2008 21:43:17 -0400 ABC News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14885910/ New South Wales will secure a super 14 home semi-final if it beats Queensland at Lang Park tonight. Despite the Reds sitting 11th on the ladder with just three wins, Waratahs coach Ewen McKenzie says... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14885909/ Fri, 16 May 2008 21:43:16 -0400 ABC News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14885909/ A 27-year-old man was killed in a single vehicle crash at Logan Village, south of Brisbane, overnight. Police said initial investigations indicate the man was driving north in a ute on Waterford Tam... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14882716/ Fri, 16 May 2008 19:50:55 -0400 News.com.au http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14882716/ REVILED child killer Valmae Beck has emerged from her coma and is partly coherent - but it could still be days before detectives are able to interview her. The 64-year-old prisoner, who is morbidly o... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14882112/ Fri, 16 May 2008 19:02:37 -0400 Courier Mail http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14882112/ A Brisbane man who savagely attacked his ex-girlfriend and her family with two samurai swords after she dumped him has been jailed for 15 years. On Wednesday, 26-year-old Benjamine Albert Hester plea... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14873162/ Fri, 16 May 2008 10:15:23 -0400 ABC News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14873162/ Gold Coast was on track to maintain its perfect home record at Skilled Park, holding a 16-10 lead over the Bulldogs at the break in their round 10 NRL clash at Robina this evening. Meanwhile in Sydne... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14868998/ Fri, 16 May 2008 07:18:26 -0400 ABC News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14868998/ VANDALS armed with a gun have broken into a Queensland wildlife farm and almost wiped out a herd of tame pademelons. Some of the small, kangaroo-like marsupials had tiny joeys which had to be destro... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14866021/ Fri, 16 May 2008 05:22:20 -0400 News.com.au http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14866021/ Fruit growers says the Queensland Government's decision to stop issuing permits allowing orchardists to shoot flying foxes will mean consumers will pay more for their produce. They say culling flying... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14866759/ Fri, 16 May 2008 04:26:40 -0400 ABC News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14866759/ A Queensland child sex offender described as a "borderline psychopath" who felt no remorse for his crimes is to be allowed to remain in the community. In 2006 an order was made under the Dangerous Pr... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14863816/ Fri, 16 May 2008 01:43:22 -0400 ABC News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14863816/ The Queensland Government is asking rural women for help to tackle health, education and employment issues in regional Queensland. Local Government Minister Warren Pitt says the State Government will... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14863824/ Fri, 16 May 2008 01:43:24 -0400 ABC News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14863824/ Gold Coast Titans coach John Cartwright says tonight's clash with the Bulldogs at Skilled Park is a dangerous game for his team. Cartwright says positions on the premiership table count for little at... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14863188/ Fri, 16 May 2008 01:43:22 -0400 ABC News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14863188/ Two men will face court in Brisbane today charged over a multi-million dollar offshore tax avoidance scheme.The Australian Federal Police (AFP) will allege the men, a 62-year-old from Samford north of... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14862321/ Fri, 16 May 2008 01:22:25 -0400 The Canberra Times http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14862321/ QUEENSLAND'S Attorney-General Kerry Shine has lost an appeal to have a serial pedophile returned to jail. The Attorney-General argued in the Queensland Court of Appeal that Raymond Yeo, 62, should b... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14860845/ Thu, 15 May 2008 23:54:04 -0400 News.com.au http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14860845/ A Meandarra farming family says it will easily beat the world record for wheat planting but needs some rain to get started. The Coggan family want to plant more than 680 hectares of wheat on their pr... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14861465/ Thu, 15 May 2008 23:00:29 -0400 ABC News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14861465/ The Mayor of the South Burnett Regional Council says the Queensland Government is ignoring mainstream communities that live near Indigenous townships. The State Government is negotiating with Indigen... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14861464/ Thu, 15 May 2008 23:00:30 -0400 ABC News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14861464/ A 34-year-old man is due to face court today charged over an armed robbery south of Brisbane. It is alleged he assaulted and robbed two men, aged 69 and 79, at a unit complex on Kingston Road in Loga... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14861455/ Thu, 15 May 2008 23:00:28 -0400 ABC News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14861455/ Police are investigating two overnight armed robberies in Brisbane. A man carrying a syringe robbed a liquor store at Moorooka on Brisbane's southside. The second incident occurred on the northside ... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14861456/ Thu, 15 May 2008 23:00:28 -0400 ABC News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14861456/ Lawyers for Mohamed Haneef have released more documents which they say shed new information about his arrest and the Federal Government's decision to cancel his visa. The former Gold Coast-based doct... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14860746/ Thu, 15 May 2008 23:00:28 -0400 ABC News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14860746/ A woman was left dazed after an attempted bag snatch on the Gold Coast last night. Superintendent Jim Keogh says the incident happened at Southport about 7:00pm AEST. "The lady was just heading home... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14860744/ Thu, 15 May 2008 23:00:26 -0400 ABC News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14860744/ A WOMAN almost gave birth in a storeroom at the Gold Coast Hospital last week because the State Government drastically underestimated the demand for maternity beds despite glaring evidence that the ci... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14857232/ Thu, 15 May 2008 20:16:32 -0400 Courier Mail http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14857232/ AIR safety investigators will today examine the wreckage of a light plane which crashed in north Queensland, killing the pilot. Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) spokesman Ian Brokenshire sa... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14853782/ Thu, 15 May 2008 18:09:27 -0400 News.com.au http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14853782/ A TEENAGE driver has been killed and his 18-year-old male passenger seriously injured when their car hit a tree on Brisbane's southside. Police said the men were driving along Fernvale Road at Tarra... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14853783/ Thu, 15 May 2008 18:09:27 -0400 News.com.au http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14853783/ A 33-YEAR-OLD mother of three has denied she had sex with her son's 14-year-old schoolmate, sending her own children to bed to have sex with the boy. The woman, who cannot be named, pleaded not guilt... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14852952/ Thu, 15 May 2008 17:21:06 -0400 Courier Mail http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14852952/ TWO boys, one aged just 15, have been charged with the assault of two older youths in a vicious attack in Brisbane's City which resulted in broken bones. About 10pm last night, the two 17-year-olds w... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14852953/ Thu, 15 May 2008 17:21:05 -0400 Courier Mail http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14852953/ THE death of a north Queensland baby has prompted an urgent state and federal investigation into a widely-used ventilator. Born 17 weeks premature in http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14841102/ Thu, 15 May 2008 10:55:04 -0400 Courier Mail http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14841102/ QUEENSLAND'S top surgeons are being forced to down scalpels for up to six months to take leave - leaving their patients having to wait even longer for operations. Queensland Health has allowed doctor... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14841101/ Thu, 15 May 2008 10:55:03 -0400 Courier Mail http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14841101/ RUGBY league legend Shane Webcke is quitting the Darling Downs land he bought through his successful career with the Brisbane Broncos. His property Summer Hill, at http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14841103/ Thu, 15 May 2008 10:55:06 -0400 Courier Mail http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14841103/ QUEENSLAND'S rural firefighting service is at risk of becoming unsustainable because of its poor management, training and ageing volunteer workforce. In a damning report tabled in State Parliament ye... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14841100/ Thu, 15 May 2008 10:55:02 -0400 Courier Mail http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14841100/ ELEVEN thousand litres of boiling-hot bitumen transformed a lush suburban garden into a crude roadway yesterday when a runaway tanker crashed into a tree and burst. The http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14841097/ Thu, 15 May 2008 10:55:01 -0400 Courier Mail http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14841097/ SHOOTING flying foxes will be illegal in Queensland from September after an eight-year campaign by conservationists. Sustainability Minister Andrew McNamara said yesterday that no more permits would ... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14841098/ Thu, 15 May 2008 10:55:00 -0400 Courier Mail http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14841098/ Brisbane Lions . "We're just trying to recover what we think's owed to us," Bulldogs chief executive Todd Greenberg said yesterday. "It's a last resort." The Bulldogs had first t... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14841099/ Thu, 15 May 2008 10:54:58 -0400 Courier Mail http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14841099/ The Queensland Government has been condemned for spending $173,000 moving a Labor MP into a new office that is set to be demolished. The southern Brisbane electorate office of MP and former TV presen... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14844400/ Thu, 15 May 2008 10:48:36 -0400 ABC News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14844400/ Seven Queensland pharmacists have been barred from selling medicines after being caught out supplying excessive amounts of pseudoephedrine (PSE) products. The substance is contained in common cold an... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14844399/ Thu, 15 May 2008 06:11:31 -0400 ABC News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14844399/ A pilot was killed today when his light aircraft ditched into a dry riverbed in far north Queensland. Police are investigating the outback crash. Police and State Emergency Service crews were called ... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14836542/ Thu, 15 May 2008 03:07:32 -0400 Courier Mail http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14836542/ A TEENAGE hoon with an appalling traffic history today had one of his cars confiscated under Queensland's tough new anti-hooning laws, but is likely to spend less than four months behind bars. Nathan... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14836540/ Thu, 15 May 2008 03:07:30 -0400 Courier Mail http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14836540/ after reading the story in the quest newspaper and reading the details I find this story very hard to swallow.( no pun intended) Most people i know that buy chips are eating them long before they get ... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14836543/ Thu, 15 May 2008 03:07:33 -0400 Courier Mail http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14836543/ A GOLD Coast man accused of what could be Australia's biggest art heist has turned himself in to police after a court issued an arrest warrant. Brett Michael Williams pleaded guilty late last year to... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14836539/ Thu, 15 May 2008 03:07:25 -0400 Courier Mail http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14836539/ The Brisbane City Council has revealed it has spent $90,000 so far addressing problems with the trees in New Farm Park. The Council today began planting new trees to replace the seven 90-year-old jac... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14837858/ Thu, 15 May 2008 02:59:52 -0400 ABC News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14837858/ There is an event with a difference at this year's Charleville Show in Queensland's south-west. Show president Michelle Omyla says the chainsaw racing competition is already creating a buzz around to... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14837864/ Thu, 15 May 2008 02:59:52 -0400 ABC News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14837864/ A HOUSE had to be evacuated after 12,000 litres of hot bitumen from an overturned tanker began oozing towards it. The tanker came loose from a trailer and hit a tree in Geebung, Brisbane, about 7.30... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14834436/ Thu, 15 May 2008 00:55:57 -0400 News.com.au http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14834436/ FOUR men will appear in court today charged with raping a 14-year-old girl in Brisbane's city centre. Police allege the men, aged 30, 25, 21 and 18, took the girl to a hotel room on May 3 and assaul... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14834439/ Thu, 15 May 2008 00:55:58 -0400 News.com.au http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14834439/ A COUPLE who sold their daughter into prostitution for eight months using the internet to advertise her services should spend twice as long in jail, a court has heard. In what was described as the ``... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14834039/ Thu, 15 May 2008 00:10:49 -0400 Courier Mail http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14834039/ HEALTH Minister Stephen Robertson has shrugged off top-level warnings over the dangerous practice of leaving patients parked in ambulances at Townsville Hospital's emergency department. For three day... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14834038/ Thu, 15 May 2008 00:10:45 -0400 Courier Mail http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14834038/ The Brisbane Airport Corporation (BAC) says it is not to blame for 236 long haul passengers waiting on the tarmac at the Brisbane Airport for two-and-a-half hours this morning. Spokeswoman Rebecca Mc... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14835024/ Thu, 15 May 2008 00:04:42 -0400 ABC News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14835024/ A pregnant woman was forced to wait in a Gold Coast hospital storeroom because there were no free beds. The Queensland Opposition says poor Government planning is continuing to cause problems in the ... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14834330/ Thu, 15 May 2008 00:04:42 -0400 ABC News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14834330/ Thousands of litres of hot bitumen spilled into the front yard of a house on Brisbane's north side after a tanker crashed into a tree. The home on Robinson Road West at Geebung has been evacuated as ... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14835023/ Thu, 15 May 2008 00:04:41 -0400 ABC News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14835023/ A WOMAN in labour spent several hours on the floor of a storeroom of Gold Coast Hospital because there were no beds in the maternity ward. Mitch and Erica, who asked for their surname not to be publ... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14831594/ Wed, 14 May 2008 22:00:48 -0400 News.com.au http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14831594/ The Queensland Opposition says it supports proposed increases in jail terms for people who assault child protection workers. Child Safety Minister Margaret Keech has released a discussion paper for p... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14831465/ Wed, 14 May 2008 21:05:52 -0400 ABC News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14831465/ Graziers want police to appoint a special prosecutor to round up cattle duffers who are costing the industry millions of dollars in regional Queensland. Representatives from the beef and dairy indust... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14832413/ Wed, 14 May 2008 21:05:52 -0400 ABC News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14832413/ The federal Member for Groom, Ian Macfarlane, says scrapping the Regional Partnerships program means less money for regional Australia. Treasurer Wayne Swan announced in this week's Federal Budget th... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14832412/ Wed, 14 May 2008 21:05:51 -0400 ABC News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14832412/ Farming lobby group Canegrowers says there is very little in the Federal Budget to help farmers deal with current financial pressures. A total of $200 million was set out in the Budget for the Reef R... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14831464/ Wed, 14 May 2008 21:05:50 -0400 ABC News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14831464/ A public meeting will be held at Tweed Heads today as part of the New South Wales Government's inquiry into water utilities. Former deputy premier Ian Armstrong will co-chair the meeting and says any... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14831463/ Wed, 14 May 2008 21:05:49 -0400 ABC News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14831463/ POLICE are searching for two men who shot at a man during a home invasion in Brisbane's east. Police said a man was approached in the backyard of his home in Carina last night by two armed men. The... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14827764/ Wed, 14 May 2008 18:58:54 -0400 News.com.au http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14827764/ A WOMAN who was kidnapped at gunpoint from her home and driven to a store told another customer she was being held captive. A man armed with a gun confronted the 34-year-old woman at her home at Ma ... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14827762/ Wed, 14 May 2008 18:58:55 -0400 News.com.au http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14827762/ MORE than $600,000 worth of cannabis has been seized from a former tobacco farm west of Mareeba in far north Queensland. Police swooped on the property at http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14826957/ Wed, 14 May 2008 18:10:24 -0400 Courier Mail http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14826957/ A SENIOR NSW health department executive was warned that disgraced doctor Graeme Reeves was "not meant to do obstetrics" but agreed to hire him anyway. A NSW Greater Southern Area Health executive, i... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14826958/ Wed, 14 May 2008 18:10:24 -0400 Courier Mail http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14826958/ Nick of Qld that is the point. Tattoos and Tattoo styles come and go like fashion, and the ink your left with is permanent. Also, I think you grow out of Tattoo's, I cant remember a 40 year old who di... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14826955/ Wed, 14 May 2008 18:10:17 -0400 Courier Mail http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14826955/ Queensland RSL president Brigadier Douglas Formby says finding the wreck of the Centaur will offer it a better chance of being protected. He was speaking at a Centaur memorial service in Brisbane tod... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14828788/ Wed, 14 May 2008 18:03:23 -0400 ABC News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14828788/ DOZENS are cheated into coughing up cash and quitting jobs to chase false dream of big bucks in mining, writes Amanda Horswill. A recruitment scam offering big bucks to work in Western Australian min... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14818472/ Wed, 14 May 2008 11:49:23 -0400 Courier Mail http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14818472/ ALL bets are back on for Brisbane's pending rate rise, with Lord Mayor Campbell Newman flip-flopping over his promise to keep increases low single-digit above inflation. After saying "all bets a... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14818473/ Wed, 14 May 2008 11:49:20 -0400 Courier Mail http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14818473/ CLAIMS the latest plan to merge Queensland's conservative parties was secretly cobbled together without federal involvement have been slapped down by the Liberal Party's most senior official. In an i... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14818474/ Wed, 14 May 2008 11:49:19 -0400 Courier Mail http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14818474/ THREE Brisbane soldiers have made history as the first women to be admitted into an artillery role in the Australian Army. Lieutenant Jaymi Bowyer, 22, from Sydney, Gunner Carly Box, 25, from Munrube... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14818475/ Wed, 14 May 2008 11:49:17 -0400 Courier Mail http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14818475/ A SHOP owner proved a teen prom queen's relatives "stole the wrong dress from the wrong person" by catching the frock-lifters after a two-month-long sting. Chantilly Weddings' owner Shona Berry stake... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14818476/ Wed, 14 May 2008 11:49:15 -0400 Courier Mail http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14818476/ revealed last month a secret report detailing alarming truancy rates in the Logan area south of Brisbane. The independent 2006 analysis found 800 Logan high school students were absent for one-third ... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14818477/ Wed, 14 May 2008 11:49:13 -0400 Courier Mail http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14818477/ The Queensland Government says it is still waiting on more information from the Brisbane City Council before it can grant tolling powers for a new bridge. Work on the $300 million Hale Street Bridge ... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14820177/ Wed, 14 May 2008 11:42:22 -0400 ABC News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14820177/ Queensland's Chief Justice has told the Court of Appeal in Brisbane that sentencing nine rapists to jail or detention may act as a "circuit breaker" to stop further offences. The three men and six ju... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14816246/ Wed, 14 May 2008 08:31:55 -0400 ABC News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14816246/ TWO disgraced former Brisbane Broncos' players today pleaded guilty to bashing a man in city's CBD during a brawl after the club's annual end of season awards gala. Forwards Ian Robert Lacey, 23, and... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14811092/ Wed, 14 May 2008 05:00:13 -0400 Courier Mail http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14811092/ A Magistrate has sentenced former Broncos players Ian Lacey and John Te Reo to six-month suspended jail terms for their roles in an assault in Brisbane's CBD last October. Te Reo, 21, and 23-year-old... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14812453/ Wed, 14 May 2008 04:53:46 -0400 ABC News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14812453/ The Administrative Appeals Tribunal is expected to decide today on a hearing date to rule on the release of Immigration Department documents relating to Indian doctor Mohamed Haneef. The former Gold ... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14811534/ Wed, 14 May 2008 04:53:44 -0400 ABC News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14811534/ About 500 electrical workers have rallied in central Brisbane and marched on State Parliament to protest over stalled wage negotiations with the Queensland Government. The electrical workers are carr... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14809087/ Wed, 14 May 2008 01:43:54 -0400 ABC News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14809087/ A SENTENCING hearing for nine males who raped a 10-year-old girl will be heard in Brisbane, not Cairns, if an appeal against their punishment is granted, Queensland's Chief Justice says. A decision ... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14808347/ Wed, 14 May 2008 02:37:04 -0400 News.com.au http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14808347/ Fire investigators will inspect a block of old shops destroyed by fire at Clifton last night. The Queensland Fire and Rescue Service was called to the Fisher Street buildings at 11:00pm AEST, but cou... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14809086/ Wed, 14 May 2008 01:43:53 -0400 ABC News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14809086/ The Gold Coast Blaze has signed four-time Olympian Shane Heal to its roster for the 2008-09 NBL season. Heal, who resides on the Gold Coast, will line up at point guard for the Blaze next season unde... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14808198/ Wed, 14 May 2008 01:43:52 -0400 ABC News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14808198/ Queensland chairman of selectors Des Morris has defended the inclusion of Broncos full-back Karmichael Hunt at five-eighth for the opening State of Origin encounter in Sydney next Wednesday. Morris a... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14809085/ Wed, 14 May 2008 01:43:52 -0400 ABC News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14809085/ Gold Coast Titans managing director Michael Searle says the club's co-captain Scott Prince is bitterly disappointed to miss out on a Maroons jumper. Broncos full-back Karmichael Hunt was named as Que... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14808197/ Wed, 14 May 2008 01:43:51 -0400 ABC News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14808197/ TWO drunken pranksters who poured detergent to pools at a water fun park were caught with the evidence all over the them, a court has been told. Forde Thomas Lamberth, 18, was fined $650 and ordered... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14805525/ Tue, 13 May 2008 23:28:53 -0400 News.com.au http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14805525/ Brisbane City Council will amend its town planning laws to reduce the number of unrelated people who can live in a home. The move is in response to a new report on the international student industry,... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14806147/ Tue, 13 May 2008 22:34:50 -0400 ABC News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14806147/ A 22-year-old man involved in a police chase will face court today after he was tracked down by a police dog at Caboolture, north of Brisbane. Police pursued the man who was allegedly driving a stole... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14806146/ Tue, 13 May 2008 22:34:50 -0400 ABC News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14806146/ POLICE said speed may have been a factor in a fatal motorcycle crash on Brisbane's bayside. A man died after his motorcycle crashed on Shore Street, Cleveland, just after midnight. Police said the ... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14801876/ Tue, 13 May 2008 20:15:38 -0400 News.com.au http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14801876/ AN ARMED robber threatened to shoot a convenience store worker when the employee chased the offender out of the shop last night. Around midnight a man wielding a hand gun - possibly a replica - enter... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14801097/ Tue, 13 May 2008 19:26:44 -0400 Courier Mail http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14801097/ A MAN will face court after a police dog tracked him through thick scrub and swampland and apprehended him following a police chase north of Brisbane. Police allege the man crashed a stolen car on Bu... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14801096/ Tue, 13 May 2008 19:26:37 -0400 Courier Mail http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14801096/ A BONE found on Fraser Island has been identified by forensic scientists as animal remains, possibly a brumby, after earlier fears it could be human. An island resident uncovered the 15cm bone sticki... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14801095/ Tue, 13 May 2008 19:26:35 -0400 Courier Mail http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14801095/ Prostate cancer patients will benefit from a new radiation treatment to be used for the first time today in a Toowoomba hospital. The new technique, called Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy was d... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14802848/ Tue, 13 May 2008 19:19:44 -0400 ABC News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14802848/ New South Wales half-back Peter Wallace says he had not even thought about playing State of Origin football at the start of the season. The Broncos' number seven has been named alongside Cronulla's G... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14802828/ Tue, 13 May 2008 19:19:44 -0400 ABC News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14802828/ A Gold Coast entertainment and leisure conference has heard local tourism operators face competition from large scale developments in the Middle East. The vice-chairman of the International Associati... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14801626/ Tue, 13 May 2008 19:19:42 -0400 ABC News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14801626/ THE chairman of Taser International Inc accused critics yesterday of spreading myths about the stun gun's dangers, saying there was no "magic bullet" to completely eliminate the risk of death when pol... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14793115/ Tue, 13 May 2008 13:26:20 -0400 News.com.au http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14793115/ NEW laws have been passed by the Queensland parliament allowing for the compulsory acquisition of indigenous land to build essential services such as schools, hospitals and police stations. The refo... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14793116/ Tue, 13 May 2008 13:26:18 -0400 News.com.au http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14793116/ Brisbane is second-stringer for 49ers' stadium Currently Viewed 7 days ago - 18 days ago - 66 days ago - 71 days ago - 74 days ago - 88 days ago - 101 days ago - 116 days ago - 172 days ago - http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14787497/ Tue, 13 May 2008 09:09:56 -0400 San Francisco Examiner http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14787497/ A CANCER cluster detected at a north Queensland fire station will result in a national study into the incidence of the disease among firefighters. Five personnel at the Atherton fire station have be... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14784359/ Tue, 13 May 2008 04:47:37 -0400 News.com.au http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14784359/ NINE males who raped a 10-year-old girl in remote north Queensland should be jailed as a fit punishment for their crime, a court has been told. Queensland's Attorney-General Kerry Shine today launch... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14784358/ Tue, 13 May 2008 04:47:35 -0400 News.com.au http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14784358/ A MAN appeared in court today, accused of torturing a two-year-old boy who fell from a pram on to a busy road on the Sunshine Coast. Aaron Sean Corr, a 22-year-old student, faced six charges - inclu... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14784357/ Tue, 13 May 2008 04:47:33 -0400 News.com.au http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14784357/ THE Queensland Government has announced a $250,000 reward for information about a Brisbane guesthouse fire 18 years ago which killed five men. The Oakdale guesthouse in Ipswich burnt to the ground e... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14784356/ Tue, 13 May 2008 04:47:32 -0400 News.com.au http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14784356/ TIME-starved overweight workers will be the focus of fast-food style weight loss outlets in city department stores offering 15-minute consultations. The mini-stores, offering people 15-minute consult... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14783344/ Tue, 13 May 2008 03:57:25 -0400 Courier Mail http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14783344/ A 22-year-old Mooloolaba student has been charged with the torture of a two-year-old boy who allegedly fell from a pram on to a busy road on the Sunshine Coast. The man will face six charges includin... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14779885/ Tue, 13 May 2008 00:41:28 -0400 Courier Mail http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14779885/ Three years after running his first marathon, Queensland University of Technology student Aidan Hobbs can't be stopped. Blitzing the field to win the Brisbane Marathon last month, the 21-year-old h... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14779444/ Tue, 13 May 2008 01:32:03 -0400 Brsibane Times http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eb6df49795f04561/id/14779444/