Alyssa Azar climbs up the list of Toowoomba talent and other top stories.

• Alyssa Azar climbs up the list of Toowoomba talent

  Toowoomba teen Alyssa Azar became the youngest Australian ever to reach the top of Mount Everest over the weekend. Azar has worked hard over several years to attempt to summit Mount Everest, and has successfully made her way back down to base camp after achieving her goal. Azar’s feat places her amongst the growing number of high achievers hailing from Toowoomba. Toowoomba has seen and raised many greats, from a range of backgrounds, including sporting and entertainment. Azar joins those who h..

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• Toowoomba teacher asks internet to help teach cyber-safety

  

  A note from a Toowoomba teacher has gone viral, gaining more than 71,500 shares on Facebook. Paula Beare posted the note asking people to share it no matter how far they live in order to teach her students about cyber-safety. The aim of her note was to see ‘just how far something can go from a small Facebook account’ based on her security settings. No matter how private your Facebook settings are, posts can stick around on the internet even after they are deleted and be shared by anyone. After..

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• AgInnovate drives Toowoomba's potential as agtech hub

  (From left) John Deere’s Intelligent Solutions Group Senior Staff Engineer Broughton Boydell, USQ Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research & Innovation) Professor Mark Harvey, FKG Development Manager Dallas Hunter, and Professor Julie Cotter, Director of USQ’s Australian Centre for Sustainable Business and Development. Davd Martinelli TOOWOOMBA'S ability to become an agtech hub for the Asia-Pacific region and beyond was confirmed at the 400M AgInnovate Investment Forum last week. Initiated ..

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• Charging stations for electric cars mapped in Queensland

  

  ERGON Energy has mapped its network for electric vehicle (EV) charging stations from Toowoomba to Cairns bringing the electric car super highway another step closer. Around 100 sites with surplus capacity have been identified and Ergon is already speaking with companies who provide EV charging station infrastructure. Up to 60 charging stations could be purchased which would be used to charge Ergon's EV fleet Ergon's fleet and be made available for charging privately owned EVs as well. ..

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• New RSM chairman flags more M&A

  

  New RSM chairman Jamie O'Rourke is the firm's is RSM's first national leader based outside of Western Australia. Daniel Munoz Mid-market accounting firm RSM has named Sydney business advisory partner Jamie O'Rourke as its new chairman, signalling the firm's pivot to the east coast for future growth.He takes over from well-known Perth businessman Kim Hutchinson, who will resign from the firm in June after 16 years at the helm.Mr O'Rourke is RSM'..

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• Gladstone a 'primary site' for new electric car stations

  ERGON Energy has mapped its network for electric vehicle charging stations, which includes a station in Gladstone, bringing the electric car super highway another step closer. Gladstone is one of the chosen locations along the Bruce Hwy, between Cairns and Toowoomba, as a possible site for a charging station. Ergon Energy has mapped a charging station highway from Toowoomba to Cairns, including stops at Bundaberg, Rockhampton and Mackay. Ergon Energy has released this map outlini..

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• Senator Nick Xenophon chases senate votes in Maleny

  

  SENATOR Nick Xenophon is the latest politician who will head to Maleny to deliver a pitch for votes in the rolling green hills of the hinterland rather than to the heart of the Sunshine Coast's population base. Senator Xenophon will be in Maleny on Saturday to support Queensland Senate candidate Suzanne Grant whose connection to the reach dates back to the late 1990s when she commuted from Buderim to Brisbane for work. Now with a PhD in politics and lecturing at the University of Queens..

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• EXCLUSIVE: Family shattered by sisters' tragic deaths

  UPDATE: Two sisters are grieving the loss of their siblings Anjumol and Asha Mathew who died in a tragic car crash yesterday. Anjumol and Asha's friends and family become worried when they did not return home yesterday after dropping Anumol back to her home in Beaudesert. Family friend's Ranjeet Vadassery and Anish Mathew had attended the police station to report their concerns and late yesterday night police confirmed the worst after contacting the sisters and next of kin. The women,..

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• Final hours of Melbourne academic's Everest climb revealed

  

  Yahoo7 News on May 24, 2016, 6:56 am Video Parents of Australian man arrive in Everest to help retrieve wife's body The youngest Australian to conquer Everest has returned safely to Base Camp while the body of her fallen compatriot remains on the mountain.Toowoomba teen Alyssa Azar sent word on social media she had completed her climb as details of the final hours of fallen Melbourne academic Maria “Marisa” Strydom have been revealed."Thanks everybody for your messages of support I am n..

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