Tuesday, June 14, 2016

The games were tight and the competition fierce at Toowoomba's ... and other top stories.

  • The games were tight and the competition fierce at Toowoomba's ...

    The games were tight and the competition fierce at Toowoomba's ...
    Toowoomba Polocrosse Carnival | Photos Tansey carrying the ball downfield against Gold Coast.John Franklin carrying the ball for Gold Coast Polocrosse Club in a game against Tansey.Tansey offloading the ball - Photo by Craig Wilson (Wilo's Photos).Dean Challenor playing for Toowoomba Polocrosse Club.The juniors are all smiles in the cunnigham V Chinchilla game.Chinchilla Junior protecting the ball from the opposition Cunningahm player.Gold Coast on the run with the ball wh..
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  • Toowoomba manager puts DGT on the world map

    IT WASN'T all pisco sour and pastel de choclo when Toowoomba training and employment service provider DGT sent its operations manager Ben James to Santiago in Chile. He spent three weeks successfully training four Chilean learners for DGT client's Russell Mineral Equipment (RME), the leading designer and manufacturer of Mill Relining Systems in the world. Mr James did not get to do much sight-seeing on weekends but described the work alone as a culture shock. "I've travelled around t..
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  • $1 million truck on show in Toowoomba

    $1 million truck on show in Toowoomba
    IF YOU’RE in Toowoomba tomorrow and Thursday you can get up close and personal to a revolutionary roboticaly driven Dry-Vac truck, one of only two in the southern hemisphere.The German Force One MTS vehicle was imported by Westco Truck Sales in Toowoomba, the mechanics are embracing the latest German technology, which they will service.They’ve registered the truck and now will be showing it off at the 2016 Surat Basin Expo for the long-awaited Australian-Oceanic unveiling of the $1million inves..
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  • Resilient Regions Forum | Photos

    Resilient Regions Forum | Photos
    Resilient Regions Forum | Photos Joy Taylor, Canvas Coworking, Ann D'Arcy, Toowoomba Regional Council, and Lavinia Tyrrell, Western Downs Region Council.Cecil Barnard, Southern Downs Regional Council, and Charmaine Alderidge, Department Infrastructure, Local Government and Planning.Tony Towler, Prosper Consulting, and Andrea Walton, social scientist, CSIRO.Catherine Harding, Western Downs Region Council, Charmaine Aldridge, Department Infrastructure, Local Government and P..
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  • Home-brew deaths: William Lynam guilty of manslaughter over ...

    Home-brew deaths: William Lynam guilty of manslaughter over ...
    Home-brew deaths: William Lynam guilty of manslaughter over grappa poisoning Updated June 14, 2016 18:24:43 A southern Queensland man has been found guilty of manslaughter over three deaths linked to a home-brewed grappa he made in 2013.William Neil Clarence Lynam, 71, brewed the alcoholic drink on his property in Ballandean in June 2013.Following a seven-day trial in the Toowoomba Supreme Court, Lynam has been convicted of three counts of manslaughter and one count of ..
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  • Oakey residents 'at wits' end'

    Oakey residents 'at wits' end'
    Residents of a Queensland town impacted by defence base pollutants have demanded fair compensation after some lost their life savings.Toxic firefighting foams used within bases at several sites including the Oakey Army Aviation base, northwest of Toowoomba, and RAAF Williamtown facility in NSW have leeched into ground water systems.The federal government committed $55 million from the current defence budget to cleaning and managing the toxic chemicals. It will also fund blood tests as well as h..
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  • Qld budget 2016: Pitt's plan to create 8000 jobs

    Qld budget 2016: Pitt's plan to create 8000 jobs
    $10,000 to employers who hire an unemployed person in regional Queensland for at least a year. $15,000 to employers who hire a long term unemployed person for at least a year. 8000 new jobs expected across regional Queensland. Not applicable to south east corner - including Toowoomba, Sunshine Coast, Ipswich. A TWO-YEAR plan to generate 8000 new jobs will focus on getting regional Queenslanders, suffering from the mining downturn and prolonged drought conditions, back to work. ..
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  • Joseph's golden dream becoming reality

    Joseph's golden dream becoming reality
    Pearson facing fitness hurdle0:31Athletics: Reigning hurdles Olympic Champion Sally Pearson will reportedly skip her next race in Stockholm to return to Australia to work on her fitness. THEY came across the borders of Sudan and Somalia into Kenya, a tidal wave of humanity escaping man’s inhumanity to man.Running.As many as 180,000 of them ended up at Kakuma, in the north-western corner of Kenya, barely alive; surviving in a ramshackle refugee camp of unmade roads, tents and mud huts with rusty..
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  • More Roma flood mitigation work planned as Maranoa council ...

    More Roma flood mitigation work planned as Maranoa council works to ease Bungil Creek risk By Elly Bradfield and Belinda Sanders Posted June 14, 2016 12:13:35 The Maranoa Regional Council is preparing to start a second round of flood mitigation works in Roma, in southern Queensland, to protect more than 50 homes.Council said the project's first stage took the number of at-risk homes near Bungil Creek from 590 to about 100.Councillor David Schefe said the work sh..
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  • Fire captain dedicated to 'best job in the state'

    Fire captain dedicated to 'best job in the state'
    CAPTAIN Jon Karas believes he has the best job in the Queensland Fire and Emergency Services.His dedication to running the Buderim Fire Station has now earned him royal recognition.Mr Karas was named a recipient of the Australian Fire Service Medal as part of the Queen’s Birthday Honours.The 51-year-old has worked at the auxiliary station for nearly 26 years, having grown up in the suburb and attended Buderim Mountain State School.His disaster recovery and organisational skills have also been r..
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Manly Sea Eagles star Dylan Walker snubs criticism after State of Origin cameo .Toowoomba filly on song for more winter targets .
LiveBlogLast Updated 4.45pm AESTFederal election 2016: Turnbull on Sunshine Coast, Shorten in Sydney .Anzac Avenue, Toowoomba .

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