LNP likely to secure Toowoomba south seat as counting continues
Counting has resumed in the Toowoomba South by-election race, with the LNP expected to retain the seat and continue its seven-year run.As of Sunday morning, LNP candidate and banker David Janetzki had claimed 46.38 per cent of primary votes, followed by Independent Di Thorley on 35.11 per cent, with 81 per cent counted. LNP candidate for Toowoomba South David Janetzki. Photo: Supplied The Darling Downs-based seat was up for grabs when Liberal National Party MP John McVeigh vacated the se..>> view originalMan dies in single-car rollover
A MAN has died after his car rolled over while travelling through Tregony, south of Toowoomba, this morning.It is understood the crash took place on the Cunningham Highway at around 7.25am.The man, aged in his 70s, died upon arrival at hospital.The Forensic Crash Unit will be attending the crash site later in the day.Lengthy delays along the highway are expected.>> view originalMeanwhile, in Queensland: Welcome to FNQ, Pauline
Meanwhile, in Queensland: Welcome to FNQ, PaulinePauline Hanson verbally attacked in Cairns0:24Indigenous activist Murrandoo Yanner verbally attacks Pauline Hanson at the Cairns Indigenous Art Fair on Saturday. Video: Bernaysii Bloom Welcome to far north Queensland, Pauline Hanson. Or not. The Senator-elect was left in no doubt what Gulf of Carpentaria Aboriginal firebrand and land rights activist Murrandoo Yanner thought of her in Cairns this weekend. Hanson was there to march with AgForce aga..>> view originalRare Pokémon causes 'stampede' in New York's Central Park
A rare Pokémon Go character has been identified as the cause of an apparent stampede in New York’s Central Park, after crowds of people were filmed sprinting through the area. Video shows traffic being brought to a halt in a nearby street on Thursday night, as dozens of people sprint towards the park, reportedly in search of a ‘Vaporeon’ character.“There’s a Vaporeaon right there, so everyone’s running,” one person can be heard shouting. Pokémon Go is an interactive mobile phone game that uses..>> view originalQLD Bowling team trains in Gympie
GYMPIE will be the training ground this weekend for the Queensland Indoor Bowling Team, starting today at noon and tomorrow at 8.30am. Team president Carmel Blyth said the team would be competing hard in the Australian Indoor Bowling Championships in Shellharbour, New South Wales, next month. The mid-August date is coming up fast for the competitors, who want to be at their peak, with practice sessions here and next weekend at Nambour. "There are 52 senior members in the team and two..>> view originalTremendous toll — the high price being paid by MH17 families
The story behind the horror MH17 video3:32European Correspondent Charles Miranda discusses footage - obtained exclusively by News Corp Australia - filmed by Russian-backed rebels of the MH17 aftermath, in Ukraine?s east. Jerzy Dyczynski and Angela Rudhart-Dyczynski at the crash site of MH17 after learning of the death of 25-year-old daughter Fatima. Picture: APRobyn IronsideNews Corp Australia NetworkFOR the first time since MH17 was shot out of the sky, legal documents have revealed the tremen..>> view originalCowboys dominate Highfields in top-five clash in TRL
RUGBY LEAGUE: Mick Bloomfield won the Hutchies Mug for player of the match as the Warwick Cowboys beat Highfields 33-4 in the TRL A-grade game at Father Ranger Oval today.After leading 6-4 midway through the first term, the Cowboys scored close to half-time to lead 10-4.They then scored two tries in the first seven minutes of the second half for a 20-4 lead.The Warwick dominance continued during the rest of the second half.Forward Bloomfield scored one try and was almost unstoppable in possessi..>> view originalPlease check your internet connection and try again
FOR the first time since MH17 was shot out of the sky, legal documents have revealed the tremendous toll the crash has taken on Australian families — in particular the parents of three young children killed in the atrocity. Two years ago today, Mo, Evie and Otis Maslin, aged 12, 10 and 8, boarded the Malaysia Airlines’ flight with their grandfather Nicoll Norris, after farewelling their parents in Amsterdam.Hours later, the Boeing 777 was shot down over a war zone in eastern Ukraine, killing all..>> view originalFloods, cyclones and earthquakes rock the city
WHEN his Excellency the Governor Sir Henry Wylie Norman K.C.M.G. was informed that 10 medals for gallantry and humanity in endeavouring to preserve life were to be presented by the Royal Humane Society of Australia at Ipswich on Saturday September 22, 1894 he requested that he should attend. The medals were being presented to those who strived so hard and showed such gallantry in rescuing the Jackson family from the flooded Bremer River in February 1893. Silver Medals were presented to ..>> view originalThe early days of newspapers on the Sunshine Coast
FOR 80 years the Nambour Chronicle and North Coast Advertiser recorded local and overseas news, social, sporting and business activities and photographs of the area we now know as the Sunshine Coast. The first Chronicle was issued by its proprietor and editor, Luke Wilkinson, on July 31, 1903. It was printed in a small weatherboard building in Currie St, Nambour, and later a shift was made to the northern end of the street.Staff initially included Luke Wilkinson (the proprietor/editor), a compo..>> view original
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