Today's Fresh Blogs...

• Australia's north one of 'last great natural areas'

  Published: August 13, 2007, 6:01 pm

  Tags: Environment, Endangered Protected Species, Environmental Management, Australia, Darwin 0800, Cairns 4870, Mount Isa 4825, Broome 6725, Karratha 6714

  A new scientific study has found north Australia is emerging as one of the last great natural areas on earth.

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• Shift workers 'at greater risk' of road accidents

  Published: September 5, 2007, 6:13 pm

  Tags: Disasters Accidents, Accidents, Road Accidents, Health, Sleep, Cairns 4870

  An Australian sleep expert says shift workers face a greater risk of being involved in road accidents.

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• Bligh stays quiet on council mergers

  Published: September 11, 2007, 4:39 pm

  Tags: Government Politics, States Territories, Qld, Bundaberg 4670, Cairns 4870, Longreach 4730, Mackay 4740, Maroochydore 4558, Mount Isa 4825, Rockhampton 4700, Southport 4215, Toowoomba 4350, Townsville 4810

  Queensland's incoming premier Anna Bligh has refused to comment on the thorny issue of council amalgamations until she is officially endorsed to fill the top job.

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• Underage road deaths 'highlight need for more education'

  Published: September 19, 2007, 12:17 am

  Tags: Disasters Accidents, Accidents, Road Accidents, Driver Education, Qld, Cairns 4870, Dalby 4405, Gympie 4570

  Several crashes involving underage drivers, leaving one teenager dead on regional Queensland roads in recent days are raising concerns in the road safety industry.

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• Govt must do more to aid housing affordability: HIA

  Published: September 19, 2007, 7:17 pm

  Tags: Business Economics Finance, Industry, Housing, Government Politics, Australia, Qld, Cairns 4870, Mackay 4740, Townsville 4810

  The Housing Industry Association (HIA) says the Federal Government must put more money towards housing infrastructure to ease the housing affordability crisis.

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• Police investigate sugar mill fire

  Published: September 23, 2007, 7:03 pm

  Tags: Disasters Accidents, Fires, Industrial Fires, Cairns 4870

  Fire authorities are investigating a blaze that extensively damaged the Mulgrave Central Sugar Mill in far North Queensland overnight.

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• High-flyers in Nth Qld to assess natural resources

  Published: September 24, 2007, 7:42 pm

  Tags: Drought, Environment, Environmental Management, Water, Cairns 4870, Longreach 4730, Mackay 4740, Mount Isa 4825, Rockhampton 4700, Townsville 4810

  A group of high profile businessmen and politicians is touring north Queensland to determine how to best use the region's natural resources.

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• Cassowaries still at risk as rainforest recovers from Larry

  Published: September 26, 2007, 9:00 pm

  Tags: Cyclones, Environment, Conservation, Endangered Protected Species, Qld, Cairns 4870, Mission Beach 4852

  Scientists say most of the far north Queensland rainforest that was shredded by Cyclone Larry in March last year has bounced back.

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• Bruce Hwy most dangerous in country: report

  Published: September 27, 2007, 9:27 pm

  Tags: Accidents, Road Accidents, Federal State Issues, Cairns 4870, Innisfail 4860

  The RACQ says a report showing the Bruce Highway between Cairns and Innisfail is the most dangerous stretch of highway in the country, should be a wake-up call to authorities.

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• Vaile admits catch-up on highway funding

  Published: October 4, 2007, 6:24 am

  Tags: Regional Development, Government Politics, Elections, Road Transport, Federal Election 2007, Qld, Brisbane 4000, Cairns 4870, Rockhampton 4700, Sarina 4737

  Deputy Prime Minister Mark Vaile admits there is an element of catch-up with the funding for the Bruce Highway announced today, but says he is hopeful it will also foster further growth in Queensland.

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• Boswell fishing for votes, Greens say

  Published: October 10, 2007, 9:16 pm

  Tags: Environment, Conservation, Government Politics, Elections, Federal Government, Political Parties, Greens, Law Crime Justice, Laws, Marine Parks, Minor Parties, Federal Election 2007, Australia, Qld, Cairns 4870, Mackay 4740, Rockhampton 4700, Townsville 4810

  The Greens say Nationals Senator Ron Boswell is being hypocritical by trying to overturn hundreds of convictions for illegal fishing in the Great Barrier Reef.

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• Storms damages Qld homes, businesses

  Published: October 12, 2007, 6:14 am

  Tags: Weather, Storm, Qld, Cairns 4870, Hervey Bay 4655, Mackay Mc 4741

  Emergency services say damage reports are starting to filter through from storms across Queensland.

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• Shark savages FNQ spearfisherman

  Published: October 14, 2007, 4:16 pm

  Tags: Human Interest, Animal Attacks, Shark Attacks, Travel Tourism, Australia, Qld, Cairns 4870

  A Brisbane tourist has been treated for wounds suffered during a shark attack off the Far North Queensland coast over the weekend.

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• Cairns man arrested over 1980s sex assaults

  Published: October 27, 2007, 2:19 am

  Tags: Law Crime Justice, Police, Sexual Offences, Australia, Nsw, Qld, Cairns 4870

  Police from New South Wales are travelling to Cairns to seek the extradition of a man wanted on several arrest warrants for sexual assaults from the 1980s.

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• Qld Labor denies campaigning in Govt mail

  Published: November 7, 2007, 6:27 pm

  Tags: Government And Politics, Elections, Federal State Issues, Unions, Federal Election 2007, Qld, Cairns 4870, Ipswich 4305

  Queensland ALP branch president Ron Monaghan has categorically denied the party is sending out campaign material in State Government mail.

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