Qld: Schools fail security test

AAP General News (Australia)
08-16-2000
Qld: Schools fail security test

Questions have been raised about Queensland school safety, after a new report found
schools across the state continue to fail security tests.

The report, written four years after Cairns schoolboy TJANDAMURRA O'SHANE was doused
with petrol and set alight in a school playground, has found schools are still vulnerable
to random attacks.

After the Cairns attack in October 1996, schools were ordered to review their safety
arrangements.

But the latest report -- ordered by Education Minister DEAN WELLS last year after a
school gang attack -- has found many schools in remote areas are yet to complete guidelines
to improve security.

The state opposition has accused the BEATTIE government of snoozing over school safety
since the TJANDAMURRA O'SHANE incident.

But a spokeswoman for Mr WELLS says school security will be finalised with the appropriate
advice of security experts.

The report calls for school security plans to be completed, and formal links to be
established with emergency services.

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KEYWORD: SCHOOLS (BRISBANE)

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Qld: Skeleton found in bush is a 17 year old woman

AAP General News (Australia)
02-28-2000
Qld: Skeleton found in bush is a 17 year old woman

A skeleton found in bushland west of Brisbane last week has been identified as that
of a 17-year-old woman.

Police say the woman was last heard of in November 1997, but police will not be releasing
her name until relatives overseas are informed.

The bones were found last week off Old Logan Road at Gailes, near Ipswich, …

Qld: two on drugs charges

AAP General News (Australia)
12-26-1999
Qld: two on drugs charges

Police in Caboolture, north of Brisbane, say two men arrested on Christmas Eve are facing
numerous stolen property charges when they appear in the local court tomorrow.

Police went to a house at nearby Mount Mee on Friday night and took possession of stolen
goods -- as well as drugs and drug-making equipment, they say.

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KEYWORD: CHARGES (BRISBANE)

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FED: Coalminers to strike over Oakdale inaction = 3

AAP General News (Australia)
08-12-1999
FED: Coalminers to strike over Oakdale inaction = 3

Mr Maher said the simple solution to the problem was to pay the workers from the coal
industry's Long Service Leave Fund which had $240 million in it.

"The money belongs to mineworkers and we are asking the federal government to pass a simple
amendment to our Long Service Leave Act to allow the $6.3 million to be paid to the Oakdale
miners," he said.

"The fund will be completely self-supporting by January 2003 and all we are asking is that
the current levy be extended by just over six weeks to pay the miners.

"It is not too much to ask of an industry that earns over $10 billion a year in exports."

A CFMEU spokesman said its executive would meet early next week to consider the impact of
the stoppage and, depending on the government's reaction, consider further strategies.

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KEYWORD: OAKDALE STRIKE 3 SYDNEY

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QLD: Rural industries wary of water management plan = 2

AAP General News (Australia)
02-18-1999
QLD: Rural industries wary of water management plan = 2

Mr Lester also said export opportunities and job growth had been dealt a blow with a
decision by the government to axe the Flinders River dam planned for Richmond.

He said the Finch Hatton and St Helen's Creek dams near Mackay were axed before Christmas
and the Natham dam planned for central Queensland had been put on hold.

Mr Lester said the Flinders dam was to hold 620,000 megalitres of water to irrigate
vegetable farms, grains, oil seed, cotton and stock fodder.

"This decision speaks volumes about the government's professed commitment to job creation,"
Mr Lester said.

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KEYWORD: WAMP 2 BRISBANE (REOPENS)

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QLD:Incorrect flood strategy recorded: inquiry

AAP General News (Australia)
02-05-2012
QLD:Incorrect flood strategy recorded: inquiry

Queensland's flood inquiry has heard internal documents used by the operators of the
Wivenhoe Dam during the flood incorrectly recorded what strategy was actually in place.

The flood event control centre log and situational reports were examined in detail
in an unprecedented weekend sitting of the inquiry.

Lead engineer, Sunwater's ROBERT AYRE, was cross-examined by JAMES MURDOCH, SC, for
Mid-Brisbane River irrigators, over the internal documents which stated engineers …

QLD:Missing teen report hoax: police

AAP General News (Australia)
02-05-2011
QLD:Missing teen report hoax: police

BRISBANE, Feb 5 AAP - Police believe a report of a teenager missing in Black River,
near Townsville, is a hoax and have scaled back their search.

The teen was reported missing at 8.15pm (AEST) on Friday after allegedly going swimming
in the Black River at the bridge on Black River Road, northwest of Townsville.

Emergency crews closed one lane of the Bruce …