Local, national and world news for the Whitsundays, QLD | Friday 4 July, 2008
1200 at show
Show vice-president Donna Rogers said gate takings were the best on record. "It was brilliant, after a really tragic show last year, it was great," Ms Rogers said. "We worked out it was 26 per cent on the best previous year, which was 2005." Sideshow alley was also reportedly bigger than past years....-
News in brief
THE State treasurer of Queensland, Andrew Fraser, confirmed during a visit to the Whitsundays last week that he expected... -
600 sign petition against oil shale
More than 600 people have signed a petition in protest to the development of a proposed mine in the Goorganga Flood plain... -
$21 million deficit
Mayor Mike Brunker and CEO John Finlay held a press conference on Tuesday announcing that the former Whitsunday Shire... -
Whitsundays represented at tourism exchange
Eighteen Whitsunday operators spread the word on the region at the Australian Tourism Exchange in Perth over six days from... -
Plans for cinema
One is planned for upstairs at Beach Plaza and the other a much larger project is for a shopping centre and six screen...
Australian news
Boy found off coast but dad still missing
Police will re-evaluate their search for a missing man whose five-year-old son was found floating in the Tweed River in northern NSW.Don't rush emissions trading: Nelson
Opposition Leader Brendan Nelson has warned Prime Minister Kevin Rudd against rushing into an emissions trading scheme (ETS) by 2010.Garnaut report has no answers: farmers
The Garnaut report on climate change acknowledges the impact of an emissions trading scheme on farmers but fails to offer solutions, Queensland farmers say.McIver may sit out race for top job
Queensland Nationals president Bruce McIver has avoided committing to contesting the presidency of the state's new conservative party.
World news
Australia praised, pedophile sentenced
Australian authorities have been praised in the US after an American pedophile was on Friday sentenced to 33 years in prison.Man gives birth
A US man who was born a woman before undergoing gender reassignment surgery has given birth to a baby girl, US media reported today.French students die in frenzied stabbing
Two French students who have been found stabbed to death in a charred London flat were subjected to a frenzied, brutal and horrific attack, say police.Italy starts fingerprinting Gypsies
Italian authorities have started fingerprinting thousands of Gypsies living in nomad camps brushing aside accusations of racism by human rights organisations.
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