Zedlines

  • Crowded charity market in Australia

    03 February 2012
    Figures released by a spokeswoman from The Office of Fair Trading yesterday showed nearly 4000 charities were registered in Queensland alone last year, making it harder for smaller charities to compete in the overcrowded market.

  • Zuckerburg maintains control of Facebook

    03 February 2012
    Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerburg is expected to retain control over the popular social-networking company even after the website goes public later this year.

  • Celebrity Chef Regains Consciousness

    03 February 2012
    Celebrity chef Matt Golinski, who tragically lost his wife and daughters in a house fire on Boxing Day, has emerged from his coma and is showing signs of improvement.

  • Defence minister rejects claims of troop withdrawal in 2013

    03 February 2012
    Defence Minister Stephen Smith has refuted claims made by the US defence secretary Leon Panetta that the United States will withdraw from Afghanistan by late next year.

  • Referendum on state of the Great Barrier Reef

    03 February 2012
    Conservation group World Wide Fund For Nature has called on Premier Anna Bligh and Liberal National Party leader Campbell Newman to provide firm commitments to safeguard the Great Barrier Reef.

  • Funeral for man who died in custody

    03 February 2012
    The funeral for indigenous man Terrance Briscoe, who died in police custody, will be held today in Alice Springs.

  • Agforce’s stance on CSG under fire

    03 February 2012
    The Wide Bay-Burnett Conversation Council in southern Queensland has accused farm lobby group Agforce of “sitting on the fence” when it comes to coal seam gas exploration.

  • New planet could support life

    03 February 2012
    Astronomers have discovered a planet outside our solar system and 22 light-years from Earth with temperatures that could support water and life.

  • Actor imprisoned for "defaming Islam"

    03 February 2012
    Adel Imam, one of the Arab world’s most famous actors, has been sentenced to 3 months in jail with hard labour for ‘defaming Islam’ in several of his stage and screen roles.

  • Palm Island councillor resigns over sly-grogging allegations

    03 February 2012
    Palm Island Councillor Hal Walsh has resigned after an alleged sly grogging incident on the island involving Mayor Alf Lacey.

  • Tibaldi accused of ‘disregard for the truth’

    03 February 2012
    The Queensland flood inquiry will continue this morning after yesterday’s damaging claims that Wivenhoe Dam engineer John Tibaldi showed a ‘disregard for the truth’ when explaining his actions in the days before the Brisbane floods.

  • 400 wounded in Egypt football violence

    03 February 2012
    400 people have been injured in Cairo in fresh clashes between police and protestors, triggered by the deaths of 74 people after a football game on Wednesday.

  • Death toll rising in Europe

    03 February 2012
    The death toll is rising in central and eastern Europe due to plunging temperatures gripping the continent.

  • Floods Show No Sign of Easing

    03 February 2012
    The regional Queensland town of Mitchell is enduring its worst flood on record after heavy rain on Thursday night caused the Maranoa River to break its banks and inundate homes.

  • Queensland billionaire to try media ownership

    03 February 2012
    Queensland billionaire and mining magnate Clive Palmer yesterday announced he will consider being involved in media ownership like his billionaire equivalent Gina Rinehart, who has recently become Fairfax media’s single largest shareholder.

  • Ipswich Mayor threatens legal action

    03 February 2012
    Ipswich City Council says it will launch legal action if Wivenhoe Dam’s managers are found to have acted negligently during the 2011 flood season

  • Body found in Gold Coast waterway

    03 February 2012
    The body of a 16-year-old Chinese foreign exchange student has been recovered from the Broadwater at Southport, after drowning yesterday in a designated swimming area.

  • Aamer released from English prison

    02 February 2012
    Former Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Aamer has been released from a prison in Dorset in south-west England after serving three months of a six-month prison sentence.

  • Elephants named as part of possible bushfire solution

    02 February 2012
    A possible biological solution has been introduced to the problem of bushfires and invasive species in Australia. Elephants will be brought in and used as 'grass-eating machines' and used alongside Aboriginal patch burning to help manage fire risk.

  • Flood warning updates

    02 February 2012
    Updates have been released regarding the flood situation in southern inland Queensland as some residents have become isolated.

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