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A MINING company closed a road in Moorlands while it drilled an exploratory hole in the surface of the road.

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Former Bundaberg Hospital surgeon Jayant Patel is appealing his conviction and sentence on manslaughter and grievous bodily harm charges.

Bleijie says Jayant Patel can forget about compensation

QUEENSLAND Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie said Dr Jayant Patel can forget the notion of receiving any compensation from the State Government.

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Had the Labor and Libs listened to Rob Messenger, Patel would have been charged and no doubt convicted with the correct offences. For unknown reasons Lab and Libs did not support Rob, instead they turned on him and attempted to destroy him personally...

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Colleen Doherty receives penalty rates for night shifts and weekend work at Bridges Cafe and Restaurant.

Penalty rates โ€˜add pressureโ€™ for bosses in hospitality

BRIDGES Cafe and Restaurant owner Mick Burley knows just how much of a blow penalty rates can be on small businesses.

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While there are unemployed people in this country capable of work no industry should be paying any penalty rates regardless of the hour of the day or the day on the week, month or year. However there should be a fair roster so everyone in the employ is...

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Decision likely to translate to unnecessary deaths at the hospital, either because of delay in treatment or lack of specialist care, a staff member says.

Hervey Bay Hospital's intensive care unit to be closed

HERVEY Bay Hospital's intensive care unit will shut at the end of the month with ICU specialist positions and nursing positions cut from staff at the hospital.

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ollie3105

Good Job Queensland Health. You have already cut essential jobs within the health system putting pressure on staff, now you want to shut down our ICU. What has happened to our rights! Where was our illustrious Deputy Prime Minister Mr Truss when this...

ollie3105 from Bidwill
Gympie Council

Progress stymied

UNLIKE most businesses in the Gympie region, Paul McKeown and Hubo Hazeltonโ€™s enterprises at the Gympie Airport donโ€™t have power.

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"They said much of the funds the council has spent on the airport would have been better used had businesses and others who regularly use the airfield been consulted." Much of the funds the council has spent on lots of things would have been better...

davefreeman_thegymp from Cedar Pocket

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Ugly politics blinding LNP and Labor bloggers

SO often, in going through comments on this site, we see people who believe that everything the LNP does is wrong, or everything that Labor does is wrong.

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maybe you should explain why the paper allows so much anonymous content on its other fora. the letters pages. at least on here everyone is expected to be anonymous, but in the letters it is going to far to have such extreme political points of view...

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