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Brisbane Live: Monday April 28, 2014
8:30am Welcome to Brisbane Live, where you'll find rolling coverage of the news as it happens in Brisbane.
A vegetarian in the slaughterhouse
Georgie Mattingley I am a vegetarian, but I love to work at the abattoir. I was initially drawn to it by a curiosity about the unknown. Then I found myself humbled by the initially confronting yet honest nature of the work.
Future tense into the wave of hope
Clay Lucas As Geelong's biggest factories prepare to close their doors, the city has already started to adapt.
Club closes track after fatal Bunbury crash
11:41am The Bunbury Motorcycle Club has closed its track for several weeks out of respect for a teenager who died after smashing into a front end loader.
Shot fired at car after couple park in alleyway
11:25am A police investigation is underway after a couple reported shots fired at their parked car in a Wanneroo alley.
South Korean PM resigns over govt response to ferry disaster
11:45am South Korean Prime Minister Chung Hong-won resigned on Sunday over the government's response to the April 16 ferry disaster.
Wanted: 'Friendly' G20 volunteers
AMY REMEIKIS 11:49am Up to 700 volunteers will be needed to help at the G20 summit in Brisbane.
Man critical after Northbridge brawl
Robyn Preston 11:17am A 21-year-old man is in a critical condition after he was punched in a brawl outside a Northbridge club on Saturday night.
WA's feeling good as Michael Buble kicks off Australian Tour
CHENEE MARRAPODI 11:09am In the words of Michael Buble, "we danced, we sang, we laughed...and we sweated so much we lost 15 pounds".
Browne wins Commonwealth heavyweight title
11:07am Australian Lucas "Big Daddy" Browne has won the vacant Commonwealth and WBC Eurasian Pacific Council heavyweight boxing titles
Seselja starts planners brawl over urban sprawl
JOHN THISTLETON 11:02am Planning commentators are split over Senator Zed Seselja’s suggestion to extend Tuggeranong’s urban footprint to the western side of the Murrumbidgee River.
Rebel NT trio join Palmer party
11:03am Alison Anderson and two other rebel NT parliamentarians have joined the Palmer United Party.
Deadly St Albans rail crossing to be removed
CAROLINE ZIELINSKI 10:55am Melbourne's deadliest level crossing will be removed, four years after the Coalition government first promised to fund an upgrade.
Clive Palmer aims for NT balance of power
Matthew Knott, Gareth Hutchens 11:04am Clive Palmer is on the verge of holding the balance of power in the Northern Territory parliament, as well as the federal Senate, after three defectors from the governing Country Liberal Party government joined his Palmer United Party.
Mum says teen stowaway who survived trip in plane's wheel well was trying to find her
Carlos Lozano 11:17am The mother of a 15-year-old California teenager who stowed away in the wheel well of a Hawaii-bound airliner told Voice of America radio that her son had recently learned that she was alive after being told by his father she had died.
Palmer won't back lifting pension age
10:23am The Palmer United Party wiil not support any pension age increase, says leader Clive Palmer.
Pro-Western politician Abdullah Abdullah leads Afghan presidential vote
Tim Craig and Mohammad Sharif 10:17am A pro-Western candidate has emerged from Afghanistan's April 5 presidential contest with the most votes but still must compete in a runoff election, Afghan election officials said Saturday.
Sailing
Wrong way, go back: Course blunder costs Aussies gold
Miles Godfrey 10:59am Darren Bundock and Nina Curtis have missed out on a World Cup gold medal in controversial fashion during an otherwise vintage day for the Australian sailing team off southern France.
Man killed in Yan Yean ute rollover
9:32am A man has been killed and three people have been injured when a utility rolled on a private property in Victoria.
Cricket
English club side all out for three
9:46am England's cricketers may have suffered the embarrassment of a World Twenty20 defeat by the Netherlands and a 5-0 Ashes thrashing in Australia but even they were never bowled out for three as has happened to one club side.
Golf
Korean Noh bogey-free through three rounds at New Orleans
10:51am South Korean Noh Seung-yul produced another flawless performance to earn a two-stroke lead over American Keegan Bradley after the third round at the $6.8 million Zurich Classic of New Orleans on Saturday.
Basketball
NBA investigating recording of alleged racist comments by Clippers owner
Billy Witz and Andrew Keh 10:23am Calls for action have echoed around the NBA after an audio recording surfaced of a man identified as Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling telling his girlfriend not to bring black people to games.
Fish-hook baits left at Newport Lakes dog-walking area
Benjamin Millar 9:03am Police are stepping up patrols around a popular dog-walking area in Melbourne's west after a pet swallowed meat laden with fish hooks on Saturday morning.
Wladimir Klitschko destroys Alex Leapai's heavyweight title dream
Phil Lutton in Germany 8:05am Alex Leapai's dream of becoming world heavyweight champion wasn't so much deflated as destroyed.
Boxing
Alex Leapai destroyed by Wladimir Klitschko as he lands just 10 punches
PHIL LUTTON 9:33am OBERHAUSEN: Alex Leapai's dream of becoming world heavyweight champion wasn't so much deflated as destroyed.
Nishikori to meet Giraldo in Barcelona final
Tim Hanlon 10:41am Fourth seed Kei Nishikori became the first Japanese player to reach the final of the Barcelona Open when he out-hit Latvia's Ernests Gulbis 6-2 6-4 on Saturday.
Rugby
Germany stay in hunt for RWC berth
10:37am Germany remain in contention for a 2015 Rugby World Cup place after Saturday's 45-20 win over Sweden with Saracens' ex-junior Springbok Justin Melck scoring on his debut.
Saracens reach maiden Heineken Cup final with Clermont rout
10:47am Saracens reached the Heineken Cup final for the first time with a 46-6 thrashing of last season's beaten finalists Clermont Auvergne on Saturday on the back of a record breaking performance by England discard Chris Ashton.
