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Rural lobby group says foreign investment is good for competition

QLD Country Hour
By Craig Zonca

Posted July 23, 2015 17:12:30
The president of Queensland rural lobby group AgForce says foreign investment in agriculture is needed to maximise competition.

Topics: agricultural-policy, agricultural-prices, agricultural-marketing, foreign-affairs, brisbane-4000
Eastern Young Cattle Indicator hits 546 cents per kilogram

ABC Rural
Robin McConchie

Posted July 23, 2015 16:45:54 | Updated July 23, 2015 16:48:38
Cattle prices in the United states continue to slip, as confidence climbs in Australia.

Topics: beef-cattle, agricultural-marketing, trade, brisbane-4000
Queensland inquiry probes claims police failed to investigate fraud complaints

By the National Reporting Team's Mark Solomons

Posted July 23, 2015 16:16:57 | Updated July 23, 2015 17:11:18
Queensland's commission of inquiry into organised crime probes allegations police failed to investigate hundreds of complaints from across Australia of serious investment fraud allegedly carried out by companies based on the Gold Coast.

Topics: police, corruption, fraud-and-corporate-crime, law-crime-and-justice, qld
Police reopen probe into 2009 death of 4yo Tyrell Cobb

Posted July 23, 2015 16:15:39
Police investigating the death of a four-year-old boy on the Gold Coast in 2009 want to hear from neighbours at the time.

Topics: police, law-crime-and-justice, biggera-waters-4216
Accused kidnapper in psychiatric hospital, court hears

By court reporter James Hancock

Posted July 23, 2015 14:46:22
A Queensland man accused of kidnapping another man in Melbourne and driving him hundreds of kilometres into South Australia is in a psychiatric hospital, a court hears.

Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, adelaide-5000, sa, qld, vic, st-albans-3021
'It rips our hearts out', Grantham resident says on recalling deadly flood

By Courtney Wilson

Posted July 23, 2015 14:42:30
A former quarry worker speaks at an inquiry into the fatal 2011 flood at Grantham, west of Brisbane, of his anger and torment over the cause of the disaster.

Topics: courts-and-trials, floods, local-government, activism-and-lobbying, community-development, grantham-4347, gatton-4343, toowoomba-4350
Beached whale calf at Palm Beach on Gold Coast dies

Posted July 23, 2015 14:30:37 | Updated July 23, 2015 16:05:24
A whale calf beached at Palm Beach on the Gold Coast this afternoon dies.

Topics: mammals---whales, animals, currumbin-4223
Producers with cattle are enjoying high prices while those without stock are struggling

QLD Country Hour
By Eliza Rogers

Posted July 23, 2015 14:14:15
Queensland cattle producers are reporting a mixed bag of fortunes in the local cattle game.

Topics: beef-cattle, drought, agricultural-prices, rainfall, townsville-4810
Household, industrial gas prices to surge on LNG export boom

By finance reporter Simon Frazer

Posted July 23, 2015 14:04:52 | Updated July 23, 2015 14:46:22
Household gas prices are predicted to jump 30 per cent, with the price rise also having the potential to kill parts of Australia's already struggling industrial sector.

Topics: oil-and-gas, manufacturing, economic-trends, australia, qld, wa
Wet harvest and yellow canopy thwarts cane crop

ABC Rural
By Charlie McKillop

Posted July 23, 2015 14:02:39 | Updated July 23, 2015 16:08:09
A combination of unseasonal wet weather and the mysterious yellow canopy syndrome mean Queensland's cane crush is now unlikely to realise the 33 million tonnes forecast.

Topics: sugar, crop-harvesting, cairns-4870, maroochydore-4558, townsville-4810, mackay-4740, bundaberg-4670, tully-4854
Grower says farms can lead fight on climate change

QLD Country Hour
By David Sparkes

Posted July 23, 2015 13:50:27 | Updated July 23, 2015 14:00:18
A Queensland cane grower and soil researcher says farming holds the greatest potential to remove carbon from the atmosphere and reverse climate change.

Topics: rural, agricultural-crops, climate-change, sustainable-and-alternative-farming, sugar, marian-4753
Sushi bar owner found short-changing foreign workers

By Rachel Riga

Posted July 23, 2015 13:30:12
A Fair Work Ombudsman investigation has found a Wide Bay restaurant owner in southern Queensland underpaid four foreign workers more than $28,000 over six months.

Topics: work, consumer-protection, food-and-beverage, bundaberg-4670, maroochydore-4558, hervey-bay-4655
MP pleads for help to tackle Bundaberg grog-fuelled violence

By Frances Adcock

Posted July 23, 2015 12:34:48
A Wide Bay MP says the region desperately needs more programs to address late-night alcohol-fuelled violence in Bundaberg.

Topics: programs-and-initiatives, drugs-and-substance-abuse, states-and-territories, assault, antisocial-behaviour, bundaberg-4670
Drought videos to showcase resilience in communities

ABC Rural
By Chrissy Arthur and Lydia Burton

Posted July 23, 2015 12:06:45 | Updated July 23, 2015 12:26:49
A rural women's group wants to use real stories of people coping with drought to help showcase strength and resilience in communities.

Topics: rural-women, rural-youth, drought, community-development, rural-media, family-and-children, longreach-4730
Australians invited to tell stories through classical music

612 ABC Brisbane
By Jessica Hinchliffe and Terri Begley

Posted July 23, 2015 11:59:27 | Updated July 23, 2015 15:36:38
Classical music lovers from across the country are being asked to nominate a piece of music which moves them, as part of an upcoming concert in Brisbane highlighting the personal stories of everyday people.

Topics: music, arts-and-entertainment, carnivals-and-festivals, human-interest, brisbane-4000, bundaberg-4670, lismore-2480
Soils need double the research spending say researchers

ABC Rural
By Sarina Locke

Posted July 23, 2015 11:48:51 | Updated July 23, 2015 14:14:15
We are halfway through the International Year of Soil, and Australian soil scientists are brimming with enthusiasm, a contrast to the doomsayers.

Topics: earth-sciences, grain, sydney-2000, bunbury-6230, bundaberg-4670, wagga-wagga-2650, orange-2800, launceston-7250, the-university-of-sydney-2006
Researchers count endangered dunnart in outback Qld

By Zara Margolis

Posted July 23, 2015 11:35:16
Researchers from the University of Queensland say special baits have helped them to capture an elusive and endangered marsupial in the state's north-west.

Topics: endangered-and-protected-species, animals, julia-creek-4823, mount-isa-4825, longreach-4730
Cairns urged to find new bulk water supply

By Kirsty Nancarrow

Posted July 23, 2015 11:27:57
The project director of far north Queensland's proposed Aquis Casino and Resort says Cairns needs to start looking for a new bulk water supply now.

Topics: water-supply, regional-development, water, water-management, cairns-4870
Superannuation payments to Gordon Nuttall not recovered by previous governments

By Melinda Howells

Posted July 23, 2015 11:26:48 | Updated July 23, 2015 16:27:14
It appears that Queensland's previous Labor and LNP governments have not recovered superannuation payments to disgraced former MP Gordon Nuttall, the state's Treasurer says.

Topics: crime, courts-and-trials, state-parliament, alp, corruption, qld
Alleged paedophile teacher fronts court at Caboolture

By John Taylor

Posted July 23, 2015 11:22:21 | Updated July 23, 2015 12:46:27
A 43-year-old primary school teacher from north of Brisbane appears in court charged with possessing and accessing child pornography.

Topics: courts-and-trials, caboolture-4510
New Maroochydore-Sydney flights to take off

By Bruce Atkinson

Posted July 23, 2015 11:17:41
The Sunshine Coast Mayor says a new Qantas service from Maroochydore to Sydney, catering for the business market, will provide a huge boost to the local economy.

Topics: air-transport, maroochydore-4558
Man jailed over violent Gladstone home invasion

By Paul Robinson

Posted July 23, 2015 11:10:27
A District Court judge has jailed a man for what he described as a rein of terror at a Gladstone caravan park in central Queensland last year.

Topics: courts-and-trials, assault, burglary, gladstone-4680
Mackay library to make CBD move

By Melissa Maddison

Posted July 23, 2015 11:06:12
The Mackay Regional Council in north Queensland says an iconic CBD building will be transformed into a new high-tech library.

Topics: urban-development-and-planning, local-government, mackay-4740
Man jailed over Cairns Airport cannabis

By Sharnie Kim

Posted July 23, 2015 10:57:56
A South Australian man has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years' jail after being caught at the Cairns Airport, in far north Queensland, with more than 10 kilograms of cannabis.

Topics: courts-and-trials, drug-offences, cairns-4870
New taskforce to tackle M1 traffic congestion

By Michelle Rafferty

Posted July 23, 2015 10:52:04
A new taskforce warns growth on the Gold Coast will suffer if congestion on the M1 is ignored.

Topics: road-transport, activism-and-lobbying, coomera-4209, southport-4215

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