Ipswich, Sunshine Coast lead charge as youth unemployment rate ...
Ipswich Mayor Paul Pisasale says the rest of the country could do worse than following his city's lead. Photo: Harrison Saragossi Ipswich, the Sunshine Coast and southern Brisbane have led the charge in improving youth unemployment rates in Queensland, new data has revealed.But the Australian Bureau of Statistics data, analysed by Queensland Treasury, also showed the situation in outback Queensland was dire and getting worse.Youth unemployment dropped 0.9 per..>> view originalGifted teen's long haul opens world's uni doors
HAVING already travelled 120,000km by train to get his education on track, a Buderim teenager is weighing up university opportunities on three different continents. Finn Daniel, 17, wrote to more than 70 Sunshine Coast solicitors this week in pursuit of an internship ahead of a tertiary education either in Australia, the UK or the US. Since turning 14, Finn has commuted the equivalent of three times around the world, travelling to Toowong to study at the Queensland Academies - Science, ..>> view originalIt makes cents to cash in on containers
BEACHGOERS could be forgiven for needing to take a second glance at "litter" on the sand yesterday. After all, it's not every day you see a giant drink can with arms and legs, let alone an over-size 10c coin too big to have fallen out of someone's pocket. There was a serious message behind the dress-ups by members of the Sunshine Coast branch of the Surfriders Foundation. They are pushing for Queensland to adopt a container deposit scheme similar to that operating in South Australia,..>> view originalWar vet laments the quiet life at 101
HE may turn 102 in November, but there's not much that escapes Second World War veteran Les Herse's attention. Spending more time than he'd like watching television since he and wife Vera shifted from Sundale Palmwoods Retirement Village to RSL Care's Tantula Rise Alexandra Headland nursing home, the veteran of the Papua New Guinea campaign says he's sorry he didn't take up politics. Then with a twinkle of the eye he says the shift wouldn't have worked because he's "not a big enough win..>> view originalNoosa loses magic mentor Ben Cahn
NOOSA Lions' driving coaching force Ben Cahn, after steering his football side to within a whisker of the FFA Cup final round, has been head-hunted to the A-League Central Coast Mariners to take over the key role of youth coach. The London-raised local player-coach will be hanging up his boots to pick up the coaching clipboard down at Gosford from February 1 and hopes his side's debut will be more memorable than his first game for Noosa. "I played my first game for Noosa on my 21st birt..>> view originalBruce Highway at Curra is closed following serious crash
The Bruce Highway at Glenwood is currently closed following a serious traffic crash involving a truck and three vehicles. The crash occurred at approximately 8.30am today. The highway is closed just north of Curra and is expected to remain closed for approximately 30 - 40 minutes. Traffic travelling in either direction can continue via Tin Can Bay and Rainbow Beach, or Cooloola Coast Road into Maryborough.>> view originalLogan: The story of an embattled suburb
AS WE prepare to celebrate Australia Day on Tuesday, a new TV documentary shines a spotlight on the country's most diverse suburb. No, it's not somewhere in Sydney or even Melbourne but, in fact, Logan on the southern outskirts of Brisbane. SBS's two-part series The Logan Project will air in full on Australia Day and follows the Queensland Music Festival's two-year project to stage a community-produced concert in the embattled suburb. The most I knew about Logan before watching the f..>> view originalFind the time to work on intimacy before Valentine's Day
WITH Valentine's Day looming ever larger on the horizon, Coast intimacy coach Pauline Ryeland says it is a good time for couples to work on tightening their bonds. The certified Tantra teacher, sex coach and educator said a recent survey she had found showed there were more than 1.7 million Australian men and women in sexless marriages. Coupling that figure with the high divorce rate, Ms Ryeland said it was important that couples learnt to shut down if they want to get down. Technolo..>> view originalLa Loche school shooting: Teen charged with 4 murders
A 17-year-old boy has been charged with four counts of first-degree murder over a shooting at a school and nearby house in Canada, police say. The boy is accused of killing two people and injuring several others at a remote community school of about 900 students in the province of Saskatchewan. It took place on Friday (local time) at the school in La Loche, a mainly aboriginal community, 600 kilometres from the regional capital Saskatoon. Two other bodies were also found by police in..>> view originalAngie Bowie: David staged his passing well
ANGIE Bowie thought her late ex-husband David Bowie "staged his passing well". The 66-year-old former model was shocked to hear David - who she was married to from 1970 to 1980 - had died of cancer earlier this month because she expected him to outlive her, and while she wasn't on speaking terms with the 'Starman' hitmaker before his passing she has no regrets about it. Speaking about being informed David had died aged 69 while she was competing on UK reality TV show 'Celebrity Big Brot..>> view original
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