Senator vows to fight for Sunshine Coast dairy farmers and other top stories.

• Senator vows to fight for Sunshine Coast dairy farmers

  DAIRY farmers in the Sunshine Coast are concerned they might be flooded with cheap milk from southern competitors after milk giants Fonterra and Murray Goulbourn slashed prices. The large-scale milk producers made headlines over the past two weeks after announcing they would slash to below production price the amount they were willing to pay farmers for milk. The decision saw a number of dairy farmers in southern states decide to give up farming, including former reality TV star on The Farmer W..

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• Twist in $40 million Powerball battle

  

  YESTERDAY the boss whose underlings cut him out of a $40 million Powerball win said he had supported his co-workers through tough times and was disappointed - today it's emerged the man who bought the ticket reckons the boss didn't put his cash in. The Supreme Court of New South Wales, heard this morning that Brendon King - the aggrieved boss - will claim he was part of the winning syndicate on May 5 when the lucky numbers came up.  But a legal representative of Robert Adams - the man w..

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• Spanner in the works for Jarryd Hayne

  

  The Jarryd Hayne soap opera has taken another bizarre twist with the former NRL star left out of Fiji’s initial sevens squad for this weekend’s round of the world series in London.While that doesn’t mean he won’t get an opportunity to show what he could do, with the final squad not required to be named until tomorrow, it does raise serious questions.Hayne stunned the sporting world earlier this week when he announced he was quitting the San Francisco 49ers franchise in the NFL to chase his late..

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• Suspended jockey Luke Tarrant charged after raid

  

  SUSPENDED jockey Luke Ronald Tarrant has been charged with drug and property offences after a raid on a Landsborough property.Police officers from the Greyhound Racing Inquiry Task Force searched a home on May 7 and as a result charged the 21-year-old Magic Millions-winning jockey with the offences on Friday last week.He was charged with stealing, two counts of possessing tainted property and three drug-related matters.Police also charged two Landsborough men, aged 22 and 24, with unrelated off..

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• WE SAY: Time to ban ugly slogans

  

  THE RACQ is right to urge the State Government to crackdown on the tawdry and obnoxious business model being run by the Queensland-registered Wicked Campers. Wicked Campers have ignored a litany of public complaints about signs adorning its cheap rental vans whose price point alone is surely enough to attract the backpacker market it targets. It has also over time chosen to ignore the adverse findings of the Advertising Standards Bureau. There are standards for billboards and television..

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• Australia Zoo welcomes baby giraffe

  

  THEY say good things take time and that's certainly been the case at Australia Zoo, where Sally the giraffe has given birth to a baby daughteer after a 15-month pregnancy. The new arrival came into the world at 12.15pm last Tuesday, May 10, but won't make her first appearance in pubic for a while yet. The zoo's head of African animals, Manu Ludden, said she was proud of eight-year-old Sally and overjoyed about the birth of her second calf. "We're thrilled to announce the birth of yet..

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• Locals will lose support as legal funding slashed

  

  CUTS to funding mean hundreds of Sunshine Coast region residents will be in legal limbo from July 1, 2017. This is because the current Federal Government cut community legal centre funding by 30% in the 2014 budget. Unlike the nation's capital cities, there is just one free legal service for our residents to turn to when they are facing problems relating to domestic violence, divorce and separation, child protection, employment, credit, debt and consumer contract issues, disability disc..

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• Time to dig deep for the Salvos

  

  IF a struggling farmer who didn’t have enough money in the bank to pay his mortgage knocked at the door, would you ignore him?What if it was a young woman whose husband had just died of cancer, leaving her and her three children with a mountain of bills?When you hear a knock at the door in the next few weeks, it might not be one of these people, but it will be someone representing them.The Salvation Army’s annual Red Shield Appeal Doorknock has started again as the organisation looks for your h..

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• LETTER: You can't complain

  

  POINTING to the region's unmet needs, Mayor Mark Jamieson rightly concludes that Federal and State LNP MPs have been lazy and have delivered nothing for the Sunshine Coast. At that point, LNP MPs had a choice. Ignore the statement hoping it would go away or to respond outlining their achievements. Mark McArdle managed a third response (SCD 13/5). Responding, he complains the Mayor is 'Maroochydore focussed' and should pay more attention to Caloundra and provides a response that confirms h..

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• HEINIGER TIP: Blast out of those bunkers with ease

  

  As golfers we all enjoy the challenge of playing a green side bunker shot. The challenges we face are many and one such challenge can be the variety of sand that we encounter at various times. We soon learn that not two bunkers are the same and our approach needs to be different. So what do I mean by this. Well, hitting the sand before the ball for a green side bunker shot is the most important aspect of the shot. But how hard do you hit the sand? When striking the sand before the ball,..

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