Wallabies must stay strong with scrums and other top stories.

• Wallabies must stay strong with scrums

  

  RUGBY UNION: Ex-Australian prop Glenn Panoho says the Wallabies scrum must consolidate on the gains it made at last year’s World Cup.The national squad is set to arrive on the Sunshine Coast on Sunday for a week-long training camp, ahead of a series against England.It’s expected there will be plenty of emphasis on set pieces in the build-up to the opening match at Brisbane on June 11.The Australian pack surprised some pundits with its scrummaging on the sport’s biggest stage in 2015, when it wa..

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• Producer to leave Channel 9 over Lebanon kidnapping case

  

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• LETTER: Great story Scott

  

  THUMBS up for Scott Sawyer for his fabulous and most enlightening article in the Sunshine Coast Daily on Friday, May 20, "Don't rubbish Facebook page", re the garbage bin lid stands. I'm not a great fan of Facebook, but do have to check it from time to time to see what my family are up to, sadly. But, his bin lid stands is a real classic and should be shown in large letters in all of our local streets. He should go around taking photos of all the different bin lid stands and have the..

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• LETTER: Let us decide

  

  CHRISTOPHER Pyne has let the cat out of the bag and decided for all Australians that we do not need very fast broadband speeds. Thanks Christopher, but if it is alright with you, could we decide that for ourselves. Perhaps you could tell Malcolm this as well, although he seems to think it not necessary for ministers to tell him what is happening. Malcolm told us that it was perfectly okay for Senator Fifield not to tell him about pending AFP raids searching for NBN documents. You ..

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• LETTER: What's the benefit?

  

  I HAD contacted Telstra by email asking if am connected to NBN would my landline phones work in a blackout as they do with copper. I received no reply, even when I emailed two or three times. Well, yesterday my NBN modem arrived and the answer is now concerning me. With the NBN, all your home phones must connect via the NBN modem and when there is a blackout, unlike the copper landline that powered from the exchange, all phones will fail to operate. The literature supplied with th..

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• Dozens feared dead after second refugee boat disaster

  

  Dozens of refugees are feared to have died after a boat trafficking people to Europe sank off the Libyan coast, according to the Italian coastguard, the second major deadly incident in as many days. A spokesman said 88 people had been rescued from a capsized wooden fishing vessel by coastguard vessels working as part of the EU mission in the Mediterranean. Coastguard officials said the exact number of those drowned was unknown. The Italian news agency Ansa, quoting sources at the EU mis..

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• Vana celebrates 10 years of many 'hearts and hands'

  

  IT started with two people who knew they had to answer the call. Ten years on - and many hearts and hands later - Vana Childcare Ministries has helped hundreds of Zimbabwe's orphans and impoverished children. The Sunshine Coat-based charity, started by Diddillibah's Errol and Donna Spence, celebrated the milestone with a gala dinner at Buderim last Saturday night. Almost 150 people, from local businesses and churches, family and friends joined for dinner, dancing - and fundraising fo..

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• Fatal crash free aim for today

  

  ACADEMIC Dr Bridie Scott-Parker can't imagine what it would be like to deal with the loss of one of her teenage children in a car crash. Dr Scott-Parker dedicates her research and education work as the leader of the University of Sunshine Coast's adolescent risk research unit to helping teenagers survive their transition into early adulthood. She hopes to impart her passion for road safety onto motorists at Aussie World today as a part of Fatality Free Friday. REVEALED: The Coast's wo..

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• PETA caught out in Australia Zoo cruelty claims

  

  ONE of Australia’s key animal welfare groups has been caught out spreading misinformation about Australia Zoo’s care for its animals.Officials from PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) have acknowledged they made a mistake when they claimed the zoo was putting the welfare of animals at risk by taking them to America last week.But they have blamed the error on the zoo’s own publicity and have since failed to respond to questions about whether they checked their facts before condemn..

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