Property developer resigns from leading Coast firm and other top stories.

• Property developer resigns from leading Coast firm

  

  THERE is a changing of the guard at the Sunshine Coast's Reed Property Group (RPG), former developer of the Big Top Shopping Centre and a number of other Coast landmarks. Founding family member Ken Reed has announced his resignation as chairman of the board after almost three decades with the organisation. Mr Reed said the announcement was part of a long-term succession plan which was executed in 2014 and sought to see the Coast property family hand over the reins to the RPG Board of Di..

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• What it will take to fix our public transport

  

  HERE’S why you probably don’t take public transport to work on the Sunshine Coast.It’s infrequent, it’s expensive and unless you live on a key transport corridor, you have to drive to get there anyway.But it doesn’t have to be.The Sunshine Coast Daily in partnership Maurice Blackburn lawyers has sought expert advise on what it will take to make our public transport user-friendly.Peter Quick’s consultancy firm, Brockworth, provides services to major corporations and governmental organisations on..

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• LETTER: Help reduce stigma

  

  HEAD and neck cancers affect more than 760 Queenslanders each year and sadly, more than 240 die from the disease. In light of World Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Day, today, we're encouraging Queenslanders to get to know the symptoms to help detect the cancer early. It's also an important time to help reduce the stigma associated with head and neck cancers. Head and neck cancers can affect anyone, and occur inside the sinuses, nose, mouth and throat, and salivary glands. On avera..

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• Bigoted rant: "Your father should go back to NZ"

  FOREIGNERS including those from New Zealand, "don't fit into the Australian way of life", or so says a woman caught telling an Australian teenager his father should "pack up and go back". A Brisbane teenager managed to film the bus stop conversation when he is told that Australia is being "overrun by foreigners". As the son of a Kiwi man, he was also part of the problem. The woman who is off-camera asks the 19-year-old: "What do you think you are"? before saying she did not believe he..

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• Hillary Clinton officially fighting Trump to be president

  

  AFTER so many months of unexpectedly vigorous competition and tumult, Hillary Rodham Clinton has been formally annointed the Democratic presidential nominee - freeing her to gird herself for a hundred and some days to battle Donald Trump, her Republican foe, for the White House. The delegation from South Dakota put Ms Clinton over the top, propelling her past the 2,383 delegates she needed, in the ritual floor roll call of states. But it fell to Vermont to announce the fact - the shatterin..

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• Tech obsesssion is causing a worrying trend among kids

  

  AN over-use of technology is causing a worrying trend among children. The prevalence of keyboards has lead to a decline in hand strength and fine motor skill development, meaning kids are losing the ability to handwrite, experts say. "An over-use of devices such as keyboards and tablets means that children are growing up without the strength in their hands or arms to hold a pen or pencil for any length of time," occupational therapist Katrina Davies said.　　 "Children are missing thei..

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• Judge lectures on true value of wedding rings

  A BURGLAR jailed for stealing almost $90,000 in goods from a Warwick jewellery store has almost doubled his sentence after committing more offences within six weeks of his release. The man, only known as MDA in a sentencing decision published last week, was this time sentenced to six and a half years in jail for a $112,000 burglary, with insurance not covering almost $90,000 of that. Judge Ian Dearden lectured the 25-year-old crim at sentence that he needed to understand the true value ..

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• Why some people are being kept off Coast beaches

  

  JILL Boxtel's daughter travels the world in a wheelchair but cannot get down to the beach when she visits her mother on the Sunshine Coast. The lack of access prompted Mrs Boxtel to begin campaigning for the roll-out of special beach matting to provide the disabled with access to the sand and surf. "I have a daughter who is a paraplegic from a skiing accident and she visits me once a year. She is a very active paraplegic and travels the world as a public speaker but she comes here and w..

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• SOAPBOX: Three cheers for community spirit

  

  IT WAS an ongoing joke in my family home each morning as we reached for the remote at breakfast to catch up on overnight events as to where the next crazed ice addicts would make the news - western Sydney or the Gold Coast. Well this week my faith was restored in the Gold Coast as the goodness of the real people who live there was reported on. Every parent knows that sinking feeling in their heart when for that split second you are unable to spot your toddler in the playground, so we al..

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• LETTER: Winter appeal receives heartening response

  

  I’M WRITING to express my sincere thanks and gratitude to Queenslanders for their support of The Smith Family’s 2016 Winter Appeal. We launched the appeal in May to raise $3.65 million by June 30 to support the education of disadvantaged children across Australia.Our appeal highlighted the impact of severe financial disadvantage on the education of a child. For the 638,000 children living in jobless families across Australia, every day at school can be a struggle. These children often miss out ..

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