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• Queensland Nickel: 237 workers to lose jobs at Clive Palmer's ...

  

  Queensland Nickel: 237 workers to lose jobs at Clive Palmer's refinery in TownsvilleUpdatedJanuary 15, 2016 14:34:52 Clive Palmer's Queensland Nickel refinery in Townsville has confirmed it will lay off 237 workers.Mr Palmer was in discussions with the Queensland Government for a $35 million bailout to keep the operation at Yabulu afloatbut was knocked backlate last year.Police were called to the site this morning and extra security guards were stationed at the gate of the plant.Managing dir..

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• Townsville detectives need more room

  

  Townsville Police Station.THE Townsville drug squad is in desperate need of larger headquarters – detectives are sitting shoulder to shoulder in cramped working conditions.The drug squad is based in a small office at Townsville police station. The overcrowding is set to worsen as it is understood two extra detectives will be joining the squad.Queensland Police Union president Ian Leavers said they were trying to solve the problem.“The conditions for the drug squad in Townsville are already tight..

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• Crocs' spur driving Sixers' NBL momentum

  

  Croc Omar Samhan stays tight on 36er Daniel Johnson. Photo: Tom Huntley.ADAM Gibson’s biggest blunder as Adelaide 36ers captain has helped focus his NBL season according to Sixers coach Joey Wright.And since the skipper made his classic turnover that opened the gates for Townsville to complete a 101-100 recovery over Adelaide at The Swamp last month, the 36ers have put together a mini three-win streak that has them on the top-four doorstep.“It certainly made him change some of the things he was ..

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• Friendship helps Townsville Fire's international basketballers feel at ...

  

  Friendship helps Townsville Fire's international basketballers feel at home in north QueenslandPostedJanuary 14, 2016 18:36:15 Canadian Tamara Tatham and American Natalie Novosel live together, work together and play together and they know that when you are thousands of kilometres from home, it can help to have a friend by your side.The pair play for the Townsville Fire in north Queensland, in the Women's National Basketball League (WNBL).This is Tatham's first season in Australia, after pla..

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• Students' anxious wait finally over

  

  Sarah Fairley got into medicine at JCU, her first preference.MORE than 2500 people ­applied for just 150 places in James Cook University’s medicine program.First-round offers were released by the Queensland Tertiary Admissions Centre early yesterday, marking the end of an anxious time for recent school graduates waiting to learn if they had been accepted into their chosen degree.James Cook University has offered 2845 places at its Townsville campus, a 3.1 per cent increase on last year.JCU offer..

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• Rain out west not drought breaking

  

  Roman Czubak with a load of hay in Boulia. Picture: Evan MorganGROUND peeled back to bare dirt over most parts of the state’s far northwest after three years of drought appears to have been spray-painted a vivid lime green by some unseen graffiti artist.The grass and weeds that haveburrowedto the surface after Christmas and New Year storms across much of the inland are so short it looks as though the dirt has been painted. Landholders worry that without follow-up falls, this soft, adolescent ‘‘f..

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