Townsville Fiji families rally and other top stories.

• Townsville Fiji families rally

  Sala Vateitei of Kirwan, has family in Fiji.TOWNSVILLE mum Sala Vateitei hasn’t heard from her younger brother or sister in Fiji since Cyclone Winston ripped through the island nation.The Category 5 cyclone was one of the most powerful storms recorded in the southern hemisphere.Villages were left flattened and 29 people are confirmed dead.Ms Vateitei’s siblings live on Gau Island, one of the worst-hit areas.As the cyclone strengthened, Ms Vateitei spoke on the phone to her sister Kelera and urge..

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• Former soldier on trial for rape

  

  TSV Generic Townsville Courthouse CourtA FORMER Townsville soldier is on trial for raping a woman he met on Facebook.The man, who can’t be named for legal reasons, allegedly raped the woman inside her Townsville home on June 5, 2014.He appeared in Townsville District Court today for day one of the trial charged with three counts of rape and one count of sexual assault.The pair started chatting on Facebook on June 3, 2014 and had organised to meet for coffee but the meeting was cancelled.On the n..

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• Townsville, Queensland: 1st local transmission of Zika recorded

  Health officials in Townsville, Queensland, Australia have confirmed the first locally acquired case of dengue fever, the Townsville Hospital and Health Service reported earlier this week. Local media reports that the individual from Pallarenda, a suburb of Townsville, was diagnosed with the disease after another person brought it into the city from Papua New Guinea.           Dengue fever is an infectious disease carried by mosquitoes and caused by any of four related dengue viruses. This dis..

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• North wins NAIF battle

  

  Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk during State Parliament question time yesterday. Pic Jono Searle.THE Palaszczuk Government has caved in to pressure and backed an LNP motion for the Federal Government’s Northern Australia Infrastructure Fund to be headquartered in North Queensland.State Parliament last night unanimously supported a push for the establishment of the $5 billion Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility in Queensland, not Sydney, as had previously been touted.Shadow mines and norther..

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• Kids 'groomed' on phone apps

  

  A FORMER Townsville man allegedly scoured social media and messaging apps for girls under 12 and convinced them to send him thousands of pornographic photos of themselves.Lachlan James Afflick, 22, was arrested in Mackay yesterday and charged with 203 offences by police from Townsville’s Child Protection Investigation Unit and Taskforce Argos.Afflick was allegedly caught with more than 1000 child exploitation images senior police last night said were “on the more severe side of depravity”.Police..

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• Record sale shows confidence on rise

  

  The Australian Tax Office building in Stanley St, Townsville City, in a deal to be sold.A RECORD $53.5 million property deal for the tax office building in Townsville’s CBD has reignited ­interest in the city’s assets and ­underlined its standing as the commercial hub of North Queensland.The sale of the 14-level tower in Stanley St makes it the most expensive ­office building ever sold outside of Brisbane in Queensland.Sydney-based fund manager GDI Property Group has agreed to buy Stanley Place,..

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