Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Queensland budget: Townsville Enterprise welcomes funding, keen ... and other top stories.

  • Queensland budget: Townsville Enterprise welcomes funding, keen ...

    Queensland budget: Townsville Enterprise welcomes funding, keen ...
    Queensland budget: Townsville Enterprise welcomes funding, keen to tap into $33m Asian tourism fund Posted June 15, 2016 13:00:30 Townsville Enterprise says yesterday's state budget was not a cash-splash but it is happy with the number of major funding commitments.The budget included pre-announced funding for Townsville Hospital's paediatric ward, a new health facility for Palm Island and additional funding for Townsville stadium.Townsville Enterprise said those proje..
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  • Cash splash envy

    Cash splash envy
    State Budget IT’S been dubbed the “steady-as-she-goes” Budget by Mayor Jenny Hill but the city’s three state Labor MPs have plenty of praise for more than $280 million in new spending for major Townsville projects. Treasurer Curtis Pitt ­announced the North’s infrastructure cash splash while handing down the Palaszczuk Government’s second State Budget yesterday. The more than $280 million in new funding includes road upgrades, refurbished children’s hospital, a new school and ..
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  • $100m boost for local jobs

    $100m boost for local jobs
    Budget: Small business TOWNSVILLE employers will be paid up to $15,000 to hire and keep regional Queenslanders under a new jobs package in the State Budget. Treasurer Curtis Pitt yesterday unveiled his second Budget, aiming to tackle difficult economic conditions outside the state’s southeast by focusing on jobs and innovation in regional areas. Total State Government debt now sits at $75.3 billion, while the operating surplus has been reduced to $867 million, with $4 billion ..
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  • Stoccos plead guilty to murder

    Stoccos plead guilty to murder
    FATHER and son Gino and Mark Stocco have pleaded guilty to murder in a New South Wales Court this morning.The pair were on the run for more than eight years before they were dramatically arrested on a property in Dunedoo near Dubbo.Detectives from Ingham and Charters Towers played an integral part in the questioning of the duo, which culminated in this morning’s guilty plea.More to come.
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  • Loss of Les real shock

    Loss of Les real shock
    THE Burdekin community has been rocked by the tragic loss of much-loved family man, top lawn bowler and ­fisherman. Les Cornford, 70, died on Friday after the car he and his wife were travelling in was involved in a head-on collision at Mount Surround, 2km south of St Margaret Creek, near Giru. The sole occupant of a utility, a 37-year-old Mount Lou­isa man, also died at the scene. Mr Cornford’s wife Beryl, 67, was flown to the Townsville Hospital with non life-threatening i..
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  • Bridging a service gap

    Bridging a service gap
    Shannon and Alfio Cantarella are opening a one-stop real estate shop.YOUR dream home shouldn’t send you broke.That is the message from Townsville’s newest property professionals, Alf and Shannon Cantarella.The couple will open their new business Your Home Broker Pty Ltd at Kalynda Chase tomorrow, offering a new service to the local market.“We moved up from the Burdekin a few weeks ago,” Mr Cantarella said. “This has been a dream of mine for many years.”Your Home Broker Pty Ltd will offer the usu..
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  • Woman critical after road rage attack

    Woman critical after road rage attack
    A MAN has been charged after a violent road rage attack at Rainbow Beach in Queensland.Kaylah Bennett-Martincevic, 21, from Cooloola Cove, remains in hospital in a critical condition after suffering a cardiac arrest following the incident on Tuesday.She had been travelling with a man and two young children when another man produced a knife and started to damage their car, police allege.media_cameraKaylah Bennett-Martincevic.media_camera.A Rainbow Beach man, 22, has been charged with threatening ..
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