Category: Gold Coast News
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UNION SLAMS SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY FOR JOB CUTS
Southern Cross University has announced it’ll be axing jobs to halve it’s projected budget blackhole. Already, the union is asking management why so many staff have to go.
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SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERISTY TO AXE 63 JOBS TO MINIMISE BUDGET BLACKHOLE
Southern Cross University will be axing 63 full-time staff in a bid to half its budget blackhole. New Vice-Chancellor Professor Tyrone Carlin says the job cuts will take their current shortfall from $33 million, to $16 million. “I know it sounds like an absolutely shocking number, and it is. The point that we’re working through…
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WOMAN FIGHTS FOR HER LIFE IN HOSPITAL AFTER CRASHING INTO TREE
A woman is fighting for her life in hospital after crashing into a tree on the Far North Coast yesterday. The 33-year-old was driving a silver Ford Falcon west along Clothiers Creek Road at Tanglewood around 1pm on Thursday, when the car left the road and hit a tree. Emergency services raced to the scene…
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WOMAN BEHIND BARS AFTER ALLEGEDLY STABBING HER PARTNER
A woman has been charged with stabbing her partner, who’s now in a critical condition, in the state’s north. Around 7:30pm on Monday, emergency services were called to a unit on Bay Street at Tweed Heads, after reports of a physical altercation. Police and paramedics found a 38-year-old man, who’d been stabbed in the shoulder,…
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NSW POLICE LAUNCH FIVE MONTH LONG SUMMER SAFETY OPERATION
With Queensland still off limits to holidaymakers, northern New South Wales is bracing for an influx over summer. Police have launched Operation Summer Safe, and they’ll be looking to local government to make sure people are following the rules.
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MAN KILLED IN SHARK ATTACK IDENTIFIED AS FORMER HUNTER RESIDENT
The surfer killed by a shark on the Gold Coast on Tuesday afternoon has been identified as former Hunter resident Nick Slater. Mr Slater was dragged from the water with serious leg injuries and rushed to hospital by emergency crews but could not be saved. The 46-year-old real estate agent grew up in the Hunter…
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MAN DIES FOLLOWING SHARK ATTACK ON GOLD COAST
In breaking news, a man has died in a shark attack on the Gold Coast. The victim, believed to be aged in his 60s, was off Greenmount Beach at Coolangatta when it’s thought he was bitten on the leg. He was brought to shore and rushed to hospital by emergency crews.
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LADY PAMELA, CORRECTION.
On 4 September, NBN News broadcast a report about alleged breaches of exemptions to COVID-19 restrictions in respect of the Lady Pamela superyacht. That report incorrectly suggested Mr Mark Simonds had been charged by Queensland police. NBN News confirms Mark Simonds has not been charged and NBN News apologises for the error.
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BOATIES FINED AFTER TRAVELLING FROM VICTORIA AND DISEMBARKING ON NSW SOIL
Several boaties have been slapped with $9000 worth of fines, after travelling from Victoria and disembarking on NSW soil. On Tuesday 25 August, NSW Police Force’s Marine Area Command launched an investigation into the movements of a vessel, which was travelling from Victoria to the Gold Coast, while it was in NSW waters. Inquiries revealed…
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FOUR MEN BUSTED ON A BOAT BREACHING QUEENSLAND’S CLOSED BORDER
Four Queensland men have been fined after allegedly trying to sail to Cairns from New South Wales yesterday afternoon. Police believe the men bought a boat in Byron Bay and were setting off for Far North Queensland before Maritime Safety intercepted the vessel on the Gold Coast. The men are now in 14 day hotel…