Tag: gold coast
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CALLS FOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION
As Gold Coast police review the advice given to Tara, there are urgent calls for an intervention to stop domestic violence. More funds will be offered to support services, while victims are urged to seek help.
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BRISBANE FATHER CHARGED WITH DAUGHTER’S MURDER
A father, accused of murdering his six-year-old daughter and attempting to kill her sister, has had his case mentioned in a Gold Coast court. The 52-year-old was charged after the young girl’s body was found by her mother in her bedroom at a house in Kendron, in Brisbane’s north yesterday. Police allege he also tried…
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SEARCH UNDERWAY FOR MISSING WOMAN
Police are searching bushland in the Gold Coast hinterland for the body of a woman who’s been missing for six years. Queensland Police believe 46-year-old Linda Francis Sidon was murdered. The New Zealand-born woman was last seen in June 2009. A search began in the suburb of Numinbah yesterday and Detective Superintendent, Dave Hutchinson, says…
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GREY NURSE SHARK NURSED BACK TO HEALTH
A critically endangered shark has been nursed back to health, after swallowing a large homemade bait spike and hook off Queensland’s south coast. The severely injured female grey nurse shark was rescued from the bottom of the seafloor at a popular dive site near North Stradbroke Island. It had swallowed a long metal skewer with…
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TYRONE ROBERTS RELEASED BY THE KNIGHTS TO JOIN THE TITANS
It’s been on the cards for weeks, but today the Knights officially granted halfback Tyrone Roberts a release from his contract, so he can join the Gold Coast Titans next season. Roberts has signed a two-year deal with the Queensland club. He played his junior football for the Western Suburbs Rosellas before joining the Knights…
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KITEBOARDING CHAMPIONS HEADING TO GOLD COAST
Australia and New Zealand’s first ever national kiteboarding championship will be held on the Gold Coast. And there’s talk billionaire and keen kiteboarder, Richard Branson could get involved.
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UPDATED: WOMAN CHARGED OVER STABBING IN TWEED HEADS
A man is fighting for life after being stabbed in the chest, and then attempting to ride his bike to hospital on New South Wales-Queensland border. Police say he rode his bike to Coolangatta after being injured in a fight with a woman at Tweed Heads last night. He was taken to Gold Coast Hospital, where…
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BABY HUMPBACK DIES AT GOLD COAST
A baby humpback whale has died, after becoming stranded on a Gold Coast beach. Surfers and a team from Sea World attempted to save the juvenile, after it became beached at Currumbin earlier today, but it died during the rescue operation. Several adult whales have been spotted in the water nearby.
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NEW BIRD GUIDE LAUNCHED ON GOLD COAST
The Gold Coast is teeming with colourful birds, but you could easily miss them if you’re not looking carefully. Local ornithologists have now launched a handy free guide to local species and the best places to spot them.
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TEENS JAILED OVER 9 HOUR TORTURE
Four teenagers sit in jail… Guilty of the brutal torture of a teen, in a Southport backyard. Described by the judge as ‘sadistic’, the youngsters filmed their barbaric acts. We’ve chosen to show you less graphic parts of the nine hour ordeal… At the urging of the victim, who wants his attackers exposed. Again, we…