Algae piles up thigh-deep in places – and could keep water murky for weeks
A woman running on a Gold Coast beach has been rescued after becoming stuck in masses of cornflake seaweed that has piled up thigh-deep in places.
A seaweed expert, Pia Winberg, said the bloom of Colpomenia – also known as sea potatoes, oyster thief or cornflake seaweed – was not unusual for this time of year.
Continue reading...Passenger – reported to be Irish tourist, 26 – winched off cliff at Lennox Head by helicopter
One man is dead and another, believed to be an Irish tourist, is in a critical condition after a hang-gliding accident on the New South Wales north coast.
Emergency services were called to the Pat Morton lookout at Lennox Head near Byron Bay about midday on Wednesday after reports of a crash.
Continue reading...The head of the Earle Haven nursing home admits failings but claims government auditors were ‘anti-Semitic’
The boss of a Gold Coast aged care facility where more than half the high-care residents were malnourished before it closed has said he is “fed up” and is getting out of aged care.
Arthur Miller admitted to a Queensland parliamentary hearing on Friday that he was not up to the task of managing the high-care facility at his Earle Haven centre, which closed suddenly on 11 July, effectively leaving 69 residents homeless.
Continue reading...Nicholas Petrovski used his skills to manufacture weapons that in the wrong hands could have caused havoc, court told
A fitter and turner who pleaded guilty to making submachine guns that presented a “catastrophic degree of dangerousness” to the public will spend the next eight months behind bars.
Nicholas Petrovski, 36, pleaded guilty in the Southport District Court on Wednesday to possessing four submachine guns, three silencers and manufacturing weapons.
Continue reading...Mother charged with failing to provide for girl whose body was found on Gold Coast beach
The mother of a baby girl whose body washed up on a Gold Coast beach after drowning in the Tweed River has briefly faced court.
The woman, who cannot be identified, is charged with failing to provide her daughter with the necessities of life. The baby’s father, 47, was charged on 22 November with murdering his daughter.
Continue reading...Cheerleader was allegedly thrown off 11th-floor balcony of luxury Southport apartment
A man is expected to face court accused of throwing a Gold Coast cheerleader off an 11th-floor balcony six years ago.
Breeana Robinson, 21, died when she plunged from the balcony of a luxury Southport apartment in January 2013.
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