Saturday, November 28, 2015

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  • Brisbane weather: Severe storms with large hail and winds for Sunday

    Brisbane weather: Severe storms with large hail and winds for Sunday
    Video will begin in5seconds.Mega hail storm leaves its markOne year on from Brisbane's freak super cell hail storm, more than 120,000 insurance claims for damage have been lodged.PT0M38S620349Hail the size of golf balls has fallen in some parts of south-east Queensland where severe thunderstorm warnings are in place.An alert has been issued for parts of the Scenic Rim, Southern Downs, Dalby and Toowoomba on Sunday afternoon."Damaging winds, heavy rainfall that may lead to flash flooding and larg..
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  • Thousands march in Brisbane for climate change action

    Thousands march in Brisbane for climate change action
    Thousands march in Brisbane for climate change actionVideo will begin in5seconds.Paris climate talks: the issuesClimate change is starting to have a personal impact on billions of people and we need to cut back on greenhouse gases and adapt to a warmer world.PT2M6S620349Thousands marched upon the Brisbane CBD for the People's Climate March, ahead of the Paris climate talks next week.A spokesperson from Seed, an indigenous youth climate network that helped organise the event, said up to 10,000 ma..
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  • Depleted Newcastle Jets take heart from creditable draw with...

    Depleted Newcastle Jets take heart from creditable draw with...
    Newcastle Jets 1 Brisbane Roar 1Ben Kantarovski celebrates his late equaliser.Photo: Max Mason HubersIt wasn't the home-ground win they craved, but the Newcastle Jets are entitled to claim a moral victory after holding A-League leaders Brisbane to a 1-1 draw at Hunter Stadium on Saturday.Brisbane grabbed the lead in the 53rd minute when Brandon Borello produced a deft through ball for striker Jamie Maclaren, who cut back inside and beat the outstretched hand of Jets goalkeeper Mark Birighitti.Be..
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  • Ed's a winner with sellout crowd

    Ed's a winner with sellout crowd
    Ed Sheeran didn’t disappoint at Suncorp. Pic: Jack TranCAN one person put out enough ­energy to keep 50,000 people entertained?No problem for Ed Sheeran, the English troubadour and musical Energizer bunny who sold out Brisbane’s Riverstage three times over in March and returned to perform the same trick at Suncorp Stadium on Saturday night.As ever, there’s just one man, his guitars and loop pedals that take the place of a band.On a song likeTake It Backit’s a virtuoso performance of multi-taskin..
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    THE proponents of a 8km dual freight rail tunnel linking Acacia Ridge with the Port of Brisbane have enlisted one of the world's top tunnelling experts to lobby for ...
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  • Seven Brisbane puts rookies in the hot seat | The Courier-Mail

    Seven Brisbane puts rookies in the hot seat | The Courier-Mail
    The Channel 7 summer news team Katrina Blowers, Amanda Abate, Max Futcher and Kendall Gilding. Pic: Tara CroserSUMMER will be a time for the young guns to shine, with Channel 7 putting their rising stars on the front line.Reporters Amanda Abate, Katrina Blowers and Max Futcher will be stepping in to present the 4pm and 6pm nightly news bulletins, along with current 4pm presenter Kendall Gilding.Veteran presenters Kay McGrath and Rod Young will also be covering the news, while weekday presenters ..
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  • John McEnroe to return for Brisbane International’s Fast 4 and has advice for Nick Kyrgios | The Courier-Mail

    John McEnroe to return for Brisbane International’s Fast 4 and has advice for Nick Kyrgios | The Courier-Mail
    John McEnroe will return to Brisbane for the Brisbane International’s Fast 4.Before Nick Kyrgios or Bernard Tomic were even born, John McEnroe was pioneering the tennis brat movement.Supremely talented, the loud-mouthed American became known more for his blow-ups than his on-court skill.McEnroe returns to Australia next year for the Brisbane International Fast 4, and it’s sure to be explosive.Paul Malone: You are returning to Brisbane for the first time in 35 years when you play a Fast 4 format ..
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  • The Sound of Music, Brisbane | Event listing | Culture | The Guardian

    The Sound of Music, Brisbane | Event listing | Culture | The Guardian
    The von Trapp family make their way to Australia in the acclaimed London Palladium production of The Sound of Music. The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical premiered in theWest Endin 2006, and has played a record-breaking 954 performances. The Australian production stars Amy Lehpamer as governess Maria Rainer, alongside Cameron Daddo as Captain Georg von Trapp and Marina Prior as Baroness Schraeder.Related:The Sound of Music, London PalladiumThe musical was inspired by thereal life storyof the von ..
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  • Protesters push leaders to avert climate catastrophe

    Protesters push leaders to avert climate catastrophe
    Thousands march on climate change in Manila, BrisbaneParis (AFP) - Masses of people joined a worldwide wave of marches on Saturday demanding leaders craft a pact to avert a climate catastrophe when they gather in a still-shaken Paris.From Australia to New Zealand, the Philippines, Bangladesh and Japan, people rallied at the start of a weekend of popular protests urging world powers to seal a deal at the UN climate summit that officially opens in the French capital Monday."Protect our common home..
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  • Newcastle Jets snag A-League draw with leading Brisbane Roar | Stuff

    Newcastle Jets snag A-League draw with leading Brisbane Roar | Stuff
    Newcastle Jets snag A-League draw with leading Brisbane RoarEMMA KEMPLast updated 02:16, November 29 2015TONY FEDER/GETTY IMAGESBen Kantarovski of the Newcastle Jets celebrates his 71st-minute equaliser in a 1-1 draw against the Brisbane Roar.A Ben Kantarovski equaliser has enabled Newcastle to jag a point from A-League leaders Brisbane in an end-to-end 1-1 draw at Hunter Stadium.It was a high-stakes encounter on Saturday between a side looking to go equal top and another out to extend their lea..
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