Sunday, November 8, 2015

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  • Former AFL Brisbane Lions player Albert Proud charged with attempted murder

    Former AFL Brisbane Lions player Albert Proud charged with attempted murder
    Video will begin in5seconds.Former Lion charged with attempted murderFormer Brisbane Lions AFL footballer Albert Proud is remanded in custody, charged with the attempted murder of his girlfriend.PT0M39S620349Former Lions footballer Albert Proud has been remanded in custody, charged with the attempted murder of his girlfriend.Proud, 27, has also been charged with grievous bodily harm, one act of intent to cause grievous bodily harm causing a person to contract a grievous bodily disease, and wilful damage.Proud appeared at Richlands Magistrates Court, where he was remanded.Ex-Brisbane Lions footballer Albert Proud allegedly tried to kill his girlfriend.Photo: Bradley KanarisIt was alleged, abo..
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  • Brisbane weather: Showers tipped to fall for Monday along with wickets

    Brisbane weather: Showers tipped to fall for Monday along with wickets
    A general view of the stadium after play was suspended due to rain for the second time on day four of the first cricket test between Australia and New Zealand in Brisbane, Australia, Sunday, Nov. 8, 2015. (AP Photo/Tertius Pickard)Photo: Tertius PickardJust as the wickets fall at the Gabba, light showers are tipped to fall around Brisbane on Monday, with conditions expected to clear by the afternoon.Gloomy skies are expected over the city skies and a top of 25 degrees is predicted."For the rest of the day it looks like there's going to be a shower or two," Bureau of Meteorology forecaster Chris Joseph said."Maybe a few in the morning and early afternoon. It should clear away by late afternoo..
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  • Attempted murder charge over 'screwdriver attack' on Brisbane cyclist

    Attempted murder charge over 'screwdriver attack' on Brisbane cyclist
    A cyclist was stabbed several times with a screwdriver on the Norman Park bikeway on Sunday morning.Photo: FileA man accused of using a screwdriver to repeatedly stab a cyclist in Brisbane has faced court charged with attempted murder.Joshua Joseph Tempany, 21, appeared briefly in the Brisbane Magistrates Court on Monday, a day after he allegedly attacked a 49-year-old riding along a bike path in Norman Park.Tempany, who is also charged with seriously assaulting police and acts intended to cause grievous bodily harm, was remanded in custody and had his case adjourned to the mental health court on February 4.EarlierAdvertisementA 21-year-old man accused of stabbing a cyclist with a screwdrive..
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  • 48 hours until D-Day: Brisbane man Ricardo Bolvaran faces deportation to Chile

    48 hours until D-Day: Brisbane man Ricardo Bolvaran faces deportation to Chile
    Rachel Delucia holds a photo of her defacto partner, Ricardo Bolvaran, who faces deportation to Chile.Photo: Glenn HuntIn two days time, a Brisbane man who has only ever called Australia home,  is due to be deported to a country he has no memory of.Ricardo Bolvaran's parents and grandparents fled Chile in 1974 when Ricardo was one year old, escaping the brutality of the Pinochet regime for a new life in Australia.Now 41 and a recovering ice addict, the father of three was given a choice between Christmas Island or deportation to the South American nation of his birth, following his incarceration for offences largely committed at the height of his drug addiction.Mr Bolvaran was told on 31 Aug..
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  • Church told me to ditch 'sinful path'

    Church told me to ditch 'sinful path'
    Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane Phillip Aspinall allegedly told a pedophile music tutor's victim to turn away from his "sinful path" of pursuing legal action against the church.The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse continued hearings on Monday into the experiences of former students and staff responses at two prestigious Brisbane schools.A former student of St Paul's School told the inquiry he'd been abused by convicted pedophile Gregory Robert Knight after starting at the school in 1981. Knight groomed him for abuse, eventually drugging and raping him, he said.The victim said a maths teacher even taunted him about his relationship with the tutor, c..
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  • Child abuse royal commission continues in Brisbane

    Child abuse royal commission continues in Brisbane
    Video will begin in5seconds.School boss sorry 'if everybody will feel better'A former Deputy Headmaster at Brisbane Grammar asks "what good is an apology?" while admitting "countless boys" were abused on his watch.PT2M25S620349Victims of two paedophiles at a north Brisbane school will this week have a chance to speak out publicly against their abusers and their schools.The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse last week heard from past students and teachers at Brisbane Grammar School about abuse at the hands of paedophile counsellor Kevin John Lynch.Victims of Kevin Lynch duirng his time at St Paul's School will take the stand this week.Photo: St Paul's SchoolLy..
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  • Man found dead at bottom of Brisbane cliff identified - 9news

    Man found dead at bottom of Brisbane cliff identified - 9news
    The man's body was found near cliffs at Kangaroo Point yesterday. (9NEWS) A man who plunged almost 20m to his death from a Brisbane cliff yesterday has been identified.The 43-year-old was found at the bottom of the Kangaroo Point Cliffs at around 2pm yesterday.Police say there are no suspicious circumstances surrounding the man's death. Police are yet to identify the man. (9NEWS) There was no identification found with the man and police had sought help from the public to identify him.He was described as having short brown hair, a dragon tattoo on his right shoulder and was wearing black shorts.Anyone with information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800..
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  • Brisbane weather stalls Australia's progress | SBS News

    Williamson's departure for 59 helped to reduce New Zealand to 142 for three at the break -- 361 runs in arrears -- but a rain storm wiped out the final session and ensured the match would go into a fifth day.Ross Taylor, who has made 20 not out, and New Zealand skipper Brendon McCullum (4) will resume on Monday looking to bat out the final day and save the test.Australia declared their second innings closed on 264-4 before the start of play on Sunday but home hopes of a quick win to take a 1-0 lead in the three-match series fell foul of a combination of the weather and obdurate Black Caps batting.New Zealand's victory target of 504 was always a highly improbable goal but anything looked poss..
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    Scientists set up camp on the ice of Greenland, in the hope to capture the first comprehensive measurements of the rate of melting ice. Their research could yield ...
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  • Last chance to win tickets for Les Miserables in Brisbane | Queensland Times

    Last chance to win tickets for Les Miserables in Brisbane | Queensland Times
    IT'S the musical phenomenon seen by more than 70 million people worldwide - and you could be among the next to see Les Miserables as we are giving away tickets so you can be there when the global smash hit returns to Brisbane's Lyric Theatre later this year.>>Enter to win tickets to see Les Miserables in BrisbaneKerrie Anne Greenland as Eponine in Les Miserables, which soon returns to Brisbane, where one lucky reader can win a double pass to see the hit musical.Matt MurphyLes Miserables brings you the heartbreak, passion and resilience of the French Revolution as it takes you back to the tumultuous times of late 18th-century Europe.With songs such as I Dreamed a Dream and Bring Him Hom..
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