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Qld seniors gear up for end of high school
About 40,000 Queensland high school students are due to complete Year 12 today.
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School's out for Year 12s
SCHOOL'S out for 42,400 Queensland Year 12 students.
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DPI poised to 'disinvest' R&D sites
THREE important sites that have driven beef industry research in North and Central Queensland for the past half century could close under an operational restructure to be announced soon by Primary Industries Minister Tim Mulherin.
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City of power
At just 24 years of age, you might be surprised to hear that Michael Tran is building one of the world’s largest high-density datacentres. You probably wouldn’t expect it to be in Queensland either. He recently told ARN about his grand design for a Data Centre City.
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Minister urges students back to school
Queensland Education Minister Rod Welford has urged parents in storm-damaged areas of Brisbane to send their children to school.
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UQ salutes Sir Llew, Chancellor of 80,000 handshakes
The University of Queensland is paying tribute to Sir Llew Edwards, AC, who will soon bow out as Chancellor after 16 years at the helm of UQ’s governing body.
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Churches back smacking ban
QUEENSLAND church leaders have joined calls for state laws allowing parents to smack their children to be overturned, the Premier has revealed.
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Blackouts hit 42,000 homes
STORM UPDATE: SOUTHEAST Queensland's third destructive storm in just five days has caused more flash flooding and left 42,000 homes without power.
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| World News In Brief |
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Were the World Mine (2008)
Tanner Cohen, left, and Nathaniel David Becker in “Were the World Mine,” inspired by “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”
Model Karolina Kurkova world's sexiest woman: report
Lingerie model Karolina Kurkova has been voted the world's sexiest woman by E! entertainment television, beating sultry actresses Angelina Jolie and Scarlett Johansson for the honor.
NATO ready to help Africa, but is not world's policeman: chief
NATO is ready to strengthen its ties with Africa, but Africa should come up with solutions to its problems and not expect NATO to police the world, its secretary general Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said on Thursday.
World stocks down amid fears of deep recession
World stocks fell sharply Thursday as fears of a deep global recession gripped markets and sent oil prices below $50 a barrel to levels not seen in more than three years.
World Bank Arm Backs Small Palm Growers on Climate (Update1)
Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) -- The International Finance Corp. , the World Bank's investment arm, said it will help lenders in Indonesia to finance small-scale palm oil growers to encourage so-called sustainable practices and forestall climate change.
Google to shut down virtual world Lively at year-end
The Internet giant, which launched the site less than five months ago, says it wants to focus on its core search business. Not all Google Inc. endeavors turn into gold. Lively, a virtual world the Internet giant launched less than five months ago, will be shut down at the end of the year so Google can focus on its bread-and-butter search business.
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