Bundaberg

Fire crews battle large grass fires (ABC)

Queensland fire crews are battling several large grass fires in the Wide Bay and Lockyer Valley regions. Residents around Peters and Garryowen roads at Redridge, south of Bundaberg, have been told to enact their fire plans. The...

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Qld extends fire bans in nine areas

AAP Fire bans have been extended in nine council areas across southern and central Queensland as temperatures hover around the mid-30s. Fire bans in Rockhampton, Banana, Gladstone, Bundaberg, North Burnett, Fraser Coast, South...

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Firefighters monitoring Mount Maria blaze near Bundaberg (ABC)

Katherine Spackman, ABC November 20, 2009, 8:24 am Fire crews have returned to monitor a fire at Mount Maria in the Wide Bay Burnett region of southern Queensland. It has been burning since Wednesday and is under control at the...

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Dental patients cleared after health scare

ALL but one patient treated at the Bundaberg Hospital dental health clinic have returned a negative result for blood-borne viruses. The results for the final patient are expected tomorrow. Thirty-three patients were treated at...

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Bundaberg dental clinic results negative

AAP All but one patient treated at the Bundaberg Hospital dental health clinic have returned a negative result for blood-borne viruses. The results for the final patient are expected on Friday. Thirty-three patients were...

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Many Ships to Mt Isa — an autobiography of Pat Mackie

by Greg Mallory He (Pat Mackie) sees his own needs very simply, voices them fearlessly and becomes a phenomenally effective workers’ spokesman and trade union organiser, a power to be reckoned with in the industrial world. His...

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Teen incorrectly told she might have HIV

DAVID BARBELER November 18, 2009 - 5:39PM AAP A Bundaberg teenager who was wrongly told by Queensland Health she may have contracted HIV says the error caused her to lose her only source of income. Gabrielle Carruthers, 16, was...

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List details suspected illegal backpacker hostels

A group of backpacker hostel owners have compiled a list of suspected illegal operators in the Bundaberg region in south-east Queensland. Owner John Walker says he has given the list of almost 70 suspected locations to...

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Hepatitis, HIV fear over unclean hospital

MORE than 270 people will need to be tested for blood borne diseases after a failure in sterilisation procedures at a southern Queensland hospital. Queensland Health told AAP that 274 people who visited the Bundaberg Hospital...

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Fears aired over sand mine plan

North Bundaberg residents in south-east Queensland say they want Bundaberg Sugar to tell them where it is planning to process sand from a proposed sand mine. The company is proposing to mine up to 250,000 tonnes of sand per...

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