Cairns

Wins for Taipans, Blaze (Newstalk ZB)

Newstalk ZB November 22, 2009, 3:04 am Phill Jones has led the Cairns Taipans to an 86-83 Australian National Basketball League win over the Melbourne Tigers in Melbourne with 21 points. The Gold Coast Blaze have beaten the...

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Girl, 2, battered in savage attack by wallaby that sprang from bushes at Australian home

Strong: A Wallaby like this pummelled Susan Hutchins' body with his back legs A girl of two was savagely attacked by a wallaby which grabbed her head in its mouth and pummelled her body with its back legs. Susan Hutchins was...

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Rebound stalls for tourism centres

REGIONAL cities largely reliant on tourism are still to rebound from the global financial crisis as the government's economic stimulus package wears down and businesses which downsized or shut fail to recover.

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InterOil Corporation: Investor Relations Presentation (Marketwire)

HOUSTON, TEXAS AND CAIRNS, AUSTRALIA--(Marketwire - 11/18/09) - InterOil Corporation (NYSE:IOC - News) (POMSoX: IOC), is pleased to refer you to the presentation which is to be delivered by InterOil Executive, Mr. Wayne...

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Delays after freight train derails

A FREIGHT train has derailed in central Queensland, causing delays for passenger, coal and freight train services throughout the region. The 33-wagon Queensland Rail (QR) driver-only freight train was carrying fruit from Cairns...

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Pest bee continues spreading

Biosecurity Queensland has now found more than 50 asian honey bee infestations in far north Queensland. The pest bees were first found in a yacht in Cairns over two years ago. Authorities have just discovered a 53rd nest, this...

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The expected impact of climate change on nitrogen losses from wet tropical sugarcane production...

CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems and Water for a Healthy Country Flagship, PO Box 12139, Earlville BC, Cairns, Qld 4870, Australia. CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems and Water for a Healthy Country Flagship, 306 Carmody Road, St Lucia,...

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'Crikey steveirwini' is new species of snail

The snail was found in the mountainous regions of north Queensland's Wet Tropics near Cairns. SYDNEY: An Australian scientist has paid an unusual tribute to late naturalist and TV personality Steve Irwin by naming a rare...

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InterOil Announces Initial Logging Results From Antelope-2 Well (Marketwire)

HOUSTON, TEXAS and CAIRNS, AUSTRALIA--(Marketwire - Due to the washouts observed on the logs throughout the wellbore, InterOil has determined that the packer required for a drill stem test is not likely to seal and would not...

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Pilot's sex assault conviction quashed

A COURT has quashed the conviction of a charter pilot jailed over the sexual assault of a girl in Papua New Guinea. Frederic Arthur Martens, 60, of Cairns, was sentenced to five years' jail by a Queensland court in October 2006...

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