The Big Pineapple is an iconic Sunshine Coast tourist attraction, but its fate hangs in the balance between an ambitious real estate developer and those who would preserve a key element of Australian roadside...
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" Cait Bester | 5th March 2009 RAY Rogers walks along Town Beach every afternoon but instead of picking up shells, he is collecting needles. And for every needle he picks up, he is worried there are others he will miss. Mr Rogers has been finding used needles and sharps...
Steve Anderson of Save Our Internet, asks: "Will the next NowPublic, Rabble.ca, or Raincity Studios be scared away by the impending ISP gatekeepers?"" He's talking about Bell and other carriers are controlling...
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While digging details on A Loo with the View (the Book), I stumbled upon Loo with a View (the company).Couple Ric and Lyn Kinghorn founded the company in 1996 and maybe because of their location on the Sunshine Coast of Australia (in Queensland) created a line of Toilet Seats...
What is going on at Pacific Coastal Airlines?"B.C. - Seven people died and one man was in hospital with severe burns after their plane slammed into a steep hillside on the Sunshine Coast Sunday, marking the second deadly crash for Pacific Coastal Airlines in just four...
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I just received word from NowPublic contributor ppeggy that someone went overboard on the 7:20 run leaving Horseshoe Bay, heading for Langdale on the Sunshine Coast. Apparently the ferry stopped, and a zodiac was deployed, but they returned to the ferry without having located...
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"According to CBC: The federal New Democrats have lost a candidate over a very public love of cannabis. The NDP has confirmed that Dana Larsen submitted his resignation to the party’s provincial campaign manager. Party spokesman Brad Lavigne said information came to light...
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" QUEENSLAND police fear dozens of child pornography suspects could escape justice because the Federal Police "screwed up" one of the nation's biggest pedophile busts.Senior Queensland police sources last night accused the AFP of going public too early, effectively tipping...
So Al Gore received the Nobel Prize, eh? Too bad the UN IPCC has to share it with him:A synopsis in 3 videos: Video 1"Sept 29, 2007; THE LOGGING OF 1000 YEAR OLD TREES HAS NOT STOPPED AS OF Oct. 9.......
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"Tiger Airways has added Queensland's Sunshine Coast to its domestic routes. The low cost carrier will offer three flights a week from Melbourne to the region from December. The airline recently introduced direct services between Melbourne and the Gold Coast,...
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"Thursday, August 2, 2007
Logging threatens drinking water in Sechelt: protesters
(CBC) - More than 40 protesters blockaded a road in Sechelt, B.C., on Wednesday, saying logging in the Chapman Creek watershed threatens their water supply.
"It's notorious in B.C. for how bad...
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"14.02.2007
By REBECCA MARSHALL and AAP DISTURBING new research has shed light on the problem of youth binge drinking, a habit that is damaging the health of young people on the Sunshine Coast.
A survey of 500 men...
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"It started around mid morning 16th November 2006 near the Pelican Waters Golf Club. There were very high winds which made the control very difficult especially as a lot of the terrain was inaccessible. Two...