A PLAN for mini-retail hubs supported by smaller, dense housing is among the tweaks to the latest draft Brisbane city plan.
COUPLE who had son with cystic fibrosis, despite having genetic tests to reduce risk, file $1.8 million lawsuit against two doctors and fertility practice.
A PLAN for mini-retail hubs supported by smaller, dense housing is among the tweaks to the latest draft Brisbane city plan.
COUPLE who had son with cystic fibrosis, despite having genetic tests to reduce risk, file $1.8 million lawsuit against two doctors and fertility practice.
AFTER the death of two pedestrians on the same day in Sydney, police are urging the public to be more careful crossing roads.
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QUEENSLAND'S attorney-general will appeal over two sentences handed to a sex offender and two men who assaulted a taxi driver earlier this month.
Jarrod Bleijie has instructed the Director of Public Prosecutions to appeal against sentences handed to a child sex offender in the District Court in Maroochydore on January 13 and to Nathan Levy and Steve Drobny in the District Court in Hervey Bay on January 22.
The sex offender was sentenced to three years prison, but will be eligible for parole in nine months.
Levy and Drobny were convicted of grievous bodily harm and assault occasioning bodily harm after an attack on a taxi driver.
Levy was sentenced to 30 months behind bars, but granted parole immediately.
Drobny was placed on a 150-hour community service order.
Mr Bleijie said that the sentences were manifestly inadequate, not in line with community expectations and did not set an adequate deterrent.
Appeals will be lodged at a later date.
Victoria's controversial desalination plant has been relying on generator power for several weeks. Source: AAP
VICTORIA'S controversial desalination plant has been relying on generator power for several weeks, with electricity shut off due to a problem with cabling.
Two cable joints were found to be performing below specification and needed to be repaired, plant spokesman John Ridley said.
Electricity to the Wonthaggi plant has been shut off while the repairs take place.
"Because the plant is not producing any water, it is of no consequence and the systems to maintain the plant have all been supplied by the standby generators which are there for that reason," Mr Ridley told AAP.
"Once the cable is fully operational again, which will be very soon, days rather than weeks as I understand it, then everything will be absolutely fine."
Electricity is needed to run pumps to maintain the plant, he said.
The cause of the cabling problem is being investigated.
The $6.1 billion desalination plant, which provides a drought-proof water supply to Melbourne and Geelong, was built under the previous Labor government and had massive cost blowouts.
It began operating in 2012 but the government has placed a zero-gigalitre order for the past two financial years.
A decision on a 2014/15 order is due by April.
TREASURY Wine Estates has been hammered on the stock market, with its shares falling by 20 per cent after it issued a profit downgrade due to weaker sales in Australia and China.
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PRIME Minister Tony Abbott has used the rejection of taxpayer support for fruit processor SPC Ardmona to set an important "marker" for how his government will deal with requests for industry assistance.
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