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1 week ago | 
abc.net.au | Mark Rigby |Nicole Dyer
Incorrectly disposed of batteries caused seven fires in Gold Coast City Council garbage trucks in May. The Queensland Fire Department says battery fires are becoming more common due to rise in lithium-ion batteries. Gold Coast City Council has not ruled out fining people for incorrectly disposing of batteries in household waste. Flaming piles of garbage are being dumped on Gold Coast streets as the city's rubbish trucks catch fire because of batteries thrown in household waste.
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Feb 24, 2025 | 
lexology.com | Mark Rigby |Ashley Reich Rockman |Garth Williams |Malcolm Shackell |Peter Forwood |Nicole Salimbeni | +1 more
The increasing expectation is that boards "should have known", so what can they look for? With the expectations of regulators and community stakeholders only increasing, directors and senior management need to understand how financial crime risks are practically operating on the ground in their business.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Mark Rigby
Dry eye is a condition usually only observed in older people, but increasingly, optometrists say they're seeing children as young as 12 presenting with the condition. It seems to be the result of too much time staring at screens.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Mark Rigby
A normal work day for digital native Madison Brinkworth involves at least eight hours on her laptop. Add the time she spends on her phone or streaming and her daily dose of screen time reaches double-digit territory. But when her eyes first started getting red and itchy in early 2023 she put it down to eczema, something she had battled with before. "In the mornings I'd wake up and they'd be really swollen," Ms Brinkworth said.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Mark Rigby
The couple behind internet-famous Molly the magpie has lost a licence to look after the bird. Molly and canine best mate Peggy gained international fame this year when Molly was seized by officers from Queensland's environment department. The department said the Gold Coast couple — Reece Mortensen and Juliette Wells — who said they had raised the bird after finding it on the ground as a baby, did not have the required permits to care for native wildlife.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Mark Rigby |Cameron P. Simmons
E-transport injuries are filling up Queensland emergency departments at record levels as the popularity of e-bikes and e-scooters explodes across the state. On the Gold Coast — the state's largest regional council area — e-transport related injuries at hospital emergency departments jumped from 77 presentations in 2019/20 to 566 in 2023/24 — a 635 per cent increase.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Mark Rigby
Detectives from Queensland's Major and Organised Crime Squad have broken up several alleged drug trafficking operations on the Gold Coast just over a week before annual Schoolies celebrations begin in the city. A four-day police operation targeting alleged bikie gangs on the Gold Coast and in northern New South Wales has seen 15 people charged with more than 60 drug and firearms offences.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Nicholas Mcelroy |Mark Rigby
Television reporter turned state political candidate Bianca Stone has conceded defeat in the tightly contested Gold Coast seat of Gaven. The LNP candidate has been in a close race against Labor's Meaghan Scanlon since Saturday's Queensland state election. Fewer than 400 votes separate the pair with roughly 80 per cent of votes counted, but Ms Stone said she had called Ms Scanlon to concede defeat.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Mark Rigby
Queensland's premier has defended one of his Labor Party candidates after revelations she made a series of anti-police social media posts before entering politics. Steven Miles said he stood by Labor candidate for Burleigh, Claire Carlin, and that she was "a good candidate". "I understand that some very old social media posts have been discovered, I understand that she has said that they don't represent her views now, a decade later, and that she's apologised," Mr Miles said.
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Oct 5, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Mark Rigby
Queensland's construction industry says a proposal to make building granny flats easier may also make them cheaper for home owners. Most Queensland councils require home owners to apply for approval to build a granny flat, with varying rules and conditions. General manager of Gold Coast-based modular home business Volo Modular, Chris Gunton, said variations in local government building codes for secondary dwellings are a "constant challenge" for businesses like his.
