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  • CFT QLD Nominated for Regional Achievement and Community Awards - Employment and Training Award 2010

    CFT QLD has been nominated for the Employment and Training Award.  This award will acknowledge and highlight the continued success and achievements of businesses that are creating job opportunities within their communities and offering job placement to those most affected by unemployment.

  • Food Safety - Guide Dogs get rough end of the stick in restaurants

    They’re often referred to as our best friends, but a recent survey shows one in three Guide Dogs, are still getting the rough end of the stick in some restauran

  • RSA - How the Government plans to keep drinkers safe on the streets - Our New Party Precincts

    Three safe areas have been nominated by Queensland Government, Fortitude Valley, Surfers Paradise and Townsville.

    Fortitude Valley - Police officers increased from 78-102 during peak times.

  • New drink havens to ban troublemakers

    A major overhaul of  Queensland's drinking culture will be spearheaded by a massive police blitz on new designated pub club zones across the state.

    The Bligh Government's response to the year-long inquiry into alcohol-fuelled violence will also allow police to exclude troublemakers from so-called Drink Safe Precincts, where partygoers will enjoy new special safe zones............

  • How do rockmelons become contaminated with Salmonella?

    The NSW Food Authority is investigating this matter further. Overseas evidence suggests contaminated water, fertiliser, contact with pests/animals or insufficient cleaning of rockmelons prior to sale could be contributing factors.

    • If buying fresh cut rockmelon, ensure it is refrigerated or surrounded by ice.
    • Wash all rockmelons with cool tap water immediately before eating. Scrub melons with a clean produce brush.
    • Leftover cut rockmelon should be discarded if left at room temperature for more than two hours

     

  • Adult Proof of Age Card ID

    The Queensland Government is introducing the Adult Proof of Age card.

    Currently the 18+ card costs $25.65. The Adult Proof of Age Card is a more secure, more durable and more credible replacement for Card 18+, a five year Adult Proof of Age card will cost $35.80 when it is introduced.

    The Adult Proof of Age Card will provide proof of age for Queenslanders 18 years of age and older. It is ideal for people who do not drive.

    All current Card 18+ products will still be recognised and moving to the new card is optional. However, new cards will be given to all new Adult Proof of Age Card applicants.

  • New Queensland Driver's Licences-more secure ID - RSA

    The Queensland Government is introducing more secure, more durable and more credible licences, authorities and proof of age cards to replace the laminated cards and marine licence confirmation reports that have been used for the past 20 years.

    Unlike the current laminated cards, the new cards use smartcard technology and are extremely hard to tamper with or duplicate.

  • Pub under fire after pot plant death

    DARWIN pub could face legal action for contributing to "drunken mayhem" in the city, an inquest has heard.

    Adam Francis Chandler, 20, had been drinking with a group of friends at the Victoria Hotel until it closed on August 13 last year. After, while on his way to Uncle Sam's on Smith St, a 20kg pot plant was dropped on his abdomen.

    The four young men had been wrestling, and were soon after taken into police protective custody.

    Mr Chandler - who was studying to be a PE teacher - was seriously injured, but no one realised and he died from internal bleeding in Royal Darwin Hospital about 8pm on August 13.

  • Suspect water taken for sale

    Water trucks have been taking domestic supplies from springs near where contaiminated groundwater was found at Kingaroy, locals claim.

    The residents claim contractors took water from a main spring inside a marked 2km exclusion zone after farmers were ordered to shut down their bores after toxic chemicals benzene and toluene were found.

    A DERM spokesman said officers had advised

  • Hotline to dob in the gastro spreaders - Food Safety

    Coughs, colds and stomach viruses are being spread through restaurants, cafes and takeway shops this winter by employees who are being pressured into working while they are sick.

     The NSW Food Authority has investigated several reports of businesses suspected of allowing staff with symptoms of gastroenteritis, such as vomiting and diarrhoea to handle food or serve customers........