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New controversy hits school
AN elite Brisbane girls' school has admitted its principal has resigned, months after another incident in which the deputy principal was sacked.

Affirmative action on indigenous jobs
FOUR youngsters are at the vanguard of an ambitious new program which aims to boost employment opportunities for young indigenous Queenslanders.

Weather ripe for squalor in mud
FRUSTRATED motorists abandoned their cars on the road leading to music festival Splendour in the Grass yesterday.

Wikileaks founder's state of origin
WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange was born in Townsville and raised on Magnetic Island, it has been revealed.

Patel's boss ignored complaints
LIVES would have been saved had Jayant Patel's supervisor properly probed complaints by medical staff, secretive health tribunal documents say.

Free iPhone case bites into sales
HORDES of Apple fans swarmed stores in anticipation of the iPhone 4 launch, but Australian accessory makers are concerned they will be cut out of a lucrative market.

More homes to access fast net
ABOUT 300,000 extra homes and businesses will get broadband speeds 100 times faster than today's technology after the Gillard Government decided to extend its optical fibre rollout.

Crab DNA bags illegal fisherman
DNA testing has been used for a second time in Queensland to nail a fisherman selling nearly one tonne of female and undersized mud crabs.

Owner burned in house fire
A PERSON has been taken to hospital with burns after a house fire on Brisbane’s north side.

Woman trapped in car rollover
A 31-YEAR-OLD woman is being cut from her car after it rolled at Goomboorian, north of Gympie.