Local, national and world news for Warwick, QLD | Friday 22 August, 2008
Speak about sexual abuse
WHAT happens when someone you trust someone who is meant to have your best interests at heart betrays you in the most traumatic way? Alona O'Brien knows: you survive. As a young child, the Warwick woman suffered silently through the terror of repeated sexual abuse. Today she is making an emotive...-
Being a mum is hard on career
MODERN working women can have it all motherhood and a career just not at the same time, says senior Warwick manager... -
Midwife and a mother of eight
AS a midwife Jess Devine remembers needing a change from the drama of the labour ward, but as a young mother she kept... -
Laura Geitz takes a break from training to visit her family
Or so she thought. Instead, the Australian squad member has been doing intense off-season gym and training sessions and... -
Goomburra Valley slated for new solar power plant
The Tudor Valley Road site owner Mark Johnstone has pitched a station to the council which would boast four, 35-tonne solar... -
Cycle of friends are riding high
SPENDING time hanging out with a group of your closest friends probably sounds like your ideal weekend. But throw 100km...
Australian news
Coast man's ordeal in Laos jungle
A Sunshine Coast man who spent 11 days lost in a Laos jungle was found after building his name out of rocks to guide searchers to where he was heading.Nuclear energy debate heats up in Qld
Queensland will need nuclear energy more than any other state in Australia, says former Telstra chief Ziggy Switkowski.Human remains found in Mackay park
Scientific testing will be carried out on human remains found in parkland in north Queensland on Wednesday.Ferguson launches High Court appeal
Lawyers for accused child molester Dennis Ferguson have launched an appeal against a decision that he face trial for allegedly sexually assaulting a young girl.
World news
Sudan's president denies Darfur genocide
Sudan's indicted president has denied that his regime is orchestrating genocide in the troubled western region of Darfur and offered hope of an end to violence.McCain grabs lead in latest US poll
John McCain has grabbed the lead over Barack Obama in a new opinion poll, in the latest sign of accelerating momentum for the Republican.Sarkozy tells French troops to fight on
President Nicolas Sarkozy has told French soldiers mourning 10 comrades that their work in Afghanistan is essential for the "freedom of the world".151 die in Madrid jet crash disaster
At least 151 people have been killed and around 20 injured when a Spanish airliner crashed at Madrid's airport, national radio says.
