Posted May 31, 2011 09:51:00 | Updated May 31, 2011 09:53:00
Posted July 24, 2011 09:51:25 | Updated July 24,sale on uggs, 2011 12:53:19
The company proposing to expand a bauxite mine in Cape York in far north Queensland says Cairns is in a good position to provide a 300-strong workforce during the construction phase.
Posted August 26, 2011 09:07:14
Topics: refugees, community-and-society, immigration, weipa-4874, australia, qld
Scherger Immigration Detention Centre near Weipa image image Indigenous runners prepare for marathon effortTopics: mining-industry, mining-rural, weipa-4874, cairns-4870
Posted July 23, 2011 16:33:25
Topics: immigration, weipa-4874
A male refugee has cut his own throat and another has cut his arm during a protest at a remote Queensland immigration detention centre.
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Topics: immigration, refugees, federal-government, christmas-island-6798, wa, australia, qld, weipa-4874, malaysia
The union representing detention centre staff on Christmas Island says its members were in danger during last night's riots.
Salvos keep outback Christmas spirit aliveTopics: welfare, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, programs-and-initiatives, states-and-territories, weipa-4874, cairns-4870
The facility has seen three consecutive nights of rioting by detainees who have set fires and threatened self harm.
A Cairns Catholic priest says asylum seekers at a Cape York detention centre in far north Queensland have been granted permission to take part in organised excursions.
Ex-tropical Cyclone Grant is located in the Gulf of Carpentaria and is expected to continue moving steadily east, and may redevelop into a tropical cyclone on Friday.
Posted June 06, 2011 17:27:00 | Updated June 06, 2011 17:28:00
Topics: activism-and-lobbying, refugees, weipa-4874
Asylum seeker advocates say detainees at an immigration detention centre on far north Queensland's Cape York want to pursue charges against a guard after a weekend riot.
Topics: education, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, liberal-national-party-queensland, states-and-territories, weipa-4874, cairns-4870
Posted July 23, 2011 16:26:27 | Updated July 24, 2011 03:21:07
Posted October 07, 2011 10:30:59
Newman pledges Indigenous education review Four hurt in detention centre incidentFour Indigenous Queenslanders are preparing to fly to the United States for next month's famous New York marathon.
The body of an asylum seeker who died in immigration detention in Australia in March has been returned to his family in Afghanistan.
Topics: environment, weipa-4874
Topics: refugees, activism-and-lobbying, immigration, weipa-4874
Asylum seekers get outings nodThree people have been treated in hospital after a riot involving more than 100 people at the Scherger Immigration Detention Centre at Weipa on the Cape York Peninsula.
More asylum seekers have joined hunger strikes at a detention centre in Queensland and another facility in Darwin.
Posted June 28, 2011 10:19:00
Federal assurance on bauxite expansionAbout 60 Afghan detainees are on a hunger strike at a far north Queensland detention centre.
Posted October 23, 2011 10:31:44 | Updated October 24, 2011 06:50:49
Asylum seeker's body returned to family (video) Cape welfare reform trial extendedPosted July 21, 2011 19:14:52 | Updated July 25, 2011 08:51:18
Scientists find new species of frog in Cape York (audio)Queensland's Department of Environment and Resource Management says it cannot explain why large schools of fish are dying in a Cape York river.
Posted July 22, 2011 06:28:47 | Updated August 16, 2011 11:29:21
Hunger strike escalates at detention centresTopics: charities-and-community-organisations, longreach-4730, mount-isa-4825, camooweal-4828, normanton-4890, weipa-4874, birdsville-4482
Topics: refugees, immigration, weipa-4874, qld
Bauxite mine expansion boosts far north jobsPosted December 29, 2011 10:12:40
Posted June 17, 2011 11:03:00
Posted May 19, 2011 16:08:00
Posted December 29, 2011 10:12:40 | Updated December 29, 2011 12:29:47
Three hurt in detention centre riotLNP Leader Campbell Newman says Indigenous education is a key focus of his far north Queensland trip this week.
Weipa Predicted path of ex-tropical Cyclone Grant image imageThe 20th anniversary of the death of an Air Force pilot has been marked with a memorial service at the Tindal RAAF base in the Northern Territory.
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The weather bureau is predicting ex-Tropical Cyclone Grant will redevelop and hit Cape York Peninsula in far north Queensland tomorrow.
Topics: immigration, refugees, prisons-and-punishment, weipa-4874, cairns-4870
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Cyclone predicted to hit Cape YorkTopics: cyclone, thursday-island-4875, weipa-4874
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Posted October 06, 2011 14:37:32
A magistrate dismissed a case yesterday involving the drowning death of a deckhand near Weipa in far north Queensland in 2008.
New miniature frog species discovered image imageThe Immigration Department is investigating a disturbance at a Cape York detention centre.
A welfare reform trial in Cape York in far north Queensland is being extended to the middle of next year.
Topics: conservation,ugg broome, mining-environmental-issues, mining-industry, mining-rural, weipa-4874, qld
Posted June 07, 2011 08:17:00
Detainees self harm in Qld detention protestPosted October 24, 2011 09:01:23 | Updated October 24, 2011 09:10:42
Posted December 21, 2011 09:18:02 | Updated December 21, 2011 09:42:27
Posted May 20, 2011 10:47:00
A wide-ranging study of Cape York Peninsula in far north Queensland has revealed just how wildlife-rich the area is, with researchers finding more than 260 species, including a new species of frog.
Injured detainee released from hospital (audio)Ex-tropical Cyclone Grant is no longer expected to redevelop into a tropical cyclone.
Investigations are continuing into a riot at the Scherger Immigration Detention Centre in far north Queensland.
A helicopter has been delivering Christmas gifts to remote schools and children across the Gulf of Carpentaria and western Queensland.
Detainees in hunger strike at Qld detention centreTopics: immigration, federal---state-issues, weipa-4874, cairns-4870
Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke says he will block the expansion of bauxite mining on Cape York if all environmental requirements are not met.
Topics: courts-and-trials, maritime, weipa-4874, cairns-4870
Posted October 25, 2011 13:50:56 | Updated October 25, 2011 13:52:19
Posted December 29, 2011 07:08:47 | Updated December 29, 2011 10:15:43
Claims Christmas Island staff in danger (photos)Topics: refugees, community-and-society, immigration, unrest-conflict-and-war, weipa-4874, afghanistan, australia,ugg boots clearance, qld, pakistan
Detainees want guard charged over Scherger riot Court dismisses deckhand drowning casePosted July 19, 2011 05:59:37 | Updated July 19, 2011 08:16:04
Mysterious big fish kill in Cape York riverTopics: rivers, environment, weipa-4874, qld
Posted August 19, 2011 08:44:11
The tiny creatures were found by Dr Conrad Hoskin from Townville's James Cook University, living in isolated boulder swamps in a remote area of Cape York Peninsula.
Posted September 14, 2011 12:14:20 | Updated September 14, 2011 16:29:51
Topics: immigration, activism-and-lobbying, federal---state-issues, weipa-4874, qld, cairns-4870
RAAF memorial marks mystery death of pilotTopics: community-and-society, immigration, federal-government, weipa-4874, cairns-4870
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