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Over the weekend parts of North West Queensland were ravaged by violent storms and flooding. The SES responded to several calls for help during the floods. The local communities all pulled together to see there friends and family through the storms as all Australian communities do in tough times. The storms caused about $4 million worth of damage to public infrastructure in the Cloncurry, McKinlayand Burke local government areas.

The government has activated the disaster relief funding for the effected areas as of today.

Member for Mt Isa Betty Kiernan said that if any residents did suffer personal hardship as a result of the storms and associated flooding, they could apply to the Department of Communities for assistance, on 1800 173 349.

“Personal hardship grants of $165 per person and up to $765 per family may be available for directly impacted residents who have been unable to recover via their own means,” she said.

For years the Brisbane CBD has only been know officially as “city”. The Bligh Government is putting forward a proposal in hopes to have the CBD renamed to “Brisbane”.

Minister Wallace said: “Brisbane is one of the few major cities in Australia where the capital’s CBD doesn’t have a name reflecting the actual city.”

The Government is hoping that in brisbane’s 150th anniversry year its CBD can finnaly be given a formal identity, the change will also provide a clearer mail path for Australia Post as currently it is difficult to tell where one suburb starts and another ends.

Police are currently investigating an armed robbery that was carried out at a BP service station on the corner of Latrobe Street and Lytton Road in East Brisbane at around 8:30pm last night.

The service station was held at knife point by a man in his 20’s that was wearing a white towel to cover his face and a pair of oven mitts to protect his hands. The man fled the scene on foot down Latrobe Street with an undisclosed amount of cash.

On December 23rd and Boxing Day storms hit Mitchell and St George causing extensive damage to power lines, trees and house’s in the area. Prisoners from the Darling Downs Correctional Centre worked through Christmas and the New Year to assist the effected communities with the recovery effort. The labor the prisoners provided (2600 man hours) has saved the government ~$40,000.

Prisoners also made a significant contribution to the storm recovery efforts in South East Queensland recently saving a pretty penny in labor there to.

Feel like your being watched in Mooloolaba? your are….Mooloolaba is now home to a CCTV network owned and operated by the Queensland Police. There are roughly a dozen cameras setup around the “party district” in Mooloolaba supplying the Mooloolaba Police Beat with a 24/7 live video feed of you and your family. The exact numbers and locations of the cameras within the network are being kept secret from everyone at the moment.

If you have any information regarding the amount of cameras in use and there locations we would love to hear from you. We believe its important that people know where these cameras are located and we intend on doing this as soon as possible by providing a detailed map of the CCTV network.

At 6pm last night on the Barkly Highway a car of four left the tarmac and rolled a number of times. The car of four had been traveling south along the Barkly Highway ~65kms north of Mt Isa. The front passenger a 67 year old women was killed, while the 37 year old driver and the two young passengers aged, 11 and 4 survived but sustained serious injuries. Police are currently investigating the cause of the crash.

Police are urging people to use extra caution on the roads during the holiday season for due reason. Where I live here in Mooloolaba traffic this season is incredible and no doubt many other places are in the same boat. Its all to easy to let your mind slip when theres just so much to think about at christmas time and its this reason alone we need to ensure we all do our best to stay focused and be as curtious as possible to other drivers.

Overnight on the Sunshine Coast two men managed to rob the BP servo at Wurtulla then an hour later the two men struck at the Coles Express servo in Aroona. The weapon of choice for these robberies was a stick. The men made away with an undisclosed amount of money and cigarettes. The identities of the men is not yet known but police are reviewing the CCTV footage today in an attempt to discover both of the culprits identities.

On December 20, 2008 the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society ship, recently dubbed the “Steve Irwin” launched an attack with the intent on using stink bombs on a Japanese whaling ship the Yushin Maru 2, found in Australia’s self-declared Antarctic economic exclusion zone. The attack was not completed due to rising winds making it extremely difficult to reach the whaling ship in a Delta Boat.

The season for whaling begun not to long ago for the Japanese and it seems they really have a tuff enemy this time round with the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society doing there best to stop the Japanese Whale research bs.

The South Korean government removed there forces from Iraq last Friday as they believe they are no longer needed. The South Korean government originally sent ~3,600 troops to Iraq during 2004 in response to bush’s cry for help, this was the 3rd largest contribution bush received.

The UN mandate that let troops into Iraq is almost up, this is causeing many country’s in alliance with the USA to vacate Iraq. Such a shame all this didnt happen 1 month into the bs war.

The Sunshine Coast Police have been given a new $140,000 toy in the fight aginst your freedoms. The new toy is a 8 seater, segregated people mover, a “brawler van”. The van will be used all round the Sunshine Coast in an effort to reduce the amount of time police spend heading to and from the station. Since the van provides a segregated section (4 seats either side) its now possible to transport 2 people who have been fighting, male and female prisoners, or adult and juvenile prisoners. A camera has been fitted for both prisoner and police safty and a hose has also been installed for capsicum spray victims.