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<\/a>Table of contents<\/h3>\n(October 24, 2015) – Annastacia’s tells.<\/a><\/h6>\n(October 23, 2015) – Newman Govt warned not to close Barrett Centre.<\/a><\/h6>\n(October 22, 2015) – Women at work.<\/a><\/h6>\n(October 21, 2015) – Steven Wardill turns gossip columnist.<\/a><\/h6>\n(October 20, 2015) – State of Queensland.<\/a><\/h6>\n(October 19, 2015) – Location Bundaberg.<\/a><\/h6>\n(October 18, 2015) –\u00a0Loggerhead turtles arrive in Mon Repos before politicians.<\/a><\/h6>\n.<\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n(October 24, 2015) – Annastacia’s tells<\/h2>\nJournalist Amy Remeikis gives an eight month analysis<\/h3>\n\n- Amy Remeikis<\/a>\u00a0commented, “Spend enough time in the company of anyone and you’ll learn their tells.\u00a0A micro-grimace before speaking. A twiddling thumb. A small intake of breath. A brief tight smile. Or, in the case of Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk, the use of a journalist’s name.\u00a0Just eight months in to the Palaszczuk Government and its now rare to get through a press conference without a reporter’s name being uttered a time or two.\u00a0Usually following an uncomfortable question. Always after a repeated question because the first wasn’t answered. After eight months, those uncomfortable questions are rolling in.”:\u00a0‘Steady ship’ approach to government facing some waves.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Bill Gordon also cleared by NSW police<\/h3>\n
When Queensland police gave Billy Gordon the all clear on domestic violence allegations, former partner Kristy Peckham lodged a complaint with the NSW police from her home in Dubbo, NSW. Police announced today that no action would be taken due to a lack of evidence. Read more on The Media Trial of Billy Gordon at our blog here.<\/a><\/p>\nTreasurer Curtis Pitt staffer resigns over domestic violence allegations<\/h3>\n\n- Peter Michael<\/a> reported, “Treasurer\u00a0Curtis Pitt\u2019s electorate officer has resigned in disgrace over an undeclared past domestic violence order and posting explicit photographs online of his former lovers without their permission.\u00a0In the latest scandal to engulf Queensland\u2019s Labor Party, three women have come forward to ask police to investigate sexually explicit pictures allegedly posted online by Mr Pitt\u2019s former staffer Glen Martin.\u00a0Mr Martin\u2019s ex-partner Jeda Nash says the Cairns AFL footy star and youth worker posted her naked photos on website chat rooms in retaliation to her claims of violence against him.\u00a0Ms Nash, 32, yesterday lodged a formal complaint with police, saying she felt the father-of-three had violated her privacy and that her dignity was gone.”:\u00a0Revenge porn: Curtis Pitt\u2019s electorate officer resigns over domestic violence, explicit pics.<\/a><\/li>\n
- ABC News Queensland<\/a> reported, “A staff member from the electorate office of the Queensland Treasurer has resigned over domestic violence allegations.\u00a0In a statement issued this morning, Curtis Pitt said the man was issued a domestic and family violence protection order in May, subsequent to the initial employment screening process, but the information was not disclosed to him.”:\u00a0Queensland Treasurer staffer resigns over domestic violence allegations.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
.<\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n(October 23, 2015) – Newman Govt warned not to close Barrett Centre<\/h2>\nQueensland Health warnning ignored on Barrett Centre<\/h3>\n
Two of Queensland’s finest journalists, Tony Moore<\/a> and Kathy McLeish<\/a> have been relentless in their search for truth over the closure of the Barrett Adolescent Centre and the future of mental health in this state. They are both to be commended for their outstanding work of which a fraction appears below.<\/p>\n\n- Tony Moore<\/a> reported, “Justine Wilkinson is the outspoken mother of one of the three teenagers who took their lives in 2014 after the former Queensland government closed the state’s sole live-in adolescent mental health centre.\u00a0Ms Wilkinson said alternative adolescent mental health care for teenagers was still not available in Queensland.”\u00a0Barrett centre: Mother of dead teen says mental health care still not available.<\/a><\/span>
\nFollow us: @brisbanetimes on Twitter<\/a> | brisbanetimes on Facebook<\/a>“:\u00a0Barrett centre: Mother of dead teen says mental health care still not available.<\/a><\/li>\n- Tony Moore<\/a> reported, “Queensland Health warned the Newman government two months before it closed the state’s only adolescent psychiatric centre that alternative care options would not be ready for another year.\u00a0Right-to-information documents reveal Queensland Health’s director-general was advised in an urgent departmental briefing note in November 2013 that closure of Wacol’s Barrett Adolescent Centre in January 2014 was too soon for the replacement adolescent mental health model to be ready.\u00a0The document, dated November 25, 2013, shows that the department warned Ian Maynard that while then-health minister Lawrence Springborg remained committed to closing the centre, the “alternative appropriate care provisions” the department had been warned it needed four months earlier were a year away from being established.”:\u00a0Documents show LNP knew mental health centre closed before other care ready.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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<\/a>In 2014, Kathy McLeish’s 7:30 Qld report on the Barrett Centre closure also found the Newman Government was warned.<\/p><\/div>\n
Brisbane Mayor\u00a0Graham Quirk blames workers<\/h3>\n\n- \n
Cameron Atfield<\/a> reported, “The opening of the Legacy Way tunnel was delayed, in part, by\u00a0a deliberate slow-down by electricians who feared unemployment at the end of their contracts, Brisbane Lord Mayor Graham Quirk has claimed.”:\u00a0Legacy Way workers slowed down to protect jobs: Graham Quirk.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nSolar to defeat coal power<\/h3>\n\n- Tony Moore<\/a> reported, “Solar energy systems on top of shopping centres, car park shade covers, hospitals, airports and other commercial buildings are the beginning of the end for large scale coal power stations, one alternative energy developer will explain on Friday.\u00a0Shakra Energy managing director Sam Khalil will on Friday outline how the solar energy system his company has installed as a “shade cover” over carparking at Buranda is now doubling as a solar energy generator. He says the system cut energy costs for the owner by between 30 to 40 per cent.”:\u00a0Are these solar panels the setting of the sun for coal mines?<\/a><\/li>\n
- Brisbane Times<\/a> reported, “A renewable energy developer who wants to roll out solar carports at shopping centres across Queensland says he isn’t trying to take on the mining industry.\u00a0Shakra Energy’s managing director Sam Khalil joined Greens senators Sarah Hanson-Young and Larissa Waters to unveil Australia’s “largest carport solar development” in Brisbane on Friday.\u00a0“We’re not trying to take on the mining industry on – we’re only trying to generate 20 to 30 to 40 per cent of what high energy users need (and) reduce the carbon emissions,” he told AAP.”:\u00a0Greens want Queensland to back solar carparks in shopping centres.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Thor movie for Gold Coast<\/h3>\n\n- ABC News Brisbane<\/a> reported, “Queensland’s Gold Coast will be the home of the third instalment of Marvel’s popular Thor film franchise.\u00a0Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk made the announcement this morning at Village Roadshow Studios at Oxenford on the Gold Coast.”:\u00a0Thor: Ragnarok to film on Gold Coast; will employ 750 Queenslanders and bring more than $100 million to economy.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\nIt's official! New Thor movie will be filmed on the GC, creating 2,000 local jobs #qldpol<\/a> @AnnastaciaMP<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/47rlv6TiGf<\/a><\/p>\n— Tegan George (@tegangeorge) October 23, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
(October 23, 2015) – Newman Govt warned not to close Barrett Centre.<\/a><\/h6>\n(October 22, 2015) – Women at work.<\/a><\/h6>\n(October 21, 2015) – Steven Wardill turns gossip columnist.<\/a><\/h6>\n(October 20, 2015) – State of Queensland.<\/a><\/h6>\n(October 19, 2015) – Location Bundaberg.<\/a><\/h6>\n(October 18, 2015) –\u00a0Loggerhead turtles arrive in Mon Repos before politicians.<\/a><\/h6>\n.<\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n(October 24, 2015) – Annastacia’s tells<\/h2>\nJournalist Amy Remeikis gives an eight month analysis<\/h3>\n\n- Amy Remeikis<\/a>\u00a0commented, “Spend enough time in the company of anyone and you’ll learn their tells.\u00a0A micro-grimace before speaking. A twiddling thumb. A small intake of breath. A brief tight smile. Or, in the case of Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk, the use of a journalist’s name.\u00a0Just eight months in to the Palaszczuk Government and its now rare to get through a press conference without a reporter’s name being uttered a time or two.\u00a0Usually following an uncomfortable question. Always after a repeated question because the first wasn’t answered. After eight months, those uncomfortable questions are rolling in.”:\u00a0‘Steady ship’ approach to government facing some waves.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Bill Gordon also cleared by NSW police<\/h3>\n
When Queensland police gave Billy Gordon the all clear on domestic violence allegations, former partner Kristy Peckham lodged a complaint with the NSW police from her home in Dubbo, NSW. Police announced today that no action would be taken due to a lack of evidence. Read more on The Media Trial of Billy Gordon at our blog here.<\/a><\/p>\nTreasurer Curtis Pitt staffer resigns over domestic violence allegations<\/h3>\n\n- Peter Michael<\/a> reported, “Treasurer\u00a0Curtis Pitt\u2019s electorate officer has resigned in disgrace over an undeclared past domestic violence order and posting explicit photographs online of his former lovers without their permission.\u00a0In the latest scandal to engulf Queensland\u2019s Labor Party, three women have come forward to ask police to investigate sexually explicit pictures allegedly posted online by Mr Pitt\u2019s former staffer Glen Martin.\u00a0Mr Martin\u2019s ex-partner Jeda Nash says the Cairns AFL footy star and youth worker posted her naked photos on website chat rooms in retaliation to her claims of violence against him.\u00a0Ms Nash, 32, yesterday lodged a formal complaint with police, saying she felt the father-of-three had violated her privacy and that her dignity was gone.”:\u00a0Revenge porn: Curtis Pitt\u2019s electorate officer resigns over domestic violence, explicit pics.<\/a><\/li>\n
- ABC News Queensland<\/a> reported, “A staff member from the electorate office of the Queensland Treasurer has resigned over domestic violence allegations.\u00a0In a statement issued this morning, Curtis Pitt said the man was issued a domestic and family violence protection order in May, subsequent to the initial employment screening process, but the information was not disclosed to him.”:\u00a0Queensland Treasurer staffer resigns over domestic violence allegations.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
.<\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n(October 23, 2015) – Newman Govt warned not to close Barrett Centre<\/h2>\nQueensland Health warnning ignored on Barrett Centre<\/h3>\n
Two of Queensland’s finest journalists, Tony Moore<\/a> and Kathy McLeish<\/a> have been relentless in their search for truth over the closure of the Barrett Adolescent Centre and the future of mental health in this state. They are both to be commended for their outstanding work of which a fraction appears below.<\/p>\n\n- Tony Moore<\/a> reported, “Justine Wilkinson is the outspoken mother of one of the three teenagers who took their lives in 2014 after the former Queensland government closed the state’s sole live-in adolescent mental health centre.\u00a0Ms Wilkinson said alternative adolescent mental health care for teenagers was still not available in Queensland.”\u00a0Barrett centre: Mother of dead teen says mental health care still not available.<\/a><\/span>
\nFollow us: @brisbanetimes on Twitter<\/a> | brisbanetimes on Facebook<\/a>“:\u00a0Barrett centre: Mother of dead teen says mental health care still not available.<\/a><\/li>\n- Tony Moore<\/a> reported, “Queensland Health warned the Newman government two months before it closed the state’s only adolescent psychiatric centre that alternative care options would not be ready for another year.\u00a0Right-to-information documents reveal Queensland Health’s director-general was advised in an urgent departmental briefing note in November 2013 that closure of Wacol’s Barrett Adolescent Centre in January 2014 was too soon for the replacement adolescent mental health model to be ready.\u00a0The document, dated November 25, 2013, shows that the department warned Ian Maynard that while then-health minister Lawrence Springborg remained committed to closing the centre, the “alternative appropriate care provisions” the department had been warned it needed four months earlier were a year away from being established.”:\u00a0Documents show LNP knew mental health centre closed before other care ready.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/a>
In 2014, Kathy McLeish’s 7:30 Qld report on the Barrett Centre closure also found the Newman Government was warned.<\/p><\/div>\n
Brisbane Mayor\u00a0Graham Quirk blames workers<\/h3>\n\n- \n
Cameron Atfield<\/a> reported, “The opening of the Legacy Way tunnel was delayed, in part, by\u00a0a deliberate slow-down by electricians who feared unemployment at the end of their contracts, Brisbane Lord Mayor Graham Quirk has claimed.”:\u00a0Legacy Way workers slowed down to protect jobs: Graham Quirk.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nSolar to defeat coal power<\/h3>\n\n- Tony Moore<\/a> reported, “Solar energy systems on top of shopping centres, car park shade covers, hospitals, airports and other commercial buildings are the beginning of the end for large scale coal power stations, one alternative energy developer will explain on Friday.\u00a0Shakra Energy managing director Sam Khalil will on Friday outline how the solar energy system his company has installed as a “shade cover” over carparking at Buranda is now doubling as a solar energy generator. He says the system cut energy costs for the owner by between 30 to 40 per cent.”:\u00a0Are these solar panels the setting of the sun for coal mines?<\/a><\/li>\n
- Brisbane Times<\/a> reported, “A renewable energy developer who wants to roll out solar carports at shopping centres across Queensland says he isn’t trying to take on the mining industry.\u00a0Shakra Energy’s managing director Sam Khalil joined Greens senators Sarah Hanson-Young and Larissa Waters to unveil Australia’s “largest carport solar development” in Brisbane on Friday.\u00a0“We’re not trying to take on the mining industry on – we’re only trying to generate 20 to 30 to 40 per cent of what high energy users need (and) reduce the carbon emissions,” he told AAP.”:\u00a0Greens want Queensland to back solar carparks in shopping centres.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Thor movie for Gold Coast<\/h3>\n\n- ABC News Brisbane<\/a> reported, “Queensland’s Gold Coast will be the home of the third instalment of Marvel’s popular Thor film franchise.\u00a0Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk made the announcement this morning at Village Roadshow Studios at Oxenford on the Gold Coast.”:\u00a0Thor: Ragnarok to film on Gold Coast; will employ 750 Queenslanders and bring more than $100 million to economy.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\nIt's official! New Thor movie will be filmed on the GC, creating 2,000 local jobs #qldpol<\/a> @AnnastaciaMP<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/47rlv6TiGf<\/a><\/p>\n— Tegan George (@tegangeorge) October 23, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
(October 21, 2015) – Steven Wardill turns gossip columnist.<\/a><\/h6>\n(October 20, 2015) – State of Queensland.<\/a><\/h6>\n(October 19, 2015) – Location Bundaberg.<\/a><\/h6>\n(October 18, 2015) –\u00a0Loggerhead turtles arrive in Mon Repos before politicians.<\/a><\/h6>\n.<\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n(October 24, 2015) – Annastacia’s tells<\/h2>\nJournalist Amy Remeikis gives an eight month analysis<\/h3>\n\n- Amy Remeikis<\/a>\u00a0commented, “Spend enough time in the company of anyone and you’ll learn their tells.\u00a0A micro-grimace before speaking. A twiddling thumb. A small intake of breath. A brief tight smile. Or, in the case of Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk, the use of a journalist’s name.\u00a0Just eight months in to the Palaszczuk Government and its now rare to get through a press conference without a reporter’s name being uttered a time or two.\u00a0Usually following an uncomfortable question. Always after a repeated question because the first wasn’t answered. After eight months, those uncomfortable questions are rolling in.”:\u00a0‘Steady ship’ approach to government facing some waves.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Bill Gordon also cleared by NSW police<\/h3>\n
When Queensland police gave Billy Gordon the all clear on domestic violence allegations, former partner Kristy Peckham lodged a complaint with the NSW police from her home in Dubbo, NSW. Police announced today that no action would be taken due to a lack of evidence. Read more on The Media Trial of Billy Gordon at our blog here.<\/a><\/p>\nTreasurer Curtis Pitt staffer resigns over domestic violence allegations<\/h3>\n\n- Peter Michael<\/a> reported, “Treasurer\u00a0Curtis Pitt\u2019s electorate officer has resigned in disgrace over an undeclared past domestic violence order and posting explicit photographs online of his former lovers without their permission.\u00a0In the latest scandal to engulf Queensland\u2019s Labor Party, three women have come forward to ask police to investigate sexually explicit pictures allegedly posted online by Mr Pitt\u2019s former staffer Glen Martin.\u00a0Mr Martin\u2019s ex-partner Jeda Nash says the Cairns AFL footy star and youth worker posted her naked photos on website chat rooms in retaliation to her claims of violence against him.\u00a0Ms Nash, 32, yesterday lodged a formal complaint with police, saying she felt the father-of-three had violated her privacy and that her dignity was gone.”:\u00a0Revenge porn: Curtis Pitt\u2019s electorate officer resigns over domestic violence, explicit pics.<\/a><\/li>\n
- ABC News Queensland<\/a> reported, “A staff member from the electorate office of the Queensland Treasurer has resigned over domestic violence allegations.\u00a0In a statement issued this morning, Curtis Pitt said the man was issued a domestic and family violence protection order in May, subsequent to the initial employment screening process, but the information was not disclosed to him.”:\u00a0Queensland Treasurer staffer resigns over domestic violence allegations.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
.<\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n(October 23, 2015) – Newman Govt warned not to close Barrett Centre<\/h2>\nQueensland Health warnning ignored on Barrett Centre<\/h3>\n
Two of Queensland’s finest journalists, Tony Moore<\/a> and Kathy McLeish<\/a> have been relentless in their search for truth over the closure of the Barrett Adolescent Centre and the future of mental health in this state. They are both to be commended for their outstanding work of which a fraction appears below.<\/p>\n\n- Tony Moore<\/a> reported, “Justine Wilkinson is the outspoken mother of one of the three teenagers who took their lives in 2014 after the former Queensland government closed the state’s sole live-in adolescent mental health centre.\u00a0Ms Wilkinson said alternative adolescent mental health care for teenagers was still not available in Queensland.”\u00a0Barrett centre: Mother of dead teen says mental health care still not available.<\/a><\/span>
\nFollow us: @brisbanetimes on Twitter<\/a> | brisbanetimes on Facebook<\/a>“:\u00a0Barrett centre: Mother of dead teen says mental health care still not available.<\/a><\/li>\n- Tony Moore<\/a> reported, “Queensland Health warned the Newman government two months before it closed the state’s only adolescent psychiatric centre that alternative care options would not be ready for another year.\u00a0Right-to-information documents reveal Queensland Health’s director-general was advised in an urgent departmental briefing note in November 2013 that closure of Wacol’s Barrett Adolescent Centre in January 2014 was too soon for the replacement adolescent mental health model to be ready.\u00a0The document, dated November 25, 2013, shows that the department warned Ian Maynard that while then-health minister Lawrence Springborg remained committed to closing the centre, the “alternative appropriate care provisions” the department had been warned it needed four months earlier were a year away from being established.”:\u00a0Documents show LNP knew mental health centre closed before other care ready.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/a>
In 2014, Kathy McLeish’s 7:30 Qld report on the Barrett Centre closure also found the Newman Government was warned.<\/p><\/div>\n
Brisbane Mayor\u00a0Graham Quirk blames workers<\/h3>\n\n- \n
Cameron Atfield<\/a> reported, “The opening of the Legacy Way tunnel was delayed, in part, by\u00a0a deliberate slow-down by electricians who feared unemployment at the end of their contracts, Brisbane Lord Mayor Graham Quirk has claimed.”:\u00a0Legacy Way workers slowed down to protect jobs: Graham Quirk.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nSolar to defeat coal power<\/h3>\n\n- Tony Moore<\/a> reported, “Solar energy systems on top of shopping centres, car park shade covers, hospitals, airports and other commercial buildings are the beginning of the end for large scale coal power stations, one alternative energy developer will explain on Friday.\u00a0Shakra Energy managing director Sam Khalil will on Friday outline how the solar energy system his company has installed as a “shade cover” over carparking at Buranda is now doubling as a solar energy generator. He says the system cut energy costs for the owner by between 30 to 40 per cent.”:\u00a0Are these solar panels the setting of the sun for coal mines?<\/a><\/li>\n
- Brisbane Times<\/a> reported, “A renewable energy developer who wants to roll out solar carports at shopping centres across Queensland says he isn’t trying to take on the mining industry.\u00a0Shakra Energy’s managing director Sam Khalil joined Greens senators Sarah Hanson-Young and Larissa Waters to unveil Australia’s “largest carport solar development” in Brisbane on Friday.\u00a0“We’re not trying to take on the mining industry on – we’re only trying to generate 20 to 30 to 40 per cent of what high energy users need (and) reduce the carbon emissions,” he told AAP.”:\u00a0Greens want Queensland to back solar carparks in shopping centres.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Thor movie for Gold Coast<\/h3>\n\n- ABC News Brisbane<\/a> reported, “Queensland’s Gold Coast will be the home of the third instalment of Marvel’s popular Thor film franchise.\u00a0Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk made the announcement this morning at Village Roadshow Studios at Oxenford on the Gold Coast.”:\u00a0Thor: Ragnarok to film on Gold Coast; will employ 750 Queenslanders and bring more than $100 million to economy.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\nIt's official! New Thor movie will be filmed on the GC, creating 2,000 local jobs #qldpol<\/a> @AnnastaciaMP<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/47rlv6TiGf<\/a><\/p>\n— Tegan George (@tegangeorge) October 23, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
(October 19, 2015) – Location Bundaberg.<\/a><\/h6>\n(October 18, 2015) –\u00a0Loggerhead turtles arrive in Mon Repos before politicians.<\/a><\/h6>\n.<\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n(October 24, 2015) – Annastacia’s tells<\/h2>\nJournalist Amy Remeikis gives an eight month analysis<\/h3>\n\n- Amy Remeikis<\/a>\u00a0commented, “Spend enough time in the company of anyone and you’ll learn their tells.\u00a0A micro-grimace before speaking. A twiddling thumb. A small intake of breath. A brief tight smile. Or, in the case of Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk, the use of a journalist’s name.\u00a0Just eight months in to the Palaszczuk Government and its now rare to get through a press conference without a reporter’s name being uttered a time or two.\u00a0Usually following an uncomfortable question. Always after a repeated question because the first wasn’t answered. After eight months, those uncomfortable questions are rolling in.”:\u00a0‘Steady ship’ approach to government facing some waves.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Bill Gordon also cleared by NSW police<\/h3>\n
When Queensland police gave Billy Gordon the all clear on domestic violence allegations, former partner Kristy Peckham lodged a complaint with the NSW police from her home in Dubbo, NSW. Police announced today that no action would be taken due to a lack of evidence. Read more on The Media Trial of Billy Gordon at our blog here.<\/a><\/p>\nTreasurer Curtis Pitt staffer resigns over domestic violence allegations<\/h3>\n\n- Peter Michael<\/a> reported, “Treasurer\u00a0Curtis Pitt\u2019s electorate officer has resigned in disgrace over an undeclared past domestic violence order and posting explicit photographs online of his former lovers without their permission.\u00a0In the latest scandal to engulf Queensland\u2019s Labor Party, three women have come forward to ask police to investigate sexually explicit pictures allegedly posted online by Mr Pitt\u2019s former staffer Glen Martin.\u00a0Mr Martin\u2019s ex-partner Jeda Nash says the Cairns AFL footy star and youth worker posted her naked photos on website chat rooms in retaliation to her claims of violence against him.\u00a0Ms Nash, 32, yesterday lodged a formal complaint with police, saying she felt the father-of-three had violated her privacy and that her dignity was gone.”:\u00a0Revenge porn: Curtis Pitt\u2019s electorate officer resigns over domestic violence, explicit pics.<\/a><\/li>\n
- ABC News Queensland<\/a> reported, “A staff member from the electorate office of the Queensland Treasurer has resigned over domestic violence allegations.\u00a0In a statement issued this morning, Curtis Pitt said the man was issued a domestic and family violence protection order in May, subsequent to the initial employment screening process, but the information was not disclosed to him.”:\u00a0Queensland Treasurer staffer resigns over domestic violence allegations.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
.<\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n(October 23, 2015) – Newman Govt warned not to close Barrett Centre<\/h2>\nQueensland Health warnning ignored on Barrett Centre<\/h3>\n
Two of Queensland’s finest journalists, Tony Moore<\/a> and Kathy McLeish<\/a> have been relentless in their search for truth over the closure of the Barrett Adolescent Centre and the future of mental health in this state. They are both to be commended for their outstanding work of which a fraction appears below.<\/p>\n\n- Tony Moore<\/a> reported, “Justine Wilkinson is the outspoken mother of one of the three teenagers who took their lives in 2014 after the former Queensland government closed the state’s sole live-in adolescent mental health centre.\u00a0Ms Wilkinson said alternative adolescent mental health care for teenagers was still not available in Queensland.”\u00a0Barrett centre: Mother of dead teen says mental health care still not available.<\/a><\/span>
\nFollow us: @brisbanetimes on Twitter<\/a> | brisbanetimes on Facebook<\/a>“:\u00a0Barrett centre: Mother of dead teen says mental health care still not available.<\/a><\/li>\n- Tony Moore<\/a> reported, “Queensland Health warned the Newman government two months before it closed the state’s only adolescent psychiatric centre that alternative care options would not be ready for another year.\u00a0Right-to-information documents reveal Queensland Health’s director-general was advised in an urgent departmental briefing note in November 2013 that closure of Wacol’s Barrett Adolescent Centre in January 2014 was too soon for the replacement adolescent mental health model to be ready.\u00a0The document, dated November 25, 2013, shows that the department warned Ian Maynard that while then-health minister Lawrence Springborg remained committed to closing the centre, the “alternative appropriate care provisions” the department had been warned it needed four months earlier were a year away from being established.”:\u00a0Documents show LNP knew mental health centre closed before other care ready.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/a>
In 2014, Kathy McLeish’s 7:30 Qld report on the Barrett Centre closure also found the Newman Government was warned.<\/p><\/div>\n
Brisbane Mayor\u00a0Graham Quirk blames workers<\/h3>\n\n- \n
Cameron Atfield<\/a> reported, “The opening of the Legacy Way tunnel was delayed, in part, by\u00a0a deliberate slow-down by electricians who feared unemployment at the end of their contracts, Brisbane Lord Mayor Graham Quirk has claimed.”:\u00a0Legacy Way workers slowed down to protect jobs: Graham Quirk.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nSolar to defeat coal power<\/h3>\n\n- Tony Moore<\/a> reported, “Solar energy systems on top of shopping centres, car park shade covers, hospitals, airports and other commercial buildings are the beginning of the end for large scale coal power stations, one alternative energy developer will explain on Friday.\u00a0Shakra Energy managing director Sam Khalil will on Friday outline how the solar energy system his company has installed as a “shade cover” over carparking at Buranda is now doubling as a solar energy generator. He says the system cut energy costs for the owner by between 30 to 40 per cent.”:\u00a0Are these solar panels the setting of the sun for coal mines?<\/a><\/li>\n
- Brisbane Times<\/a> reported, “A renewable energy developer who wants to roll out solar carports at shopping centres across Queensland says he isn’t trying to take on the mining industry.\u00a0Shakra Energy’s managing director Sam Khalil joined Greens senators Sarah Hanson-Young and Larissa Waters to unveil Australia’s “largest carport solar development” in Brisbane on Friday.\u00a0“We’re not trying to take on the mining industry on – we’re only trying to generate 20 to 30 to 40 per cent of what high energy users need (and) reduce the carbon emissions,” he told AAP.”:\u00a0Greens want Queensland to back solar carparks in shopping centres.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Thor movie for Gold Coast<\/h3>\n\n- ABC News Brisbane<\/a> reported, “Queensland’s Gold Coast will be the home of the third instalment of Marvel’s popular Thor film franchise.\u00a0Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk made the announcement this morning at Village Roadshow Studios at Oxenford on the Gold Coast.”:\u00a0Thor: Ragnarok to film on Gold Coast; will employ 750 Queenslanders and bring more than $100 million to economy.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\nIt's official! New Thor movie will be filmed on the GC, creating 2,000 local jobs #qldpol<\/a> @AnnastaciaMP<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/47rlv6TiGf<\/a><\/p>\n— Tegan George (@tegangeorge) October 23, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
.<\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n(October 24, 2015) – Annastacia’s tells<\/h2>\nJournalist Amy Remeikis gives an eight month analysis<\/h3>\n\n- Amy Remeikis<\/a>\u00a0commented, “Spend enough time in the company of anyone and you’ll learn their tells.\u00a0A micro-grimace before speaking. A twiddling thumb. A small intake of breath. A brief tight smile. Or, in the case of Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk, the use of a journalist’s name.\u00a0Just eight months in to the Palaszczuk Government and its now rare to get through a press conference without a reporter’s name being uttered a time or two.\u00a0Usually following an uncomfortable question. Always after a repeated question because the first wasn’t answered. After eight months, those uncomfortable questions are rolling in.”:\u00a0‘Steady ship’ approach to government facing some waves.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Bill Gordon also cleared by NSW police<\/h3>\n
When Queensland police gave Billy Gordon the all clear on domestic violence allegations, former partner Kristy Peckham lodged a complaint with the NSW police from her home in Dubbo, NSW. Police announced today that no action would be taken due to a lack of evidence. Read more on The Media Trial of Billy Gordon at our blog here.<\/a><\/p>\nTreasurer Curtis Pitt staffer resigns over domestic violence allegations<\/h3>\n\n- Peter Michael<\/a> reported, “Treasurer\u00a0Curtis Pitt\u2019s electorate officer has resigned in disgrace over an undeclared past domestic violence order and posting explicit photographs online of his former lovers without their permission.\u00a0In the latest scandal to engulf Queensland\u2019s Labor Party, three women have come forward to ask police to investigate sexually explicit pictures allegedly posted online by Mr Pitt\u2019s former staffer Glen Martin.\u00a0Mr Martin\u2019s ex-partner Jeda Nash says the Cairns AFL footy star and youth worker posted her naked photos on website chat rooms in retaliation to her claims of violence against him.\u00a0Ms Nash, 32, yesterday lodged a formal complaint with police, saying she felt the father-of-three had violated her privacy and that her dignity was gone.”:\u00a0Revenge porn: Curtis Pitt\u2019s electorate officer resigns over domestic violence, explicit pics.<\/a><\/li>\n
- ABC News Queensland<\/a> reported, “A staff member from the electorate office of the Queensland Treasurer has resigned over domestic violence allegations.\u00a0In a statement issued this morning, Curtis Pitt said the man was issued a domestic and family violence protection order in May, subsequent to the initial employment screening process, but the information was not disclosed to him.”:\u00a0Queensland Treasurer staffer resigns over domestic violence allegations.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
.<\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n(October 23, 2015) – Newman Govt warned not to close Barrett Centre<\/h2>\nQueensland Health warnning ignored on Barrett Centre<\/h3>\n
Two of Queensland’s finest journalists, Tony Moore<\/a> and Kathy McLeish<\/a> have been relentless in their search for truth over the closure of the Barrett Adolescent Centre and the future of mental health in this state. They are both to be commended for their outstanding work of which a fraction appears below.<\/p>\n\n- Tony Moore<\/a> reported, “Justine Wilkinson is the outspoken mother of one of the three teenagers who took their lives in 2014 after the former Queensland government closed the state’s sole live-in adolescent mental health centre.\u00a0Ms Wilkinson said alternative adolescent mental health care for teenagers was still not available in Queensland.”\u00a0Barrett centre: Mother of dead teen says mental health care still not available.<\/a><\/span>
\nFollow us: @brisbanetimes on Twitter<\/a> | brisbanetimes on Facebook<\/a>“:\u00a0Barrett centre: Mother of dead teen says mental health care still not available.<\/a><\/li>\n- Tony Moore<\/a> reported, “Queensland Health warned the Newman government two months before it closed the state’s only adolescent psychiatric centre that alternative care options would not be ready for another year.\u00a0Right-to-information documents reveal Queensland Health’s director-general was advised in an urgent departmental briefing note in November 2013 that closure of Wacol’s Barrett Adolescent Centre in January 2014 was too soon for the replacement adolescent mental health model to be ready.\u00a0The document, dated November 25, 2013, shows that the department warned Ian Maynard that while then-health minister Lawrence Springborg remained committed to closing the centre, the “alternative appropriate care provisions” the department had been warned it needed four months earlier were a year away from being established.”:\u00a0Documents show LNP knew mental health centre closed before other care ready.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/a>
In 2014, Kathy McLeish’s 7:30 Qld report on the Barrett Centre closure also found the Newman Government was warned.<\/p><\/div>\n
Brisbane Mayor\u00a0Graham Quirk blames workers<\/h3>\n\n- \n
Cameron Atfield<\/a> reported, “The opening of the Legacy Way tunnel was delayed, in part, by\u00a0a deliberate slow-down by electricians who feared unemployment at the end of their contracts, Brisbane Lord Mayor Graham Quirk has claimed.”:\u00a0Legacy Way workers slowed down to protect jobs: Graham Quirk.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nSolar to defeat coal power<\/h3>\n\n- Tony Moore<\/a> reported, “Solar energy systems on top of shopping centres, car park shade covers, hospitals, airports and other commercial buildings are the beginning of the end for large scale coal power stations, one alternative energy developer will explain on Friday.\u00a0Shakra Energy managing director Sam Khalil will on Friday outline how the solar energy system his company has installed as a “shade cover” over carparking at Buranda is now doubling as a solar energy generator. He says the system cut energy costs for the owner by between 30 to 40 per cent.”:\u00a0Are these solar panels the setting of the sun for coal mines?<\/a><\/li>\n
- Brisbane Times<\/a> reported, “A renewable energy developer who wants to roll out solar carports at shopping centres across Queensland says he isn’t trying to take on the mining industry.\u00a0Shakra Energy’s managing director Sam Khalil joined Greens senators Sarah Hanson-Young and Larissa Waters to unveil Australia’s “largest carport solar development” in Brisbane on Friday.\u00a0“We’re not trying to take on the mining industry on – we’re only trying to generate 20 to 30 to 40 per cent of what high energy users need (and) reduce the carbon emissions,” he told AAP.”:\u00a0Greens want Queensland to back solar carparks in shopping centres.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Thor movie for Gold Coast<\/h3>\n\n- ABC News Brisbane<\/a> reported, “Queensland’s Gold Coast will be the home of the third instalment of Marvel’s popular Thor film franchise.\u00a0Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk made the announcement this morning at Village Roadshow Studios at Oxenford on the Gold Coast.”:\u00a0Thor: Ragnarok to film on Gold Coast; will employ 750 Queenslanders and bring more than $100 million to economy.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\nIt's official! New Thor movie will be filmed on the GC, creating 2,000 local jobs #qldpol<\/a> @AnnastaciaMP<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/47rlv6TiGf<\/a><\/p>\n— Tegan George (@tegangeorge) October 23, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Journalist Amy Remeikis gives an eight month analysis<\/h3>\n\n- Amy Remeikis<\/a>\u00a0commented, “Spend enough time in the company of anyone and you’ll learn their tells.\u00a0A micro-grimace before speaking. A twiddling thumb. A small intake of breath. A brief tight smile. Or, in the case of Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk, the use of a journalist’s name.\u00a0Just eight months in to the Palaszczuk Government and its now rare to get through a press conference without a reporter’s name being uttered a time or two.\u00a0Usually following an uncomfortable question. Always after a repeated question because the first wasn’t answered. After eight months, those uncomfortable questions are rolling in.”:\u00a0‘Steady ship’ approach to government facing some waves.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Bill Gordon also cleared by NSW police<\/h3>\n
When Queensland police gave Billy Gordon the all clear on domestic violence allegations, former partner Kristy Peckham lodged a complaint with the NSW police from her home in Dubbo, NSW. Police announced today that no action would be taken due to a lack of evidence. Read more on The Media Trial of Billy Gordon at our blog here.<\/a><\/p>\nTreasurer Curtis Pitt staffer resigns over domestic violence allegations<\/h3>\n\n- Peter Michael<\/a> reported, “Treasurer\u00a0Curtis Pitt\u2019s electorate officer has resigned in disgrace over an undeclared past domestic violence order and posting explicit photographs online of his former lovers without their permission.\u00a0In the latest scandal to engulf Queensland\u2019s Labor Party, three women have come forward to ask police to investigate sexually explicit pictures allegedly posted online by Mr Pitt\u2019s former staffer Glen Martin.\u00a0Mr Martin\u2019s ex-partner Jeda Nash says the Cairns AFL footy star and youth worker posted her naked photos on website chat rooms in retaliation to her claims of violence against him.\u00a0Ms Nash, 32, yesterday lodged a formal complaint with police, saying she felt the father-of-three had violated her privacy and that her dignity was gone.”:\u00a0Revenge porn: Curtis Pitt\u2019s electorate officer resigns over domestic violence, explicit pics.<\/a><\/li>\n
- ABC News Queensland<\/a> reported, “A staff member from the electorate office of the Queensland Treasurer has resigned over domestic violence allegations.\u00a0In a statement issued this morning, Curtis Pitt said the man was issued a domestic and family violence protection order in May, subsequent to the initial employment screening process, but the information was not disclosed to him.”:\u00a0Queensland Treasurer staffer resigns over domestic violence allegations.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
.<\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n(October 23, 2015) – Newman Govt warned not to close Barrett Centre<\/h2>\nQueensland Health warnning ignored on Barrett Centre<\/h3>\n
Two of Queensland’s finest journalists, Tony Moore<\/a> and Kathy McLeish<\/a> have been relentless in their search for truth over the closure of the Barrett Adolescent Centre and the future of mental health in this state. They are both to be commended for their outstanding work of which a fraction appears below.<\/p>\n\n- Tony Moore<\/a> reported, “Justine Wilkinson is the outspoken mother of one of the three teenagers who took their lives in 2014 after the former Queensland government closed the state’s sole live-in adolescent mental health centre.\u00a0Ms Wilkinson said alternative adolescent mental health care for teenagers was still not available in Queensland.”\u00a0Barrett centre: Mother of dead teen says mental health care still not available.<\/a><\/span>
\nFollow us: @brisbanetimes on Twitter<\/a> | brisbanetimes on Facebook<\/a>“:\u00a0Barrett centre: Mother of dead teen says mental health care still not available.<\/a><\/li>\n- Tony Moore<\/a> reported, “Queensland Health warned the Newman government two months before it closed the state’s only adolescent psychiatric centre that alternative care options would not be ready for another year.\u00a0Right-to-information documents reveal Queensland Health’s director-general was advised in an urgent departmental briefing note in November 2013 that closure of Wacol’s Barrett Adolescent Centre in January 2014 was too soon for the replacement adolescent mental health model to be ready.\u00a0The document, dated November 25, 2013, shows that the department warned Ian Maynard that while then-health minister Lawrence Springborg remained committed to closing the centre, the “alternative appropriate care provisions” the department had been warned it needed four months earlier were a year away from being established.”:\u00a0Documents show LNP knew mental health centre closed before other care ready.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/a>
In 2014, Kathy McLeish’s 7:30 Qld report on the Barrett Centre closure also found the Newman Government was warned.<\/p><\/div>\n
Brisbane Mayor\u00a0Graham Quirk blames workers<\/h3>\n\n- \n
Cameron Atfield<\/a> reported, “The opening of the Legacy Way tunnel was delayed, in part, by\u00a0a deliberate slow-down by electricians who feared unemployment at the end of their contracts, Brisbane Lord Mayor Graham Quirk has claimed.”:\u00a0Legacy Way workers slowed down to protect jobs: Graham Quirk.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nSolar to defeat coal power<\/h3>\n\n- Tony Moore<\/a> reported, “Solar energy systems on top of shopping centres, car park shade covers, hospitals, airports and other commercial buildings are the beginning of the end for large scale coal power stations, one alternative energy developer will explain on Friday.\u00a0Shakra Energy managing director Sam Khalil will on Friday outline how the solar energy system his company has installed as a “shade cover” over carparking at Buranda is now doubling as a solar energy generator. He says the system cut energy costs for the owner by between 30 to 40 per cent.”:\u00a0Are these solar panels the setting of the sun for coal mines?<\/a><\/li>\n
- Brisbane Times<\/a> reported, “A renewable energy developer who wants to roll out solar carports at shopping centres across Queensland says he isn’t trying to take on the mining industry.\u00a0Shakra Energy’s managing director Sam Khalil joined Greens senators Sarah Hanson-Young and Larissa Waters to unveil Australia’s “largest carport solar development” in Brisbane on Friday.\u00a0“We’re not trying to take on the mining industry on – we’re only trying to generate 20 to 30 to 40 per cent of what high energy users need (and) reduce the carbon emissions,” he told AAP.”:\u00a0Greens want Queensland to back solar carparks in shopping centres.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Thor movie for Gold Coast<\/h3>\n\n- ABC News Brisbane<\/a> reported, “Queensland’s Gold Coast will be the home of the third instalment of Marvel’s popular Thor film franchise.\u00a0Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk made the announcement this morning at Village Roadshow Studios at Oxenford on the Gold Coast.”:\u00a0Thor: Ragnarok to film on Gold Coast; will employ 750 Queenslanders and bring more than $100 million to economy.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\nIt's official! New Thor movie will be filmed on the GC, creating 2,000 local jobs #qldpol<\/a> @AnnastaciaMP<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/47rlv6TiGf<\/a><\/p>\n— Tegan George (@tegangeorge) October 23, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Bill Gordon also cleared by NSW police<\/h3>\n
When Queensland police gave Billy Gordon the all clear on domestic violence allegations, former partner Kristy Peckham lodged a complaint with the NSW police from her home in Dubbo, NSW. Police announced today that no action would be taken due to a lack of evidence. Read more on The Media Trial of Billy Gordon at our blog here.<\/a><\/p>\n Two of Queensland’s finest journalists, Tony Moore<\/a> and Kathy McLeish<\/a> have been relentless in their search for truth over the closure of the Barrett Adolescent Centre and the future of mental health in this state. They are both to be commended for their outstanding work of which a fraction appears below.<\/p>\n In 2014, Kathy McLeish’s 7:30 Qld report on the Barrett Centre closure also found the Newman Government was warned.<\/p><\/div>\n Cameron Atfield<\/a> reported, “The opening of the Legacy Way tunnel was delayed, in part, by\u00a0a deliberate slow-down by electricians who feared unemployment at the end of their contracts, Brisbane Lord Mayor Graham Quirk has claimed.”:\u00a0Legacy Way workers slowed down to protect jobs: Graham Quirk.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n It's official! New Thor movie will be filmed on the GC, creating 2,000 local jobs #qldpol<\/a> @AnnastaciaMP<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/47rlv6TiGf<\/a><\/p>\n — Tegan George (@tegangeorge) October 23, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\nTreasurer Curtis Pitt staffer resigns over domestic violence allegations<\/h3>\n
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