BRISBANE City Council has let a site to an Audi motor car dealer after purchasing the property for $17 million and evicting the existing Audi dealer.
THE State Government will divide a whopping 5000sq km of Cape York land into a mix of national park, Aboriginal land and nature reserves.
Clive Palmer has refused to name PUP's Queensland executives and defended the recruitment of mates. Source: AAP
CLIVE Palmer has angrily refused to name the executives of his party in Queensland and defended the recruitment of mates amid claims of nepotism and jobs for friends.
THE mining magnate turned federal MP held a media conference on Wednesday, a day after Alex Douglas went public about his reasons for quitting as the Palmer United Party's Queensland parliamentary leader.
Ironically, it was held at Paradise Point on the Gold Coast, which falls within the state seat of Broadwater.Dr Douglas alleges the PUP executive fast-tracked the preselection of Mr Palmer's brother-in-law George Sokolov, a party photographer, for that electorate.He also says that Mr Palmer's son Michael, an unsuccessful Liberal National Party state candidate in 2009, has been chosen as a candidate along with Queensland senator Glenn Lazarus's wife Tess.The PUP is yet to confirm any preselection.But Mr Palmer refused to answer a question on who ran the PUP's Queensland executive."It's not for me to answer your questions and follow your agenda. I won't do that," he told reporters."You tell me who the executives are of the Liberal Party."He said the PUP website had information on its office bearers but AAP was unable to find any details of executive members.Dr Douglas has described the PUP as a shell organisation with only Mr Palmer making decisions.The Gold Coast MP, who defected from the LNP in late 2012 before joining the PUP last year, said Mr Palmer's party had no formal state party structure and "no commitment to policy formation".Mr Palmer defended his party's structure."It's not really outstanding to think that people who join the Palmer United Party won't be some of my friends, some of the people I work with because we all think the same way," he said.French President Francois Hollande has said France will supply arms to Iraq's Kurdish forces. Source: AAP
FRANCE will send arms to Kurdish forces in Iraq to support their fight against radicals of the Islamic State group, French President Francois Hollande announced.
A STATEMENT Hollande's office said the arms shipment will be delivered "in the coming hours" and has been agreed with authorities in Baghdad.
Citing the "catastrophic" situation in Iraqi Kurdistan, it added that "mobilisation in support of Kurdistan and of all Iraq must continue."The statement did not specify what weapons France was sending.The surprise announcement comes as the United States has also increased its role in fighting back Sunni extremists of the Islamic State group that is threatening the autonomous Kurdish region in the north of Iraq. Senior American officials say US intelligence agencies are directly arming the Kurds who are battling the militants, which would be a shift in Washington's policy of only working through the central government in Baghdad.Other European leaders were also feeling the pressure to respond to the emergency. France called earlier this week for an urgent meeting of European Union foreign ministers to consider Kurdish requests for arms and an aid airlift to northern Iraq.Earlier on Wednesday, France had pledged to deliver a second shipment of humanitarian aid to northern Iraq in a bid to help religious minorities persecuted by advancing radicals.The foreign ministry said in a statement the airlift of 20 tonnes of medicine, tents and water treatment material will arrive in the Iraqi Kurdish capital, Irbil later on Wednesday.The shipment is enough to provide assistance to 50,000 people, it said, and it pledged further operations in the coming days "to aid populations in serious danger."On Sunday French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius travelled to Irbil to deliver an initial shipment of aid. France has taken a strong stance on the need to protect Christians and other minorities being persecuted in northern Iraq. BRISBANE City Council has let a site to an Audi motor car dealer after purchasing the property for $17 million and evicting the existing Audi dealer.
THE State Government will divide a whopping 5000sq km of Cape York land into a mix of national park, Aboriginal land and nature reserves.
BRISBANE City Council has let a site to an Audi motor car dealer after purchasing the property for $17 million and evicting the existing Audi dealer.
THE State Government will divide a whopping 5000sq km of Cape York land into a mix of national park, Aboriginal land and nature reserves.
BRISBANE City Council has let a site to an Audi motor car dealer after purchasing the property for $17 million and evicting the existing Audi dealer.
THE State Government will divide a whopping 5000sq km of Cape York land into a mix of national park, Aboriginal land and nature reserves.
BRISBANE City Council has let a site to an Audi motor car dealer after purchasing the property for $17 million and evicting the existing Audi dealer.
THE State Government will divide a whopping 5000sq km of Cape York land into a mix of national park, Aboriginal land and nature reserves.
