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Rogue tyre operator Tony Di Carlo sent $40k bill over Rocklea fire (photos)
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A Brisbane businessman unleashes another foul-mouthed rant, after the environment department sends him a $40,000 bill over a blaze that sent plumes of thick black smoke across a Brisbane suburb.
Topics: industrial-fires, fires, disasters-and-accidents, rocklea-4106, qld, australia, brisbane-4000
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John Howard joins LNP campaign, but not with Tim Nicholls (video)
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Former prime minister John Howard lends his star power to help the LNP, and promises to "walk down the street" with Tim Nicholls next time after being asked why he did not join the Opposition Leader on the campaign trail.
Topics: liberal-national-party-queensland, liberals, political-parties, government-and-politics, alp, elections, parliament, state-parliament, mount-ommaney-4074, rocklea-4106, pimpama-4209, merrimac-4226, helensvale-4212, qld
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Rogue Brisbane tyre company ordered to clean up
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A rogue tyre recycling operator, who has had two fires at his business in Brisbane's south, is handed clean-up notices.
Topics: environmental-policy, environment, environmental-management, rocklea-4106, qld, brisbane-4000
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Aerial images show massive stockpile before tyre factory blaze
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Thousands of tyres at a Brisbane company appears not to have been cleared in the months before a fire broke out, despite orders from the Queensland Government.
Topics: industrial-fires, fires, disasters-and-accidents, environmental-management, environment, rocklea-4106, qld, brisbane-4000, australia
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Second fire at Rocklea Tyremil business sparks rage from disgraced businessman
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A rogue tyre recycling operator with a history of environmental breaches lashes out at journalists at another fire at one of his businesses in Brisbane.
Topics: industrial-fires, fires, disasters-and-accidents, rocklea-4106, qld, australia, brisbane-4000
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Fire at Rocklea Tyremil business sparks rage from disgraced businessman Tony Di Carlo Video
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Tyremil owner Tony Di Carlo lashes out at media after a fire broke out at the site at Rocklea on Brisbane's southside on June 27, 2017. Mr Di Carlo was seen taping over company logos on vehicles at the site, and had to be restrained by police and a firefighter when he saw an ABC cameraman.
Topics: industrial-fires, qld, rocklea-4106, brisbane-4000
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Ipswich Motorway bottleneck upgrade to begin this year
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The Queensland and federal governments put aside long-running arguments about infrastructure funding to agree to pay for the three-kilometre upgrade between Rocklea and Oxley.
Topics: road-transport, federal-government, government-and-politics, federal---state-issues, state-parliament, oxley-4075, qld, rocklea-4106, ipswich-4305
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Rogue tyre recycler hit with environmental protection orders
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A series of environmental protection orders are issued against a rogue recycling operator whose sites were exposed as a dumping ground for hundreds of thousands of old tyres.
Topics: environment, environmental-technology, recycling-and-waste-management, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, law-crime-and-justice, rocklea-4106, kingston-4114, brisbane-4000
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Rogue tyre recycler accused of ripping off small businesses
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The owner of a tyre recycling business is accused of ripping off his suppliers hundreds of thousands of dollars while a joint Government taskforce is investigating claims against him.
Topics: small-business, corruption, pollution, law-crime-and-justice, rocklea-4106, kingston-4114
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Consumers split as banana prices vary across suburbs
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Across south-east Queensland consumers are scratching their heads trying to figure out why banana prices differ so greatly between suburbs.
Topics: fruit, retail, human-interest, rocklea-4106, brisbane-4000
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Taskforce set to probe rogue company behind massive Brisbane tyre stockpiles
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The Queensland Government orders a special taskforce to investigate a rogue tyre recycling operation — run by colourful figure Tony Di Carlo — that is stockpiling nearly a million old tyres in the Brisbane suburbs.
Topics: environment, parliament, state-parliament, government-and-politics, law-crime-and-justice, rocklea-4106, qld, australia, kingston-4114, brisbane-4000
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Queensland 'powerless to act' against rogue company behind massive tyre stockpiles
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Colourful former building industry identity Tony Di Carlo is accused of presiding over a disaster waiting to happen as his company builds up huge stockpiles of used tyres, with warnings any fire at the sites could blanket Brisbane in toxic smoke.
Topics: environment, law-crime-and-justice, rocklea-4106, qld, australia, kingston-4114, brisbane-4000
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Putting state's food supply chain back together after 2011 floods
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Remembering the hard work and community spirit it took for the Brisbane Markets to recover from the 2011 floods and put Queensland's food supply chain back together.
Topics: floods, human-interest, disasters-and-accidents, agricultural-crops, rocklea-4106
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Topics: rocklea-4106
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Emotional impact of south-east Queensland's 2011 floods remains
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People, homes and livelihoods were swept away in devastating floods that hit Brisbane, Ipswich and other towns in January 2011.
Topics: emergency-incidents, history, people, floods, brisbane-4000, goodna-4300, ipswich-4305, rocklea-4106, fig-tree-pocket-4069
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$147m food fight for control of Queensland largest fresh food market
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The Brisbane Markets Limited (BML) board describes a $147 million takeover bid as a "self-interested" offer and one of the "most significant issues faced by the industry in a generation".
Topics: agricultural-marketing, agricultural-prices, rocklea-4106
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Brisbane Markets CEO Andrew Young says takeover bid is "hostile" Audio
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The Brisbane Markets Limited (BML) board describes a $147 million takeover bid as a "self-interested" offer and one of the "most significant issues faced by the industry in a generation". In its formal response to the "hostile" $3.50 a share offer from fund manager VGI Partners, the BML board has provided three recommendations to its 160-odd shareholders. The board has recommended that the largest shareholder, the industry association Brismark, and others who have "skin in the game" at the markets reject the bid. "Mum and dad-type" investors with no other business interests in the markets are urged to accept the bid price, in the absence of a better offer.
Topics: agricultural-marketing, agricultural-prices, trade, rocklea-4106
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Topics: agribusiness, rocklea-4106
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Truck misses sleeping woman by a metre after crashing into pergola
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A truck that crashed into a home's pergola in Brisbane's south comes to a stop about a metre from where a woman is sleeping.
Topics: emergency-incidents, rocklea-4106, brisbane-4000
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Papua New Guinea's ban on $3.2m worth Australian vegetables to hit refugee and mining camps (photos)
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Papua New Guinea has banned the import of Australian vegetables, worth $3.2 million a year to exporters, which is likely to limit food supplies to Australian offshore detention centres.
Topics: vegetables, trade, refugees, sydney-2000, melbourne-3000, brisbane-market-4106, rocklea-4106, papua-new-guinea
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Firefighters extinguish factory fire in Brisbane's south
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Firefighters mop up after a fire at the Visy Industrial Packaging factory in Rocklea on Brisbane's south side.
Topics: industrial-fires, fires, disasters-and-accidents, rocklea-4106, qld, australia
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Market CEO seeks focus on regional communities in Qld election
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The CEO of Brisbane's major marketplace for fresh fruit and vegetables wants politicians to put the economy first this state election.
Topics: elections, regional-development, retail, community-and-society, agricultural-crops, rocklea-4106, qld
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Mango auction brings $30K for charity
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The first mangoes of the season have been auctioned at the Brisbane markets for $30,000, with the money going to two Queensland charities.
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Trucker Tony buckles in for highway cruise Video
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Tony Abbott boards a semi-trailer to drive from Brisbane to Terrigal to highlight problems with the Pacific Highway.
Topics: offbeat, abbott-tony, rocklea-4106, rocklea-dc-4106
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