Word: queensland
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Tropical Cyclone Larry announced itself with a roar of wind through the streets of Innisfail around 5 a.m. last Monday. The day before, the 8,500 residents of the tiny far north Queensland town had enjoyed some blue skies and a light breeze, making the urgent warnings on television and radio sound faintly ridiculous. But 650 km to the northeast, Larry was sucking power from the moisture-laden tropical air, its growth favored by circulation patterns over the warm coral seas south of Solomon Islands. Overnight, the 200-km-wide Category Four storm zeroed in on the cane and banana...
...course centers aren't the only option. Family day-care schemes are being promoted as a cheaper alternative to long day care, especially as a career for single mothers being coaxed from welfare to work. For the past 23 years, Mary Hinton has looked after children in her Ipswich, Queensland home; four days a week, she now cares for four children under three, for which she charges $A3.90 an hour per child. She and her retired husband have converted their garage into an activity room, and their grandchildren have grown up playing with the children she looks after. "They become...
...Which means, at the very least, getting enough attention. Across Australia, a mish-mash of standards means staff-to-child ratios vary widely from state to state. In New South Wales, for example, there must be one carer for every five children under the age of three; in Queensland the maximum ratio is 1 to 4. Another essential is qualified staff. More child-care centers mean more jobs, but the industry struggles to keep workers from deserting the profession because of burnout and low wages - a qualified child-care worker might get $A35,000 a year. At Whittlesea Child Care...
...where are the crocodiles that were once resettled in Queensland? No one can be sure. N.T. rangers ended their relocation program in the early '90s after concluding the animals would eventually return home. Crocodile management expert Read says no animal relocated in Queensland has ever been caught again. According to Kofron's research, at least 20 of the 80 crocodiles captured in the state between 1999 and 2001 were relocated in North Queensland. Are these crocodiles too clever to be caught again? Have some of them made their way back to their old haunts? With some of these reptiles originally...
...Before your eyes, her luminous glazes seem to fade to white; porcelain lips quiver. When two Buddhist monks enter the room, they are drawn to the pieces like moths to a flame, which is hardly surprising. If Tasmania's Les Blakebrough is the father of Australian pottery, then Ipswich, Queensland-based Hanssen Pigott, who practices a form of Buddhism, is its mother superior. "If there was any investment of her spirituality in her work," says Jason Smith, curator of the National Gallery of Victoria's current retrospective, "it would be that calmness, and the hope that people would find that...