A teenager who drowned on the Gold Coast yesterday was a Chinese foreign exchange student, according to police. The 16-year-old boy’s body was recovered from the Broadwater at Southport yesterday afternoon – the second body pulled from the Gold Coast waterway this week. Read article
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The death of an Irish tourist who was caught in a rip off a Perth beach has prompted warnings for people to take care in the water as the city swelters through a heatwave. Lifeguards were alerted that the 28-year-old man had been swept out to sea by the rip while swimming with his brother […]
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DAYTONA BEACH— Authorities say a 70-year-old Canadian tourist has drowned off Daytona Beach. Volusia County Beach Patrol spokeswoman Tamara Marris says the man had been swimming alone Monday afternoon in an unguarded area of the beach. Read article
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CASES of a debilitating mosquito-borne virus rose dramatically in WA last year, and health experts are warning of the potential for further outbreaks this summer. According to the Medical Journal of Australia, nine of the 16 Murray Valley Encephalitis cases across Australia last year were recorded in WA – including one fatal one. Three people […]
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WHEN I heard an Australian tourist had been killed while tubing in Laos, I wasn’t in the least surprised. While the incident is being described as a “freak accident”, I would say it was more an accident waiting to happen. Read Article
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A Malaysian travel brochure scam is targeting West Australians, with at least one man already losing thousands of dollars, WA Consumer Protection has warned. Australia Post has intercepted almost 2000 of the glossy travel brochures which contain fake scratchie lottery tickets, but Consumer Protection fears hundreds of the brochures had already slipped the net and […]
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A British tourist has died after being stung by a tiny, nearly-invisible jellyfish while swimming off Hamilton Island in tropical northern Australia, authorities said today. The British High Commission identified the man as Richard Jordan, 58, from Driffield in northeast Yorkshire.Read Article
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Hong Kong tourist Oscar Tsang faces another week in hospital after being bashed in Thornlie and robbed of $80. A young tourist living in Perth who was viciously attacked as he walked home from work on Wednesday night has made a public appeal to find his attackers. Read Article
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A MAN threw petrol over another man before trying to set him on fire in a busy street in the Cairns CBD, say police. Police were called to Aplin St at about 11.35pm last night (AEST) after a 23-year-old man doused a 39-year-old man in petrol and chased him down the main street, the Courier-Mail […]
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Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water … A 48-year-old Australian construction worker was fatally mauled by tiger sharks, Australia’s Townsville Bulletine reports. Read Article
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