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Subscriber only A 19-year-old man has heard how his victim had to be revived after he was stabbed four times. Ethan James Voller stabbed a man four times and hit a girl over the head with a bottle of rum after a fight in Buderim on January 6, 2020. Crown prosecutor Alex Stark told the court Voller stabbed his first victim, who had tried to break up the fight in the forearm and back. The (victim) did not realise he d been injured, but he heard ⦠(Voller) say and I ll quote I ve stabbed you, you dumb C ⦠t stop , Mr Stark said.
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Subscriber only Public transport use will have to grow by almost 7 per cent each year for a quarter of a century if Sunshine Coast Council is to achieve its target of 10 per cent of trips being taken on public transport by 2041. The report revealed the rate of usage of public transport in the region had fallen by 2 per cent over the past decade, leaving an ambitious growth rate of 6.6 per cent a year required to reach Sunshine Coast Council s goal of 10 per cent mode share for public transport in 20 years time. The draft report recommended Stage 1 of the Sunshine Coast Mass Transit system, a 13.6km stretch from Maroochydore to Birtinya, be operational by 2027 with construction to start in 2024.
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Subscriber only Three people were rushed to hospital after multiple car crashes on the Sunshine Coast within four hours. The crashes occurred between 6.30pm and 10.36pm on Thursday night. Emergency services were called to Old Gympie Road, Yandina at 6.30pm with reports of a two-car crash. One stable patient was taken to Sunshine Coast University Hospital with neck pain. Around 9.34am Queensland Ambulance Service paramedics assessed two people after they were involved in a rollover at Dalton Drive, Maroochydore.
The Emergency+ smart phone app displays your phones GPS coordinates (latitude and longitude), which must then be passed verbally to the Emergency Medical Dispatcher when calling Triple Zero (000). Queensland Ambulance (@QldAmbulance) April 29, 2021
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Subscriber only A 28-year-old man who was pulled from the water at an unpatrolled Sunshine Coast beach at the weekend is in intensive care. Lifesavers and lifeguards from Mooloolaba and Kawana rescued the man near Point Cartwright on Sunday after several people, in their 20s, were reported to be drifting about 50m offshore from beach access 200 towards beach access 201. A Surf Life Saving Queensland spokeswoman said lifeguards from Mooloolaba had performed CPR on one of the swimmers until paramedics arrived. The 28-year-old was rushed from Pacific Boulevard at Buddina to Sunshine Coast University Hospital about 4.20pm. A Sunshine Coast University Hospital spokesman on Monday said the man was in a critical but stable condition in the intensive care unit.