Tony Moore
Tony Moore is a senior reporter for brisbanetimes.com.au.
Serious fears about hospital's mental health unit
Tony Moore A 28-year-old patient at Princess Alexandra Hospital's mental health unit had been drinking three bottles of vodka a day inside the centre – without being stopped by staff – in the...
Nurses union wants talks in wake of attack
Tony Moore The Queensland Nurses Union will urgently write to Queensland Health today seeking urgent talks over statewide nurse safety after two chilling abduction attempts near Princess Alexandra Hospital over...
Attempted nurse abduction: company offers $3 a night parking
Tony Moore Queensland nurses have applauded a move by a private company operating car parks at Brisbane's inner-city hospitals to provide cheap, safe parking for nurses following a chilling abduction attempt on...
Wrong men convicted of infamous nightclub arson?
Tony Moore Until the 1996 Port Arthur massacre, this Fortitude Valley street corner was the site of Australia's worst mass murder, the March 8, 1973 Whiskey Au Go Go firebombing.
Mistreatment fears over outsourcing of disability jobs
Tony Moore Queenslanders with disabilities raised almost 400 concerns with their disability accommodation provider in the past year.
Safety barriers for Story Bridge
Tony Moore Brisbane's Story Bridge will have three metre-high safety barriers in place by mid 2014, Lord Mayor Graham Quirk announced on Wednesday.
Union to fight power asset sales
Tony Moore and Marissa Calligeros Queensland’s electricty union has declared it will campaign against any sell-off of government-owned energy suppliers in the government’s marginal seats.
Joh's Stradbroke land-for-bridge plan
Tony Moore The Bjelke-Petersen government considered gifting 800 hectares of prime crown land on North Stradbroke Island to developers in order to build a bridge across Moreton Bay, a 1982 cabinet document...
Tributes laid for two teenage girls killed in Anstead crash
Tony Moore Tributes have been placed at the site where two teenage girls were killed in a horror crash early Sunday morning at Anstead in Brisbane's southwest.
Police restructure puts focus on organised crime
Tony Moore Tackling organised crime in Queensland - including taskforces similar to the pre-Christmas raid on customs and airline officers in Sydney - now falls under Queensland's new deputy police...
Abuse 'swept under the carpet' for years
Tony Moore Sexual abuse at the John Oxley Youth Centre was "swept under the carpet" for years, a former employee has told the Carmody Inquiry into child protection.
Inquiry a waste, says alleged sex assault victim
Tony Moore The woman at the centre of a 24-year-old controversy over sex assault allegations at a Brisbane youth detention centre says she is sick of being a "political football" and wants her life back.
Witnesses to Burleigh awning collapse heard cracks
Tony Moore Witnesses have told how they heard loud cracks in a Burleigh Heads shopping precinct this morning moments before a metal awning collapsed, killing one man and injuring three women and two children.
'Take a little bit of Isabelle in your hearts and always love life'
Tony Moore A funeral service held in Brisbane on Friday for the teenager who fell to her death during schoolies celebrations on the Gold Coast.
Youth detention centre staff to face inquiry
Tony Moore Staff from the former John Oxley Youth Detention Centre at Wacol - the centre of untested child abuse claims in the late 1980s - will be questioned this morning when Queensland's Child Protection...
Girl's sex assault claims ignored, inquiry told
Tony Moore A John Oxley Youth Centre teacher who was on an excursion to Mount Barney in 1988 when a girl from the centre was allegedly sexually assaulted was never asked to write a police report.
Wiped off the map, Mutchilba fights back
Tony Moore One of Queensland's best little mango towns is fighting to puts its name back on the map after its residents last week learned their town did not technically exist.
Queensland Health takes brunt of redundancies
Tony Moore More than 4100 Queensland Health employees will be paid redundancies, the Newman government revealed as it detailed the 14,000 public service jobs to go in one of the largest-ever transformations of...
Airport Link awaiting safety green light
Tony Moore Brisbane’s Airport Link tunnel will not open tonight, tunnel operators Brisconnections confirmed this afternoon.
