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Waste of office space


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From a Government that is used to wasting billions of dollars, I suppose they see nothing spectacular in that, he said. But they should be up-front with taxpayers and tell them what this 10-year lease is going to cost them. Unless it can come up with a use for the office, the Government is likely to switch from administrator to real estate

agent and sub-lease the space if allowed under the rental agreement. It will be able to spruik the downtown LA address for its prestige, given its top-tier neighbours such as PricewaterhouseCoopers and the consulate-general of Japan. They can also boast an office space with easy access to Grand Central Market and the Walt Disney Concert Hall. And there are an array of in-

house eating options, including a modern Mexican restaurant featuring Taco Tuesdays and a catering outfit, known as Organic to Go, for busy business lunches. Former Australian Industry Group director Chris Rodwell replaced Mr Beattie as trade commissioner and will be based in Central or South America when a decision has been made on the most suitable location. Trade and Investment

Queensland is currently assessing all available options to best service the USA, Canadian and Latin American markets and to provide services and support to Queensland exporters across the Americas, and to help to drive investment into Queensland, the Trade spokesman said. Those options include examining the most economical and efficient way the Los Angeles office can be utilised.

TOWERING RENTS: The trade office building in LA.

All a-Twitter as audience joins the act

On your mark, get set, quack

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RECORD: The rubber ducks race.

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Draw 3041 11-9-10 8 2 8 3 8 DIVIDENDS 1st $51,850.75 2nd $6666.00 3rd $666.00 4th $66.00 5th $6.60 6 WINNERS 1 5 43 439 4302

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Draw 3041 11-9-10 5 11 15 36 42 44 Supps 4 1 DIVIDENDS 1st $1,743,345.84 2nd $16,371.50 3rd $1369.15 4th $47.50 5th $29.25 WINNERS 14 133 3004 149,840 364,851

MORE than 20,000 rubber ducks have helped Brisbane become the home of the largest cancer research centre in the southern hemisphere. There was a record number of entries at the annual Great Brisbane Duck Race yesterday which helps raise money for the PA Research Foundation. Record crowds watched from South Bank as, at the mercy of the tide, thousands of sponsored ducks raced the 150m course. Windsor woman Nicole Thompson sponsored the winning duck and took home a new car. Yesterdays duck race has helped fund a new building and 200 extra researchers for the PA Research Foundation. The foundation is now the largest of its kind outside Europe and the United States. At $5 a duck, yesterdays event raised more than $100,000.

Kirkland swaps tips with cabbie


DOUGLAS Kirkland, the worldrenowned photographer, caught a taxi the other day. After noticing his camera, the cabbie asked if he was a photographer and, after exchanging tips and comparing notes on photography, the cab driver asked if Kirkland had ever photographed anyone famous. Kirkland said he had. The legendary snapper has shot Munroe, Chanel, Hepburn, Bardot and hundreds more of the worlds most famous.

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BLURRED LINES: Laura Mitland performs in Smudged at the Brisbane Festival. Margaret Wenham

Picture: Sarah Marshall

Sea search fails to find crewman


QUEENSLAND police will decide today whether to call off a search for a missing tourist. The 21-year-old Irishman, working as a crewman, went missing from a commercial fishing vessel on Friday. Four planes, five helicopters and three rescue vessels resumed the search early yesterday, scouring waters northeast of Mackay, as well as islands and the shoreline in the area. Police said the mans next of kin did not at this stage plan to travel to Australia.

SMUDGED is truly a child of the 21st century. This one-hour theatrical production, presented as part of the Brisbane Festival, brings audience interaction with the players to a new level using Twitter. It also examines in its central theme the impact of the other currently uber-popular social networking media, Facebook. The audience can SMS to a phone number and their SMS will come up on the two screens under randomly allocated, contemporary clown names and the characters can tweet to the audience as well, production director Richard Pettifer explained yesterday. So the audience can interact with the characters and with each other and make comments about the play as it

happens. It was difficult, he agreed, for the actors to have the audience which is seated in a circle around the performance area using their mobiles to text and comment on the show. Its distracting and pulls the actors focus away from the task at hand, but thats in much the same way as Facebook and tweeting pulls us from our every day lives, he said. That was part of our inspiration you know, youre on a train talking to someone and they get a text message and say Hang on a second and you

have this horrible dead moment, while youre waiting for them to finish their text message, Mr Pettifer said. The central theme of Smudged is the life journey of the central character Paul, who has his life invaded and his identity controlled by three clowns who are metaphors for Facebook. The clowns cause great confusion in his life and a sense of not knowing who he is any more. Smudged is an intriguing creation written by Melburnian Megan Twycross. Its performance in Brisbane for the festival followed a couple of preview productions in Melbourne that helped build the play. The final performance of Smudged, one of the Under the Radar festival productions, is today at 6.30pm at the Metro Arts Centre in Edward St, the city.

Opera fans treated to stellar night


ABOUT 6000 people ventured out to Eagle Farm Racecourse to see Opera Queensland and Queensland Symphony Orchestra perform The Marriage of Figaro for Opera under the Stars. The racecourse was transformed into an open-air opera house with excited spectators getting glammed up for the occasion and many bringing with them picnic hampers and elaborate outdoor settings.
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