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Melbourne, Mar 13: Tropical Tourism North Queensland has kicked off a new raunchy campaign with bikini babes and wet T-shirt competitions to boost their backpackers market.

According to The Courier Mail, once dumped in favour of politically correct images of the reef and rainforest, tourism leaders are back promoting sex and sun to attract tourists.

A raunchy new website "Gotta Love the Wet Season" shows the weekly wet T-shirt competitions of the Cairns party scene.

One picture shows a blonde woman with exposed midriff and wet T-shirt dancing away as she’s sprayed with water at one popular inner-city venue.

However, the steamy new image has sparked uproar, and has divided the community.

Brisbane, Mar. 12: Queensland fast bowler Ben Laughlin, who has taken 20 wickets at an average of 15.85 to guide his team to the Ford Ranger Cup final, has been called into the Australian squad for the Twenty20 and one-day clashes with South Africa.

Laughlin, 26, snared 3-25 in the final as Queensland stunned hot favourite Victoria.

"Ben has had an extremely good summer for Queensland and was instrumental in their one-day final victory," chairman of selectors Andrew Hilditch said.

"Ben will add to the versatility of the Australian bowling line up as we continue to look at options progressing forward to the 2011 World Cup."

Brisbane, Feb. 11 : Queensland Government officers failed to check a vital piece of information that may have prevented Indian-born Doctor Jayant Patel from being employed in Queensland, a court has been told.

Dr. Patel a. k. a. Dr. Death is facing 14 charges including three of manslaughter relating to his time as director of surgery at the Bundaberg Base Hospital between 2003 and
2005.

Ainslie McMullen was working as a low-level officer with the Health Practitioners Registration Board in early 2003 when Patel''s application came across her desk.

The Brisbane Magistrates Court today was told that on Dr Patel''s application was a note stating a public order had been made against the 58-year-old doctor in the US.

Brisbane, Dec. 30 : Police in Brisbane have charged the boyfriend of a 24-year-old Indian origin girl with the 2003 murders of the Singh siblings.

Max Sica has been charged with the murders of Neelma, 24, Sidhi, 12, Kunal Singh, 18.

They were found dead in a hot spa in the family''s luxury Brisbane home on April 22, 2003. Their parents, Shirley and Vijay Singh, were away on business in Fiji at the time.

Sica, 38, who was the boyfriend of Neelma Singh, was the first to raise the alarm about the killings in Bridgeman Downs, in Brisbane''s northern suburbs.

Homicide detectives arrested him at his home in Stafford this morning, before being taken to the Brisbane Watchhouse.