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Mt Alford steer wins heavyweight Ekka prize
A Scenic Rim steer has stolen the show in the Champion Heavyweight Carcass class at this year’s Ekka carcass competition. Mt Alford’s Philip, Elizabeth and…
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Red tape and poor infrastructure stifles agribusiness
Government regulation and red tape and a lack of supporting infrastructure were the main barriers for agribusiness to expand in the region. The all-too familiar…
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Best bid on best Ekka beef by The Butcher Co
The Butcher Co won the bid for the 2021 Brisbane Exhibition Grand Champion Prime Steer, for a fraction of the price. “They held the Ekka…
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‘Navel gazing’: rural fire brigades slam ‘ever increasing fire bureaucracy’
The Rural Fire Brigades Association Queensland has accused its bureaucratic handlers of wasting millions of dollars over three decades of “navel gazing”. The extraordinary broadside…
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Project to recruit cotton pickers a blueprint for farming labour shortages
The Queensland Government and Cotton Australia have teamed up to address labour shortages in the cotton industry through a pilot project which offers incentives to…
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Will Kooralbyn’s tennis centre rise from ruins before it hosts Olympic athletes?
“Please … NO BLACK SOLED SHOES ON COURT,” reads a sign on a gate at a tennis court in the resort valley of Kooralbyn. It…
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Vi Jordan: inspirational, motivational, exceptional
It was the winter of 1972. It was an era before a government car was assigned to Members of the Queensland Parliament. And so, the…
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The environmental pandemic: disposable masks QUT research team announces a solution “is on its way”
As Ipswich, Scenic Rim and the rest of South East Queensland head into their fifth week under the mask mandate, the routine of adding a…
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Native marsupials as Gould as gone
John Gould gave two great gifts to the nation that became Australia – depictions and descriptions of endemic mammals and birds before they became extinct…
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Currumbin teen makes Olympic history in Tokyo
Currumbin teenager Keegan Palmer made history on Thursday when he became the first Gold Medallist in the men’s park skateboarding at the Tokyo Olympics. Palmer,…
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South East Queensland’s lockdown orders must be met for lockdown to lift
South East Queensland residents need to continue getting tested and staying at home, if they want the lockdown to lift on Sunday. That was the…
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Ekka cancelled leaving multiple country show finals postponed
The Ekka and multiple country show finals have been cancelled following a Covid-19 outbreak in Brisbane. This is the fourth time in the 145-year history,…
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