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How much water can Moogerah irrigators expect and what will that mean?
Robert Hinrichsen is standing in front of a shiny $80,000 pivot irrigator in the Fassifern Valley. The new kit is part of a planned $400,000…
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New Stocktake app could be a boon to producers
“I do think that there is an appetite out there for the app, if it means farmers can work more efficiently,” is how beef producer…
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Gold Coast hinterland cableway plans divides MPs, council and community
Council, State Government and a community group are at loggerheads over a project that would see a cableway strung from Mudgeeraba to Springbrook in the…
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Up to $200,000 grants for innovative ways to get people moving
The State Government is planning to back innovative solutions to get inactive Queenslanders moving. Innovation and Sport Minster Stirling Hinchliffe has announced $4.34 million ActiveKIT…
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‘Coronavirus of agriculture’: Fall Army Worm smashes Scenic Rim Crop
This story has been made free to all readers, please considering supporting our journalism with a subscription. Norm Kerle’s maize crop looks like it has…
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Investigation into Ipswich paedophile principal dropped in 1990s
A police investigation into a paedophile headmaster molesting a boy at an Ipswich private school in the mid 1990s was dropped partly because the deputy…
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More than 50 irrigators express interest in Water for Warrill scheme
At least 55 irrigators have said they would be willing to buy into a water scheme which proponents say could near drought-proof the Warrill and…
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‘We need to throw the kitchen sink at our labour shortage’
A quarantine pilot for Pacific Workers is set to be trialled, but is the answer to the labour shortage closer to home? A recent announcement…
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Horse’s mystery death in Southern Queensland revealed as new Hendra strain
In 2015, in an undisclosed area just to the north of the Sunshine Coast, a horse became suddenly and violently sick. Its symptoms were identical…
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John Williamson settles near Scenic Rim as he winds back touring
Australia’s Mallee Boy, country music legend John Williamson, has become a true-blue Queenslander, settling in to his picturesque property perched on a ridge in Springbrook…
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‘Dom’s on the crawl’: Paedophile principal appointment cover up at Ipswich school
His reputation as an abuser was known throughout Northern New South Wales Catholic schools, but that didn’t stop Brother Dominic being appointed to an Ipswich private…
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Apprentice subsidy welcomed, but something else is keeping youth from trades
This week’s announcement that at least $1.2 billion will flow from government coffers to employers’ payrolls in the form of apprentice subsidies will enable them…
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