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Small grants for smart farms up to $100k
Farmers, fishers and foresters can now apply for Australian Government funding of up to $100,000 to support natural resource management efforts. Minister for Agriculture,…
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Spinning a yarn: the history of a phrase
This old photograph from a family album of Anton and Pauline Hiller, Pastor and Frau Pastor of Dugandan Church (1919-1951), depicts a domestic scene replicated…
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Queensland’s lucrative fur trade: Part 2
An argument for a regular open season on possums put forward by Joseph Maguire from Miles in central Queensland to the Minister for Agriculture and…
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Dinmore meatworks closure has little impact on graziers as drought deepens
The two week close down of the Dinmore Meatworks is unlikely to have an impact on local graziers say two long term cattlemen. “Many graziers have…
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Tackling the cockroaches of corruption: Editorial
Corruption is the devious underbelly of outward respectability – at its most effective when hidden from sight. Successfully expose its contamination of public life and…
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Dozer creating fire break to try and contain Mt Barney fire
A bushfire is burning uncontrolled in National Park in the Mount Barney area between Upper Logan Road and Klan Road. Bulldozers are creating firebreaks and…
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Scenic Rim communities urged to suggest projects for bushfire funding
Communities across the Scenic Rim are being urged to outline their priorities to share in $36.8 million for bushfire recovery projects, announced by the Australian…
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Queensland’s lucrative fur trade
Sloths, monkeys and bears, three different names for the native creatures first sold as pets by hustlers in the Sydney and Melbourne markets. None of…
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The Pariah: HMAT Boonah
Dictionary Definition: Pariah: A social outcast, a non person, leper, reject, untouchable, undesirable. No, not the town we know and love, but the Australian troopship in World War I,…
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Scenic Rim and Ipswich in bid for $36.8M share in bushfire fund
A $36.8 million bushfire recovery package has been announced for 13 Queensland Councils and state agencies. The Scenic Rim and Ipswich councils are on the…
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Vale: James Neill Sheldon 19.02.1988 – 11.07.2020
James Sheldon was a nationally recognised orienteer, skilled engineer and a respected member of the district’s outdoor education community. James died in a tragic hiking…
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Magdalena’s journey from the Fassifern to SA in 1918
When Betty Crepin lived with her oldest son Des in Boonah, before she moved into the Retirement Village in her last years, she used to…
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