Proud royalist and Quilpie Shire Councillor Lyn Barnes was one of the key organisers of the special tribute, working with council staff to put together a program that included a solo violin performance from Quilpie local Lauren Park, a welcome from Lyn, and singing the Australian national anthem, the Song for the Commonwealth, and A […]

A former Mount Isa victim of sexual abuse has started a new awareness campaign called “Loud Fences” in the Catholic Diocese of Townsville. Click to check the original article.

The Eyre Development Road from Windorah to Birdsville and the Birdsville Track are currently closed due to being flooded and impassable at the Diamantina River, just before Birdsville. The roads are otherwise in suitable condition to open once the flooding subsides. Click to check the original article.

Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth. Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor […]

Quirindi farmer Scott McInnes has turned back the clock with a second-hand picker, borrowed module builder and boll buggy to get the crop off. Click to check the original article.

Already mum to a 15-month-old girl, Shelby, and 34 weeks pregnant with her second child, Ms Foulds said her options for her second birth were to travel to Esperance, about a two and a half hour trip away, or to Albany, which is about three and a half hours away or to travel the longer […]

A solicitor has bought the 8788-hectare Kopyje Station in NSW’s north west following a dream that’s landed her in the “big debt club”. Click to check the original article.

The Territory’s first-ever cotton gin is set to open just a few kilometres from Katherine mid next year in a move that is set to re-shape the NT’s agriculture industry. Click to check the original article.

Locals may want to pull out the winter woolies this week. Click to check the original article.

Mount Isa Deputy Mayor Phil Barwick has defended the budget as progressive and exciting Click to check the original article.

As milk production keeps sliding, Coles is offering market leading contract price incentives direct to farmers for 2022-23. Click to check the original article.

The Mount Liquor Action Group is looking at banning notices to help give residents a safer night out. Click to check the original article.