Community

24 January 2025

Rotary presents 2025 environmental plan

Guided by the theme ‘Collaborate, Advocate, Facilitate, and Educate’, ESRAG outlined a roadmap to engage the community and garner support for its environmental initiatives. As citizen scientists and environmental advocates, the group presented a visi...

23 January 2025

JB Sporting Services junior girls league camp

Jarrod has been holding clinics locally in Kilcoy and surrounds, and as far out to Chinchilla and Blackall, for rugby league, cricket and even at childcare centres. More recently, Jarrod held a girls only 13-17-year-old rugby league camp in Chinchill...

23 January 2025

Community can help youth crime

Applications for the Federal Government’s $28.4 million Youth Empowerment Program are now open, to divert young people away from a life of crime and anti-social behaviours. The program will target the root causes of youth crime and strengthen communi...

23 January 2025

Scam losses drop for first time in 9 years

The Government has now launched the Fighting Scams awareness campaign to equip Australians with simple, actionable tools to guard against scammers. The aim of the campaign is to increase awareness and action of three simple, memorable steps to keep u...

22 January 2025

A Ring Road highway

It comes as the Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR) continues its scope into a new BHWA route, following the official scrapping of the original proposal put forward by the previous Labor government. The ‘Ring Road’ proposal put forward by Mr...

21 January 2025

Fear and concern on the ground as new rules come in

Their insights reveal the ongoing challenges faced by the homeless.The Person’s Experiencing Homelessness Camping Framework, decided at a Council meeting on December 12, included the prohibition of the keeping of animals by all people camping in Coun...

19 January 2025

Prepare for a romantic Opera Soirée in February

Rebecca Cassidy, described as having a "lovely, rich soprano agile with excellent top notes, demonstrating a range of colours" (Limelight), will be performing in That’s Amore: A Valentine’s Opera Soirée. Rebecca was honored as the first artist to rel...

19 January 2025

Church land unlocked for housing

The changes will provide greater efficiency with a new streamlined Ministerial Infrastructure Designation (MID) assessment option, which will be assessed by the Planning Minister. This process will also allow for existing dwellings, including caretak...