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Queensland legal experts say 17th-century principle that protects livestock owners from liability is ‘unjust’ and puts property ahead of human life

The Queensland government is continuing its commitment to the Inland Freight Route, a critical freight corridor between Mungindi...

"If this road isn't fixed soon, someone's going to get killed."

Goondiwindi Regional Council and the drought-declared part of the Charters Towers Regional Council (south of the Flinders Highway and west of the Gregory Developmental Road). Mr Furner said the remaining drought-declared local government areas did not receive enough rainfall for a revocation. “Outside the south east, pasture quality and quantity, crop production, water reserves, animal welfare and breeder conception rates have all been negatively impacted by the lack of significant rainfall a...

Premium Content Subscriber only A woman told police her speedometer “was out” when she was caught driving at 118km per hour on a road near Clermont. Police officers were travelling south on Gregory Developmental Road near Belyando Crossing on September 25, 2020, when they saw a vehicle driving at speed towards them and recorded a speed of 118km/hr in a 100km/hr zone. Rebecca Fay Potts pleaded guilty at Clermont Magistrates Court on April 14 to disobeying the speed limit. Police pros...

Premium Content Subscriber only A truck with a rear-trailer attached has overturned and blocked traffic on a thoroughfare road in the Isaac region. But the driver did not alert authorities despite the vehicle blocking one lane of Gregory Developmental Road at Frankfield for almost 12 hours. A Queensland Police Service spokesman said an officer came across the scene at 6.29am Sunday but the crash happened about 9.30pm Saturday. He said a truck recovery team left Mackay at 8am to clear the sce...

Premium Content A young woman has been hospitalised following a single-vehicle rollover north of Clermont. The woman in her 20s sustained minor injuries when the vehicle she was travelling in rolled on Gregory Developmental Road, Belyando, about 3.40pm on Tuesday. Queensland Ambulance Service attended the incident near Twin Hills Road. Paramedics took the woman to Charters Towers Hospital in a stable condition. charters towers hospital

The Queensland Government has locked in $200 million of funds for a new inland highway, which it says will be spent regardless of whether the Federal Government decides to chip in the additional $800 million. The Inland Freight Route was announced as the ‘second Bruce Highway’ by the Labor Party during the 2020 State Election campaign in October, and will include major upgrades to the Gregory, Dawson and Carnarvon Highways to allow larger road trains to travel the route. Minister for ...