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A record number of multicultural events are set to receive funding in 2021 after a disappointing year that cancelled most celebrations.
Among the popular Mackay events to share in more than $1.5 million for next year is Global Grooves and Jayco Mackay Italian Street Party.
The funding under the State Governmentâs Celebrating Multicultural Queensland Program is aimed at furthering inclusion, harmony and unity.
Mackay MP Julieanne Gilbert said the community would be brought closer together through the events.
âWe are enriched by people with backgrounds from right across the globe, contributing to make this a wonderful place to live,â Mrs Gilbert said.
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The flight between Brisbane and Mackay was identified as the fourth most popular route in Australia during September.
An Airline Competition in Australia report released this month showed five mining centres, four regional, in recorded the most flights that month.
Brisbane to Cairns and Townsville took the top two positions, Karratha to Perth was third, followed by Brisbane to Mackay and then Broome to Perth.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission report compared September 2019 with September 2020 and found a stark difference.
The usual ‘golden triangle’ of flights in Australia’s southeast has fallen away with COVID border restrictions.
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Subscriber only Mackay MP Julieanne Gilbert has facilitated a meeting being held with Keswick Island sublessees today as tensions continue to simmer over access issues. The
Daily Mercury understands the private meeting will be held in Mackay between sublessees and a local representative from the Department of Natural Resources Mines and Energy. A spokeswoman for Mrs Gilbert confirmed the meeting would go ahead and was for sublessees only. She said Mrs Gilbert had facilitated the meeting. It is understood the talks are part of ongoing discussions about access issues for residents on the island. Mackay MP Julieanne Gilbert. Picture: Zizi Averill
A potentially fatal flaw in a $150 million road safety upgrade could be putting farmers and fellow motorists in danger. Canegrowers Mackay has said the Walkerston Bypass Access project had an intersection that was an accident waiting to happen .
Chairman Kevin Borg said the designs would force large cane farming vehicles to use a staggered T-intersection to traverse the Walkerston Bypass in both directions. Mr Borg said an investigation by engineers on behalf of growers had found the road design failed to consider the increased volume of farm traffic at harvest season, from June to December. In the six-month crushing period alone, an estimated 220 trips per day, 22 vehicles per hour, will use the intersection to cross the bypass, Mr Borg said.
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Subscriber only Three infrastructure projects supporting 100 jobs are ramping up across the region s ports in the lead up to Christmas. Queensland-based company Davbridge Constructions will deliver the $2.4 million extension of wharf 1 at the Port of Mackay. Mackay MP Julieanne Gilbert said the upgrade was part of the state s economic recovery plan. The wharf 1 project will help to build on the 195 shipping movements and 3.17 million throughput tonnes witnessed last financial year, despite COVID-19, Mrs Gilbert said. Getting Queensland businesses to deliver upgrades for Queensland ports is vital to our state s economic recovery, and will add to major road projects like the Walkerston Bypass and $120 million Mackay Northern Access Upgrade.