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The fertile red soil of Cudgen. Photo supplied. The possibility of the new Kingscliff Ambulance station being placed on State Significant Farmland (SSF) was raised following the announcement of funding for the new ambulance station by Health Minister Brad Hazzard earlier this month. This followed the divisive decision to build the new Tweed Valley Hospital on SSF on the Cudgen Plateau near Kingscliff. Peter Newton, President of the Kingscliff Ratepayers and Progress Association Inc (KRPA) told...

Premium Content Subscriber only About $4 million dollars of the State Government’s promised $30 million has been spent on Great Keppel Island so far. Tourism Industry Development and Innovation Minister Stirling Hinchliffe replied on May 21 to a question on notice from LNP leader David Crisafulli about the spending. Mr Crisafulli asked for a breakdown of spending on the island, including how much had been spent on government staff, infrastructure and Rockhampton or Capricorn Coast business...

Quinn’s Bridge over Balcombe Creek to be rebuilt It will be remembered that a steam roller crushed through this bridge some months ago. *** THE Country Roads Board has accepted Mr. H. H. Bell’s tender of £2,501/1/4 for the construction of the Nyora Mile section of the Pt. Nepean road. The work lies within the Mornington Shire. *** IT is freely rumoured that, with the advent of the electrification of the railway, thereby bringing Frankston closer to the city, several prominent city establis...

Honorary parade marshals selected Sandy and Mike McClurg VERSAILLES — As members of the Versailles community, Mike and Sandy McClurg are honored to be named parade marshals for the 2021 Versailles Poultry Days grand para de. The couple has deep and long-standing roots in Versailles. Both Mike and Sandy grew up in the Versailles area and graduated from Versailles High School. After moving away briefly for training and work, the two returned home and were married in St. Denis Catholic Church. ...

Premium Content Subscriber only Several community events have been allocated funds but not without some concern from a Gladstone Regional councillor. In a general meeting on April 6, Gladstone Regional Council heard 20 applications were received for community event funding from four funding streams – Jumpstart City Heart, Impact, Destination and Ignite. Councillors decided to allocate funds to 18 community investment events. Gladstone Area Promotion Development Limited’s Fashion Fr...

Happy KRPA members at Kingscliff Community Hall. Photo supplied. One of the Tweed Shire’s oldest residents’ associations is celebrating a long-awaited return to the Kingscliff Community Hall. ‘This is our spiritual home,’ said Peter Newton, President of the Kingscliff Ratepayers and Progress Association (KRPA). ‘Our Association, which has been around in one form or another since 1933, has played a significant part in developing the infrastructure of our wonderful area, including the ...

Premium Content Subscriber only Developer Altum Property Group has gone back to the drawing board on its Great Keppel Island project, on Thursday revealing it had revised its budget. Altum also announced it had adjusted its program for common user infrastructure for Stages 1 and 2 of the GKI resort re-development, on the back of advice from Keppel MP Brittany Lauga, Livingstone Shire Council and community stakeholders. Altum director Rob McCready said the company had listened to what councillo...

Premium Content Subscriber only Livingstone Shire Council voted not to officially endorse Altum Property Groups and the GKI Progress Associations list of Great Keppel Island infrastructure on Tuesday. The council will, however, write to the State Government that it desires "responsible redevelopment of Great Keppel Island" using all of the governments committed $30 million, possibly beginning with walking trails, visitor facilities, and more. Also included in the councils resolution was the ...

April 6, 2021 Today in Mullumbimby I witnessed a woman blowing bubbles on people. She was walking with her dog and blowing bubbles over passers-by. What is usually the magical work of the fairy tribe, today it had a kind of aggression. The bubbles weren’t by accident. This was a ‘Fuck You’ to mask wearing. A fuck you to people wearing masks. A fuck you to the existence of this coronavirus.

Livingstone Shire Council is seeking suggestions about how $30 million should be spent on Great Keppel Island, but there are discrepancies between its ideas compared with those of developer Altum Property Group. The money in question is the State Governments, set aside for infrastructure on the island, and the councils role is understood to be mainly one of advocacy. In January, Livingstone Shire Council gave a list of its preferred projects to the Department of Tourism "based on the assumpt...