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Premium Content Subscriber only Two Woppaburra elders think Altum Property Group should better consult them about resort plans on Great Keppel Island, but the developer insists it has had several meetings with Indigenous representatives and considers it too early for formal negotiations, as it does not yet have the leases for the project. Altum and the recently-formed GKI Progress Association held a meeting last week explaining the various stages of the resort proposal. At the forum, Altum cons...

Premium Content One of the Fraser Coast’s smallest communities has set a benchmark for future planning. This is because when it came time for the council to look at the infrastructure needed in Poona, the town’s Progress Association had already done much of the groundwork. In November 2020, the council endorsed the Poona Community Infrastructure Plan, the result of years of consulting with the association and the local community. For association President Jon Colclough, seeing the council...

The new Year 1 enrolment was 25 students. Visit of Bill Lamond Bill is the son of Henry G Lamond, the famous author who took up South Molle in 1926. Bill came to Proserpine last week as guest speaker at the Lions Club. Rotary Club guest speaker Proserpines 1981 Nurse of the Year Janette McCall outlined her campaign to raise funds for the Queensland Cancer Fund. She hoped to follow in the footsteps of last years Nurse of the Year Sister Merle Telford who raised $9100 from a similar position...

Roberts Day Intrapac 2015 Masterlan of Gales-Kingscliff. Photo www.galeskingscliff.com.au. Thirteen courts cases since the 2000s and residents of Kingscliff and Tweed Shire Council accept that there is going to be significant disruption to their lives and amenity during the fill and developments of the residential developments at Chinderah. However, it is the severity of the impact of these activities on the community that was up for debate at Tweed Council’s planning meeting last Thursday. ...

Numbers will be limited to ensure compliance with COVID-19 restrictions. A livestream link will be posted on the council Facebook page on Monday. Australia Day events supported by the Fraser Coast Council include: Australia Day in the Village 2021 What: Hervey Bay Historical Village and Museum will have children’s games, tractor rides, alpacas, sheep shearing, thong throwing, raffles, sausage sizzle, damper and more. When/Where: Tuesday, January 26. Starting 9.30am to 3pm at 13 Zephyr St, ...

It has been a rollercoaster two years for residents of Beulah, Victoria. Eric Bana has made a name for himself in Hollywood but was on home turf for The Dry. Photo: 2019 Getty Images In that time, the town has seen its general store burn down, and a local drought break, received treated drinkable tap water for the first time and made international headlines when occupants of a house in the town flew a flag with Nazi symbolism on it. But it seems a new Australian film will give the town of 300...

The Dry brings new life to Victorian town Beulah after drought, fire and a difficult two years SatSaturday 16 updated SatSaturday 16 The Dry was filmed in the Wimmera and Southern Mallee in 2019. ( Print text only Key points: Beulah, used as a location for film The Dry, plans to capitalise on tourists visiting the area A number of locals scored roles in the film as extras Residents are hopeful that more films will be shot in the area In that time, the town has seen its general store burn down, ...

One of them is the police station, on the corner of Main and Perry Sts. According to research by the Alstonville Plateau Historical Society, the station was completed in October 1903. “It seems that after the opening of the Federal Hotel 1901 it became common that ‘disgusting language’ and ‘bouts of fisticuffs’ occurred in the Main Street,” the society explains on its website. “So the local Progress Association urged their local Member, Mr Perry, to establish a police presence. �...

However, the usual popular events hosted by Fraser Coast Tourism and Events, the Torquay Progress Association and Fraser Coast Council will not go ahead in 2020. A council representative confirmed there will be no organised fireworks in Hervey Bay due to the difficulty to contact trace. The Beach House Hotel also announced their display was cancelled on December 1. The Maryborough Cricket Club is the only confirmed venue to be hosting organised fireworks at 9pm. The venue received a $2000 from ...

The late John Joseph McNeill OAM was an old-fashioned romantic, dedicated grandfather and a champion of the Habana community. He passed away on November 14, aged 74, from jaundice and gall stones which had developed in his kidney and liver. His surviving wife Joyce McNeill said she met the Mackay local during his three-year posting to England in 1971 after he had served in the Vietnam War. "He was an instructor with RAEME (Royal Corps of Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers)," Mrs...