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Share your thoughts through a letter to the editor in the Daily Mercury   Handing back Australia Day awards I find the virtue signalling of prominent Australians such as Pater Kingston and Kerry O'Brien highly hypocritical. They state the reason to hand back the Australia Day awards is in response to Margret Court's views and opinions on same-sex marriage and homosexuality. Further stating the intention of the country's highest honour is to foster community unity. So under the guise of unity they attack an individual who has differing views to their own on TV and radio. This seems to ...

Share your thoughts through a letter to the editor in the Daily Mercury   Handing back Australia Day awards I find the virtue signalling of prominent Australians such as Pater Kingston and Kerry O'Brien highly hypocritical. They state the reason to hand back the Australia Day awards is in response to Margret Court's views and opinions on same-sex marriage and homosexuality. Further stating the intention of the country's highest honour is to foster community unity. So under the guise of unity they attack an individual who has differing views to their own on TV and radio. This seems to ...

Janessa Ekert Journalist I didn’t always want to be a journalist. In fact, when I was younger my dream was to be an archaeologist – who wouldn’t want to be like Indiana Jones? However, now that I am a journalist, I couldn’t imagine doing anything else with my life. I love listening to people’s stories and sharing them with others. I’m a Queenslander through and though. Mackay is the furthest south I have ever lived. I’m an only child and I was raised in Airlie Beach. My parents are former boaties; we lived on a 42 foot...

Premium Content Subscriber only A Blacks Beach man remains in a serious condition in hospital after a horror motorbike crash just before midnight. The man, aged in his mid-30s, suffered critical injuries in the single vehicle crash just metres from the roundabout on Whitehaven Dr about 11.35pm Monday. Deep gouges in the footpath concrete were clearly visible at the point of impact in the suburban street. A man in his 30s suffered critical injuries in a motorbike crash on Whitehaven Dr in Blacks Beach about 11.30pm Monday, January 25. Picture: Rae Wilson It is understood the man was wearing ...

by Danielle O’Neal Premium Content Subscriber only A motorcyclist has been rushed to hospital in a critical condition after a crash north of Mackay overnight. Emergency services were called to the single motorcycle crash at Whitehaven Dr in Blacks Beach about 11.32pm. A man in his 30s suffered critical injuries in a motorbike crash on Whitehaven Dr in Blacks Beach about 11.30pm Monday, January 25. Rae Wilson The driver, a man in his 30s, was treated for critical injuries at the scene and taken to Mackay Hospital under lights and sirens. Police invest...