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Offbeat by Jeremy Pierce & Stephen Nadin 9th Mar 2021 6:11 PM Premium Content   There is no better time of year to go camping in Queensland than the Easter holidays. Whether it's in a national park, by the beach or a hinterland glamping getaway, we're spoilt for choice. Here are the 30 great Queensland camping spots. Binna Burra Lodge, Beechmont Positioned 800m above sea level amid the subtropical rainforest of Lamington National Park in the Gold Coast hinterland, Binna Burra Lodge includes newly-refurbished safari tents ...

Offbeat by Jeremy Pierce & Stephen Nadin 9th Mar 2021 6:11 PM Premium Content   There is no better time of year to go camping in Queensland than the Easter holidays. Whether it's in a national park, by the beach or a hinterland glamping getaway, we're spoilt for choice. Here are the 30 great Queensland camping spots. Binna Burra Lodge, Beechmont Positioned 800m above sea level amid the subtropical rainforest of Lamington National Park in the Gold Coast hinterland, Binna Burra Lodge includes newly-refurbished safari tents ...

Premium Content Subscriber only Workers in mining towns such as German Creek, May Downs, Peak Downs Mine and Moranbah are raking in the most dough in the Isaac region, while those in Hamilton Island and Hayman Island are earning the least. New Australian Bureau of Statistics data has revealed the average full-time salaries for workers across Mackay Isaac Whitsunday and Queensland by postcode. German Creek and May Downs were the richest workers in the Mackay Isaac Whitsunday region, taking home an average wage of $109,994. Peak Downs Mine and Moranbah workers were not far behind with an ave...

Council is recommending people stay out of the water at Platypus Beach almost a fortnight after dangerous bacteria was detected there. A Mackay Regional Council statement issued on Friday said ongoing tests showed little change to moderate E.coli and Intestinal Enterococci levels. “Council recommends that members of the public don’t swim in the area,” the statement said. “Anyone swimming in the area does so at their own risk.” Platypus Beach, a popular swimming spot under the bridge at Mirani. Picture: Mackay Regional Council “(It) will outline an approach on how to best ma...

Premium Content Subscriber only Progress is being made on the game-changing Urannah Dam project after comments on the draft terms of reference for an environmental-impact statement closed late last month. The State Government's co-ordinator-general will now finalise this once all public and agency comments have been considered. A spokesman for the office of the co-ordinator-general said the proponent, Bowen River Utilities, would then have 18 months to prepare an environmental impact statement which satisfactorily addressed the terms of reference. "Many of the comments received from the p...