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Premium Content Subscriber only If you've ever stood next to an emu, you'd know the deep and intimidating guttural sounds they produce in their throats. But at a wildlife park an hour's drive from Mackay, the emus politely eat food out of your hands while eastern grey kangaroos gently nudge you for a second helping. An emu at Bredl's Wild Farm. Picture: Contributed Bredls Wild Farm is also home to five cassowaries, Stella the southern-nosed wombat, Mimi and Bubbles the deer, talking birds, goats, koalas, possums, a sugar glider, a spencer's goanna, alligators and saltwater crocodiles. T...

Emergency services were called to the scene south of Proserpine last night.

Premium Content Subscriber only New data shows Mackay Whitsunday region rivers have the worst herbicide pollution throughout northern and central Queensland. The results come from samples taken from 11 sites covering the Wet Tropics at Cairns down to the Fitzroy region near Yeppoon, which tested for 26 herbicides and pesticides commonly used in agriculture. Repulse Bay, between Conway Beach and Midge Point, ranked in the highest percentiles for nine types of herbicides while Flat Top Island, not far off East Mackay, was in the highest percentiles for seven varieties - both topping the list...

Premium Content Subscriber only Nestled among the quiet streets of a rural town about an hour's drive north of Mackay is a pilot's playground with a 1.1km bitumen airstrip. At the end next to the helicopter pad is the home belonging to Garry Poole, the passionate local behind the Bloomsbury Whitsunday Park Estate. The helipad at the Whitsunday Park Estate. Mr Poole also keeps his own fire engine on standby should emergency services wish to use it. Picture: Heidi Petith The development consists of two lots of 35 two-hectare blocks each sold with access to the estate's Lakeside Airfield. ...

Fellow pilot Tom Sage said the Midge Point dives offered a fun, beautiful and "very unique" experience. Airlie Beach Skydivers pilot Tom Sage and ground crew member Beau Close, at the hangar at Lakeside Airfield, Bloomsbury. Picture: Heidi Petith Airlie Beach Skydivers offers tandem jumps from the age of 12 with parental consent, as well as skydiving and accelerated free fall courses. They also operate a shuttle bus from Airlie Beach to the Bloomsbury hangar. For more information, head to 1300 SKYDIVE. Share your story and photos with us: Daily Mercury This story was thanks to the My T...