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Supermarket Superheroes coming to town

FoodWorks Longreach is now the focus of an exciting new initiative encouraging the community to eat more fruit and vegetables. Partnering with the Queensland...

Enjoy the Outback but remember your meds

While this year’s Big Red bash may have been cancelled, dozens of other local events, shows and race meetings across Central West and Western...

Consultation opens on biosecurity regulation

Industry and community are invited to have their say on the future of the Biosecurity Regulation 2016 as part of a comprehensive ‘sunset review’,...

Beef corridors works underway

Construction has started on two priority projects under the Queensland Beef Corridors Program, with another to commence in May. Jointly funded by the...

Online Comments

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Letters to the Editor

THE INMATES RUNNING THE ASYLUM There can now be no doubt that the inmates are running the asylum. Minister Murray Watt says he cannot support the...

A Longreach aviation first

This isn’t a Q.A.N.T.A.S. story because it happened a decade before that concept. Its main character is an English migrant named Charles Lindsay Campbell...

Lee brings Outback spirit

The Spirit of the Bush event was held in Longreach on Wednesday as part of the Queensland Music Trails program. The concert took place at...

Anzac Day across the Central West

Communities came together across the Barcaldine and Blackall-Tambo regions on Saturday, 25 April, to mark Anzac Day. Barcaldine's dawn service at the War Memorial Clock...

Barcy set for annual festival

The Barcaldine Tree of Knowledge Festival will take over the town this weekend, with a packed four-day program set to draw locals and visitors...

Community Events

WEEKLY Social Tennis Grab your racquet (or borrow one) and join the Longreach Tennis Club for a hit every Tuesday. Come down for some...

Special Anzac Day at Longreach

Hundreds of people attended Anzac Day commemorations at Longreach on Friday, 25 April, including Albert and Nez Santos and their children Frankie and Cooper. About...

Supermarket Superheroes coming to town

FoodWorks Longreach is now the focus of an exciting new initiative encouraging the community to eat more fruit and vegetables. Partnering with the Queensland...

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