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All Quiet is all too messy

Oscar season has passed us by once again for another year, with Everybody Everywhere All At Once taking home seven Academy Awards including Best...

Stewards disqualify Birdsville three in Jigger case

The three guilty Queensland racing participants in the Birdsville jigger case have been disqualified. Thoroughbred trainer Todd Austin has been disqualified for five years, Jockey...

Bush-City cardiac partnership

A unique partnership between Central West Hospital and Health Service and a metropolitan health service is delivering a new service for rural cardiac patients closer...

Exercise wise teens

Ilfracombe Gym opened its doors on Australia Day this year and has already attracted 35 local and district members. Local Senior Constable Paul Jackson has gone...

Vote for driver Deb

The community only has a few days left to rally behind Stonehenge school bus driver Deb Porter, a finalist in the Translink Queensland Bus...

Farmers Climate Survey

Farmers for Climate Action has called for Federal Government funding for more on-ground staff and programs teaching farmers about carbon and climate, as it releases...

Path to Treaty forums

The time has come for you to voice your views on the Path to Treaty Bill 2023 at a public forum to be held...

With rain comes fuel

Ilfracombe Rural Fire Service (RFS) had three call-outs last weekend, and issued a fresh warning to landowners about the abundance of long grass...

Mayor’s Column

Good to be back with you for another fortnightly update. I also have a monthly column in our Council newsletter, which should have arrived...

Physio-Pilates instructor brings her sunshine to the bush

A long-term friendship turned romance brought a sea change from Adelaide to Ilfracombe for Physiotherapist and Pilates instructor, Suzi Gunn. Suzi shares how she has spent quite...

Daisy Dukes? It’s a no from me!

Everyone loves a farm girl – the fictionally desirable, naïve daughter of a farmer, who marries the boy next door and settles down in...

Hope for Pride of the Murray

At 6.45 am Monday morning, a lone canoeist was travelling down the Thomson River in Longreach when they observed the Pride of the Murray...

Geopolitics the “dominant risk” for agriculture in year ahead

Geopolitics remains the “dominant risk factor” for Australian agriculture in the year ahead, according to Rabobank in its newly-released annual outlook, with the prospect...

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