Wildcard upset
Wildcards, a team of mostly student-age players, who have just started playing in the adult's competition, have just made it into the B-grade grand...
Come along for SES open day
The Longreach SES will be hosting a public open day on 10 September at 10am as a part of SES week celebrations—and hopes you'd...
Lloydy’s Serve
Volunteering is one of the underpinning parts of our sporting system and plays a massive role in small towns like ours.
If you...
History of Iningai Park’s founding years
Iningai Park founder Noel McDarra passed away on July 7, aged 94.5 years.
A resident of Longreach for 63 years, Mr McDarra, a retired...
Todd Austin says luck behind Birdsville history
Big bonuses and bragging rights are on the line for Barcaldine bush trainer Todd Austin at this weekend's 140th anniversary edition of the Birdsville...
Variety Bash sees massive numbers
After being restricted to shorter drives, this month's Variety Bash is travelling from Winton to Yeppoon through Birdsville in an even that will span...
Touch results
Results for Round 5:
Rebels defeated Lights n Sirens: 10-1
Best and Fairest: Mark Oates and Sam Tweedale
Getaways defeated Phantoms: 7-6
Best and Fairest: Jade Fuller and...
Historical racing event continues in modern age
The historical significance of the Tower Hill Races has not been lost on locals despite the event being over 100 years old and a...
Stormbirds into grandfinal
After a 21-20 nailbiter against Fury, the Longreach netball team Stormbirds have earned themselves a shot at knocking off multi-year premiers Tension.
Stormbirds captain...
McMahon stars at Beetoota races
The annual Beetoota Cup race meeting kicked off the river circuit of racing on Saturday, with the annual two-day Birdsville meeting to follow this...
Happy wattle day
I thought it would be appropriate today to write about a significant piece of Australian horticultural history.
Did you know that yesterday was National...
Bowls by Bones
On a hot day club members are thankful for the foresight and vision of previous committee members to install the retractable shade over our...
