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Barcy border beauty

Bec and Bill Plumb hosted the second Barcaldine Garden Discussion Group get-together for 2024 in the peaceful rural beauty spot they have created in...

Riding for the Outback

A peloton of bike riders travelling from Brisbane will be finishing their journey in Longreach this Friday, 26 April. RideWest raises money for the Royal...

Opal uncertainty remains

Winton Shire Council mayor Cathy White wants the State Government to get "back around the table" to provide reassurance to the region's opal miners...

Seniors warned to be aware of scams

Sculpting the heart of Winton

The rain brings garden surprises

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Youngsters enjoy AFL clinics

AFL launched again into Longreach with great interest shown by the local kids. AFLQ Central Queensland development manager Scott Smithwick drove out from Rockhampton...

Blackall hosts first junior cluster

The Blackall Showgrounds hosted the first junior rugby league cluster in the Central West for 2024 last Saturday, 20 April, hosting teams from Longreach,...

Alpha secures first win in 2024

Alpha Brumbies fought off a fast-finishing Barcaldine Sandgoannas side to secure a 32-28 win at home last Saturday, 20 April in round three of...

Blackall hosts GF rematch

The stage is set for an enthralling Central West Rugby League grand final rematch between the Blackall Magpies and Longreach/Ilfracombe Tigers at the Blackall...

Magpies down Devils at home

Blackall Magpies have moved to second on the Central West Rugby League ladder after a commanding 32-16 win over the Winton Diamantina Devils at...

Fast start to the new season

Longreach Athletics Club staged its first official club meet of 2024 on Sunday, 7 April. The weather was warm and sunny, and the athletes were...

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Rural

There no beef over CQ roads upgrades

The Federal Labor Government has confirmed it backed Premier Steven Miles in bringing forward the $500 million Queensland Beef Corridors project by three years. With...

Countdown to Beef

The countdown is on, with less than 50 days until Beef Australia 2024. The triennial event showcasing best of the beef industry will return to...

Nature’s sense of irony

After a morning of outside work, which left me a bit the worse for wear, I shucked my grubby work clothes for a cold...

Ag Energy Australia: Our story

As a farming family, we wanted our kids to carve their own path in agriculture. So, we decided to give them a leg up...

Beef roads upgrade promise

Central Queensland and the Central West is set to benefit from the development and progressive delivery of $500 million of upgrades to priority road...

GroWQ driving innovation

GroWQ hosted an Agricultural Industry Roundtable on Thursday, 29 February at Longreach’s Qantas Founders Museum. The event was in collaboration with the University of Southern...

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Darius in Windorah

The outback Queensland town of Windorah with a population of just over 100 is set to host the landmark launch of an innovative health...

News in Brief

BREZ questions Barcaldine's Renewable Energy Zone (BREZ) was in the spotlight in State Parliament's Questions on Notice this week, with Member for Gregory Lachlan Millar...

From cafe to uni hub

Winton Shire councillors met with Keegan Mulligan, the new owner of Winton's old Capitol Cafe Building on Thursday, 11 April to discuss the future...

Getting ready for Men’s Shed Markets

The Longreach Showgrounds Wool Pavilion was full of busy bees this week in preparation for the first Men's Shed Markets of the year, to...

Legal battle is on for basin

As support to ban Glencore from dumping “industrial waste” into the Great Artesian Basin grows, Agforce and other groups are continuing their fight to...

Our ‘forgotten soldiers’

As Longreach marks Anzac Day in 2024, the Longreach Archival and Historical Research Group (LAHRG) provides this update on the group’s Forgotten Soldiers Project...

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