Encephalitis risk after flooding
Gympie region residents are being asked to remove as much still water around their homes as possible to avoid giving mosquitoes somewhere to breed...
Pandemic, floods and now a tornado
As if two sets of flooding and the ongoing scourge of Covid weren't enough, residents of Woolooga have had to endure what can only...
Feds ‘penny pinching on floods’
The federal government has been accused of penny pinching to avoid using its $5 billion disaster fund to help Queensland flood victims.
Shadow Disaster and...
Perrett questions Inskip camping cuts
Drastic cuts in camper numbers at Inskip Point will be the subject of a parliamentary explanation from Environment Minister Meaghan Scanlon later this month.
Gympie...
PM talks up Gympie resilience
Prime Minister Scott Morrison rejected political criticisms of the federal government's flood disaster response and talked up Gympie resilience, on a tour of the...
Minister talks money, homes and skip bins
Housing, skip bins and federal government money were all in short supply in post-flood and post-Covid Gympie, according to explanations this afternoon from state...
Rail repairs hampered by floods
The rail lines at Traveston are still cut and will be for the foreseeable future according to Queensland Rail Acting CEO Scott Riedel.
Severe rainfall...
New family members are waiting
Jen and Tanner couldn't be more opposite.
Jen is a sweet but shy 6-year-old girl, who is looking for that special someone to shower her...
‘Internet boom for regions’
Bernard Salt, the demographer who predicted Gympie's property boom years before it happened, says the rush to the regions has now become a permanent...
Grants for flood-hit small businessess
Financial support for flood-affected Wide Bay small businesses, farmers, not-for-profit organisations, and sporting and community clubs are available to assist them with clean up...
Daisy and Coco are keen to go home
Sunshine Coast Animal Rescue have had a couple of trying days with their cattery flooded two days in a row, so they had to...
Nation should be green at Gympie’s Irish heritage
St Patrick’s Day is next Thursday 17 March 2022, so continuing on from last week, we will explore how the Irish contributed to the...
Police raise online child abuse alarm
Queensland Police are warning parents and guardians to increase online supervision during the upcoming school holidays which is a primetime for predators to target...
