21 Jan 08 | LOWER than average sea temperatures projected for the summer could provide a reprieve for corals on the Great Barrier Reef. Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) Climate Change Group Director, Dr Paul Marshall, said weather and climat
21 Jan 08 | UPDATED Divisional Maps for the Tablelands Regional Council which will replace the Shires of Atherton, Eacham, Heberton and Mareeba following the 15 March elections are now available. The maps can be viewed and downloaded from the Local Transitio
21 Jan 08 | RAIN, and a lot of it, can do some strange things to rural industry. In Queensland, it has seen the opposite ends of the State seemingly switch roles with cattle sales in the traditionally wet areas going ahead and those in the drier regions cance
21 Jan 08 | ROY Pace is the only cane grower to have received tissue cultured plantlets of smut resistant cane varieties propagated for the BSES by Greg Lowe of Lowes Tissue Culture P/L, the largest laboratory of its type in Australia. Mr Pace farms 30km sout
21 Jan 08 | A RECORD number of teams will line up at the coming Goldfield Ashes cricket carnival in Charters Towers this weekend, January 26 to 28. More than 200 teams are set to take part in the competition which celebrate its 60th anniversary this year.
14 Jan 08 | RAIN has fallen over almost all of Queensland with falls of up to 400mm in 24 hours having been recorded. In North Queensland it’s a case of all the rivers running- almost. Although many producers and farmers would have liked the rain to have
14 Jan 08 | THE Spinal Injuries Association is urging Queenslanders to take special care when swimming, driving or traveling through bushland following recent widespread flooding in Queensland. Acting CEO John Mayo said that the floods had caused many unexpec
14 Jan 08 | IT may come as a revelation to some but they are actually drinking water in Forsayth and now after conditioning themselves to actually drinking the clear fluid it’s gone all murky and smelly. A water treatment plant was installed 12 months ago but
14 Jan 08 | IT has been quite a few years since the Townsville area received such a start to the wet season- and it’s almost a month early. The development of a low pressure cell which sat off the coast of Townsville has inundated an area from Ingham to Macka
14 Jan 08 | RECENT early year rainfalls in the Central and North of Queensland have provided promising conditions for the this year’s Big Country Brahman Sale. The sale has catalogued a near record 378 lots for auction at Dalrymple Saleyards, Charters Towers
14 Jan 08 | THE big-money future of carbon trading in rural Australia may be spelled out by the financial future of two of the smallest cattle stations in the Top End. Pastoralist Peter Camm has reportedly been offered $80 million for La Belle Downs and Well
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