Michael Madigan

IT WAS born before the nation, slaking the thirsts of timber cutters before Australia was federated in 1901 and the hard wooden beams of the Grand Hotel still plays host to our early pioneers.

How do we thank him?

A western Queensland road project expected to cost $176,000 has blown out to $5.6 million because of unresolved indigenous land use agreements regarding access to gravel quarries.

It’s a community suffering heart disease, obesity, diabetes, a desperate housing shortage, crime and an historic lack of public transport services so chronic there was not so much as a bus service servicing the area until 1992.

Longreach is calling on state and federal governments to help provide long-term water security to the region after spring rains gave the iconic western town an 11th-hour reprieve from a genuine water crisis.

The Qld towns under assault from ‘ghost storms’

Archbishop Mark Coleridge, effectively the boss of 146 schools, has slammed Qld’s Catholic Education sector saying students are underperforming in key areas. WELCOME TO HIGH STEAKS

He does giggle and there’s a bit to giggle about on a Friday afternoon at the Murrumba Downs Tavern when you’re drinking beer and eating steak, and someone else is paying the bill.

Losing your youth is one thing, losing your mind another.

Clive Palmer is not merely rich but incomprehensibly so, as in: