Michael Madigan

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.

It’s been a family affair for 32 years – 40 if you take into account its former incarnation as the seat of Archerfield – and today the Palaszczuk era in Inala comes to an end.

Once upon a time, in mid-20th century Queensland, there was a type of cop who would accept a posting in a small regional Queensland community and, upon arrival, seek out the toughest thug in the district, and beat the hell out of him.

He looks ubercool, even if the cigarette has become unfashionable, and the emergence from the limo is very much in keeping with the rock star shtick of the 1960s.

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: