Posted June 28, 2013 11:42:37 Map: Grantham 4347 The finishing touches are being completed on a new community centre for a Lockyer Valley town that floods devastated two years ago. Twelve people were killed when floods inundated Grantham in January 2011....
Posted June 27, 2013 11:29:28 Map: Toowoomba 4350 The University of Southern Queensland’s (USQ) vice-chancellor says it is time the major federal parties developed a policy in regional education. The Regional Universities Network, which USQ is a member of, says it...
Barnaby Joyce’s office in St George sits directly across the road from the St George Hotel. And around the bar a few drinks have been raised to the colourful Queensland Senator who gave his “valedictory speech” this week. Joyce is set...
By Eric Tlozek Posted June 26, 2013 17:34:45 Today is the final day for viewers in south-east Queensland to make the switch to digital television, but many people remain unhappy with the new set up. If they have not already done...
A trip to the supermarket today will leave you with more change in the pocket compared to four years ago. ABC reporters around the country headed to their local supermarket with the same shopping list from 2009, and instead of seeing...
Social media became a buzz of snow sightings this afternoon as the Granite Belt experienced a cold, rainy, sleety, day. “It’s been a miserable day,” says Jack Drake, who lives “right on top of the plateau” at Eukey. “It didn’t start...
By Sam Burgess Posted June 25, 2013 17:19:55 Map: Stanthorpe 4380 There have been reports of snow flurries on the Granite Belt in Queensland’s inland border region this afternoon. Pictures from the small town of Eukey, south of Stanthorpe, have been...
The modern world runs on data, and according to statistics Professor Shahjahan Khan from the University of Southern Queensland, it needs to “be made sense of”. That’s where statisticians come in. 2013 is the International Year of Statistics, and the Toowoomba-based...
The South Burnett Saints defeated the Chinchilla Suns 92 points to 91 in their very first game. The two new teams in the Darling Downs AFL met at the Chinchilla Showgrounds on a cloudy day for the four ladder points, and...
Instead of complaining about the long travel times, a local tourist body is talking up the idea of going alternative. Southern Queensland Country Tourism says people have been put off from visiting the area because of extensive roadworks. They have enlisted...
