Major abattoirs in Queensland are advertising jobs in the Northern Territory in the hope of luring workers after Australia’s largest cattle company, Australian Agricultural Company (AACo), announced it would mothball operations at its abattoir outside of Darwin. AACo announced last week...
Updated May 31, 2018 14:38:48 Electricity bills outside south-east Queensland will fall by $20 a year, the Queensland Competition Authority (QCA) has determined, an even smaller drop than had been expected. The QCA had suggested earlier this year that power prices...
Updated May 29, 2018 18:04:01 Map: Roma 4455 Almost 100 people are facing nearly 800 drug charges after police raids netted “large quantities” of ice in the Maranoa region of Queensland’s southern inland. Police said one man arrested on Tuesday is...
Updated May 28, 2018 15:18:47 Australia’s Will Power has filled the one hole in his resume by winning the Indianapolis 500 while Danica Patrick’s ground-breaking career and Helio Castroneves’s shot at Brickyard history both came to a crashing end. An IndyCar...
A hidden loft in a historic homestead in north Queensland has been rediscovered on a tip from the caretaker, after inadvertently remaining a secret for 40 years. Lawn Mowing Service...
An oversupply of pigs has caused many producers to operate at below-production cost for a year and a half, as they contemplate destroying animals they can’t sell. For David Head, a pig farmer from Tintinara in South Australia, a contract fell...
By Jo Prendergast and Jessica Hayes Posted May 24, 2018 06:25:04 Photo: Ben Brooksby is launching an underwear line to raise funds for mental health services. (Supplied: Ben Brooksby/The Naked Farmer) Related Story:
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By Claudia Jambor Updated May 21, 2018 17:05:39 Photo: St George Illawarra fans at the Court House Hotel in Mudgee before the match against the Canberra Raiders. (ABC Western Plains: Nick Lowther) Making major sporting events an ongoing success in the...
Updated May 21, 2018 17:03:49 Broadcaster Alan Jones has told a defamation trial he had no hydrological evidence to support claims he made on air that the collapse of a quarry caused the deaths of 12 people in the Grantham floods....
