VOICE OF THE OUTBACK FOR 126 YEARS
15 July 2010
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BREAKING NEWS
Geoff Keating, a schoolteacher from Gatton, is the ALP candidate challenging the LNP’s Bruce Scott in Maranoa in the federal election on 21 August. Scott has held the seat since 1990.
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HIGH TO LOW FOR EULO
There is sometimes justice on the polocrosse paddock. Amiable hosts Eulo can vouch for that after staging a mother of all upsets to jag a spot in the A-grade final at their red country carnival last weekend.
CHINESE WHISPERS
It was a case of bashfulness and pride for the Odes dirt bike team of Shaun Fagan and Ken Higgins in the Hattah desert race at Mildura in early July.
RATES TO RISE BY 4%
Councils across the southwest are looking at increasing rates by about 4% in their 2010-2011 budgets as they try to cope with the fallout of the floods in the first three months of this year. Murweh adopted a budget worth $18.5 million last Thursday with a 4% average rise for town and country ratepayers.
PAY DEAL ELUDES ORANGE SHIRTS
A fresh financial year and no end in sight yet for Paroo shire’s protracted enterprise bargaining negotiations with it’s outside workforce. Anticipation flared that up to 50 orange shirts would strike and possibly picket the regular monthly meeting of the mayor and councillors when the truckies union filed an application for protected industrial action.
CAN’T AFFORD TO LEAVE HOME
A young man built a four bedroom house, worth about $450,000, in Roma with the intention of leaving home. But he
decided to stay with mum and dad when he
was offered $800 a week in rent.
$310,000 LATER
Order has been restored to Bourke’s
historic courthouse with the completion of a
$280,000 renovation to repair alterations
ordered by the NSW attorney general’s
department.
ROMA DIABETES HOTSPOT
Oil and gas boom town Roma has been
labelled a diabetes hotspot, with an estimated
900 people aged 25 years and over having
the condition.
REFRESHING SHOWERS
AFTER weeks of overcast skies, a sweeping front on Tuesday evening brought useful rain to SWQ and NW NSW. Cunnamulla received 19.2mm, Eulo 21mm, Thargomindah 15.8mm and Bollon 11mm.
PRINCIPAL FOR ONE TERM
Cunnamulla state school students were confronted by two new senior staff members at the start of the new term on Tuesday, including a new principal.
OPAL MINERS NEED SOME LUCK
In the Middle Ages, opals were supposed to bring good luck. After 10 years of declining prices, the district’s diggers wonder if the good times will ever return as they prepare for the annual Yowah opal festival.
RAMS MESS UP THE NEST
After suffering back-to-back defeats in previous weeks, Cunnamulla travelled to Quilpie to take on the Magpies in a match they were desperate to win.
