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CONSTRUCTION of apartments worth more than $2 million will increase construction jobs and eventually provide social housing for Rockhampton residents.
The State Government will build five one-bedroom and two 2-bedroom apartments in Frenchville as part of its Works for Tradies program.
Hutchinson Builders project manager Dan McKenna said the Frenchville build was a $2.17 million project.
“Over 90 per cent of this value will be directly spent in the local community with only a small portion being spent elsewhere due to specialty supply items,” he said.
“It is being run from Hutchies local office of 11 years, which has 14 permanent local employees, four being directly involved in this project.
the phone hacking scandal that has shaken murdoch s media empire. charlie d agata has more now from london. media giant rupert murdoch faced british lawmakers to defend his family, his reputation and his billion dollar global empire. this is the most tearable day of my life. his son, james, apologized for phone hacking at his family s news of the world newspaper. a great regret of mine, my father s and everyone at the news corporation. reporter: politicians fired questions at the murdochs all on live tv. do you expect ultimately you re responsible for that whole fiasco? no. are you not responsible? who is responsible? the people that i trusted to run it and then maybe the people they trusted. murdoch employees are accused of tapping voice mails of murder victims, politicians, even 9-11 victims. we ve seen no evidence of that at all and as far as we know, the fbi hasn t done it. the murdochs are walking a tightrope here, giving lawmakers the informati