A German-owned sugar milling company in north Queensland has been blamed for costing a farmer $500,000 in income because of poorly maintained infrastructure.
The final
Daily Mercury print newspaper landed on people s doorsteps and its pages turned for the last time. How do you send off a publication that has been around for 154 years with less than a month s notice? Well, we did our best. We had one to two pages in every paper of the Daily Mercury for the final fortnight as well as an eight-page wraparound for the final issue on Saturday June 27, 2020. It was a team effort but special thanks goes to Loris Wall, Lucy Martin, Tony Martin, Heidi Petith and Kate Rasmussen for pitching in to ensure we gave a nod to the paper s history during that final month.