Senator Chisholm made the comment to
The Observer following an Inland Rail round table meeting last week in Gladstone. The meeting was also attended by Member for Gladstone Glenn Butcher, Gladstone Mayor Matt Burnett, CQUniversity Chancellor John Abbott and local economic groups. Mr O Dowd accused Senator Chisholm of playing politics over the issue. Senator Chisholm needs to stop playing politics with the people of Gladstone, he said. This is a very broad presumption and comment to make and simply not correct. Mr O Dowd said he had been a strong advocate for the Inland Rail project to be linked to the port city.
Some sex therapists agree that music can be the key for some couples to keep the romantic fires burning. Website OnBuy.com was interested in discovering the world s favourite songs to play in the bedroom so it analysed 500 sex-related playlists on Spotify to see which songs occurred most frequently. Topping the list was WAP by Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion, which featured on 197 out of 500 Spotify playlists and promises to get randy couples all hot and sweaty. Often by The Weeknd was the runner-up, featuring on 186 out of the 500 playlists, with the Canadian s sultry sounds proving a romantic hit behind closed doors.
This week
The Observer was told of a homeless man who was living in the toilet of a 24 hour laundromat in the region.
The lowest vacancy rate in decades in the Rockhampton region of below 2 per cent has contributed to escalating rents in the beef capital, local real estate agents say.
The extremely low vacancy rate in both Gladstone and Rockhampton is predicted to have dire consequences, forcing a significant increase in homeless people across CQ.
In December it was predicted 55.2 per cent of Central Queenslander’s would face housing stress post COVID, the highest figure in the nation.
The report