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Nearly half a million homes and businesses across the state and down into NSW lost power on Tuesday after a generator unit at Callide Power Station near Biloela caught fire and exploded.
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A federal MP has spoken up after a Central Queensland RSL decided to call off a major Anzac Day event over red tape.
The Blackwater/Bluff RSL announced its annual march had been cancelled because of four pages of instructions it would have to comply with.
âEveryone involved would have to be signed in on the COVID (form),â president Lester Anderson told the Daily Mercury.
âItâs a bit of a shame, we usually have the light horse upfront and itâs a good spectacle for the kids.â
Ms Landry said it was a âreal shameâ the march was not going ahead.
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The Agriculture Department is encouraging Central West landholders affected by grasshoppers to take part in a two-month survey to help accurately determine the scale of the problem, but Gregory MP Lachlan Millar says it is too little, too late.
The State Government formed a Grasshopper Working Group in response to high grasshopper populations across the central and north west of the state Queensland.
The DAF said the group, including workers from the Australian Plague Locust Commission and National Drought and Flood Agency, would work to identify the best way forward.
It said the influx of grasshoppers occurred in parallel with increased numbers of locusts in the same areas, and while it had “solid knowledge” about locusts, there was still “much to be learnt about grasshoppers”.