Premium Content Subscriber only Tara Miko Journalist Tara joined the company in 2010 after graduating with a journalism and politics degree from Griffith University in Brisbane. After first working in newspapers in the Bowen Basin in Central Queensland, she joined the team at The Chronicle in 2013. In September that year she took over the reins of the Rural Weekly, and has been on the crime desk in Toowoomba since 2015. Login to follow It was a full house as Mackay celebrated the best of its citizens at the Australia Day awards gala dinner on Monday. More than 500 people packed out the MECC to applaud the 141 nominees across eight categories.