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A Central Queensland woman drink-drove and rolled her car on the way home early this year.
Adrienne Jane Promnitz faced Rockhampton Magistrates Court on May 18 and pleaded guilty to driving while over the general alcohol limit in Bouldercombe.
The court heard that at 5.20am on January 30, 2021, police attended a single-vehicle crash on Razorback Road.
Tyre tracks at the scene suggested Promnitz had driven from the left lane across the right lane, off a floodway bridge and onto grass, before hitting a dirt wall that caused the car to roll over.
Ambulance officers treated Promnitz, who appeared to be intoxicated and later was determined to have a blood-alcohol content of .093.
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In the late 1800s, excavations via pick and shovel began on the Mount Morgan fireclay caverns to provide for the town’s brickworks.
But what workers didn’t know at the time was that they were excavating what was once a Jurassic lake.
The clay mining ceased in 1927 and over a number of years, clay fell from the cavern’s ceilings, uncovering hundreds of unexpected dinosaur footprints that palaeontologists have estimated to be over 200 million years old.
The footprints were first discovered by a survey team in 1952 and were later analysed by geologist.
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Queenslandâs top tourism towns have been revealed out of a pool of 13 finalists, including two major Central Queensland locations.
And out of 22 small towns in the running, one beloved Central Queensland location made took home the prize.
Queensland Tourism Industry Councilâs Top Tourism Town Awards was held in Brisbane on Thursday, May 20 with a panel of three expert judges and public votes determining the winners.
Renowned for itâs botanical gardens, the spectacular views of Mount Archer, historical architecture and sitting on the mighty Fitzroy River, the Central Queensland hub of Rockhampton made it to the finals.
Buried in last week’s budget was money for rehabilitating the Rum Jungle uranium mine near Darwin. The exact sum was not disclosed.
Rum Jungle used to be a household name. It was Australia’s first large-scale uranium mine and supplied the US and British nuclear weapons programs during the Cold War.
Today, the mine is better known for extensively polluting the Finniss River after it closed in 1971. Despite a major rehabilitation project by the Commonwealth in the 1980s, the damage to the local environment is ongoing.
I first visited Rum Jungle in 2004, and it was a colourful mess, to say the least. Over later years, I saw it worsen. Instead of a river bed, there were salt crusts containing heavy metals and radioactive material. Pools of water were rich reds and aqua greens hallmarks of water pollution. Healthy aquatic species were nowhere to be found, like an ecological desert.
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