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Subscriber only Mackay residents are spoiled for choice this May Day long weekend with a social calendar chock-full of events. When: 7.30pm, Sunday May 2 Where: Mackay Entertainment and Convention Centre, Alfred Street, Mackay What s happening: Renowned Emmy-winning and Grammy-nominated artist Toni Childs will perform in Mackay to support the Daily Mercury s Hub for our Heroes campaign. Toni Childs will appear at Tanks Art Centre. Picture: supplied. Inspired by her father and her own mental health struggles, Toni Childs backs PTSD Frontline s mission alongside Sir Peter Cosgrove and Australia s oldest surviving Victoria Cross recipient Keith Payne to develop a first responders and veterans treatment centre at Kinchant Dam.
27 April 2021
This should not be news, but given the polarised debate around climate and energy politics in Australia it very much is: The prime minister of Australia, Scott Morrison, has visited a solar farm.
Why is this important, or even worth mentioning? Well, as far as we can tell, it is the very first time that any minister in Morrison’s government has visited a new wind or solar farm.
Indeed, any sort of visit by any Coalition minister to a wind or solar farm since their election in 2013 has been a rare event, despite the massive number of new facilities that have opened and transformed the country’s grid.
Casey Dobson (left) in touch football days.
Hammers president Jason McPherson said Dobsonâs feat was all the more impressive because it was her very first year playing senior womenâs rugby.
âCaseyâs only in her first year in the senior womenâs, and sheâs got an opportunity to represent Gympie which is just tremendous,â McPherson said.
âSheâs come from the touch football background, sheâs a very good sprinter. I think she was a state representative in both.
âSheâs got speed to burn. Itâs tremendous, to think this is coming off the base of the school rugby implemented in town.â
20th Apr 2021 3:40 PM Readers have taken on print changes and adjusted to online news, but one thing has remained the same - there s always been a familiar face on the other side. Gatton Star s Ali Kuchel moved to Gatton in 2015, and despite a one-year vacation back in South Australia, it s a place she calls home. Now, as the Gatton Star moves to a new home with a dedicated landing page on the Courier Mail website, that familiar face will remain. While some people will hate Ali s court stories, others will love her Facebook live videos about flash flooding in the region, or her stories that tell of everyday local heroes.
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Dysart will host an Intrust Super Cup game for the first time as part of the QRL’s Activate! Queensland Country Week.
Gladstone’s Marley Brown Oval will also be a venue for one of the Round 14 matches as the state’s premier men’s competition heads to the regions on the weekend of July 17 and 18.
The Mackay Cutters will play the Norths Devils in Dysart, while the CQ Capras will tackle the Brisbane Tigers in Gladstone.
Games will also be played at Richmond, Murgon, Chinchilla, Quilpie and Atherton.
The weekend carries significance for many current ISC players and coaches whose rugby league journeys started in regional and outback Queensland.