The rural local governments on the frontline of Queensland's COVID-19 border closure with New South Wales will be eligible to share in $1 million from.
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and the drought-declared part of the Charters Towers Regional Council (south of the Flinders Highway and west of the Gregory Developmental Road).
Mr Furner said the remaining drought-declared local government areas did not receive enough rainfall for a revocation.
“Outside the south east, pasture quality and quantity, crop production, water reserves, animal welfare and breeder conception rates have all been negatively impacted by the lack of significant rainfall and high temperatures in spring and early summer, and there are still ongoing rainfall deficits,” he said.
“This can be seen on the prototype Combined Drought Index (CDI), tailored for Australia based on a mix of drought indicators.
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Premium Content Two dogs have died after an attack north of Brisbane. Caboolture Magistrates Court heard a momentary lapse in concentration led to Dayboro man Mark Andrew Taylor s female great dane escaping his control and fatally mauling another dog. According to information from prosecutors Moreton Bay Regional Council, the attack happened on June 7 when an elderly couple were walking their small leashed dogs along a footpath on Laidlaw St. The court heard the great dane, which was out the front of a nearby property, spotted the smaller dogs and attacked one of them, a maltese cross pomeranian called Lucy.
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