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Rockhampton is âapproaching the top tiersâ of housing price growth, according to analysis by the Real Estate Institute of Queensland.
REIQ CEO Antonia Mercorella and chairman Peter Brewer visited the Frenchville Sports Club on Wednesday as part of a trip across the state, updating residents on their local real estate market.
Ms Mercorella said the regional market was performing âin a way that weâve not seen in a really long timeâ.
âItâs certainly a very positive market here in Rockhampton,â she said.
âVacancy rates at the moment are sitting at 0.6 per cent, so itâs a very tight market.
A Girdled Scalyfin taken off Long Reef, Sydney in 2001. Image: Erik Schlogl. Previous Slide Next Slide
Divers in Sydney and the NSW North Coast are being asked to contribute their old and new diving photos, videos, observations and knowledge to a new UNSW Sydney research project.
It is hoped that the images and recollections collected for the In Bygone Dives project will lead to a better understanding of how the underwater world has changed over recent decades.
“Old dive photos hold a wealth of information, and potentially valuable scientific data on the past health of reefs and the species that were present,” lead researcher and PhD candidate in the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences at UNSW Sydney, Chris Roberts says.
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Scientists from UNSW Sydney hope to document how marine life has changed at dive sites over the years by using photos and observations from the public.
Divers in Sydney and the NSW North Coast are being asked to contribute their old and new diving photos, videos, observations and knowledge to a new UNSW Sydney research project.
It is hoped that the images and recollections collected for the In Bygone Dives project will lead to a better understanding of how the underwater world has changed over recent decades.
“Old dive photos hold a wealth of information, and potentially valuable scientific data on the past health of reefs and the species that were present,” lead researcher and PhD candidate in the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences at UNSW Sydney, Chris Roberts says.
NSW Surfers in for a Feast Through the Coming Weekend
Yep, this is autumn east and south swells are on the way
Ben Macartney
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Larger easterly swell up north, propagates down the coast later in the week
Strong reactivation in south swell follows this weekend
What’s not to like about autumn? Right now, latent tropical activity, coupled with an active Southern Ocean storm track, is setting up days of solid surf for the whole NSW coast.
It begins with several days of long-range southerly groundswell, ahead of a gradual building trend in easterly swell across the NSW coast through the back half of the week. The kicker is a double-shot of south swell arriving over the weekend and early next week.
Solid South On The Way For New South Wales This Weekend
Autumn’s first weekend is looking pretty full-on
Photo: Zach Bowden
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Traditionally, the start of autumn has a reputation for flicking the surf-switch to ON, as summer onshores finally give way to crisp offshore land-breezes and solid swell for days at a stretch. Recent years have bucked this trend across the East Coast as summer-like temperatures, small surf and humid nor’easters spilled over into the opening weeks of March.
A La Niña autumn, however, changes things. The successive, huge swell events of last winter have left some pretty big boots to fill and lo and behold, there’s an oversized synoptic footprint about to drop right in. A polar low is modelled to steadily intensify as it tracks below the mainland and out of Tasmania’s swell shadow through the back half of the week, eventually bringing a broad, slow moving area of southerly gales to bear on our swell window throughout Thurs