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Drivers are being urged to avoid making “reckless” decisions amid a deadly start to the year’s state road toll, and Gympie motorists’ behaviour is among the worst in the Wide Bay.
Police data shows 25 dangerous driving crimes recorded in the Gympie police division in 2020, an average rate of five people charged per 100,000 residents every month of the year.
While this may sound small it has placed the region in a tie with Bundaberg for the highest rate of dangerous driving in the Wide Bay Burnett, and on par with the Queensland average.
The call for safer driving follows a horror start to the road toll: 50 people have been killed on Queensland’s roads in the first 64 days of the year, 18 more than for the same time last year.
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Subscriber only As his 60th birthday nears, he s conscious of his late-coming into daunting politics, but two-time Labor Party candidate turned Hervey Bay MP Adrian Tantari says he is determined to steer the electorate in the right direction. Sitting in the Esplanade office, formerly occupied by four term LNP member Ted Sorensen, he sits down with the Chronicle as the decades-old original coat on his surrounds is repainted fresh white . This is perhaps metaphoric given the political change that s also underway, led by the divorced father-of-three who shuffles, then steadies, readying to open up to Hervey Bay locals about the man behind the MP.
Funding helps secure hundreds of jobs in local sugar sector Australian Sugar Milling Council chief executive Mr David Pietsch said the funding would help secure 110 jobs in harvesting and field haulage operations and cane transportation otherwise at risk if cane cannot be transported to Isis Mill. Picture: Liana Turner
News 7th Mar 2021 5:00 AM
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Subscriber only Recent government funding has reportedly helped secure more than 600 direct and indirect jobs at Isis Central Mill. The sugar industry has welcomed the commitment of $1.9m from the Queensland Government to a plan that will see sugarcane grown, harvested and hauled in the Maryborough region milled into raw sugar at the Isis Central Sugar Mill at Childers.
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CQUniversity’s Bundaberg campus has welcomed new students to campus this week as part of its new student orientation program.
More than 200 new students participated in orientation week activities ahead of Term 1 with various online and on-campus information sessions, and social activities delivered.
It’s the first time in 12 months orientation activities for new students have been held on-campus, since COVID-19 forced the University’s Term 2 and 3 programs online last year.
In 2021, the university planned a program that combined popular on-campus and online sessions and activities, so that students could design a program to suit their needs.
Mr Pietsch said the funding was critical for enabling cane to be transported to Isis Central Sugar Mill, and he commended the Australian and Queensland Governments for their funding commitments.
“We have worked to support our member Isis Central Sugar Mill and are pleased they have secured Government support for this transport infrastructure to allow Maryborough region growers to deliver an estimated 380,000 tonnes cane to the mill at Childers from this season,” Mr Pietsch said.
“The funding commitments announced by Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack and Federal Member for Hinkler Keith Pitt, and Queensland Deputy Premier Steven Miles and Member for Maryborough and Assistant Minister Bruce Saunders, highlight the importance both Governments place on the sugar industry for jobs.