Perrett: We need to see study into Borumba Dam plan gympietimes.com.au - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from gympietimes.com.au Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Property by Darren Cartwright
Premium Content In just eight months southeast Queensland buyers are tipped to struggle to find a home priced under half a million dollars. The stark warning from experts comes as Queensland property continues to boom, with hundreds of buyers seen at open homes, overflowing auctions and record sale prices. New data reveals there are fewer than a dozen Brisbane suburbs with a median asking price of $500,000 or less, just eight on the Sunshine Coast and only five on the Gold Coast. And the latest Brisbane areas set to zoom past the half-million mark are Richlands and Zillmere, which sit on the precipice with a median listing price of $500,000.
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‘I’m f -ked’: 32yo dad convicted of brutal pub assaults
A 32-year-old Gympie father on trial for viciously punching two men in a Mary Street pub was found guilty in Gympie District Court following a four-day trial. Kenneth James Hampton.
The jury took about a day to deliver its verdict on the grievous bodily harm and assault occasioning bodily harm charges Kenneth James Hampton faced.
Coward brutally bashed a woman in front of her children
Gympie District Court Judge Ken Barlow has called a 38-year-old out on his “cowardly” decision to repeatedly punch a woman in the face in front of her two children.
Wide Bay MP Llew O Brien has defended the practice of ministers stepping in on grant funding decisions, labelling it a bulwark against bureaucracy. His comments follow revelations more than one third of projects announced in one round of the federal government s Building Better Regions fund were approved despite not being recommended by the department. Documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act and reported on by the ABC reveal 112 of the 330 projects approved for the third round of the program were given the green light due to intervention by Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack and an unnamed group of government ministers.