A mother-of-two has died after her family ute with her husband and two young sons inside rolled while swerving to avoid an animal on a rural highway.
The 48-year-old s husband pulled her from the wreckage of their Mitsubishi Triton dual-cab on Wednesday morning and performed CPR but she could not be saved.
The family from Western Australia appeared to be on holiday when the tragic accident occurred on the Moonie Highway in Queensland s Western Downs.
The woman, her husband, sons aged six and nine, and two pet huskies were in the utility van towing a trailer, when it rolled several times before hitting a tree.
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In the interminable madness of Australia’s debate about energy politics, it has taken a Greens member of state parliament to cut through and demonstrate an understanding of technology and economics that appears beyond the major parties.
Queensland state Greens MP Michael Berkman said on Wednesday that the idea of spending hundreds of millions of dollars on replacing the destroyed coal power unit – as proposed by the state-owned CS Energy, and eagerly supported by both Labor and the LNP – was nuts.
“Spending $200 million on propping up coal would be throwing good money after bad,” Berkman told NCA NewsWire (owned by Murdoch media).
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The Banana Shire Council has debated whether or not to take part in a major climate resilience program.
Councillor Terri Boyce put forward a motion at the ordinary council meeting on May 24 that BSC should not participate in the Local Government Association of Queenslandâs Queensland Climate Resilient Councils program.
The program aims to help give councils and their staff the capacity to deal with the effects of climate change, and includes 46 other councils including Central Highlands, Gladstone, Western Downs and Mackay.
âLGAQ are going to the state and federal governments saying âlook, weâve got two-thirds of Queensland in this groupâ, and that puts more pressure on them to do what theyâre trying to do now,â Cr Boyce said.
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Inspiration abounds at Arts on Top
A creative crowd of more than 200 people converged on the Bunya Mountains to attend the first ever Arts on Top Regional Arts Forum earlier this month.
The Western Downs Regional Council initiative kicked off on Thursday 13 May and ran over three days, celebrating and exploring the role of arts in regional communities across Queensland.
Spokesperson for Community and Cultural Development Councillor Kaye Maguire said the forum was a great success which attracted creatives from across Queensland to discuss the important topic of art in regional communities.
“We have a rich and diverse community, and this forum was fantastic in the way that it provided us with the opportunity to unite our cultural residents with creatives from right across the state to explore different ideas and perspectives”, Cr Maguire said.
Initial reports suggested a transformer explosion knocked out Chinchilla’s power supply but the freaky reason related to the lunar eclipse has been revealed.