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Premium Content Subscriber only A new competition will reward two lucky fishers a $500 Tackle World Mackay voucher to celebrate the official opening of barramundi season. Mackay Tourism and Mackay Regional Council have teamed up to entice locals and visitors to head out on the water and share a photo of their catch for a chance to win. You can fish in the ocean or at any of Mackay’s three stocked impoundments at Kinchant, Teemburra and Eungella dams. Mackay Tourism CEO Tas Webber said he hoped the Best Barra Competition would build fishing tourism and increase exposure for the Hooked on Mackay campaign. ....
WHEN borders were slammed shut, all eyes were on the industry that props up many people across the Whitsundays and Mackay. The tourism sector was left reeling with lockdowns and travel bans in what was a make or break situation. However, with the push to holiday here and immense support from Aussies chasing their share of the Queensland sun, things are looking brighter ahead of 2021. Tourism Whitsunday CEO Tash Wheeler said businesses had battled through yet another hurdle this year after an already tough time for the industry post-Cyclone Debbie. When you look around the world at what has occurred, I think our region has done particularly well (for) the most part, she said. ....
Almost half the drivers who died on Mackay roads in five years were under the influence of alcohol or illegal drugs. That is the stark reality revealed in the University of the Sunshine Coast s Road Safety Research Collaboration study into fatal crashes in Queensland from 2011 to 2015. Professor Jeremy Davey said data suggested drink-driving and drug-driving fatalities were higher for rural and regional areas like Mackay. Last week on Mackay region roads, police stopped 17 alleged drug-drivers and 14 alleged drink-drivers, Acting Senior Sergeant Daniel Goldburg of Mackay Road Policing Unit said. The figure is almost double the average of 9-10 drug-drivers charged per week in the Mackay district last year. ....
Premium Content Subscriber only What a massive year it has been for the Mackay region with COVID-19 and the local and state elections undoubtedly the guiding forces. With that there has been a renewed vigour on speaking out on the issues that mattered. So without further ado, here are some of the Mackay region personalities who featured in the headlines throughout 2020:
Vicki Blackburn Vicki Blackburn, a mum plagued by what ifs since her daughter was brutally killed in Mackay almost seven years ago, has never stopped fighting for justice. She started off 2020 by hosting an awareness morning tea before she bravely pushed through the findings of an inquest into Shandee Blackburn s death in which the coroner found John Peros responsible. ....
Premium Content Subscriber only The flight between Brisbane and Mackay was identified as the fourth most popular route in Australia during September. An Airline Competition in Australia report released this month showed five mining centres, four regional, in recorded the most flights that month. Brisbane to Cairns and Townsville took the top two positions, Karratha to Perth was third, followed by Brisbane to Mackay and then Broome to Perth. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission report compared September 2019 with September 2020 and found a stark difference. The usual ‘golden triangle’ of flights in Australia’s southeast has fallen away with COVID border restrictions. ....