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Energex has restored power to more than 1000 homes and businesses across the Sunshine Coast over the past 24 hours but more than 150 customers remain cut off.
Boaties to sneak out on water before wind fires up Keen young angler Riley Kirk used fresh squid to land this lovely fingermark fishing up in North Queensland. Picture: Scott Hillier
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Conditions
It looks like the offshore boaties will get a chance to sneak out on Saturday before the wind gets up Sunday. Be sure to keep an eye on the latest forecast.
Species on the chew
There has been a really good early season run of snapper out in the deeper water around the Barwon Banks and the Hards.
Floating whole pilchards or squid down on a running ball sinker rig should do the trick.
The federal government is poised to tip in half the cash for a major upgrade of one of the region’s worst intersections.
The Coast’s budget windfall was revealed by Federal MPs Ted O’Brien and Andrew Wallace ahead of Tuesday night’s federal budget.
The Morrison Government will allocate $160 million, half of the $320 million required to deliver the long-awaited Mooloolah River Interchange.
Fairfax MP Ted O’Brien said the interchange was a state government responsibility, but the federal government was stepping in after “too much talk and too little action”.
The state government has spent $7.5 million on a detailed business case with the preferred option including: