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Subscriber only A Mackay takeaway shop has recorded its âbusiest everâ Good Friday in 10 years â serving up more than 800 orders to the hungry masses.
Vellaâs Fish Bar on Sydney Street sold 1480 pieces of fish, 465 kgs of chips, 760 potato scallops and 280 prawn cutlets on Friday as a line of hungry customers snaked out the door and down the street.
Owner Judith Fenech said staff were smashed with orders from 10.30am to 8pm.
The shop was so buzzing with customers and orders that it even blew a fuse.
âA fuse in a power pole blew about 7pm and we had to call Ergon,â Ms Fenech said.
Mackay small business financial counsellor Kristy Wilson. Picture: Contributed
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A small business financial counsellor is urging small and family businesses in Mackay to seek help urgently if they deferred debt during the pandemic.
Financial management expert Kristy Wilson encouraged businesses owners to be on the front foot so they can survive the next 12 months.
The Rural Financial Counselling Service North Queensland is funded through the state and federal governments to provide small business financial counsellors in Mackay, Whitsunday,
Townsville, Cairns and Western Queensland.
They can provide help to small businesses at risk of financial hardship for free.
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Subscriber only At just 21 years old, Damien van dan Merwe has taken a leap of faith by opening the unorthodox Renegade Barber on the outskirts of Paget. Mr van dan Merwe said he was passionate about providing on point cuts, a complete opposite from his early experiments in the profession. Five or six years ago, my mate wanted a haircut back home in South Africa, Mr van dan Merwe said. He went to a boarding school and they were pretty strict with their hair ⦠but he desperately needed this haircut. I went, All right ; I sat him down on a little chair outside and I cut his hair.
Dawson MP George Christensen has launched an inquiry into what he calls the hypocrisy of the big banks and insurance services. He is calling for businesses in the resources sector who have fallen victim to ethical decisions from banks and insurance companies pulling back from the coal sector to come forward and tell their stories. What we re hearing out of the sector is that insurers are saying if you ve got so much of your business in thermal coal mining, we don t want to insure you anymore, he said Why? These are lawful, law-abiding businesses and they are having these services withdrawn from them, pretty arbitrarily, simply because these financial service providers - banks and insurers - somehow think there s an ethical issue involved.