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Alarm bells are ringing for five key Lockyer Valley towns as details of the Inland Rail project come to light.
A good night’s sleep will be hard to come by for 4500 homes between Grantham, Helidon, Laidley, Forest Hill and Gatton, a study has found.
A draft environmental impact statement has revealed noise from the double-stacked freight trains will impact 175 houses.
But that number is expected to soar as the population continues to boom, with the World Health Organisation predicting 4500 homes by 2040.
Lockyer mayor Tanya Milligan said the impact of the Helidon to Calvert line would be “devastating for many in the region”.
Jockey Evans makes triumphant return home Jockey Nathan Evans was all smiles after winning the 2021 Rocky Amateurs Cup. Photo Tony McMahon.
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Toowoomba jockey Nathan Evans made a triumphant return home when he landed imposing grey Factory Warrior ($5) a narrow winner of the $30k Rocky Amateurs Cup (1600m) at
Rockhampton’s Callaghan Park races on Saturday.
On a busy 10-race card where exciting and close finishes dominated, Factory Warrior won by a half-head from an unlucky and fighting Mr Phenomenal ($13) with The Tax Accountant ($4.40) a nose away third.
Factory Warrior is trained in Toowoomba, where Evans has been based for well over a decade by Mark Currie.
This Robertson house is listed for $2.95 million Much like the rest of Brisbane, house prices in Robertson are soaring, with the median house price hitting $973,813 in the March quarter, a rise of 2.5 per cent. But the data shows that the average homeowner hangs onto their property for 19 years. Owners in the seaside hamlet of Lucinda (Townsville) and the rural locality of Buccan (Logan-Beaudesert) are also reluctant to leave, holding onto their homes for an average of 18 years, according to the data. Median house values in Lucinda sit at an affordable to $305,000, but those values have risen by 17.3 per cent over the year on the back of 15 sales.
Parts of Queensland are being warned of severe thunderstorms, damaging wind and large hail as rain and storms sweep across the nation s east coast.
South-eastern parts of the state will be worst affected, with a severe weather warning issued at 10am this morning and in place until midnight.
Forecasters are warning the deluge could cause flash flooding, with some parts of Brisbane and the Gold Coast already seeing up to 20mm of rain this morning and isolated areas up to 50mm.
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Golf ball-sized hail was reported last night at Toowoomba Wellcamp Airport and Helidon, west of Brisbane.
Other parts of the east coast will also see the rain and storms over the next few days.
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TREASURER Josh Frydenberg will hand down the federal budget next week and we will learn how much money will flow for infrastructure, upgrades and other programs in Ipswich.
Ahead of the budget, the QT asked all of the cityâs elected representatives what they believed to be the priority projects in their patches.
As the fastest growing city in Queensland, Ipswich desperately needs the infrastructure to keep up the expected population growth with the total number of residents set to more than double to 558,000 in the next 20 years.
Hereâs what they said:
FEDERAL MEMBER FOR BLAIR SHAYNE NEUMANN (LABOR)