Initial Term 2 school arrangements announced
Queensland school students will be learning at home for the first five weeks of Term 2, with schools only open for the children of...
Final councillor result declared by Electoral Commission
Three 2016-2020 term councillors, one former deputy mayor and four new council faces will join new Southern Downs Regional Council Mayor Vic Pennisi in...
No councillor ballot declaration as yet
Southern Downs Mayor-elect Vic Pennisi and the likely successful new councillors are continuing to wait for a formal declaration of the councillor result in...
Local Drought Committee to meet ‘by end of April’
Queensland Agriculture Minister Mark Furner says the Southern Downs and Granite Belt region’s Local Drought Committee (LDC) is still expected to meet by the...
Protection for retail, commercial tenants: State Govt
Queensland Deputy Premier and Treasurer Jackie Trad says commercial and retail tenants “will be protected from evictions under a series of measures to protect...
Business operators urged to register for JobKeeper
The Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman Kate Carnell has welcomed the JobKeeper legislation passed by the federal government overnight with payments to...
Condamine River Road closed until further notice
The Southern Downs Regional Council says due to the current pandemic COVID-19 and non-essential movement restrictions required by the State and Federal Governments the...
Charges follow major drug operation in region
Darling Downs detectives have charged 42 people with 194 offences following the closure of a Southern Downs drug operation.
A Queensland Police media bulletin issued...
Bartley says ‘greater transparency’ is his priority
Ross Bartley says he is both surprised and gratified with the strong showing of support he has received in the councillor ballot for the...
Facetime ‘the new real time’ during COVID-19
Darling Downs Health says ‘Facetime is the new real time’ while it continues to protect vulnerable patients across its region’s hospitals – including Warwick...
Looking back: The ‘Spanish Flu’ pandemic…
A century ago the world was confronted with its last pandemic – the somewhat wrongly-named ‘Spanish Flu’. Wallangarra in our own region was the...
Market in the Mountains on hold
Organisers of Stanthorpe’s Market in the Mountains say in the interests of safety for all concerned and the Australian effort to slow the spread...
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Curbing coercive control
Fourteen years in prison! That’s how serious coercive control is.
It’s a form of domestic violence. The Queensland Government passed laws on 6 March this...
