Health tax stoush
QUEENSLAND Shadow Health Minister Jo-Ann Miller has welcomed the LNP’s decision to rule out a new Tony Abbott-inspired tax on public hospital emergency departments.
Ms...
Orchards blitz
FAIR Work Ombudsman inspectors are visiting apple and pear orchards in the Granite Belt all this as part of an ongoing focus on seasonal...
Mayor back in the chair
By TANIA PHILLIPS
SOUTHERN Downs Regional Council mayor Peter Blundell is receiving treatment for his manageable
condition, sarcoidosis, but is back at work this week.
Speaking from...
Around the grounds
By TANIA PHILLIPS
Round the Grounds
Southern Cross Bowls Club
TWO competition games were played last Thursday. The pairs game was even up to the sixteenth end...
Road racing brings crowds
By TANIA PHILLIPS
THE Pirelli Southern Downs Road Race Series continued at Morgan Park Raceway, Warwick, at the weekend with round two hitting the track.
Competition...
Life in his hands
A TRUCKIE who plucked a baby from a burning car on the Cunningham Highway late last year has been honoured nationally by being named...
Good sports give their best
By JOYCE MARSH
WHEN a sequence of events touches your heart it makes one realise there are so many charitable people in our midst.
One such...
Collective moves forward
WARWICK Collective celebrated its incorporation at The Cherry Tree at its second community meeting.
President Elizabeth Ure said the incorporation and not-for-profit status allowed the...
Carers help Steve soar
A GOOD Samaritan, a caring vet and a group of animal welfare crusaders have combined to give an injured goshawk, nicknamed Steve, a new...
Zumba funds for cancer
By LIA SPENCER
THREE years ago, Ken Hartnett received the devastating news that he had prostate cancer.
Following the diagnosis, he had eight weeks of radiation...
Grand tour for Probus
SEVENTY Warwick Combined Probus Club members and guests boarded two coaches for a tour of the Wellcamp Airport construction site, Jondaryan Woolshed and the...
Laughs on the menu
THERE was a tasty breakfast, an interesting guest speaker and lots of laughs during the Women of Warwick breakfast meeting last week.
About 90 people...
Queensland rural confidence softens
Queensland rural confidence has dipped slightly in the most recent quarter, with the state’s primary producers reporting concern about the cost of inputs,
according to...
