GAPDL targets ecotourism
Gladstone Area Promotion Development Limited is on the verge of being ecotourism accredited in a bid to clean up the city’s industrial powerhouse image...
Debate continues as Nuclear For Australia visits community
The nuclear debate is heating up around the country, with the Gladstone and Biloela communities receiving a visit from Nuclear for Australia experts, Dr...
Keep your eyes peeled when holidaying down south
With school holidays here local families heading south can join the fight against fire ants by 'looking snapping and reporting' fire ant nests.
“Over the...
Boy suffers leg injuries in motobike crash
On Sunday 23 June the RACQ CapRescue aeromedical team was tasked to Callemondah for a child who had a motorbike accident, falling about 10...
‘Catastrophic’ power plant explosion avoidable: report
A power plant explosion described as a "catastrophic missile event" could have been avoided, a long-awaited report has found.
Forensic engineer Sean Brady's draft independent...
Cost of renewables folly
As I drove out to Emerald last week to visit the AgGrow Field Day, I passed train after train full of coal. The coal...
Volunteering: A Catalyst for Positive Change and Role Model Behaviour
In an era marked by societal challenges and global crises, the act of volunteering emerges not only as a force for positive change but...
Lots of huge catches
Inshore
We have certainly had a cracking run of weather again this week and the weekend is also looking primo!
Plenty of really good sized...
All is not well on the farm
Australia’s most trusted rural charity has been urgently assisting farmers who are battling increased levels of mental ill-health in recent months.
Rural...
Curtis Island medical incidents
On Saturday 15 June, RACQ CapRescue was tasked to Curtis Island, where it was reported a woman in her eighties had collapsed.
Whilst attending a...
Home school ‘human right’
Democracy has come to the rescue of more than 2000 Bundaberg district home school students and their families.
The rescue came in the form of...
The standard you walk past
AgForce, on behalf of our members, industry and community has decided we cannot collectively walk past the prospect of the Great Artesian Basin (GAB)...
Join the investigation to protect the bush we love
Here in Gladstone, we know how important the natural world is. Whether it is our coastline, our bushland, our creeks or the wildlife that...
