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Polocrosse players back in the saddle at Tara
THE thunder of horse hooves was music to the ears of polocrosse players enjoying the state’s first carnival since March.
LISTEN: Could you live on 40L a day? Rural Aid CEO discusses #FinishWaterWaste campaign
Nationwide campaign donates huge water volumes to drought-stricken communities.
Goondiwindi cricketers line up for inaugural Big Bash
Gundi cricketers find novel way to bring community and businesses back to local sport.
LISTEN: 2020 Walking Netball season runs its course
Chinchilla Lightning hosts Miles in the grand final to conclude another season of an increasingly popular women’s sport.
EXCLUSIVE: Coal seam gas water spills into farmland as Condamine River tributary Charleys Creek bubbles
SUBSURFACE water has been spurting from the ground and coal seam gas is bubbling in areas of the Condamine River catchment where it’s never been seen before.
COMMENT: Chinchilla’s first traffic light is a story fit for 2020
By HARRY CLARKE @harrytclarke 28 August 2020 The scenes unfolding on the Warrego Highway at Chinchilla this week would have Ludwig Leichhardt, the great German pioneer who charted the region in the 1830s, turning over in his far flung grave. Robert “Bushy” Johnston, the bearded and wheelchair-bound local legend who was forever parked at theContinue reading “COMMENT: Chinchilla’s first traffic light is a story fit for 2020”
Australia’s largest solar farm near Chinchilla to create 800 jobs
THE number of jobs expected to be created during construction of Australia’s largest solar farm has been significantly increased to as many as 800, the Caller can reveal. Construction of the 400MW so-called Western Downs Green Power Hub, being built 20km south east of Chinchilla, is slated to begin in October. Early surveying works atContinue reading “Australia’s largest solar farm near Chinchilla to create 800 jobs”
LISTEN: Country Caller speaks with David Littleproud
Federal government announces $400 million for higher education and riverbank restoration.
Restoring a Maranoa artwork the mayor “will never forget”
The mayor said he’d “never forget” the first time he saw the iconic painting.