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WATCH: Aussie FIFO workers on Bass Strait gas rig treated to whale of an ocean spectacle

Offshore mining workers in the Bass Strait capture remarkable moment huge humpback whale pod breaches beneath them.

WATCH: Goondiwindi big bash brings back local sport

Video story on the inaugural “Gundi BBL” a cricket big bash tournament at organised to bring the community back to local sport.

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.

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”

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