
No sweat: Western Qld cool with govt's sizzling summer rail sale
Plans are in train to attract more tourists to Western Queensland over summer, forging the region’s reputation as a genuine holiday hotspot.
Plans are in train to attract more tourists to Western Queensland over summer, forging the region’s reputation as a genuine holiday hotspot.
Some farm children are hearing rain on the roof for the first time in their lives, and now can’t get enough of mucking about in muddy puddles as western Queensland gets a good drenching.
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Unemployment fell in western Queensland during the early months of COVID-19, prompting the launch of a new website to fill more vacancies in our regional towns.
Locals say an unsealed section of a major inland trucking route is in desperate need of bitumen to boost outback towns, save millions and connect Queensland’s road network to the rest of the country through the south-west of the state.
As the Queensland economy banks on an agricultural “dining boom” to lead the state out of the pandemic doldrums, are we about to see an election campaign focused on the rural interior like never before? Brad Cooper reports
After their first decent rains following a decade of drought, farmers in Queensland’s west are now watching helplessly as green pastures are decimated by a grasshopper plague. Nicole Bond reports