March 27, 2026

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Hi lovely readers!

Last week, you would have seen our wonderful new journo Suz make an appearance here. She’ll be helping out with stories for Mackay, and even travelling up and down the coast to cover events with me from time to time.

During last week’s print deadline, I was headed up to Airlie Beach to work for the day… but unfortunately, I blew out two tyres after hitting a humongous pothole and was stranded on the side of the road for a few hours until my beautiful husband came to the rescue!

Suz thankfully stepped in and wrote her wonderful note here.

Since then, it’s been a big week. The next day, the Life Publishing team spent the day on a wonderful boat out to Whitehaven Beach, where we were able to relax, snorkel and enjoy a bit of team bonding, which carried over into Friday as we learned all about our unique personalities.

Then on Friday afternoon, I raced back to Mackay to celebrate Adam’s Citizenship Ceremony at the MECC. Although he was born in Indonesia, he’s now officially a full-blown Aussie!

We also took lots of photos together at the ceremony with Mayor Greg Williamson, Federal Member for Dawson Andrew Willcox MP, and Member for Mackay Nigel Dalton, who kindly included our photo in his monthly ‘Note from Nigel’, which you can read on page 5.

Scripture of the week: Jesus said: “He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” - John