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Age Is No Barrier On The Bowling Green

March 17, 2022

In their Under & Overs Carnival, ladies young and young at heart, not only battled fellow bowlers but also the humid conditions under the roof at Mackay City Bowling Club on Monday 7th March.

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Mooloolaba Triathlon A Great Success For Tri-Activ8

March 17, 2022

Mackay’s Tri-Activ8 has been kicking goals already this year, coming in tenth for the highest number of triathletes across all Australian Tri Clubs participating in the Sprint Distance, Olympic Distance and Team Triathlon events at last weekend’s Mooloolaba Triathlon Festival 2022.

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Mackay To Host Next Generation Of Cricket Greats

March 17, 2022

Mackay will play host to Australia’s most talented young cricketers at the Cricket Australia U19 Male National Championships in April.

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Road Runners Welcome Cooler Conditions In Second Club Championship

March 17, 2022

Nearly 70 runners partook in the Mackay Road Runners’ second club championship race of the year on Sunday.

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Event Guide

March 17, 2022

Friday 18 March Conversations with Art Third Friday of each month, 1:00pm to 2:30pm Join in the free and enjoyable discussion led by Artspace Mackay staff as they look at images of traditional and contemporary artworks from gallery and museum collections from around the world. Artspace Mackay

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Sing Loud And Proud With One Voice

March 17, 2022

Want to do something for yourself and something for the community? Then why not join With One Voice Choir in Mackay and surrounds.

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Guardian Point

March 17, 2022

It was International Women’s Day the other week and somehow that made me think of a comment that real estate agents sometimes hear from male buyers: “Mate, I love the property, but the missus doesn’t really like it.”

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Cave Diver Announced As Keynote Speaker For Youth Literary Festival

March 17, 2022

Whitsunday Anglican School has announced Dr Richard Harris SC OAM as their keynote speaker for the 2022 Whitsunday Voices Youth Literature Festival and Literary Dinner.

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Roadmap Launched To Build A Robust Region

March 17, 2022

Regional Development Australia Greater Whitsundays (RDA GW) celebrated a milestone in community development following the official launch of the Greater Whitsunday Regional Roadmap.

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Why Should You Attend The Regional Disability Expo?

March 17, 2022

In regional Queensland, people living with a disability and their carers struggle to find the same resources as those who live in larger cities.

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Mackay And Whitsunday Life Joins Media Flood Relief Campaign

March 17, 2022

Mackay and Whitsunday Life was quick to join the Queensland Country Press Association (QCPA) in joining forces with Vinnies Queensland to support thousands of Queenslanders affected by the recent floods.

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Sharing Dignity In Mackay Region Schools

March 16, 2022

The Share the Dignity vending machine has already been a huge success at Sarina State High School which has had one since 2020

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Graduate Nurses Complete Clinical Rotations

March 16, 2022

More than 50 nurses have celebrated 12 months on the job with the completion of the Mackay HHS 2021 Nursing and Midwifery Graduate Program.

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VMR Activates During Lightning, Rain Or Shine

March 16, 2022

On Friday Evening last week, VMR 448 Mackay received a call from a solo yachtie at Curlew Island, 50 miles Southeast of Mackay, who was having engine issues and due to wind direction unable to sail from his anchorage.

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How much sleep did you get last night?

March 16, 2022

Today is World Sleep Day and I’m asking; did you get enough last night?

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Have Your Say! Community Health Check In Wake Of COVID-19

March 16, 2022

The last time Mackay Regional Council’s Community Development Strategy was updated, it was 2017, and the region was just recovering from an economic downturn. Now, we’re dealing with a global pandemic.

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“You Retire From Work, Not From Life”

March 16, 2022

Mackay's University of the Third Age (U3A), part of a world-wide movement that began in France in 1973, is dusting off the books to restart its activities in the coming months.

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Four Arrested After Child Exploitation Investigation

March 16, 2022

Four men between the ages of 19 and 49 were arrested last week, after allegedly using social media to contact and groom child victims over a two-year period to produce and procure child exploitation material. It is also alleged that sexual offences including rape and deprivation of liberty were committed directly against children and that a girl as young as five was shown sexually explicit material.

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Council CEO On Leave Due To Bowel Cancer Battle

March 16, 2022

Mackay Regional Council’s CEO Michael Thomson has extended his leave for three months due to a serious health battle.

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SOS Answered! Council Crews Clean-up In Brisbane

March 16, 2022

Mackay Council crews have answered an SOS from Brisbane City Council to assist with the mammoth clean-up after the unprecedented floods a fortnight ago.

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Escaping Bullets And Bombs To Get To Mackay

March 16, 2022

It took Liudmyla Prymakova one whole week to flee from war-torn Ukraine to the Mackay heat. The 74-year-old Ukrainian woman braved streets under attack, crowded trains, and a sense of dread and uncertainty to arrive at her daughter’s North Mackay apartment earlier in the month.

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RISING STAR BIWALI BAYLES JOINS METEORS

March 10, 2022

Mackay Basketball are excited to announce that rising star Biwali Bayles will join the McDonald’s Mackay Meteors for the 2022 NBL1 season.

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On The Greens At Goosies

March 10, 2022

North Mackay Bowls Results 6th March

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It’s An Athletics Kind Of Year

March 10, 2022

The oldest operating athletics club in the region is excited for an enormous opportunity for its youngest athletes as talent scouts will soon be heading to Mackay and surrounds to identify potential future Olympians.

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North Mackay Ladies Bowls Results

March 10, 2022

Club Championship Final Fours: Winners L. McCarthy, J. Schmidtke, M. Bartolo and Anne Peet.

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