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The Oceania Athletics Association (OAA) and the Oceania Paralympic Committee (OPC) are excited to announce that the Oceania Athletics Championships, to be held in Mackay, will incorporate the Oceania Para Athletics Championships.
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New Zealand Breakers big-man Kyrin Galloway has signed with the McDonald’s Mackay Meteors for the 2022 NBL1 season.
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Mackay Gymnastics has been successful with two of their senior athletes gaining selection to Senior State Team training. These two athletes, Oriana Morgan and Siena Carney, both Level 8 gymnasts, were selected on their high level of commitment to the sport and their individual training.
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It was a wet one at Denison Park in Bowen, with storm clouds rolling over the Whitsundays as well as the Mackay Cutters and Townsville Blackhawks during their warmups ahead of their third and final trial game.
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Last Friday was a great day for Rob Evans and Peter Horsburgh who teamed up for the pairs competition. Firstly, their card was drawn for the kitty toucher. Rob bowled first and sat on the kitty, giving them a win of $500 and that gave Peter a chance for another $500. His bowl also sat on the kitty, giving the boys $1,000; the first time at our club that two bowlers had touched the kitty.
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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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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 will play host to Australia’s most talented young cricketers at the Cricket Australia U19 Male National Championships in April.
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Nearly 70 runners partook in the Mackay Road Runners’ second club championship race of the year on Sunday.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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Today is World Sleep Day and I’m asking; did you get enough last night?
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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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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 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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Mackay Regional Council’s CEO Michael Thomson has extended his leave for three months due to a serious health battle.
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