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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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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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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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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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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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Club Championship Final Fours: Winners L. McCarthy, J. Schmidtke, M. Bartolo and Anne Peet.
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The favourite creative collective known affectionately as the Briefs Boys are back at the Mackay Entertainment and Convention Centre this April, and this time they have a hills hoist in tow and are ready to air their Dirty Laundry.
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A notable selection of key Clermont characters will have their prolific lives showcased in a new exhibition in the Isaac region.
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Do you have a legendary neighbour? Mackay Regional Council wants you to let them know!
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