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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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More than 130 men and women filled the Mackay Turf Club on Saturday March 5 for the inaugural JSP Women's Awards. It was a celebration of women throughout the greater Whitsunday region with a diversity of women recognised for their community contributions.
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Residents of Slade Point are failing to stay up to speed in business with local residents saying they have been left with second rate phone and internet reception.
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The Member for Whitsunday, Amanda Camm MP, has secured an inquiry into island resort management across the state, with a particular concern for Keswick Island.
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Red Cat Adventures Director Asher Telford and Bowen Gumlu Growers Association General Manager Ry Collins have been appointed as directors to the Greater Whitsunday Alliance (GW3) Board, offering industry diversity to a strong business group.
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Mater is paving the way for Australian health organisations to reduce their environmental footprint by embedding renewable energy into its power contracts at its hospital campuses across Queensland.
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Police continue to search for missing 53-year-old Koumala woman Helen Barnett after her disappearance near her property on Turnors Paddock Road last month.
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It’s been a whole week now since masks came off. I don’t know about you, but I still have them in my bag and car. I still walk to the shops looking for mine before I enter and then have that moment of realisation that life is going back to normal again, or what everyone is calling it the ‘new normal’.
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One of Mackay’s largest retirement homes is set to almost double in size, with construction starting on a new four-level wing at Kerrisdale Gardens.
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Despite widespread advances in growing awareness and action around gender violence, its prevalence remains alarming. A universal scourge, there is a perception that the problem is ‘too big’ to fix.
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Wednesday afternoon bowls saw Andrew Butler and Tony Whitehorn defeat Russell Jackson and Bobby Spees.
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Pickleball in the region is soaring in popularity and this week was no different with new players on both Thursday afternoon and Saturday morning.
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