Articles

  • 1 week ago | abc.net.au | Vanessa Jarrett |Ellie Willcox

    A $1 billion wind farm earmarked for Central Queensland has been axed by Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie, using ministerial powers. The Greenleaf Renewables development was to include 88 wind turbines and a battery energy storage system over 24 parcels of land at Morinish, 40 kilometres out of Rockhampton, with a capacity of 450 megawatts to generate energy for 260,000 homes annually.

  • 2 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Vanessa Jarrett

    Pilot Emma McDonald fires up the engine to her stunt plane, getting ready to take off from a narrow grass runway at a tiny country air show in Central Queensland. It might not look like a high-end airport, but her performance is something only high-flying pilots can manage. Her flips, rolls and dives are performed at a top speed of 350 kilometres an hour and at 400 degrees a second in her Extra EA-300 monoplane.

  • 1 month ago | abc.net.au | Vanessa Jarrett

    The heritage-protected Rockhampton Railway Workshops have been selected as the site for an Olympic Games athletes village. The project will be exempt from planning laws, putting the railway roundhouse at risk. The athletes village is to be turned into legacy housing after the Games. The future of one of a rare railway roundhouse hangs in the balance with a central Queensland rail workshop set to house 1,200 athletes and support crew for the 2032 Olympic Games.

  • 1 month ago | abc.net.au | Vanessa Jarrett

    Origin Energy is expanding its retail electricity offering to six regional Queensland areas. Those areas have previously had one choice of electricity provider. An expert says competition could benefit regional consumers. An energy provider says it will move into six regional Queensland cities to introduce competition, potentially lowering power bills.

  • 1 month ago | abc.net.au | Vanessa Jarrett

    As property prices continue to skyrocket across most of Australia, there are still pockets of cheap homes in regional communities. The small town of Cracow is off the beaten track between Eidsvold and Theodore in the Banana Shire, 500 kilometres north-west of Brisbane. Four homes sold in the township last year for between $83,000 and $170,000.

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