Obviously the biggest event of the weekend is yesterday’s Anzac Day.

Our apologies for not having a gallery of photographs from the day in this edition.

Our print deadline for Tuesday’s paper is noon on Monday so the papers can get to Mount Isa on the afternoon flight.

That means we don’t have the time to bring you as much coverage as we would have liked in this edition.

However you can see a full photo gallery of Mount Isa and Cloncurry Anzac Day events online on Tuesday and see a selection of our photos in Thursday’s print edition.

Elsewhere in the region the other major events over the long weekend were the Crocodile Dundee Fest in McKinlay and the Mount Isa Music Fest.

There were some complaints early in the piece about the clash but in the end both events were well-supported.

In McKinlay hats off – sorry, Akubras off – must go to the organising committee and Walkabout Creek publicans Frank and Debbie Worth.

They put on a great festival and a wonderful parade which held up what little traffic was going through the Landsborough Hwy.

It’s a shame neither Paul Hogan nor Linda Kozlowski could attend but the likeable Ernie Dingo was there to recount his memories from the film, which has become an icon of Australian cinema.

Even my own daughter who has shown little interest in her father’s goings-on in Mount Isa was entranced to hear about the Croc Fest.

It really is a movie that captured the imagination and it’s wonderful that we have such an important part of it here in the north-west.

Congratulations also to organisers of the Mount Isa Music Festival.

They took a calculated gamble this year and did not bring any headline acts from out of town, instead relying on our local talent.

In some respects they had no choice having run the festival at a big loss in previous years.

But it paid off with great local acts providing top entertainment quality.

Derek Barry