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Richmond Field Days 2019 president Will Guy with secretary Kacie Lord in the display area. Picture: Scott Radford-Chisholm

Richmond Field Days kicks off

Hayley Kennedy

Over 300 guests crammed the Shire Hall for dinner.

Cattleman's Dinner gets Cloncurry Show off to great start

Derek Barry

DAGWOOD DAYS: Charlie Bible (right) gets into the good stuff at Cloncurry Show with Lillian McRae. Photos: Derek Barry

All the fun of the Cloncurry Show

Derek Barry

More police officers trained for using the SSUV

More police officers trained for using the SSUV

Aimee Sewell

Courtney Harvey, Shannon Harvey and Lili Grimaldi at the 2018 Cloncurry Show.

Cloncurry and District Show kick starts today

Samantha Walton

Former Camooweal police officer Daniel Allan Baker was refused bail in Mount Isa Magistrates Court on Friday.

Former cop Dan Baker refused bail

Samantha Walton

Mount Isa's Supercheap Auto site up for auction on July 5.

Mount Isa's Supercheap Auto site up for auction

Richmond Field Days 2019 president Will Guy with secretary Kacie Lord in the display area. Picture: Scott Radford-Chisholm

Richmond Field Days kicks off

Hayley Kennedy

Over 300 guests crammed the Shire Hall for dinner.

Cattleman's Dinner gets Cloncurry Show off to great start

Derek Barry

Over 300 guests crammed the Shire Hall for dinner.

Cattleman's Dinner gets Cloncurry Show off to great start

Mary, Nat and Darlene get ready to enter the 2018 race meeting.

Birdsville Races tickets now on sale

Cody Moore in action in junior breakaway roping.

Cody Moore is ready for Australian Professional Rodeo Juniors finals

Derek Barry

TEE OFF: There will be a junior clinic at Mount Isa Golf Club on Thursday July 27 from 8:30-9:30am.

Outback masters releases junior clinic schedule

Derek Barry

Mary, Nat and Darlene get ready to enter the 2018 race meeting.

Birdsville Races tickets now on sale

The Mount Isa Mongrels were crowned the Queensland Police plate trophy winners.

Mount Isa Police rugby league team takes out state championship

Aimee Sewell

Junior competitors set off in the 2018 Porcupine Gorge Challenge.

Porcupine Gorge Challenge is set for Saturday

Derek Barry

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The Aussie FMX Team are coming to Cloncurry for the Show.

Aussie FMX to entertain at the Cloncurry Show

Derek Barry

Taron Egerton in Rocketman.

REVIEW
Hello yellow brick road: Rocketman fires on screen

Derek Barry

Austen Tayshus plays free gig at the Irish Club this weekend

Derek Barry

The Aussie FMX Team are coming to Cloncurry for the Show.

Aussie FMX to entertain at the Cloncurry Show

Nicki Gillis will perform Carole King's Tapestry at Mount Isa Morning Melodies in July.

Nicki Gillis to entertain at Morning Melodies in July

The Mount Isa Irish Club Eisteddfod is outback Queensland's largest and most diverse youth performing arts challenge.

Mount Isa Irish Club Eisteddfod kicks off Friday

Plentiful: Main Pavilion exhibitions include poultry, cattle yards, Main Arena and the many and varied entries in the wide range of sections and competitions.

Four decades of successful shows

Joanne Moffatt

Bikers: Aussie FMX

Cloncurry show has big star attractions

LIGHT FANTASTIC: Chase the Northern Lights or the Auroroa Borealis with The Senior and Travelrite on this Nordic cruise in February 2020.

Join us on Northern Lights cruise

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Plentiful: Main Pavilion exhibitions include poultry, cattle yards, Main Arena and the many and varied entries in the wide range of sections and competitions.

Four decades of successful shows

Ballarat man Lindsay, 69, has been delighted with the service Pennytel has delivered saying, "I won't go with anyone else 'cause I'm happy - you won't get better."

Old-fashioned service brings satisfaction with a smile

SERVICE PLUS: When it comes to telephone companies, 80-year-old Ballarat man Donald cares primarily about two things, an affordable plan and good old fashioned customer service. Advertiser content for Pennytel.

A company that cares

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All decked out for views

All decked out for views

Mount Isa's Supercheap Auto site up for auction on July 5.

Mount Isa's Supercheap Auto site up for auction

Prairie: Boronta Park has sold for $1.65 million, soon after a Ray White Rural auction.

NQ's Boronta Park makes $246/acre

Mark Phelps

More police officers trained for using the SSUV

More police officers trained for using the SSUV

Aimee Sewell

Courtney Harvey, Shannon Harvey and Lili Grimaldi at the 2018 Cloncurry Show.

Cloncurry and District Show kick starts today

Samantha Walton

BIRD'S EYE VIEW: The lunar module being tested in Earth orbit during Apollo 9. The gold-coloured material is a man-made polymer coated with aluminium. The probes dangling from the footpads were to sense the Moon’s surface during touchdown and signal the crew to shut off the descent engine. Pictures: NASA

A fragile chariot for a flight into history

Helen Sim

More police officers trained for using the SSUV

More police officers trained for using the SSUV

Recognition: 2019 Australian of the Year Award recipients. Photo: Salty Dingo

Nominate an Australian of the Year

GENEROUS: Mount Isa Harley Owners Group assistant director David Schraag and treasurer Russell Holdsworth hand over the cheque to Sisters of the North founder Susan Dowling. Photo: Samantha Walton.

Mount Isa HOGs donate $3500 to Sisters of the North

Samantha Walton

Over 300 guests crammed the Shire Hall for dinner.

Cattleman's Dinner gets Cloncurry Show off to great start

DAGWOOD DAYS: Charlie Bible (right) gets into the good stuff at Cloncurry Show with Lillian McRae. Photos: Derek Barry

All the fun of the Cloncurry Show

The burgers are better at Buchanan Park for the Gallagher family.

Beef, Beach and Beats a hit for Queensland Day

Luxury: Merewether's The Beach House has been listed online as a luxury weekender with ocean views since December, 2016, but its path to development approval via the Land and Environment Court has been stormy.

Sex on the deck at beach rental has neighbours seeing red

Lake Eyre comes to life as the water floods into the desert

Lake Eyre comes to life as the water floods into the desert

Megan Dingwall

Group photo.

All our photos from the Mount Isa Cup Day

Derek Barry

An aerial view of the completed lake before any water began flowing. Pictures supplied.

Water flows for Hughenden lake

Sally Cripps

Ruben, 2, pictured with his mother Natasha Scott. Source: Facebook

Missing Kowanyama toddler now presumed dead by police

Derek Barry

Management issues: Treasurer Josh Frydenberg, left, and Prime Minister Scott Morrison are facing calls to implement significant economic reforms to ward of the threat of a global downturn.

'Miracle man' faces economic reform test

Robert Carling

Stiltwalkers entertain at Cloncurry Show.

Cloncurry Show brings the smiles back to town

Derek Barry

We need to guide more young women into engineering

OPINION
We need to guide more young women into engineering

Dr Bianca Capra

How Barry foiled the scammers, and you can too

How Barry foiled the scammers, and you can too

Why aged care needs to change its position on residents' sex lives

Why aged care needs to change its position on residents' sex lives

Rowan Cowley

University of Melbourne Associate Professor Peter van Wijngaarden (left) with CERA's Dr Xavier Hadoux.

Simple eye test could soon detect early signs of Alzheimer's

Geraldine Cardozo

The South Australian pig shed where a European backpacker was chained up and raped over two days.

Backpacker hostage outsmarts SA attacker

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Some residents of the damaged Mascot Towers will be allowed briefly in to collect personal effects.

Cracked Sydney tower remains in lockdown

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Two of Victoria's crossbench want the parliament to explore lifting bans on nuclear activities.

Victorian crossbenchers go nuclear

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A think tank says the government's tax cuts plan will give men double the benefits women will get.

Tax cuts entrench inequality, study shows

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Former Victoria Police officer Paul Dale will appear again before the Lawyer X inquiry.

Paul Dale to reappear at Lawyer X inquiry

Christine McGinn
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Peter Wagner says he immediately knew something was suspicious about his brother's disappearance.

Qld murder accused lied about police call

Aaron Bunch
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A move in 2010 to un cap the university places resulted in only a small increase in students.

University for all meets mixed success

Katina Curtis

Income tax cuts and lower interest rates are expected to bring some relief to struggling retailers.

Tax, rate cuts to aid struggling retailers

Marnie Banger

Richmond Field Days 2019 president Will Guy with secretary Kacie Lord in the display area. Picture: Scott Radford-Chisholm

Richmond Field Days kicks off

Hayley Kennedy

TAKING A STAND: ICPA Queensland president Tammie Irons. Photo: Jessica Johnston.

Fight for equitable education funding

Jessica Johnston

Vicki and Geoff Toomby, with horses Poppy and Dash, gave equine and animal welfare demonstrations at the Rotary FNQ Field Days.

Horsing around at Mareeba

Jessica Johnston

THE MAN: Richard Boyce and Cruise Express has injected some $3 million into the coffers of various rail-restoration societies.

Riding the rails - the slow and steady way

John Rozentals

Compass Hut engages the five senses. Image: Kylie Bell

Planning your next holiday? Check out these deals

John Rozentals

TRADITIONAL DRESS: Travel writer Jac Taylor after a spontaneous makeover in Shuzenji, central Japan. Photo: Supplied

Spontaneous makeovers in Japan, bar fights in Dublin and cycling Belgium: these solo travellers have seen it all

Dayle Latham

NOT HELPING: By the time your body gets around to burning food calories, it stores the extra calories you've eaten as fat cells. Photo: Shutterstock.

Is there room for wine in your diet?

Linda Lambrechts

Depending on the extent of the flooding, you may require pumps to help remove trapped water and clear pools that may have formed.

What to do if your house is flooded

Braiden Fitzsimmons.

'I knew teenage girls did it': male eating disorders are on the rise

Sarah Berry