Former Mount Isan leads prime minister's COVID-19 taskforce

Derek Barry
Updated May 1 2020 - 8:35am, first published 1:30am
Former Mount Isa boy Neville Power is head of a national emergency commission to handle the pandemic crisis.
Former Mount Isa boy Neville Power is head of a national emergency commission to handle the pandemic crisis.

A former Mount Isa Mines fitter and turner has been tasked with the responsibility of leading Australia's national emergency commission to handle the COVID-19 crisis.

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Derek Barry

Derek Barry

Editor, the North West Star

Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.

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