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Wallaby Creek Festival 2025

"This year we have a full line-up of 30 acts for the stages, a Youth program, a Children's Festival program and Workshops! Cape York Folk Club Inc. are proud to present headliners like Anthony Forrest, Fat Picnic and Kingfisha, who will have the crowd pumping to sublime reggae, dub and modern rock!

Queensland leads the charge with Australia’s first vanadium battery supply chain: Bates, Last

...Using vanadium sourced from Julia Creek, the Townsville facility will anchor a pit-to-port product manufacturing chain, supplying vanadium flow batteries for global energy storage markets. The project is expected to support nearly 600 jobs across North and North West Queensland, with early works scheduled for 2026 and operations to commence in early 2028.

Buyers respond well to sale

NIOA Santa Gertrudis GM Shannon Gardner rated the 2025 draft as "the best line of bulls we've had by far." Forty-two sons of $250,000 Yarrawonga Spartacus S316 (P) and $160,000 Riverina Roland Sanchez R88 (PP) headed up the 68 catalogued Classified S bulls.

Bank expands with Toowoomba branch

Darling Downs Bank has opened a new branch in Toowoomba with a launch party to welcome customers held on Monday of this week. The branch is located at Toowoomba Plaza and, being at the southern end of Ruthven Street, it is easily accessible...

Regional Australia continues to attract metro movers amid national slowdown: RAI, CBA

NSW border town of Albury experienced a 16-fold increase in net migration from capitals in the year to June 2025. Regional Australia remains a strong draw for city dwellers, with 26 per cent more people relocating from capital cities to regional areas than vice versa, according to the June Quarter Regional Mover Index (RMI).

Community centered farm ownership in the Atherton Tablelands

Sam Marwood, the Founder and Managing Director of Cultivate Farms, reports on the information session held at Malanda Dairy Centre in the Atherton Tablelands. ARR.News found out some more about the sharefarming concept from Sam ... "The ultimate aim is to empower aspiring farmers to own profitable farms, revitalise regional communities, and create sustainable, profitable agriculture across Australia."

71st Giru Show, 13 September 2025

Giru Agricultural, Horticultural and Industrial Society Inc The 71st Giru Show Returns this September The annual Giru Show will roll into town for one action...

Climbing cattle prices fuelled by restocking for Spring: ANZ

Cattle prices have risen solidly across all categories, supported by recent rainfall across southern Australia and strong demand from northern lot feeders. ANZ’s latest Agri InFocus report highlights the Female Slaughter Rate (FSR) as a key indicator of destocking activity over the past year, and the resulting surge in restocker demand.

Producer data cannot be compromised

With calls this week from green groups for supermarket chains to have access to our national traceability system, AgForce Cattle President Lloyd Hick reassures members that AgForce resolutely stands against this or any proposal for broader access to producer data. This comes after Coles announcing its move to source deforestation-free beef by the end of the year…

Machinery galore at National Rally

The 19th NHMA National Machinery Rally, Australia’s largest display of working heritage equipment, and the Steaming Under the Southern Cross event took place at Kingsthorpe last week.

River ‘staircases’ to help our fish stocks climb

A fin-tastic new project is set to bring more fish swimming into Sunshine Coast rivers ... Two new fishways will be installed on Petrie Creek, providing vital passage for a variety of native fish.

Indigenous community and Bendigo’s last remote bank on hit list

Bendigo Bank closed its last remaining banking service in an Aboriginal community 27 days before celebrating the launch of its Aboriginal Reconciliation Action Plan. The Aurukun agency in far north Queensland was one of 27 to be closed in 2022-2023 under the eye of the bank’s now chief executive Richard Fennell when he was in charge of the consumer banking division.

Combination scores again at Ekka

Allora stud breeders Steve Hayward and Kelly Smith have continued their run of success with a series of wins at the 2025 Ekka in Brisbane. The success for their K5X Stud came with Black and Red Angus exhibits.

Wattles Under 15 Girls Grand Final bound

Glyn Rees. It was all one-way traffic at Goondiwindi’s’ Gilbert Oval on Saturday when Wattles’ Under 15 Girls League Tag team racked up ten tries to overwhelm a gallant Goondiwindi lineup 54 - nil and cement a run-on spot in this coming Saturday’s Grand Final against the Stanthorpe Gremlins in Warwick.

Statement from the Queensland Attorney-General

I have today instructed the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions to lodge an appeal against a sentence handed down in the Roma District Court ... Floyd Norman Daniel was convicted of multiple offences, including assault occasioning bodily harm (domestic violence) and committing a malicious act with intent.

Government ordered to release Defence helicopter crash investigation: Roberts

The Government has been ordered to release an investigation into the Whitsundays helicopter crash that killed four Defence Force airmen. One Nation Senator Malcolm Roberts secured a Senate order to have the national workplace health and safety regulator (Comcare) brief of evidence and investigation into the Taipan helicopter crash released.

Major gift brings saddlery to life

A philanthropic gift to Toowoomba's Cobb+Co Museum has helped bring to life a new exhibition honouring the craftsmanship, legacy, and future of saddlery. Garth and Sandra Delbridge alongside The Saddlery exhibition at Cobb+Co Museum.

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