Rockhampton, Australia News

A Central Queensland livestock agent warns if live exports slow down due to the rising Australian dollar, cattle prices could come back dramatically in southern centres.

North and central Queensland club managers have been put on notice by the Fair Work ombudsman after employees were found to have been underpaid almost $350,000 in the past two years.

Jones et al 1986 looked at 86 Australian stations and rejected 46 . Of the 40 they used 27 were short term and 13 long term.

POLICE could hardly believe their eyes when they arrived at a Rockhampton river to arrest a man who drove his car on a train track across a 500m bridge before getting stuck halfway.

A RETAIL war is raging in the shops and main streets of small-town Queensland. Supermarket giants Coles and Woolworths have launched a legion of legal applications to overturn long-standing Sunday trading bans across the state.

THE Committee for Portland is confident last minute lobbying might save the Portland Aluminium smelter from being disadvantaged under the Federal Government's proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme.

THE electrocution of a second Queenslander has cast further doubt over the adequacy of training for workers fitting insulation under the Federal Government's controversial rebate scheme.

A 16-year-old boy has died in a workplace accident from an apparent electric shock.

From the YouTube description: "I recorded this from the Greyhound bus on our way from Airlie Beach to Hervey Bay, believe it was close to Rockhampton.

AN evacuation is under way just west of Gympie as a raging bushfire closes in on homes in the small township of Glastonbury.

The owner of the Heritage Hotel, one of the establishments in question, says no one would be banned solely for their race.

Tiger Airways has announced plans to start offering flights between Rockhampton and Brisbane.

Four Australian men are to appear in court after allegedly being found naked in a car wash by a police patrol.

TONY EASTLEY: A group of young Sudanese refugees in the central Queensland city of Rockhampton say they're being victimised because of their race.

The Thoroughbred Breeders Association says governments need to help fund vaccines for the Hendra virus.

The Queensland Horse Council is urging the industry not to become complacent about hendra virus.

The RSPCA is investigating shootings of a kangaroo and a cat with arrows in the Rockhampton area in central Queensland.

QUEENSLAND'S 2009 road toll is rocketing towards 300 with another life lost in a car crash last night.

A QUICK punt in a country betting agency has left one of Queensland's most penalised jockeys in trouble.

CATHOLIC schools will close across Queensland today as teachers take to the streets over a pay dispute.