Tia-Clair Toomey win inspires female lifters and other top stories.

• Tia-Clair Toomey win inspires female lifters

  

  After Tia-Clair Toomey’s fifth placing at the Rio Olympic Games last week, the Toowoomba Weightlifting Association is hopeful the inspirational Queenslander will help encourage more female athletes to pick up the sport. Having competed in the world cross fit games earlier this month, Tia-Clair is one of only several athletes to have come across to weightlifting from cross-fit, having been crowned the second fittest women in the world. Toowoomba Weightlifting Association coach Bowen Stuart is h..

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• Dairy farmers divided on whether baby milk formula factory could ...

  

  Dairy farmers divided on whether baby milk formula factory could rescue industry Posted August 15, 2016 06:47:35 South-east Queensland dairy farmers are divided over whether a baby milk formula factory in Toowoomba could save their flailing industry. Key points:Queensland dairy industry rapidly shrinking as "supermarkets dictate what the price will be"Infant milk formula factory a potential entry alternative to domestic and overseas marketsFarmers divided over whethe..

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• Bill Shorten considers Brisbane 2028 Olympic bid

  

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• Maths, story and dance: an Indigenous approach

  

  Maths, story and dance: an Indigenous approach to teaching Posted August 15, 2016 05:18:28 A new method using culture-based storytelling to teach maths to Aboriginal children is reaping results.Aboriginal school children on average lag two years behind their non-Indigenous peers when it comes to maths, but according to one expert we can bridge the gap by paying better attention to culture."Maths and science are very much seen, from an Aboriginal point of view, as a wh..

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• Thirst for engagement driving Glyde's MDBA decentralisation plan

  

  The Murray-Darling Basin Authority plans to expand its footprint to get closer to residents of the large water catchment area, but is taking a gradual approach to minimise disruption inside the agency and costs to taxpayers. New positions — regional engagement officers — are being established as the first step in a plan to get closer to the agency’s stakeholders, explained chief executive Phillip Glyde. “We will take our time to plan and get this right,” promised Glyde, an experienced public se..

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• 2016 Bond University Queensland Country squad announced ...

  

  Player Age Club Rep Honours Country Background Props Sef Fa’agase* 24 UQ ARU National Academy, Brisbane City NRC (2014), Queensland Country (2015), Reds, Reds A Queensland Country U19 representative Richie Asiata 20 Easts Queensland Schoolboys (2013, 2014), Australian Schools (2014), Queensland U20s (2016), Australia U20s (2016)   Taniela Tupou* 20 Brothers Tongan U14s, Pacific Barbarians (2014), Queensland Country (2015), Reds (2015-)   B..

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• Here's your chance to win a caravan worth $69990

  

  READERS of this website have the chance from today (Aug 15) to win a $69,990 caravan - thanks to our sister titles in the Seniors Newspaper Network. To celebrate the modern-day retirement lifestyle and the launch of new resorts at Cooroy-Noosa and Toowoomba, Palm Lake Resort has just released a set of fun stickers, perfect for the back of your car, caravan, RV (or anywhere for that matter!). Seniors News Network, owned by APN ARM, publisher of this masthead website, has partnered with P..

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• Another bank joins Apple Pay fray

  

  Heritage Bank has endorsed an application by some of the nation’s biggest banks lodged with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission that seeks the right to form a cartel to collectively negotiate with, and engage in a boycott of, mobile wallet providers including Apple, Google and Samsung.The Toowoomba-headquartered mutual bank is the biggest issuer of prepaid cards in Australia.Last month the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, National Australia Bank, Westpac, and Bendigo and Adelaide ..

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• Premiers right to fight Boom and Bust Barnett

  

  From The Australian: Malcolm Turnbull has picked another GST fight with premiers by promising Western Australia’s Liberal leader Colin Barnett that he would fix the formula so that each state was guaranteed a minimum share of their biggest source of tax revenue. The Prime Minister’s commitment, made at the WA Liberal Party’s state conference on the weekend, was intended to assuage concerns that the state was not getting its fair share of the goods and services tax, but the proposal immediately ..

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• Herb farmers in high spirits

  

  THE sun is slowly setting, causing long shadows to stretch across the bare earth as a hissing sound emanates from a nearby tap. “Ah bugger, we’ve got a leak.”Gary heads off to stop the spray as I take in my surroundings.Hundreds of polythene rows are spread across the two hectare (five acre) plot - sitting neatly atop homemade metal tables - a home to a variety of different lettuce and herb seedlings.The former nursery at the back of Gatton was painstakingly converted about 10 years ago to becom..

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