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Meals on shaky Wheels

There's an uncertain future ahead of Meals for Wheels with the upcoming federal budget

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19th April 2017 5:04 PM

FUTURE UNCERTAIN: Jules Delgado, manager of Gympie Meals on Wheels.

REVEALED: Four LNP contenders in Buderim

THE four faces seeking to topple former LNP Minister Steve Dickson in Buderim have been revealed.

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10th April 2017 4:04 PM

IN THE RACE: The four faces seeking LNP pre-selection in Buderim.

It has to end

MY PATIENCE has finally run out.

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09th Feb. 2017 10:02 AM

Make Trump aware

IT IS time Malcolm Turnbull asked Trump to stop dithering over the refugee agreement.

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08th Feb. 2017 12:02 PM

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on the 2016 campaign trail

SOAP BOX: Bernardi defection good for Liberals

CORY Bernardi is right about one thing - the Liberal Party is not the right party for him.

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08th Feb. 2017 9:02 AM

Senator Cory Bernardi

Name and shame

IN 2015 Malcolm Turnbull committed $100 million to tackle domestic violence, Rosie Batty bravely became the face of...

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06th Feb. 2017 10:02 AM

Rosie Batty speaks after the Luke Batty Coronial Inquest was handed down in Melbourne, Monday Sept. 28, 2015. Victoria's coroner says no one could have foreseen Luke Batty's murder at the hands of his mentally ill father. (AAP Image/Tracey Nearmy) NO ARCHIVING

What next? The Wiggles and K Rudd?

I WAS reading the list of recipients for Australia Day Awards and was stopped in my tracks.

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01st Feb. 2017 8:02 AM

Prime Minister Julia Gillard in Mackay. Photo Lee Constable / Daily Mercury

Dissolution solution: A year in Australian politics

THE Turnbull government is claiming retrospective vindication for its double dissolution election now it has passed its...

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26th Dec. 2016 6:12 AM

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull won the election, but victory was not so sweet as he had hoped.

Backpacker tax uncertain in Parliament's final hours

Senate backs call to cut backpacker tax rate to 10.55, ensuring more uncertainty for industry

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30th Nov. 2016 9:11 AM

NEW RATE: The backpacker tax now looks set to sit at 15%.

Labor best placed to speak up for Mackay: Shorten

Bill Shorten sits down with the Daily Mercury and talks Australian jobs

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16th Nov. 2016 3:11 PM

Komatsu Queensland regional manager Trevor Hyde shows Federal Opposition Leader Bill Shorten, Senator Anthony Chisholm and Member for Blair Shayne Neumann around the Mackay workshop.