Posted November 07, 2016 06:47:45 | Updated November 07, 2016 07:53:57
A radical grassroots resettlement plan transforms an ageing rural community on the NSW-Queensland border, with three African refugee families moving to the area.
Topics: community-development, community-and-society, community-organisations, human-interest, race-relations, refugees, tenterfield-2372, sundown-4860, qld
Posted December 03, 2012 08:53:36 | Updated December 03, 2012 11:20:32
Rural fire crews are continuing to battle a large grassfire near Mount Garnet, south-west of Cairns in far north Queensland, that has been burning for more than a week.
Topics: bushfire, emergency-incidents, emergency-planning, mount-garnet-4872, cairns-4870, sundown-4860, townsville-4810
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