August 31, 2022
southburnett.com.au would like to apologise to our readers for being missing in action over the past two weeks.
Both our editor, Anne Miller, and our CEO, Dafyd Martindale, have had medical procedures recently, and this unexpected development meant we were unable to provide regular news updates.
However, we have both now returned to our desks and look forward to resuming normal operations as quickly as possible.
We regret our unplanned absence may have caused readers some inconvenience.
Like many parts of rural and regional Australia, the withdrawal of news services over the past decade has left the South Burnett with progressively fewer and fewer choices when it comes to obtaining local news.
We believe an informed community is a better one.
We also believe the ability to obtain accurate and timely local news is essential to the growth and development of a vital and progressive region.
This was the reason we established southburnett.com.au as an online newspaper in 2012, and they remain the reasons we stay in business today.
It is likely we will both require more hospital stays in coming months, and this may result in some further disruptions to our normal service in future.
But we would like to thank our readers for their patience and understanding during this time.
We also wish to assure you that our commitment to bringing you a truly local news service remains undimmed.
Thanks for the heads up Anne and Dafyd. Certainly missed your regular interesting and accurate news articles. Good to hear you are back on deck. Best wishes for a full recovery and ongoing good health
Wishing you both speedy recoveries & please remember to be kind to yourselves.
Rest and recover – certainly miss your accurate local news.
Anne and Dafyd. Good to hear you are back. Look after yourselves and keep up the excellent work with South Burnett Online.