Business

Raise Taxes, Cut Services Or Sell Assets?

Raise Taxes, Cut Services Or Sell Assets?

Member for Callide and Deputy Premier Jeff Seeney has released feedback form asking Queenslanders to choose from three options for the future of the State: raise taxes and charges; reduce services; or investigate the sale or lease of government assets.

$34m To Improve Satellite Broadband

$34m To Improve Satellite Broadband

Federal Member for Wide Bay and Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss said today NBN Co will invest more than $34 million to upgrade its Interim Satellite Service and extend commercial satellite services to rural areas.

Leo Honoured By Rotary

Leo Honoured By Rotary

Murgon businessman Leo Geraghty was presented with the Paul Harris Fellow award this week

Wondai Chamber Seeks New Direction

Wondai Chamber Seeks New Direction

The Wondai Chamber Of Commerce will be holding a public meeting later this month in an effort to find a new direction for the group.

Lifeline Tossed To Taabinga Developers

Lifeline Tossed To Taabinga Developers

Kingaroy’s controversial $6.5 million Taabinga Downs development – which includes a 116-lot relocatable home park – looks set to get the go ahead after all, despite a negative vote at the South Burnett Regional Council’s March meeting.

$26m Project To Boost Local Economy

$26m Project To Boost Local Economy

Work began at the weekend on a $26.3 million construction project at Tarong which should pump at least $7 million into the South Burnett economy.

Focus On Fashion

Focus On Fashion

Nine models have taken to the catwalk to show what Year 12s could be wearing to their formals

Cheeseworld On The Move

Cheeseworld On The Move

After more than 10 years of seven-day trading, Goomeri Cheeseworld is moving to a new business model

Emergency Tips For Business

Emergency Tips For Business

Could your business cope with an emergency? According to statistics provided by a group coming to the South Burnett tomorrow, 43 per cent of businesses affected by disasters never re-open. Another 29 per cent fail within two years …

Toowoomba Show
Holiday On Thursday

Toowoomba Show<br> Holiday On Thursday

Toowoomba Regional Council Customer Service Centres and offices will be closed for the Royal Toowoomba Show holiday on Thursday.

More NBN Towers
Start To Take Shape

Residents in the Booie and Ellesmere areas are one step closer to gaining high-speed fixed wireless broadband.

Ergon Launches ‘Pay-Per-Month’

Ergon Energy has introduced a monthly payment plan to help customers cope with “bill shock”.

Rates Extension Splits Council

Rates Extension Splits Council

A proposal to offer primary producers an extra 30 days discount period on their latest rates notice split the South Burnett Regional Council today.

Workshop To Explain Tenders

A workshop to assist local businesses learn more about tendering for government contracts will be held in Kingaroy later this month.

Funding Available For Healthy Workplaces

Funding Available For Healthy Workplaces

Member for Nanango Deb Frecklington is encouraging South Burnett businesses to think “outside the lunchbox” and promote a better lifestyle for their workers through the second round of the State Government’s “Working for Wellness” grants program.

Conference Looks At Growing Small Towns

Conference Looks At Growing Small Towns

The problems of how to create growth in small towns, how to cope with change and how to turn disadvantage to advantage will be three of the themes of a special conference being held in Mundubbera on Friday, March 21.

$550,000 Tourism Campaign ‘Biggest Ever’

$550,000 Tourism Campaign ‘Biggest Ever’

The change of seasons will be the focus of a new $550,000 tourism marketing campaign designed to showcase Southern Queensland Country (SQC).

Stanwell Chairman, 77, Dies

Stanwell Chairman, 77, Dies

Stanwell chairman and former Queensland Senator Warwick Parer, AM, died on Friday night at the age of 77.