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The Whitsundays will be on everyone’s minds through a package of marketing initiatives to promote the region as the State and Federal funding promised by State Tourism Minister Kate Jones and Federal Tourism Minister Steve Ciobo post cyclone begins to flow. Tourism Whitsundays CEO Craig Turner … [Read more...]
Environment Minister, Dr Steven Miles is encouraging participation in this Friday’s inaugural Grazing BMP Reef to Ranges event beginning in Bowen on Friday. The Minister says the Event, to run over three days, is golden opportunity for graziers to showcase the work they are doing to protect the … [Read more...]
RACQ CQ Rescue has winched a tourist to safety after she fell at popular island lookout near Whitehaven Beach today. The 31-year-old Victorian woman is believed to have climbed over a safety barrier at a lookout on Whitsunday Island to take a photo of the world-famous beach when she dropped her … [Read more...]
Shanghai-based China Capital Investment Group has been confirmed as the purchasers of South Molle Island for a reported $25 million. The Purchase is the Groups’ second Island Resort buy in as many years. Last year the company paid $30 million for Daydream Island. The two islands sit less than … [Read more...]
A key Whitsundays tourism icon has hit the market, with South Molle Island now expected to attract interest from overseas groups after its long-time owner Craig Ross placed the island and resort up for sale. South Molle Island which features over 12ha of developable absolute beachfront land, … [Read more...]
Farmers, conservationists and resource management bodies have formally joined forced to protect Australia's precious Great Barrier Reef from the affects of agricultural activity. Members of the Reef Alliance have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to establish a code of conduct that … [Read more...]
We have received an update that at 8:20am this morning, two buggies collided and rolled over at Hamilton Island. Eight people have been air lifted to hospital by two rescue helicopters with a third helicopter from Rockhampton dispatched. It is believed that one woman has sustained head … [Read more...]
The Mackay RACQ CQ helicopter has just landed on the scene of a buggy crash on Hamilton Island this morning. Early reports say 7 people were injured in the incident. RACQ Emergency have confirmed that they are in the process of taking one of the occupants to Townsville to treat … [Read more...]
Whitsunday students shouldn't see any disruption to their usual school schedules, with classes still running as normal during the state-wide teacher strikes on Thursday. Parents can rest assured that their kids’ timetables won’t be affected at St. Catherine’s Catholic College, Proserpine and St. … [Read more...]
It appears as though the Great Barrier Reef is going to have to have an awkward conversation with someone, with the recent discovery of a herpes like virus on the coral. A paper published in the Frontiers in Microbiology is claiming that the coral has picked up the infection during a recent … [Read more...]
