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					<title>Central Queensland News</title>
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					<description>Central Queensland News, Weather, Sport &amp; Local Classifieds</description>
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							<title>Truckies risk hardship to drive home their worries</title>
							<description><![CDATA[By SIAN FULLERTON AND DI STANLEY

TRUCKS across the Central Highlands will come to a standstill from Monday as a two-week nationwide industry shutdown takes e...]]></description>
							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +1200</pubDate>
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							<title>Drivers in hot water as Operation Cold Snap hits the Highlands</title>
							<description><![CDATA[By DI STANLEY

EMERALD and Blackwater topped the dash to part with cash over the school holidays, with a staggering 157 drivers ticketed for speeding in Opera...]]></description>
							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +1200</pubDate>
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							<title>Seeing Pope was Clermont pilgrim&apos;s WYD highlight</title>
							<description><![CDATA[SARAH Cooke flew for several hours, trekked 11 kilometres in one day and spent the night camped at a crowded racecourse, all while six months pregnant.

H...]]></description>
							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +1200</pubDate>
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							<title>Good food, good company, good times at Dingo races</title>
							<description><![CDATA[By VANESSA LAYTON

GOOD tucker, good company and great entertainment made up a fantastic day at the Dingo races and World Dingo Trap Throwing Competition on S...]]></description>
							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +1200</pubDate>
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							<title>Bears get a taste of victory   and like it!</title>
							<description><![CDATA[LAST weekend the Clermont Bears made the trip to Springsure for their round 14 clash against the Mountain Men. 

A highly entertaining game saw the Bears ou...]]></description>
							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +1200</pubDate>
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							<title>It was all smiles at dingo</title>
							<description><![CDATA[By LEON ROBERTS

PRESIDENT of the Dingo Race Club, Stewart Hoare, was all smiles Saturday afternoon and delighted with the support the club received from owne...]]></description>
							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +1200</pubDate>
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							<title>Solid approach to infrastructure needed for ambitious Alpha plans</title>
							<description><![CDATA[By DI STANLEY

THE historic town of Alpha is about to be awoken to play its role in a $5.3 billion coal project to open up the Galilee Basin to mining. 

Br...]]></description>
							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +1200</pubDate>
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							<title>Crash driver recovering</title>
							<description><![CDATA[By DI STANLEY

THE Emerald man badly injured in Monday's collision with an explosives-laden truck on the Capricorn Highway is recovering in Rockhampton Hospit...]]></description>
							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +1200</pubDate>
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							<title>Floods used to promote estate as &apos;high and dry&apos;</title>
							<description><![CDATA[By SIAN FULLERTON

THE floods that destroyed homes and devastated families in Emerald six months ago could have been catastrophic for unprepared developers....]]></description>
							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +1200</pubDate>
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							<title>Mystery man found</title>
							<description><![CDATA[By DANIKA WARD

THE 'mystery man' was no mystery at all for Gindie elder Mick Daniels.

"I saw the paper and the heading and I thought, I know that man," Mr...]]></description>
							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +1200</pubDate>
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							<title>Aussie Olympian back in the saddle for Beijing</title>
							<description><![CDATA[GRACEMERE product and beloved Australian Olympian Anna Meares will be aiming for glory at Beijing later this year.

The Olympic cyclist put in a top notch e...]]></description>
							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +1200</pubDate>
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							<title>Rising squash star soars</title>
							<description><![CDATA[A SUPERB performance from Emerald's rising squash star Georgy Cumming saw her win her first state title at the Queensland Junior Squash Championships held a...]]></description>
							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +1200</pubDate>
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							<title>Truckie risks life to save life of a young Emerald man</title>
							<description><![CDATA[By DI STANLEY

WITH a potentially deadly cocktail of explosive-grade chemicals and diesel pooling at the scene of a head-on collision that closed the Capricor...]]></description>
							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +1200</pubDate>
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							<title>Carpark bulges with huge crowd numbers at Emerald Ag-Grow-QMIX</title>
							<description><![CDATA[By SIAN FULLERTON

ORGANISERS of the Ag-Grow-QMIX event in Emerald had boasted the show would attract as many as 20,000 visitors this year.

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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +1200</pubDate>
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							<title>Airport paid parks capped at $10 a day</title>
							<description><![CDATA[By DI STANLEY

THE Central Highlands Regional Council will cap paid parking at $10 a day when it is introduced later this year at Emerald Airport.

When the...]]></description>
							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +1200</pubDate>
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							<title>Students&apos; hard work wrecked in vandal spree</title>
							<description><![CDATA[By JANE HART

STUDENTS received a rude awakening when they returned to Blackwater State High School yesterday. 

Hours of work put in by students came crumb...]]></description>
							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +1200</pubDate>
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							<title>Bushpigs take win at birthday bash</title>
							<description><![CDATA[RUGBY union fans flocked to Clermont for an action-packed weekend.

The Clermont Bush Pigs 25th anniversary began with a raucous clash against the visiting...]]></description>
							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +1200</pubDate>
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							<title>The Meek shall inherit the trifecta</title>
							<description><![CDATA[By Alistair Mace

THE weather was perfect on Saturday for one of the least attended race days the Emerald Jockey Club has hosted at Pioneer Park for the past...]]></description>
							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +1200</pubDate>
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							<title>Cold start to Ag-Grow doesn&apos;t deter crowds eager for a look</title>
							<description><![CDATA[By SIAN FULLERTON

ONE of the biggest agricultural field days on the Queensland calendar has kicked off in Emerald.

Ag-Grow QMIX 2008 got off to a chilly s...]]></description>
							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +1200</pubDate>
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							<title>Night of nights arrives</title>
							<description><![CDATA[By JANE HART

IT was all I had been thinking about for months. 

In the lead-up to the Central Queensland News ball, people kept saying, "it was the event o...]]></description>
							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +1200</pubDate>
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							<title>New ambo station to be ready within 12 months</title>
							<description><![CDATA[By SIAN FULLERTON

CLERMONT has been promised a brand new ambulance station.

The State Government has revealed plans to complete the new building within a...]]></description>
							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +1200</pubDate>
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							<title>Primary producers work with soil, sun and water</title>
							<description><![CDATA[By DANIKA WARD

SIX months on from the devastating January floods, and four years since canker destroyed Emerald crops, citrus grower Craig Pressler said thin...]]></description>
							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +1200</pubDate>
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							<title>Milking cows at Emerald&apos;s rodeo</title>
							<description><![CDATA[RODEOS are always a source of much entertainment in the Highlands, and this weekend looks set to score high with the locals.

The Ag-Grow Emerald Rodeo will...]]></description>
							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +1200</pubDate>
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							<title>Spurring on competitors no gamble for Kellie for Kellie</title>
							<description><![CDATA[By DANIKA WARD

MIDDLEMOUNT barrel racer Kellie Oakes is leaving other riders in her dust as she heads towards a win in the Capricorn Coast Classic, part of t...]]></description>
							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +1200</pubDate>
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							<title>Singing songs and esky keep fishermen afloat</title>
							<description><![CDATA[By JANE HART

TONY Minns didn't want to die. 

At home in Blackwater waiting for him was his wife, Cristy, and their three young children, the youngest just...]]></description>
							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +1200</pubDate>
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							<title>CHRC rates predicted to rise up to 30%</title>
							<description><![CDATA[By DI STANLEY

RATEPAYERS are in for a rude shock with rises between five and 30 per cent predicted to be handed down in the Central Highlands Regional Counci...]]></description>
							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +1200</pubDate>
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							<title>Convicted Murderer Stabbed In Prison</title>
							<description><![CDATA[By DI STANLEY

CONVICTED double murderer and former Springsure man, Rodney Michael Cherry, has survived a brutal jail stabbing at the hands of baby-faced Rock...]]></description>
							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +1200</pubDate>
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							<title>Local businesses employ 457 visa to combat labour shortage</title>
							<description><![CDATA[By JANE HART

ARE you being served by friendly, polite migrants making the most of employment opportunities on the Highlands? 

The reality is more and more...]]></description>
							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +1200</pubDate>
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							<title>Emerald go kart track funding builds up</title>
							<description><![CDATA[By JARROD BUCKHARD

KARTING has never truly been in the spotlight for the Central Highlands, let alone the rest of Australia but the Emerald Go Karting Club l...]]></description>
							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +1200</pubDate>
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							<title>You win some, you lose some</title>
							<description><![CDATA[By Leon Roberts

BOTH Mick Hicks and Todd Austin trained winning doubles at last Saturday's Clermont Blair Athol Coal Cup Race Day and David Monaghan also cli...]]></description>
							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +1200</pubDate>
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							<title>Urgent flights to get easier</title>
							<description><![CDATA[By SIAN FULLERTON

AFTER nearly four years of tireless community backing, Clermont Hospital finally has its own helipad.

Queensland Health has been working...]]></description>
							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +1200</pubDate>
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							<title>Do we need more zebra crossings?</title>
							<description><![CDATA[By DI STANLEY

RICHARD McKay is haunted by the image of his son's neighbourhood playmate Jeremiah Stiegler, the happy-go-lucky six-year-old whose young life e...]]></description>
							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +1200</pubDate>
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							<title>Patients in PNG can now rest easy with old hospital beds new again</title>
							<description><![CDATA[THIRTY-THREE beds too old for Emerald Hospital are a major improvement on the old wooden and metal models that were being used in a Papua New Guinea hospital....]]></description>
							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +1200</pubDate>
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							<title>Succession of docs to help out until replacement can be found</title>
							<description><![CDATA[by Sian FULLERTON

QUEENSLAND Health has assured the people of Clermont they'll continue to have two doctors while a new medical superintendent is recruited....]]></description>
							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +1200</pubDate>
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							<title>Watch and learn</title>
							<description><![CDATA[By JARROD BUCKHARD

GIANTS of AFL were in town yesterday for the Auskick Auskickin' around Australia tour. 

Former Hawthorn Brownlow medalist Robert 'Dippe...]]></description>
							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +1200</pubDate>
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							<title>Nothing left but guts, passion and adrenaline</title>
							<description><![CDATA[By JARROD BUCKHARD

 LOCAL under-11 rugby league sides travelled to Townsville for a full weekend of competition.

Emerald Junior Tigers put in an impressiv...]]></description>
							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +1200</pubDate>
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							<title>Water usage needs to drop for works</title>
							<description><![CDATA[By DI STANLEY

WATER abusers can't claim they're wet behind the ears this time because they're going to be saturated... with shame if they can't cut down on t...]]></description>
							<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +1200</pubDate>
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							<title>Centenarian remembered for her loving generosity</title>
							<description><![CDATA[By SIAN FULLERTON

WIN McTrusty saw more of the 20th century than anybody else in Clermont.

Born in late 1906, the devoted mother, grandmother and great-gr...]]></description>
							<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +1200</pubDate>
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							<title>Canberra bureaucrat to spend winter with wild wombats in CQ</title>
							<description><![CDATA[By SIAN FULLERTON

THE head of Australia's Treasury Department has swapped the troubles of the economy for a wildlife carer's posting at a remote forest near...]]></description>
							<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +1200</pubDate>
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							<title>Report paints a healthy picture of CH economy</title>
							<description><![CDATA[By DI STANLEY

EXPOSURE to the coal mining and commodities supercycle will intensify activity in the Central Highlands over the next year or two, a bank repor...]]></description>
							<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +1200</pubDate>
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							<title>Bears shattered by loss</title>
							<description><![CDATA[By JARROD BUCKHARD

CLERMONT Bears will be wondering what hit them at the weekend following the defeat received at the hands of the Blackwater Crushers.

Th...]]></description>
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							<title>DRAG WINNER&apos;S DOUBLE WHAMMY</title>
							<description><![CDATA[By JARROD BUCKHARD

MOTORS were running hot last month as the final round of the Castrol Edge Winternationals took place in Willowbank, Ipswich.

Residing o...]]></description>
							<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +1200</pubDate>
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							<title>Windfall to help drought-affected couple</title>
							<description><![CDATA[By JULIE-ANN CARSON

JUST stop for a second and think. What would you do with half a million dollars?

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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:00:00 +1200</pubDate>
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							<title>Another two children hit in same spot</title>
							<description><![CDATA[By DI STANLEY

LITTLE Jeremiah Joseph Stiegler played Russian roulette with the traffic on Hospital Road on the way to visit his cousin& like he'd done so man...]]></description>
							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:00:00 +1200</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[By JANE HART

AN all-in brawl broke out between two junior rugby league teams after one player allegedly refused to shake the hand of an opposing player after...]]></description>
							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:00:00 +1200</pubDate>
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							<title>They come quiet, bruised, broken and lost</title>
							<description><![CDATA[By DANIKA WARD

THE fear of abandonment is clearly visible on his tear-stained face.

His wails fill the air, his arms reach for a woman who has shown him m...]]></description>
							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:00:00 +1200</pubDate>
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							<title>Local shooter wins top gun prize</title>
							<description><![CDATA[By SIAN FULLERTON

A CLERMONT shooter has set what's likely to be a national record in taking out the national championships in Brisbane this month.

Ben Cu...]]></description>
							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:00:00 +1200</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[FORMER Hawthorn Brownlow medallist and NAB Auskick ambassador Robert 'Dipper' DiPierdomenico will join St Kilda's Leigh Montagna and Brendan Goddard on NAB's...]]></description>
							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:00:00 +1200</pubDate>
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							<title>Truck shutdown gains momentum</title>
							<description><![CDATA[By DI STANLEY

IT was a cold, blustery winter afternoon at the Emerald Showgrounds, but that wasn't what sent a chill down the spines of truck owner operators...]]></description>
							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:00:00 +1200</pubDate>
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							<title>Tourist numbers are on the rise, despite petrol prices skyrocketing</title>
							<description><![CDATA[By JANE HART

DESPITE soaring fuel prices, the Central Highlands continues to draw in the tourists.

Visitor numbers to the region look set to break records...]]></description>
							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:00:00 +1200</pubDate>
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