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Scott KovacevicSenior Journalist

Scott Kovacevic is a senior journalist, graduating with honours from Griffith University with a Bachelor of Arts in Applied Theatre, a Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours and a Master of Arts in Journalism. He now specialises in business, property and council reporting. Scott has played a pivotal role in exposing the devastating impact of collapsed businesses such as Stirling Homes and Ri-Con on local sub contractors and suppliers, helping put pressure on our lawmakers to change the law and give small businesses like our local subcontractors more protection. His analysis and investigative reporting on the Gympie Regional Council leading up to and following the 2020 local government election was relentless and illuminating, bringing about a shift in local politics that Scott continues to follow closely and report on.

Scott Kovacevic

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Mayor Glen Hartwig splice

Gympie council jams brakes on controversial building sale

Plans to put a building in the city’s centre up for auction have been delayed following a community outcry

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Gympie council splice

NAMED: Companies that shared in $15m of council contracts

Gympie Regional Council made more than a dozen deals with private companies to carry out big council projects this financial year – some worth $220,000, some worth millions.

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Plans proposed medical centre at Cooloola Cove

New medical centre to open on Cooloola Coast

Cooloola Cove made headlines last week when a house sale set a new record price, and the good news keeps coming for the suburb where homes, units and vacant land are lasting no longer than two weeks on the market.

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Honeybee Country Accommodation, Kandanga, Mary Valley, CoreLogic

Stunning Valley wedding venue sold to new owners

The popular holiday hideaway was one of the properties bought by the State Government during its attempts to build the controversial Traveston Dam

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Crystal Kapteyn is not happy that council fewer rubbish bins available for the public in the CBD. PICTURE: JUSTIN BRIERTY

Council to slash some of its 500 bins

Residents will be encouraged to adopt a ‘carry in, carry out’ approach and take their waste home where possible as part of a new policy it hopes will strike a balance between public bin numbers and the cost to keep them running

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Sullivan's Livestock Sale in Gympie

Saleyards at centre of planned council, Aurizon deal

A five-year deal is in the works between the Gympie council and freight operator Aurizon as part of a push to keep cattle rail services sustainable

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Opera Queensland Performers Marcus Corowa, Irena Lysiuk and Jonathan Hickey who are taking their show "Are you Lonesome Tonight' on a tour through regional Queensland. Photo Lachie Millard

Gympie council has less than a month to save arts show

A ‘unique, never been seen before’ performance by one of the state’s premier arts groups has been left in limbo by the prolonged Civic Centre shutdown

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Crawford and Co Building, Mary Street

The CBD buildings that tell the story of Gympie’s history

There are 40 heritage listed buildings and remains that are direct physical links to the region’s past and its more celebrated identities, and those links are not just fascinating, but in some cases, very surprising

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Gympie real estate splice

BARGAINS: Gympie’s cheapest land and houses revealed

Gympie region real estate continue to go gangbusters and bargains are particularly hot property, with 20 of the 50 cheapest properties already under offer

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Gympie rubbish tip

Gympie region residents to be hit with dump fee hike

Taking a car load of rubbish to the Bonnick Road tip and other Gympie region rubbish tips is about cost more, but the good news is you’ll be able to dump your green waste for free

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