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Shelley Strachan is the respected and award winning Editor of The Gympie Times, a mother of four, and a passionate advocate for her hometown (Gympie), the region it is the centre of and the people who live there. A recipient of multiple PANPA Community News Brand of the Year awards, and the coveted News Corp Achievements in Regional Journalism award, Shelley Strachan cut her journalistic teeth as a cadet at The Gympie Times before spending some time as a sub-editor with Quest Community papers in Brisbane and then returning to the idyllic lifestyle the Gympie region offers. She proudly leads a talented team of journalists covering all the news of the Gympie region 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

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My First Year

Nanango State School Prep B 2024 (back, from left) Taylee, Henry, River, Fletcher, Kinzie, Matilda, Octavia, Emily, Clayton, (front, from left) Aubrie, Layla, Noah, (absent) Freddie, William, Bastian, teacher Leanne Bowden and teacher aide Kellie Pogany.

My First Year 2024: South Burnett Prep Photos | Gallery

Every adorable school starter for 2024 across the South Burnett’s 15 primary schools. See the adorable photos, Nanango and Kingaroy to Kilkivan, Benarkin and Murgon, and everywhere in between.

My First Year

My First Year 2024: North Burnett Prep Photos | Gallery

Every adorable school starter for 2024 across the Central and North Burnett. See the photos from our region’s 10 primary schools, from Gayndah to Monto and Mt Perry.

VideoSouth Burnett

A Burnett mother has vowed to take legal action against a school where she claims teachers failed to intervene quickly enough in a fight that left her daughter requiring an ambulance.

Watch: 18 punches to the head in shocking teen girl school fight

A mum has vowed to sue a Qld high school after her daughter took 18 punches to the head in a brutal schoolyard fight filmed and circulated on social media. *Warning distressing content.

Gympie

Council election candidates have revealed how they plan to fix five of the biggest issues facing the region including Infrastructure and sports fields, roads, rates, transparency, and flooding.

In their words: Where election candidates stand on Gympie’s big issues

A third bridge across the Mary River, reopening the Civic Centre, new sport facilities – the men and women vying to be part of the incoming council have revealed their passion projects and how they plan to fix five of the biggest issues facing the region.

Central & North Burnett

My First Year: Mundubbera State School Preps, (back) Brodie, Charlie, Maggie, Madison, Sioona, (Middle) Scarlett, Isabell, Amelia, Isla, Indi, (front) Sofia, Bridon, Anthony, Sisi. Picture: Patrick Woods.

My First Year: North Burnett preps’ funny faces and bloopers

The Central and North Burnett’s prep classes of 2024 may have been the best yet at pulling silly faces, with plenty of outtakes and fun had getting some priceless looks. Check them all out in our funny faces gallery.

South Burnett

Funny faces: My First Year South Burnett bloopers

My First Year 2024 bloopers:The South Burnett’s preppies might be getting big, but they’re still having fun along the way. SEE THE GALLERY.

EXCLUSIVEGympie

Splice Gympie woodchipper murder of Bruce Saunders

Revealed: Inside the love quadrangle that ended in a grisly bloodbath

When authorities were called to a secluded and leafy Queensland property to investigate the scene of a tragic, horrific accident they had no idea of the ‘Shakespearean’ drama that would soon reveal itself. New details of the case that shocked a nation.

PollSouth Burnett