Smart Phone! Dead Driver!
Drivers using mobile phones to speak and text with others and checking their social media status and likes when driving are playing Russian roulette.
Opinion
SHOCKING: Gympie kids left behind when it comes to education
Despite the presence of a TAFE and uni campus, the region’s low higher learning levels concerning
Why John Kerr was right to dismiss Gough Whitlam
“It is abundantly clear that Sir John Kerr acted very properly and courageously throughout.”
New councillor takes on critics in Facebook battleground
It’s a new era of local government in Gympie, and the Facebook critics are being put in their place
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Gympie region is being overlooked – we must make more noise
OPINION: Governments should hold multi-national companies that pull out of communities to account
Gympie Council dithers as road complaints rack up
Evidence is rising the region’s roads have serious issues, and making the agitated masses wait rarely ends well.
Why won’t council allow a review of rural road management?
Gympie councillors Smerdon and Fredman, whose divisions cover the rural areas of the Mary Valley and South Burnett, have tried to get a review of rural roads
Gympie region opinions ‘thought provoking and inspirational’
OPINION: Brendan Allen, Lori Write, Julia Lawrence, Dave Freeman and Shelley Strachan all touched this reader with their opinion pieces on regional issues
System failure a sickening matter of life and death
The gut-wrenching, sickening abuse and neglect that little Mason Lee was subjected to by his despicable mother and stepfather is almost incomprehensible.
Learn who makes your clothes and make ethical choices
It’s important people understand the footprint they are leaving when purchasing brands, despite how reputable they may seem, Shayla Bulloch writes
Why the NRL policy doesn’t go far enough
It was a disastrous off-season for the NRL and on Thursday the Australia Rugby League Commission announced a new no-fault policy.
Sense prevails in fate of Gympie’s old timber footbridge
The footbridge has been a political football for years
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