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Matthew is a journalist with The Chronicle. He joined the team in September 2017, after spending two years as the editor of the Chinchilla News and Murilla Advertiser. He started his career as a cadet at the Whitsunday Coast Guardian in Proserpine in 2014.

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Matthew Newton

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Business

Post-lockdown chat leads to new homewares store

IT WAS their first coffee catch-up after Queensland came out of lockdown in May and Inky Barwick and Jill Bliss decided it was time to open a homewares store.

Toowoomba

TriCare Toowoomba infection control failings laid bare in report

TRICARE Toowoomba had an ineffective infection control program and its outbreak management plan for COVID-19 was not being implemented, according to a report by the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission.

Council

Court decides on ‘hatchet lot’ escarpment subdivision

THE Planning and Environment Court has decided on an application from a developer to declare his six-lot community title escarpment subdivision was not a “hatchet lot”.

Real Estate

Commercial office to go under the hammer next month

FORMERLY a builder’s office, this Harlaxton site will go to auction early next month.

Toowoomba

Aged care facility used chemical restraints without consent

MORE than 20 residents of a Toowoomba aged care facility were being restrained with medication without consent or medical authorisation, a report has found.

Toowoomba

Coal alliance, Acland face uncertain wait after hearing

THE Oakey Coal Action Alliance and New Acland Coal face an uncertain wait after today’s pivotal High Court Hearing.

Real Estate

Award-winning winemaker puts vines, cellar door up for sale

AN AWARD-WINNING Queensland winemaker has put part of its business on the market.

Toowoomba

New Hope Group calls for State to approve New Acland expansion

NEW Hope Group has called for the immediate approval of New Acland Stage 3 following the Queensland Premier’s decision to approve a mine in Central Queensland just days before the state election campaign began.

Toowoomba

New section of retirement resort approved by council

TOOWOOMBA Regional Council has approved GemLife’s establishment of 230 relocatable dwellings, a managers residence, sales office, and associated communal facilities.

Toowoomba

High Court to hear Acland legal battle this morning

A complex legal battle over the future of the New Acland Coal Mine Stage 3 Expansion will be heard by the full bench of the Australian High Court this morning.

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