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The Mackay personalities who made headlines in 2020

Check out the 15+ newsmakers whose stories shaped an incredible year of news in the region.

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22nd Dec. 2020 5:12 AM

Some of the Mackay region personalities who made the headlines in 2020 including from top left: Dawson MP George Christensen, Mackay Regional Council Mayor Greg Williamson, Mirani MP Stephen Andrew, Sarina Surf Lifesaving Club president Neil John, Canegrowers Queensland chairman Paul Schembri and Mackay mum Vicki Blackburn.

‘Psychopaths’ at home fuelling housing crisis

Mackay emergency housing crisis: ‘The government should pay as much attention to this as COVID’

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15th July 2020 5:07 PM

Broken Ballerina Foundation founder Jules Thompson on the Red Rose Foundation bench at the Community Accommodation and Support Agency on Gregory St, Mackay.

Red flags ignored as women fall through the cracks

Domestic violence advocates sickened by brutal murder-suicide take to the streets in Mackay

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21st Feb. 2020 6:02 PM

DISTRESSED; Broken Ballerina Foundation founder Jules Thompson comforting fellow domestic violence advocates at the Red Rose Rally held at the Bluewater Quay, Mackay, on Friday, February 21. Photo: Zizi Averill