Coffs Coast Advocate

Fancy seeing you here: When Deb met Kate

Two high-profile former state political adversaries have had a chance encounter in the unlikeliest of places.

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28th Nov. 2020 4:11 AM

TAFE EXPANSION: LNP returns fire with $7.5m pledge

LNP steps up to challenge to back CQUniversity trade expansion.

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22nd Oct. 2020 5:10 PM

CQUniversity Vice-Chancellor Professor Nick Klomp at the Mackay Ooralea campus. Picture: Zizi Averill

REVEALED: Moment Kate Jones knew she had to quit

Retiring poli Kate Jones has revealed the moment she knew she had to leave politics, and the extraordinary story behind the...

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16th Oct. 2020 6:10 PM

$1 million investigation to unpack biohub in Mackay

Hub to look for opportunities to use foods too ugly for the supermarket shelves and wasted by industries

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08th Oct. 2020 4:10 PM

Townsend Industries directors Graham Townsend and Gary Townsend at the Port of Mackay. The father son duo have been granted more than $300,000 to diversify the products able to be produced from sugar cane. Picture: Zizi Averill

New $2.8 high-tech training centre to boost Rocky’s future

It will prepare students for careers in mining, agriculture and manufacturing.

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23rd Sept. 2020 12:09 AM

CQUniversity vice-chancellor Professor Nick Klomp and State Development, Tourism and Innovation Minister Kate Jones.

Minister’s big call on Broncos’ top job

The Broncos will finalise their new chief executive this week, but one of the touted contenders has broken their...

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15th Sept. 2020 3:09 PM

What Kate might do next – and who’ll replace her

Outgoing minister Kate Jones has no firm plans for the future, but has put an idea “out there” as her replacement candidate...

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12th Sept. 2020 1:09 PM

Calls for next tourism minister to come from FNQ

Pressure is on the next Queensland government to ensure the new tourism minister comes from the Far North, following the...

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11th Sept. 2020 3:09 PM

Sick culture that cost Labor two of its finest

Queensland has lost a possible future premier and another extremely talented minister, all for the sake of Labor’s archaic...

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11th Sept. 2020 5:09 AM

Ministerial exodus bad news for Qld, and Labor

Less than a month before the Queensland election campaign kicks off, the Labor Government has lost two of its best...

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