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Pictorial - Second range crossing update<br />
Photos courtesy of Nexus<br />
Viaduct work - Mt Kynoch<br />
LOST: Yellow cockatiel<br />
with cinnamon marking on<br />
wings. Leg band. Meringandan.<br />
Garret Road. Thursday November<br />
2. 4596 3258. - Ally Roberts.<br />
Arch bridges and re-aignment New England Highway<br />
<strong>Herald</strong> support<br />
appreciated<br />
Event co-ordinator for the Fossil<br />
Downs Rodeo Gaye de Rutyer made a<br />
presentation to Neil Lomas, editor of the<br />
High Country <strong>Herald</strong>, in appreciation of<br />
the support given to the 2017 10th anniversary<br />
event which saw record breaking<br />
crowd in attendance.<br />
Proceeds of $10,000 will be donated<br />
to the Toowoomba Hospital Renal and<br />
Cancer Care Units and to the local Murphys<br />
Creek community.<br />
Goombungee Road - New England Highway<br />
CWA prepares for<br />
car boot sale<br />
Highfields QCWA members have been busy preparing for<br />
the car boot sale on Saturday, November 18, at St Anne's<br />
Anglican Church, Highfields. Items will be on sale including<br />
handcrafts, baked goods, plants, preloved clothing, books<br />
and household goods. Raffle tickets for a Christmas hamper<br />
will also be on sale. Come along and support the newest subbranch<br />
of the Queensland Country Women's Association.<br />
For information about Highfields QCWA, email highfieldsqcwabranch@gmail.com.<br />
ABOVE: Making Japanese origami<br />
are Highfields QCWA members Peggy Boardman, Cassie<br />
McGuire and Natalie Webb.<br />
Boolarong Press presents a<br />
writing and publishing memoirs<br />
and biographies workshop<br />
on Monday, November 20, at<br />
Oakey Library. This seminar<br />
provides everyone the opportunity<br />
to think about the process<br />
Write your life story<br />
of writing their own memoir<br />
or biography. It includes the<br />
processes of evaluating your<br />
life, and presenting it in an enjoyable,<br />
readable structure. In<br />
addition, the publication process<br />
is covered depending on the<br />
chosen market for your book.<br />
The workshop is from 10am -<br />
noon Monday, November 20,<br />
at Oakey Library. This is a free<br />
event but booking essential.<br />
Please ring Oakey Library on<br />
4692 0154.<br />
Around Groom with McVeigh<br />
Parliamentary committees<br />
are an important part of the<br />
work of the Parliament.<br />
They investigate issues<br />
and bills (proposed laws) in<br />
detail, so that the Parliament<br />
can be well-informed before<br />
making decisions of national<br />
significance.<br />
Now I am on a number of<br />
committees and it’s great that<br />
they all have significance for<br />
our electorate of Groom.<br />
I am Chair of the<br />
Select Committee for<br />
Regional Development and<br />
Decentralisation which will<br />
visit Toowoomba early in the<br />
new year. We are considering<br />
the best practice approaches<br />
to regional development<br />
and decentralisation of both<br />
government departments<br />
and corporate groups and<br />
Toowoomba and the Downs<br />
certainly has a lot to offer.<br />
On the Industry, Innovation,<br />
Science and Resources<br />
Committee we have just<br />
completed an enquiry into<br />
the potential of automated<br />
vehicles in Australia and the<br />
roads, rules and regulations<br />
we will need in the decades<br />
ahead for so called ‘driverless<br />
cars’.<br />
In regional areas like ours<br />
this will be a key issue in the<br />
future – will we use them<br />
locally and/or to go to and<br />
from Brisbane? Also, what<br />
many opportunities this will<br />
provide for the disabled and<br />
the elderly if a vehicle can be<br />
called anywhere, anytime?<br />
Much to consider!<br />
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The Agriculture and<br />
Water Resources Committee<br />
enquiry into Irrigation<br />
Water Use Efficiency across<br />
Australia has seen how our<br />
own University of Southern<br />
Queensland leads the nation<br />
in this research and that our<br />
irrigators on the Downs are<br />
among the most efficient and<br />
productive in the country.<br />
The Joint Committee for<br />
Foreign Affairs, Defence and<br />
Trade has been enquiry into<br />
opportunities for Australia’s<br />
trade with the United<br />
Kingdom following its exit<br />
from the European Union.<br />
This holds great potential<br />
for our farmers – could<br />
we see a return to the high<br />
levels of dairy exports from<br />
the Darling Downs to the<br />
United Kingdom that we last<br />
observed in the mid-1900s?<br />
And finally the Public<br />
Accounts & Audit<br />
Committee examines various<br />
Government departments’<br />
efficiency and effectiveness<br />
of service delivery including<br />
here on the Downs.<br />
Until next month regards,<br />
John<br />
To advertise phone 4615 4416 HIGH COUNTRY HERALD, NOVEMBER 7, 2017 - 11
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