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Now that the awareness of the difficulties of teaching children at home is so high, the Isolated Children's Parents' Association is hoping its long-awaited request for a distance education teaching allowance will finally come to fruition.

While international competitors may have been sidelined this year for the Quilton Australian Dunny Derby, competition remained as fierce as ever in the western Queensland town of Winton on Friday night.

A $50 million program to support microgrid pilot projects across regional Australia, announced in the 2020-21 federal budget, was launched by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency on Friday.

Nerada produces approximately six per cent of black tea on the Australian market and credits its success to the Far North Queensland environment.