Sally Gall

After weeks of mounting concern, interstate boarding school students and their families have received the news they'd been hoping for, that they will be exempt from being made to quarantine when they return for the final term of school in Queensland.

After weeks of mounting concern, interstate boarding school students and their families have received the news they'd been hoping for, that they will be exempt from being made to quarantine when they return for the final term of school in Queensland.

News that the Queensland government will not give any quarantine exemptions for rural NSW families wanting to bring their children home for holidays in three weeks time has devastated hundreds of families and their schools overnight.

The decision by rural lobby group AgForce to abstain from voting on an aspirational economy-wide target of net carbon zero emissions by 2050, as part of an NFF policy, has not been received favourably by the Green Shirts grassroots agricultural group.

The growing distress at the critical circumstances facing a number of boarding school families as mid-semester holidays approach has prompted nine school principals to make an urgent joint appeal to the state government.

Queensland's boarding schools are seeking "reasonableness" in relation to border exemptions for NSW families based on semi-isolated properties and in small rural towns.

Injune's Shaw family has been breaking records at the Roma saleyards for a number of years, and they did it again on Tuesday.

The south coast of New South Wales is far enough away from Brisbane that it would prevent 83-year-old rhyme-master John Davis from attending the Ekka at the best of times.

The welfare of 300 cattle in remote south western Queensland is being compromised by the Queensland government's refusal to grant exemption permits for essential agricultural work, according to their Victorian owners.

The Isolated Children's Parents' Association has flagged with the federal government a growing concern that this year's geographically isolated 'gap year' students may become ineligible for independent Youth Allowance as a result of COVID-19 job losses and decreased employment opportunities.