Ensuring more communities across Australia have access to books, BIG W is extending its in-store Free Books for Kids program by donating 40,000 books to 100 regional and remote schools ...

Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a ...

Indigenous mentor Joan Marshall, Neil Owens, 9, and teacher Tina Butcher in the bush tucker garden at Central State School in Mount Isa.(ABC North West Queensland: Kathleen Calderwood) A bush ...

Thousands of schoolchildren in the outback city of Mount Isa ... to school that morning traumatised, and ended up having a whole week off." Ms Ratcliffe is among those calling for a state-funded ...