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The Division of Capricornia is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland. Capricornia is a traditionally a Labor-voting electorate, having been Labor-held for 72 years of the 100 years since 1922. However, Capricornia has recently trended towards the Coalition since 2013.
The Queensland Police Service have stations that service the Capricorn Coast at Emu Park, Yeppoon, and Lakes Creek (suburb of North Rockhampton). [67] Queensland Fire and Rescue has permanently staffed stations in Emu Park and Yeppoon. [68] The Royal Flying Doctor Service is based at Rockhampton Airport and services all of Central Queensland. [69]
Capricorn Coast is a national park in the Shire of Livingstone, Queensland, Australia. [1] Geography. The park is 535 km northwest of Brisbane.
Officially launched as The National Today Show, [1] Today is Australia's longest running morning breakfast news program. [2] The show premiered on 28 June 1982. The original hosts, Steve Liebmann and Sue Kellaway, spent four years together before Liebmann left to present the evening news for Network Ten in Sydney.
Local news bulletins are broadcast on ABC Capricornia at 6:30 am, 7:30 am, and 12:00 pm on weekdays. Previously ABC Capricornia also aired local news bulletins at 8:30 am and 5:30 pm but under controversial programming changes [3] that were implemented nationwide by the ABC in early 2016, [4] the five local bulletins on ABC Capricornia were reduced to three.
Central Queensland includes the Bowen Basin which is rich in high quality coking coal, the Port of Gladstone produces 40% of the state's export earnings, the Fitzroy River is the second-largest river system in Australia and commands significant water resources such as Fairbairn Dam. Gladstone has a significant aluminium smelter.
In 1996, a prize bull escaped from its handlers at the Rockhampton Agricultural Show and charged a lunchtime crowd at the showgrounds resulting in some injuries to attendees. [39] In 2018, two prison inmates from the Capricornia Correctional Centre escaped from the Rockhampton Showgrounds where they were completing a community work order. [40]
North West Island is a coral cay in the southern Great Barrier Reef, located 75 kilometres northeast of Gladstone, Queensland.North West Island forms part of Capricornia Cays National Park and with an area of 1.05 km 2, the island is the second largest coral cay in the Great Barrier Reef.