Maranoa Region

But Regional Voices Queensland says the existing framework still leaves gaps.

Maranoa MP David Littleproud, who helped bring the meeting together, says the landholders are asking for practical safeguards, not simply opposing renewable energy.

They're not asking for anything irrational.

They're actually being quite considered and it's coming from a lived experience.

The taxpayer shouldn't be burdened with it at the end of it.

Maranoa MP David Littleproud ending that report from Brandon Long.

It's ten past twelve.

You're listening to the Queensland Country Hour.

So it's relatively dry compared to what we've experienced, but still ongoing shower and thunderstorm activity, particularly around the Charleville area.

Tomorrow could get up to 20 millimetres around that area and parts of the Maranoa and Warrego.

A little bit less and a little bit more hit and miss as you go a little bit further north up towards Longreach and through The central highlands and coalfields too could pick up some shower and potentially maybe a thunderstorm activity through there.

But really the bullseye tomorrow is around that Charleville area in terms of the highest chance of rainfall in the southern interior.

And so you have to get the... really had to get the process through the Parliament of New South Wales, and you can go back and actually read the hands there, how vehemently opposed to separation of Queensland from New South Wales.

However, the people pushing for a Queensland state, the people out of the Maranoa, White Bay, Burnett and Moreton Bay, they bypassed the Sydney Parliament and went straight to the British Colonial Office and asserted their rights as British subjects to petition the Queen directly.

And that was successful.

And of course, they were the last colony to become a separate colony in 1859.

Recalibration, I guess you could say, for some of our weekend events.

And organisers have cancelled the horse racing in the Maranoa town of Mitchell with rainfall forecast for this weekend.

But they do say that the annual race day celebrations are still going ahead.

About a month ago, racing was also cancelled at the Surat races because of prolonged drought conditions across southern Queensland.

Maranoa Diggers Race Club Secretary Jan Chambers says it is disappointing...

But the rain is much needed.

The event is our usual once a year race day, but we won't be having the horses owing to the weather and we can't curse the rain.

Yeah, definitely.

Here's hoping that everybody gets wet.

Some rain yesterday in the Maranoa.

We'll get to that as well.

Very good morning to everybody listening to us th- through 4SB in Kingaroy, 4ZR in Roma, 4VL in Charleville, 4RHI in Emerald, 4LM Mount Isa, 4LG Longreach, 4GC Charters Towers, the Hot Country Network, good morning to you.

Um, talk to me, talk to me firstly weather.

Um, everybody's anticipating rain, um, scuds, and there's different rain...

What, what's happening in the Maranoa so far this week?

Um, yeah, certainly a bit of humidity stirring up a few storms, Ben.

So rainfall yesterday to nine AM this morning was really focused south of Clermont.

So, uh, one to fifteen millimeters kind of scattered falls south of Clermont into the Darling Downs, it going about, uh, through Maranoa and Warrego and also out in the parts of the southwest.

So that was, uh, well, to nine AM this morning, uh, Spicer's Peak, uh, which is a little bit north of Goondiwindi, got twenty-five millimeters to nine AM.

And then today we are seeing that band of showers to continue to push eastwards, so starting to see, uh, widespread falls across the Darling Downs around that one to five millimeters, uh, and also a bit further west too.

We're starting to see some, some sort of thunderstorms around Charleville and Cunnamulla pushing in too.

So some falls, uh, through the Maranoa and Warrego, uh, around that, uh, two to five millimeters as well.

And starting to get into the southeast coastal districts as well, starting to get, uh, some, some rainfall up to around five millimeters, uh, through western parts there as that system moves east, uh, today.

today.And how is that likely to develop today? Is there more in store?