Munce Tipped To Pass With Flying Colours

'In the boxes I felt a bit tentative when we lined up. As soon as those gates crashed open, you get those hooves in amongst the field . . . adrenalin, or whatever it is, goes through your body. You seem to belong there. That's what you missed most. That came back quickly, but as far as getting your timing right, pace, things like that, it takes a little while. Knowing the horses, the form."

Farmers Voice Water Fee Fear

FOOD growers in south-east Queensland's salad bowl in the Lockyer Valley say they have no qualms over using treated sewage on their crops but the likely cost might be too high.

Bargain Hunt Changes Focus

Investors may be looking elsewhere for better returns, writes Alex May.

Bargain Hunt Changes Focus In Patchy Market

Investors may be looking elsewhere for better returns, writes Alex May.

Cassidy May Be Next Jockey To Strike Gold With Flying Filly

TOOWOOMBA tornado Gold Edition signalled she was on track to extend her dominance at Randwick on Saturday with a sparkling Warwick Farm trial performance yesterday.

What's In A Bloody Name?

ONE can only wonder how the name ever got through, but a galloper called Bloody Quick proved to be just that in the 1100-metre maiden plate at Toowoomba on Saturday night.

Another Country

For more than 1000 Sudanese people, the flight from bloody civil war and desolate refugee camps has ended in Toowoomba, Queensland. While some are thriving, others have found that their problems are far from over. Frank Robson meets Australia's new outsiders.

A Monarch Who Pursued Schemes To Enrich His Land

TAUFA'AHAU TUPOU IV KING OF TONGA 4-7-1918 - 10-9-2006

Showing Off The Belle Of The Mall

The idiosyncrasies of the Australian cityscape are demystified at an exhibit at the Venice Architecture Biennale, writes Mary O'Brien.

Single Rose Right For Big Occasion

A highly promising filly may be about to bloom, writes Max Presnell.

The Gatton Murders

The Gatton Murders Stephanie Bennett Macmillan, $30

New Sports Model Is A Mix Of The Exotic

IS 2004 the year of the sports car? It would seem so given the publicity surrounding the new Elfin-Holdens, the Oz-bound Pagani Zonda and Noble's M12. Now there is another car on the horizon and it hails from the sleepy south-east Queensland town of Gatton.

Man With Scythe Shot

POLICE shot a man in the leg when he threatened them with a scythe at Gatton, west of Brisbane, yesterday.

Win Like Flynn's Stuns Nationals

Rusted-on National Party supporters who gathered at the Gatton RSL on Saturday night were left scratching their heads about One Nation's success in reclaiming the seat of Lockyer, 100 kilometres west of Brisbane.

Wednesday 7 February

10 days until the Gatton Street Sprints in Queensland. Birthday of James Spader and Garth Brooks. 37 years since US heavyweight boxing champion Cassius Clay changed his name to Muhammad Ali after becoming a Muslim. "Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we de

Ettridge Nowhere In Sight

In an indication of tensions within the leadership of One Nation, the party's national director, Mr David Ettridge, was not invited to One Nation's election campaign launch yesterday. Mr Ettridge was unaware of the launch in the Gatton Senior Citizens' Centre, in the Lockyer Valley west of Brisba

Mum's Not The Word On Hanson

On Wednesday night in Gatton, west of Brisbane, Pauline Hanson declared: ``I care so passionately about this country it's like I'm a mother. Australia is my home and the Australian people are my children." Not everyone was impressed. The Prime Minister, Mr John Howard, responded by describi

Hanson Is Seniors' Cup Of Tea

Asked why she liked Pauline Hanson, the 83-year-old Gatton nursing home resident was blunt. ``She'll take the money off those Abos," the frail elderly woman declared, before qualifying her response by adding that Aboriginal funding was not reaching those most in need. It was being sipho

'sly' Olsen To Stall Darren's Bid For Moore

Surely there are few serious "contact sports" in which one as "mature" as Larry Olsen would be given a chance against one at the peak of his powers like Darren Beadman. Olsen rode his first winner at Gatton on September 25, 1963. Beadman was born two and a bit years later on

Cruel Silences

GATTON MAN, By Merv Lilley, McPhee Gribble, $17.95. ON BOXING Day, 1898, three members of the Murphy family were murdered in a paddock near their farm. The killer of Norah, Ellen and Michael Murphy was never found. In 1977 James and Desmond Gibney wrote a book about the brutal rapes and killing