I recently caught up with the crew at the Whitsunday Moto Sports Club outside Proserpine today to check on progress of their plans to install lights to enable night-time events.

Whitsunday Moto Sports Club will receive a Community Development Grant of $480,000 to light up their venue.

Work on a new sporting facility for the Whitsunday community of Hydeaway Bay kicks off this week following approval of funding committed by the Morrison Liberal National Government in April last year.

The Gloucester Sports & Recreation Association has received $194,000 under the Community Development Grants program to build a two-lane synthetic bowling green.

A Labor Senator has recently been rubbishing the Morrison Liberal National Government’s Community Sports Infrastructure Grant, describing it as a ‘rort’.

The grants program has benefited thousands of sporting men, women and children by providing much needed upgrades and repairs to aging and flood-damaged sporting facilities.

A group of international scientists who have spent three years seeking to replicate the alleged effects of CO2 emissions on reef fish have found that eight previous studies published by scientists from James Cook University’s Coral Reef Centre cannot be validated at all.