Ms SHARKIE: My question is to the Minister for Resources, Water and Northern Australia. On 28 May in Senate estimates the government advised that only 100 gigalitres of water is estimated to be recovered through efficiency measures. With water buybacks now ruled out, exactly how will the government secure the remaining 350 gigalitres committed to the Murray-Darling Basin Plan?

Mr THOMPSON: My question is to the Minister for Resources, Water and Northern Australia. Will the minister outline to the House how the resource sector is contributing to Australia’s economy and how the Morrison government’s support is delivering jobs and prosperity for all Australians?

News Corp’s decision to stop printing a large number of newspapers right across the country, including regional Queensland, will have a long-lasting impact on regional journalism.

Twenty-three young athletes across the Bundaberg and Hervey Bay region have received a helping hand for competitions held before coronavirus struck.

Today’s news of the retirement of State Member for Hervey Bay Ted Sorensen was described as ’the end of an era’.