PEOPLE who pack up their lives after 18 years in a small town are often headed to the bigger and busier pastures of sprawling cities to be closer to facilities or family. But for long-time western Queenslander Val Magoffin, the big move from her home town of Julia Creek stopped only 120 kilometres up the road.

PM Scott Morrison announced $230m for water projects in the north.

Queensland farmers are bracing themselves for the latest onslaught of anti-agriculture legislation.