Boost to federal MPs' travel pay

FEDERAL MPs have been awarded a 7 per cent increase in travel allowances to attend Parliament in Canberra €“ four times the rate of inflation.

Deals

DEAL OF THE WEEK: Traveltrain Holidays is offering 30 per cent off fares to travellers buying one of its outback packages to Longreach, Charleville or Mount Isa this summer. Phone 1800 627 655 or see a Queensland Travel Centre agent. SOMETHING FOR NOW THE fresh cool air of the Blue Mo

Goin' Bush

I HAVE always been emotional, but I never thought that one day I would cry with pleasure at the sight of bitumen. Three days before that tearful reunion, my husband and I had chosen the Plenty Highway as an adventurous alternative to the 1200 sealed kilometres between Mount Isa and Alice Springs