Rockhampton´s big back yard reopens
(WorldNews Asia)

Rockhampton`s `big back yard`, Kershaw Gardens, reopened today for the first time in three years thanks to $5 million from the Queensland Government`s Building our Regions program. Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said the newly revitalised gardens will give Rockhampton its iconic community centrepiece back, following on from the destruction of Severe Tropical Cyclone Marcia. `In February 2015, Severe Tropical Cyclone Marcia had a devastating impact across Central Queensland with extensive structural damage to houses and businesses, fallen trees, downed powerlines, heavy rainfall and storm surges,` Ms Palaszczuk said. `Kershaw Gardens was certainly not spared-suffering widespread damage...