A massive opportunity

NORTH Queensland is missing out on millions or billions of dollars by not declaring our region a prohibited area.

By closing down any influx of persons to the Mackay, Townsville and Cairns region any coronavirus should be able to be brought under control with extreme methods of control.

Once virus-free we become the greatest alternative for both our major sporting codes to play their seasons.

All they need do is go through the 14day quarantine period with the players and staff to be located to one of our cities. Being virus-free we could have crowds and the television audience worldwide would be billions as there is no other sport to watch. There is also the massive opportunity for Olympic athletes to train here. Tourist would be more than willing to do 14 to 21 days quarantine to come to a virus-free region.

Lewis Collier, Redlynch 1944: Adolf Hitler is injured by a bomb in an attache case, an assassination attempt by German officers that leads to a brutal purge.

1969: US astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin become the first men to set foot on the moon (above). 2004: The European Commission approves a merger between the record companies Sony Music and BMG that reduces the number of global music firms to four.

2017: Former sports star and actor OJ Simpson is granted parole after serving nine years of a 33-year sentence for armed robbery in Las Vegas. Simpson was acquitted of two counts of murder in the 1994 slayings of his ex-wife Nicole Brown-Simpson and Ron Goldman, but a civil court jury found him liable for wrongful death and ordered him to pay $US33.5 million.