🎇Our final 2024 newsletter | Australia's Google results of 2024 | Top articles and more!

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Welcome back to the Rocky News, our final Thursday newsletter of 2024.

We hope you had a Merry Christmas and are enjoying taking it a little easier today.

The weather is perfect, and the Aussies are getting stuck into the Boxing Day Test 👌

Have a Happy New Year, and we can’t wait to keep bringing you more in 2025.

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In today's email:

1. One Big Thing: The top 5 Rocky News newsletters of 2024

2. Rocky News’ Top: Articles for the year

3. Trending: First-ever Barramundi

4. Around the web (Snippets): Just a few..

5. Upcoming events

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1. One Big Thing: Our Top 5 Newsletters of 2024

‼️ Rocky Hospital high demand warning | Wiki's top 25 of 2024 | Christmas Lunch with CTC | Carinity celebrates volunteers | Meta goes nuclear | Restoring a Rembrandt and more!

❤️Rockhampton families heal together | $900K Mental health boost | Public input for Games Review | Lifeblood urges 50 Donors| Magnetic North Pole shift and more!

🤖Google’s AI agent unveiled | Woollam’s 140-Year milestone | Top complained Ad of 2024 | A leap from labs to learning | NASA’s first off-planet crash and more!

📈Rockhampton City crime stats comparison | A $20M Keppel yacht club upgrade | NVIDIA’s new breakthrough AI model | Rocky wrappers return and more!

🏭 $5M boost for QLD manufacturing | Construction starts on 1st over-50s local community | Last week's poll results | Trump's robot dogs on the loose and more!

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2. Our top website articles of the year

1. Berserker Tavern reopens with stunning renovation

2. Rockhampton bloke engaging kids out of crime and into painting community buildings

3. The Rise of Chamber Music: Strike A Chord’s Impact on Australian Students

4. CTC hosts Christmas Lunch for Rocky’s at-risk communities

5. I-MED expands remote MRI Services in Queensland

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3. Trending

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4. Around The Web (Snippets)

1. A humanoid robot has been considered by: OpenAI, although abandoning the pursuit just prior to the AI boom

2. Here are the Top 10 stories of 2024 by the: Smithsonian, with articles of the year including a close-up look at the adorable yet venomous pygmy slow loris, a profile of a little-known 20th-century street photographer and a majestic journey with divers into Mexico’s underwater caves

3. The most famous crocodile in the world, Burt, has: Died at the ripe old age of around 90, the reptilian star of the 1986 movie Crocodile Dundee

4. Here’s what the Australian 2024 Google: Year in Search looked like👇

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5. Upcoming Events

🎵JAMES JOHNSTON + ROBBIE MORTIMER, Saturday, 28 December, Experience James Johnston live, performing high energy with the hits you know and love! Don’t miss this electrifying night of country music with special guest Robbie Mortimer.

🎶ZAC & GEORGE + TYLA RODRIGUES, Sunday, 29 December, Enjoy an incredible performance by Zac & George, supported by Tyla Rodrigues, a fresh and rising star in Australian country music.

✍ Songwriters Round - Dinner & Show, Monday, 30 December, We are presenting a Nashville-like experience Songwriters Round where we will have Aussie artists on stage sharing songs and stories in a round whilst you enjoy a Texan Low & Slow smorgasbord.

🎇Rockhampton NYE Light Up the Sky Fireworks, Tuesday, 31 December, Rockhampton’s NYE Light Up the Sky is back, bringing the community together for a spectacular end to 2024.

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