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

Today's newsletter is 423 words, a 1.8-minute read.

Welcome back to the Mackay Minute, 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 Mackay Minute newsletters of 2024

2. Mackay Minute’s Top: Articles for the year

3. Trending: Eevee spotted

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

💓Dementia Awareness grants | Google’s AI agent | 2024 Mackay Man of the Year | NASA’s first off-planet crash | Dorothy’s $28M ruby slippers and more!

🛟 Lifeguards demand fair pay | Zoetis and Beyond Blue team up for mental health | Brisbane 2032 Games feedback opens | World's rarest whale dissected and more!

🌭 Democracy sausage finder | BIG4 Adventure wins big | National Sawfish sighting week | An AI chatbot pet collar | NZ airport bans long hugs and more!

🎆SummerSalt 2025 hits Mackay | Wiki's top 25 of 2024 | Spot fake charities this giving season | Meta goes nuclear | Restoring a Rembrandt and more!

🏗️Peabody’s $2.32B coal deal | Mackay’s regional property surge | NVIDIA’s new breakthrough AI model | Ancient saber-tooth discovery and more!

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2. Our top website articles of the year

1. Mackay’s shining stars of the Resource Industry: Celebrated innovation and impact at the 2024 RIN Awards Gala!

2. Expanding Health horizons: Queensland’s Hospital enhancements by BESIX Watpac

3. Urgent appeal for blood and plasma Donations in Mackay amid record cancellations

4. Regional Tourism set for discussion at National Convention

5. Gympie Muster Up: Record-breaking festival recap

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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

🎤 Nathan Kennedy (Live) @ Seabreeze Hotel, Saturday, 28 December, Don’t miss out on an evening filled with awesome music. See you there!

🎧Markus @ Harrup Park, Saturday, 28 December, performing live in the Garden Bar.

🎶Radio Clones @ Harrup Park, Tuesday, 31 December, epic tunes, great vibes, and a night to remember. Don’t miss it!

🎆 2024 New Year's Eve River Party, Tuesday,31 December, The ever-popular NYE River Party brought to you by the Mackay Regional Council is back from 6 pm - 9 pm.

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