Derek Barry

Editor, the North West Star

Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspaper. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.

REAL AUSTRALIAUh-oh. Bob Katter's got a point

Derek Barry
15 Jan 2020, 3:30 p.m.

Mount Isa and Longreach weather radars are down in cyclone season

Derek Barry
14 Jan 2020, 6 a.m.

Norfolk Island: Paradise with a dark, colonial past and an unclear future

Derek Barry
15 Dec 2019, 1 p.m.

Senator launches inquiry into Civil Aviation Safety Authority

Derek Barry
9 Dec 2019, 7 a.m.

REAL AUSTRALIARare chance to beat China at its own game

Derek Barry
5 Dec 2019, 3:30 p.m.

Sacred artifacts to return from the UK to Burketown

Derek Barry
22 Nov 2019, 3:40 p.m.

Premier takes her cabinet to Mount Isa

Derek Barry
15 Nov 2019, 6 a.m.

REAL AUSTRALIAWell, I heard it on the radio and I saw it on the television

Derek Barry
6 Nov 2019, 3:30 p.m.

Outback in Focus captures Queensland's stunning spirit

Derek Barry
1 Nov 2019, 4 p.m.

Whale dies after being stranded on a sandbank in 40 degrees

Derek Barry
10 Oct 2019, 9 a.m.

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