As the lyrics suggest, Mount Isa School of the Air spans from Julia Creek Plains to the red, rocky range. Kids in the video are from as far north as Delta Downs and Stirling Lotus Vale ...

Outside one primary school, Louise Armstrong shrugs at ... Mr Powe, who accused the government of neglecting air quality in Mount Isa, says authorities were "scared to take on the company, because ...

Silvana Gowland became friends with Ms Pienaar when they both worked in long-distance education at the Mount Isa School of the Air. When she found out Ms Pienaar was quitting to restore the ...

"It just so happened, the Qantas air mail plane was ... to Cloncurry and onto Mount Isa. Charlie Leonard, a blacksmith from Cloncurry, built the town's first school in 1924 with an iron roof ...