| Mount Isa City Council roughly 500 locals, aided by professionals from New York and other places. Last year, they also had an opera staged in the city which employed roughly 300 locals as part of the chorus, held workshops in every school in the city and conducted a special performance for school children. “We also had Troy Cassar-Daley, James Morrison and a whole series of singers join with 500 Mount Isa school children, who wrote and sung the Mount Isa song,” Mayor McGrady says. “The last three years we’ve had a number of massive cultural activities like that.” Other examples of those activities include live simulcasts of American Ballet Theatre’s Swan’s Lake, a performance by the Queensland Ballet and symphony orchestras. “This has all happened because of our new relationship with the Queensland Music Festival,” Mayor McGrady says. By making Mount Isa a cultural destination as well as a mining one, the City Council hopes to encourage more people to become part of the community, and not just
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