Mount Isa City Council | A SPECIAL COMMUNITY modern in that time, much remains the same. Mount Isa is still the premier mining city of Australia, and its multi-cultural make-up has continued to make it unique. Over time, McGrady has himself served the needs of this unique city as State Labor member for Mount Isa, and has been Minister for Resource Industries, Energy, Mines, Police and Corrective Services, innovation and State Development and Speaker. After retiring from state politics, he was again elected Mayor of Mount Isa in 2012. Today, Mount Isa has all the comforts, shops and services that one would expect to find in a modern city – combined with the sense friendliness and community that comes with being in the country. “Mount Isa is a very special type of community,” Mayor McGrady says. “The people are unique. There is a special friendship among countrymen you don’t always get in the city.” “I can walk into any shop, hotel, pub, club or down any street, and everybody knows me and says ‘Hello, good day, how are you?’” he says. “That’s something you don’t find everywhere. When I became a Minister, I walked into the lift in Parliament House. Of course,
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