The Region is home for the larger part of Qld's Sugar industry and Bowen basin Coal mining industry. Surrounding this economic base is a thriving engineering and manufacturing sector producing world leading technology and quality with exports growing annually.
For more information about the Mackay Region:
Mackay Whitsunday Regional Economic Development Corporation
www.mwredc.org.au
Mackay Regional ACC
www.mracc.org.au
Australian Bureau of Statistics
www.abs.gov.au
Department of State Development, Trade & Innovation
www.sd.qld.gov.au
Information Industries Bureau
www.iib.qld.gov.au
Office of Economic and Statistical Research
www.oesr.qld.gov.au
Mackay Tourism Limited
www.mackayregion.com