Mount Isa Council in push for University of Queensland engineering campus in town

Despite the town being known as Australia’s mining capital, Mount Isa’s City Council has had to plead with major universities to offer related degrees locally.

Currently if a Mount Isa local wants to study engineering, they need to travel at least 1,300 kilometres away — even though there’s a copper, zinc and lead mine less than a kilometre away from the main street of the town.

It’s a situation that Mayor…