In just a few hour more than 50,000 people had seen the post. The next day the reach was somewhere near 65,000.

On Saturday a live video of the interview Shelley Watts gave at the launch of the Optus Local Heroes campaign reached over 80,000 people in just a few hours.

Not bad for a small-town “newspaper”.

Lots of opinions flew on social media as news broke about Rob Oakeshott’s tilt to return to politics, this time for the seat of Cowper.

Here’s what people were saying on the web:

LNP essentially bought the good Doctor his seat in parliament with its torrent of anti Oakeshott political advertising. Remember that Tony Abbott was the good doctor’s best man at his wedding. Something about dogs and fleas comes to mind.

Ken Drayton 

This is seriously a joke right? A bad one! Will he wait till the end and just side with the winning party?

Martin Mozeley 

Good thing. An Independent gives the voters a choice. Maybe,... the voters might look a little deeper and not be like sheep! 

Gary Lancaster

Ohhh nooo!! Gary? Are you drunk? Cast your mind back Kevin/Julia/Kevin or is it Julia show when this bird-brain, Tony Windsor and Wilkie helped destroy a $28 billion surplus! Looks like Rob has failed at medicine and like a bad virus has come back … somebody bloody save us.

Carol Johnson

So glad he’s back, there is hope for us yet!

Jessica Johnson

About time we got someone interested in more than photoshoots.

Liz Wagner

Oh, no …

Judy Jackson