Imbil resident Vivien Eardley delayed becoming an artist after her Year Eight teacher told her she wasn’t good at drawing or painting. ‘It left an impression on me,’ said Ms Eardley. ‘I always had a creative crafty streak but nowhere to direct it. I made cards and...
Imagine you’re driving down a windy road when you spot an injured possum. Your instincts might tell you to hit the brakes, check what’s wrong and bundle it into your car. Research shows many of us want to help wild animals in distress. This may be out of empathy,...
Australia’s leading food rescue organisation, OzHarvest, today opens a new food rescue hub in Kunda Park on the Sunshine Coast to keep pace with soaring demand for food relief across the region. OzHarvest rescues quality surplus food from farmers, supermarkets,...
In a sea of perimenopause and menopause medication and well-being advice, two Brisbane positive psychology practitioners are offering midlife women a new program focussing on the psychological side. Fluxx founders Berni Cooper and Nicole Border say The Midlife Reframe...
The Queensland Government has listed a prime piece of riverfront land at Highgate Hill for sale after bulldozing a community garden run on the site for six years. ‘Kurilpa Commons’, at 1-3 Dudley St Highgate Hill, was started as a guerilla garden (not formally...
Tall Trees Art Inc, known for presenting the large scale Tall Trees Art Exhibition, is going lower key in 2026 with a weekend of art, food and music at Traveston Hall in the last weekend of July. Tall Trees President, Wendy Birrell, says rather than holding the major...
Following the record 2022 floods in Gympie, where several people died and many were rescued after harrowing hours in the water, Gympie Regional Council is running a Community Flood Awareness & Education Project. Joining forces with floodplain specialists, Synergy...
Immigration. It’s the gift that never stops giving to the political right and consequently remains a constant thorn in the side of the political left. While the post-war history of Britain (think Enoch Powell and Nigel Farage) and the United States (think Southern...
The husband of Kathleen Dennis, a beloved Brooloo mother-of-seven killed when her car crashed with a car driven by a meth user, has welcomed proposed drug law reforms following the Dennis family’s advocacy. Last year, 45-year-old Carla Anne Lutgenau was found guilty...
A Queensland mobile print-making studio is offering a Handset Letterpress Printmaking Workshop in Maryborough this Saturday 4 July. Moveable Type Studio (MTS) travels around Queensland with a mobile rig carrying authentic 19th century printing presses, to give...
