One in three Australians says they are lonely. To be lonely is to feel a lack of adequate social connection. Loneliness is about feeling disconnected from others or unable to form the kinds of relationships people need to feel seen and supported. It’s often shaped by...
Our retirement was supposed to open the door to adventure, travel and new experiences, but a string of looming health issues threatened to slam that door shut. Faced with the possibility that our retirement might be shaped more by medical appointments than mountain...
The Crisafulli Government’s 25-year Queensland Future Timber Plan will lock in native forest logging until 2050 and grow the state’s forestry plantations by 25,000 hectares. Around 300,000 hectares of state forest are currently under licence for plantation production....
Two Queensland farming families have won 2025 National Landcare Awards for climate innovation and sustainable agriculture, in an award ceremony on the Gold Coast last month. Monto beef producers Grant and Carly Burnham won the Climate Innovation Award which celebrates...
The Gold Coast will host the National Landcare Conference 2025 from 21 to 24 September, offering a NextGen Summit (18-35yr), First Nations Gathering, Landcare Short Film Festival and field trip program. Landcare champion and ABC TV presenter, Costa Georgiadis, will MC...
The field of plant humanities includes botany, taxonomy and plant evolution on the one hand, and literature, law and the arts on the other. Recent publications have covered botanical histories, imperialist plant-collecting fervour, queer botany, botanical...
Chanterelle Foggin is a forager, wild food educator, mushroom hunter, edible weeds advocate, cooking and food writer writer based in New South Wales. While The Pineapple usually features Queensland writers, this recipe features Bunya Nuts and Davidson Plums, both of...
When I first moved to the Northern Rivers of NSW, the back garden of my country-town rental abode offered a fruit-salad of mulberries, passionfruit, paw-paw, custard apples… and pineapples! I took great delight in showing friends, old and new, the pineapples. “Do you...
Here's a healthy and delicious chicken nuggets recipe by Queensland blogger Perri from Perri's Plants to Plate who is passionate about growing native edible plants and blogs on Perri's Plants to Plate. Here's the first of a series of Perri's recipes we'll be bringing...
A botanical survey of the banks of Enoggera Creek at The Gap, in Brisbane’s north-west, has found the area meets the criteria for critically endangered Lowland Rainforest of Subtropical Australia. The survey involved botanist Rob Price and volunteers identifying plant...
