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The Deep South and the Caribbean
Last night I was lucky to join around 60 mainly locals at the Grand Chameleon on Long Road; local musician Kirk Lorange and friends were playing the blues. They were having so much fun it […]
Month: June 2024
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Tourism careers
HIGH school students, school leavers and mature-aged workers in the Scenic Rim are being encouraged to ‘join the crew’ and discover a career in the tourism industry. The newly launched Choose Tourism campaign for Queensland […]
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Death of the Sentinel
Since 1925 a large rock formation has stood watch over motorists driving up to the mountain from Tamborine. The Sentinel, as it became known, was a piece of ancient basalt standing beside the upper S […]
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Judith Roland
SINCE 2004 Judith Roland has devoted her time to regenerating and caring for the forests and natural landscape of Tamborine Mountain. She’s up early and is out most days quietly planting, weeding or meeting with […]
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Local designer best in the land – Jez Clark
DESIGNING the interior of a home and its gardens takes on even greater focus and importance when you are investing multi-millions into the house you are building. If you want to put an exclamation mark […]
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Poetry under the piccabeen palms
How does a poet end up flat on his back? The culprit was probably a nocturnal digging bandicoot, causing poet B.R. (Brett) Dionysius’s deckchair to tip up at last year’s gala Calanthe Poetry Competition event. Thankfully, no […]
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July is National Desexing month 2024
Thanks to over 200 participating vet clinics around Australia that offer a discounted fee, thousands of cats and dogs were desexed in 2023. Visit the website at www.ndn.org.au. There are two participating clinics on the Gold […]
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New campaign to champion grassroots journalism
The Local and Independent News Association (LINA) has launched a pivotal nationwide campaign aimed at growing diverse, community focussed voices in Australia’s embattled media landscape for 33 participating publications including Canungra Times, Beaudesert Bulletin and […]
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Bushwalker winched to safety
The Toowoomba-based RACQ LifeFlight Rescue helicopter crew was tasked to rescue a female bushwalker in the Scenic Rim this afternoon, Sunday June 2. The aeromedical team was tasked to the remote and rocky mountain range […]