Wheels turn, churning meals
By RON LANE
It was the end of 1940 and the destruction was horrendous. Many thousands were killed and homes destroyed. An estimated one third...
You gotta have a permit son
Doonan volunteer fire fighter Andrew Bell shares tips for the coming fire season, as well as keeping Noosa Today readers up-to-date on the happenings...
Games ends on high note
IT may have not been an Olympic or Commonwealth Games, but I am stoked to have been involved with the successful Pacific Games in...
Stranded in paradise
By PHIL JARRATT
“THE latest advice from our team of meteorologists and the Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre is that conditions are no longer suitable for...
Games curtains with a bang
Benny's Beat
MY latest sporting adventure is drawing to a close with the highly anticipated closing ceremony of the Pacific Games on Saturday night.
Organisers have...
Pearl of the Orient
By PHIL JARRATT
I'M A sucker for historical tourism. I love to walk the streets and fields of history, and when you find a place...
Royal salute at Pacific Games
IT MAY not have been an Olympics or Commonwealth Games but the opening ceremony of the 15th Pacific Games here in Port Moresby had...
Less is more in old Ipoh
By PHIL JARRATT
UNLESS we told you, you’d probably never spot this sexy new hotel cleverly built over and around an ancient cafe....
Straits times
By PHIL JARRATT
IT had been almost a decade since I’d hung out in Singapore, and back in those days either I had...
Coming of age in Bali
By PHIL JARRATT
FEASTING on the buffet at our friend Mark Keatinge’s tooth filing ceremony (mesangih) this week, I suddenly noticed that of...
Bill’s unique Bali story
By PHIL JARRATT
Notes from the past
FROM the mountains to the sea, from the surreal to the sublime this week. The sublime was...
Mercy said no, but power..
By PHIL JARRATT
BACK in February in this column I wrote: “My heart goes out to Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan and their...
Magic of Christmas
Christmas was celebrated right across Noosa Shire this week with events including festivals, carol singing, Christmas-styled flotillas and one even saw Santa parachuting from...
