A celebration of new talent
The fourth Song Muster came to a finally as the up and coming artists took to the stage for the AICM Song Muster showcase...
’It was the real Australia’
The American Country Music brothers, Chris and Donnie Davisson AKA the Davisson brothers felt right at home at the Gympie Music Muster as the...
Gympie Musters up record-breaking festival
The Gympie Music Muster has delivered the goods once again, breaking ticket sale records, packing the Amamoor Creek State Forest and seeing 50,000 visitations...
Blooming tasty!
These flower themed cupcakes are just the perfect way to say I love you to your mum this Mother’s Day, and they are really...
Proud Mary: a river story
Precede
You farm on flood plain because it’s the best ground, it’s beautiful, fertile soil.
You expect it to flood, and probably every year there’ll...
Running hot and cold
When I was a kid at high school in the 1960s, I became friendly with an immigrant Finnish brother and sister whose dad had...
Glory days of the junket
A couple of weeks back I wrote in these pages about a fabulous junket of long ago, travelling through Europe staying at grand hotels...
Tewantin’s pioneer days
By early 1870, the McGhie, Luya and Co timber partnership had built an extensive sawmill at Mill Point on the shores of Lake Cootharaba...
Remembering ‘One-Shot’
One-Shot Murray would have turned 100 last month and no doubt would have received a letter from the Queen. He might have even sent...
Love and random strangers
Bestselling author Trent Dalton finally made it to Noosa last weekend where he was mobbed by adoring readers as they snatched up copies of...
Paul Smith, image maker
Way back when Paul Smith was a semi-professional skier and snowboarder based in Switzerland, much in demand to star in action photo shoots for...
Noosa’s hidden history
A decade or two ago a friend of mine was helping with a spring clean at a local newspaper office when she noticed an...
Paraglider winched to care
The Sunshine Coast-based LifeFlight aeromedical crew winched a paraglider to safety last Sunday afternoon after a mid-air collision.
It's believed two paragliders became intertwined and...
