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Beaudesert bull rider leads Origin challenge

BEAUDESERT bull rider Jared Borghero will lead Queensland’s Origin challenge against NSW in the upcoming Professional Bull Riders (PBR) series. Borghero is coach of the Maroon team striving to maintain its dominance of past years. Although the...

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09 Apr 2025

Sport

Junior influx enhances canoe club celebration

ENTHUSIASTIC Broken Paddle Canoe Club (BPCC) members, officials and parents shared in a fun Canoe Polo break-up and presentation, buoyed by a growth in participants. Club secretary Bev Wigginton and president Tim Claridge were elated with the...

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09 Apr 2025

Council

A Message from Cr Marshall Chalk

I AM sure everyone in our rural community has been as saddened as I have by the flooding we have seen in western Queensland and the devastating losses suffered by so many primary producers.

Guest Writer

09 Apr 2025

Editorial

Letter to the Editor - Mountain land value hike

I’M not sure where the figures for Tamborine Mountain land valuations came from (FG 02.04.2025), but my valuation has gone from $540,000 to $810,000.

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09 Apr 2025

Arts

Why wildlife art always has the WOW factor

A LITTLE over 250 years ago, British botanist Joseph Banks asked the celebrated artist George Stubbs to paint a strange animal he’d collected on Lt James Cook’s 1768-1771 voyage of discovery in HMS Endeavour.

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02 Apr 2025

Council

A message from Cr Duncan McInnes

THREE weeks on from Tropical Cyclone Alfred we had hoped that the worst of the wet weather was behind us but unfortunately our rural community has been dealt another blow with the rain which began late last week.

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02 Apr 2025