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Technology is Shaping the Classroom
As a student, you are required to make a number of choices throughout your schooling life. Important decisions such as which subjects to...
Jun 6, 20192 min read
REIQ WELCOMES APRA ANNOUNCEMENT
THE REIQ welcomes news today that APRA is proposing removing the quantitative guidance on the level of the serviceability floor rate,...
Jun 6, 20192 min read


Landscape Plant of the Month by Mick O’Brien Dip.Hort(MAIH) Tibouchina ‘Peace Baby’
Tibouchina ‘Peace Baby’, is a gorgeous, free- flowering and compact evergreen shrub with large white flowers with spectacular pink...
Jun 6, 20192 min read


Sustainable Gardening- Soils ain’t Soils The morning dews!
Its official- winter it is, and the temperatures have finally dropped accordingly but those very damp weather conditions we experienced...
Jun 6, 20193 min read


Winter in the subtropics, its blooming marvellous!
The temps are receding these last few weeks, but how good is it to see so much variety of winter flowers blooming around the place? With...
Jun 6, 20192 min read


BRIBIE ISLAND CROQUET CLUB CONQUERS NORFOLK ISLAND.
Some of the healthiest and fittest retirees are golf croquet players!! Recently at the Pumicestone Passage Probus Club Bribie Island we...
Jun 6, 20192 min read


Country Singer devotes his time to non-profit Country Music Club, Sundowners Country Club Inc.
Country music singer Rod Williams, Friend and one time music colleague and mentor to world super star Keith Urban now days spends his...
Jun 6, 20192 min read
More protection for children under tougher Blue Card laws
More protection for children under tougher Blue Card laws The Palaszczuk Government has added 15 more crimes to the list of disqualifying...
Jun 6, 20192 min read


Wine and Whiskey; Jazz and Lawyers; Camping and Rare Books: Is there a Common Denominator ?
What do camping, whiskey, jazz, lawyers and rare books have in common? Rotary of course. Getting together to build friendships and...
Jun 6, 20193 min read


Statement from the Premier - Vale Bob Hawke
Bob Hawke was a genuine man of the people. It didn’t matter who you were, where you lived or what you did, Bob treated everyone the same....
Jun 6, 20191 min read
Not knowing crabbing rules results in $7000 fine at Caboolture
Crabbers are urged to know Queensland’s crabbing rules after a man was fined more than $7000 for taking undersized crabs from the...
Jun 6, 20192 min read
Malolo Lai Lai – A glittering light in a blue ocean, and the original home of a Sea Captain…Captain
A couple of times in your life, if you are lucky, you experience just what the world has to offer by way of natural beauty and connect...
Jun 6, 20195 min read
World Environment Day
Our environment is taken for granted. It’s a luxury that we have become so accustomed to that we do not realise how much we have abused...
Jun 6, 20192 min read
Queensland says ‘thank you’ to P&C volunteers – Nominations are now open for 2019.
Queensland says ‘thank you’ to P&C volunteers – Nominations are now open for 2019. Education Minister Grace Grace has launched the fifth...
Jun 6, 20192 min read


Pelican Update
In April this year bird deterrents were installed on the Bribie Island Bridge, as of the writing of this article the deterrents remain in...
Jun 6, 20193 min read


Thoughts about leadership
As I am writing this column soon after Election Day, it’s appropriate to ponder on the word ‘leadership’. One dictionary tells us that...
Jun 6, 20193 min read


Fresh New Plans for Senior Citizens Hall with Renovation and New Management!
Bribie Respite and Support Services has resumed management of the Senior Citizens Hall on its site, a building it has owned for 30 years....
Jun 6, 20192 min read
Hold on to your hats - QSEC’s Rodeo Round Up is on!
Get amongst all the action at one of the state’s premier venues for equestrian sport when the Queensland State Equestrian Centre (QSEC)...
Jun 6, 20191 min read
New survey to assess contribution of Queensland’s commercial fisheries
New survey to assess contribution of Queensland’s commercial fisheries Commercial fisheries are a valuable part of the Queensland economy...
Jun 6, 20192 min read
RATEPAYERS TO FIGHT COUNCIL
It is a sad day when ratepayers are forced to take court action against council decisions because it is the only course of action left to...
May 9, 20193 min read
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