News
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Veteran SES member honoured by award
SCENIC Rim SES Unit was a standout at this year’s SES Week awards with multiple awards coming its way. It won Region Unit/Group of the…
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Another chicken farm planned for Moorang
A PRIVATE investment group wants to expand its poultry farm holdings in Moorang, north west of Aratula. Montauban Poultry has applied to the Scenic Rim…
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Council quashes plans for the mini shopping centre
COUNCIL has vetoed plans by a Gold Coast company to build a mini shopping centre on a vacant commercial block in Church Street, Boonah. In…
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Fassifern Police 27th September 2023
Bushfire Season Be bushfire ready this season by being prepared and have your bushfire plans ready. This summer is shaping as a dry hot summer…
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Letter to the Editor – Voice to Parliament
BEFORE you vote ‘No’ in the coming referendum, think of a few things. Firstly, what is the motivation behind those encouraging you to vote No?…
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El Nino confirmed farmers prepare
THIS time last year South East Queensland endured some of the wettest weather it’d had in years now it is heading in the opposite direction…
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Munbilla development a ‘forever nightmare’ for Council
ITS FIRST iteration was known as Lakeville. A total of 130 town allotments forming the core of what was expected to become the capital of…
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The Beauty of Life – The Girl in the Red Dress
IT’S 181 years since the convict painter Thomas Bock completed this watercolour of an Aboriginal girl in Tasmania, commissioned by the Lieutenant-Governor Sir John Franklin…
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Helicopter crashes into dam at Tarome
A helicopter involved in water bombing a bushfire has crashed into a farm dam at Tarome on Wednesday afternoon around 3.00pm. Boonah Police report that the…
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Land regeneration and weed control projects to be funded
PROJECTS to remove weeds from dry vine scrub and koala habitat were among the 41 projects recommended for approval under the Scenic Rim Council’s $155,000…
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Upgrade promised for Boonah Hospital
BOONAH Hospital has been added to the list of health facilities which will be upgraded under the State Government’s more than $1 billion Building Rural…
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The Beauty of Life – The High Cost of Knowing
IN HIS book’ The Explorers’, Scientist and writer Tim Flannery described the explorer Ernest Giles, as … “one of the most audacious and eloquent explorers…












