Arts
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The Beauty of Life – RATs = Rapid Antigen Tests
“No, we don’t have any RATs, and we don’t know when we’re going to get some!” (Notice at the Chemist sounding like the immortal words…
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The Beauty of Life – No Cats Were Harmed
IT’S the tennis season, and we have discovered how to give the Australian men a chance of winning the Australian Open – deport all foreign…
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The Beauty of Life – Desmond Tutu
“We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be thrilled with a…
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$18,500 arts grants awarded
ARTISTS Kuweni Dias Mendis and Kenji Lee are the latest Scenic Rim residents to receive funding under an $18,500 Regional Arts Development Fund Program allocation.…
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Veteran artist helps special young woman bring colour to Boonah
When an artist walked into a Boonah fruit shop in 2019 and spied a stack of colouring-ins he was blown away. That moment was the…
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English-born Kalbar author’s sixth novel set in Outback
GILLIAN Wells always knew she wanted to be a writer, but it wasn’t until her children had flown the coop and she became a grandmother…
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From punk bands to leading roles
From punk bands and Mohawks, to an Australian children’s musical group, Hi-5, actor and singer, Chris White has done it all. Chris, 32, was raised…
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Judges panel to number 100 for 2022 QMusic Awards
Nominations are now open for the 2022 Queensland Music Awards (QMAs). And more than 100 leading industry figures will be judging the 2022 awards. There…
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Is South East Qld the new LA to the screen industry?
Q: What do Disney plus, Sir Elton John and Netflix have on common? A: They are all part of the recent boom in South East…
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It’s never too late to follow your artistic goals
When Dinmore resident, Julie Maddocks puts the artistic side of her brain to the fore, she describes time as being “non-existent.” “When I persist and…
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Boonah author wins fellowship for her novel exploring mental illness and motherhood
“I think she would be a little bit shocked,” said Boonah author Tabitha Bird when asked what her younger self would think about her career…
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Scenic Rim author Luke Stegemann wins Queensland Literary non-fiction award
“At both ends of the world, I have found confusion and profound disagreement about how to read the story of the past, about who should…












