History

THE roles of the parents were long decided – family holidays meant dad, the precision packer, would load the boot of the station wagon with…

THE roles of the parents were long decided – family holidays meant dad, the precision packer, would load the boot of the station wagon with…

by KEN WILTSHIRE BOONAH saw much celebrating and tale-telling at the recent family reunion of the Green family, who link directly to the pioneers and…

THE life of a pioneering settler was commemorated at the Boonah Cemetery on Saturday, with the unveiling of a new headstone and a toast to…

“That in the opinion of this House, the Marsupial Pest has become an evil of such magnitude, in several Districts of the Colony, as to…

On Saturday night, December 28, 1918, a soldier was greeted by local councillor Richard Warren before being lifted shoulder high by the crowd as soon…

Wright is a diverse electorate, extending from the western suburbs of the Gold Coast, over the mountains of Springbrook, Lamington and Tamborine, across the rural…

A photograph which appeared in a 1918 edition of The Queenslander newspaper of the Governor’s Chair – a huge stone jutting out above a high…

IT WAS advertised as The Grand Experimental Dinner to give prominent colonists a taste of native fare. A unique concept in 1861, but considered a…

MANY of the articles in early newspapers told tales of the magnificence of the play of light on the male’s plumage and the abundance of…

by BARRY TOWNSEND MY WIFE Deb and I moved into Graceview, outside Boonah, in October 2019. The home and property were the remnants of a…

TWICE the Beaudesert and district community had missed out on a Royal visit, so when it was first mooted that HRH Prince Albert, Duke of…