Outdoors
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A HARLEY HAPPY 80TH BIRTHDAY
How to celebrate your 80th birthday? It was an easy answer for Boonah’s Daphne Gillett – a ride on a Harley. And she knew just…
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Great catch on fly
It only took about five minutes to land, but it was so heavy that when Ben Steinhardt tried to lift his catch up the bank…
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Working dogs on a winner in Stronger Communities grants
THE Boonah Working Stock Dog Club was among the first organisations to learn it was on the winners list for a Stronger Communities grant in…
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Riding zebras…an out of Africa experience
AN AUSTRALIAN animal trainer was in South Africa working on the 2005 big screen movie ‘Racing Stripes’ when it became apparent no one on set…
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Girraween expedition for Duke of Ed students
by CHARLOTTE LONG* OVER the May long weekend, nine Duke of Edinburgh students from Boonah State High School went on their first expedition of the…
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Long weekend draws anglers out
MAY Day created the perfect long weekend for fishers to throw a line in at Wyaralong to help native fish species thrive, while having great…
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Dam good time had on Lake Moogerah
THE Easter weekend may have brought wind and rain but that didn’t stop hundreds of people making the trek to Lake Moogerah. New managers of…
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Outback Art Series – Muttaburra has more than a dusty dinosaur
PUT aside the weighty debate over whether ninety percent of the population would have known that Muttaburra existed (or even how to spell it) were…
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Outback Art Series: Lakeland – a sculpture park with a practical purpose
PARKLAND especially designed to attract passing motorists to stop and view an array of public artworks interspersed with storyboards highlighting the beauty and diversity of…
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Outback Art Series – Funny dunnies keep toilet humour out of the gutter
AUSSIES like to make fun of the humble toilet block, call it what you will, dunny, loo, outhouse, throne room, thunderbox or restroom. But outback…
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Outback Art Series – Cunnamulla ringer statue tribute to late country music icon
RINGERS are a big part of Australian bush culture with singers like Slim Dusty turning tales of mustering horses into hit songs. One of the…
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OUTBACK ART SERIES Breaking the monotony creative snail mail boxes
THE humble letterbox can become a neighbourhood sensation when like-minded individuals decide to create something very different. These letterboxes were seen near the outback town…












