Outdoors

AUSTRALIA is celebrated within the Maranoa region with its Sculptures Out Back Acquisitive Competition and Exhibition. Each year Maranoa artists take part in an art…

VISITORS to Queensland’s outback would be forgiven for thinking they’d stepped into a scene from the movie Out of Africa when coming upon The Lion’s…

AUSTRALIA is home to a lot of larger than life art installations like the Big Banana, the Big Merino and the Big Pineapple, but have…

DID you know horses are able to be ridden on any road in Australia unless otherwise signposted? Considering ‘no horses allowed’ warning signs are few…

A love of sunflowers brought Emmie Escasinas to the Kalbar Sunflower Festival on Sunday. Emmie was among the 15,000 who were quick to buy tickets…

AN AUSTRALIAN-first project which installed purpose-built devices in a Toowoomba dam succeeded in improving fishing, the state government says. More than 600 fish attracting structures…

COULD fish attracting structures be coming to Moogerah, Wyaralong or Maroon anytime soon? One prominent local fisherman is sceptical. And that has nothing to do…

The Queensland government is considering designating a sacred site south of Boonah as Aboriginal freehold. Whinpullin, also known as Minto Crag, has been a site…

SOMETIMES you’ve just got to be in it to win it. Ask Nicole Whysall, who last week won 10,000 fish. The Ipswich angler runs Logan…

A group of volunteers in the Boonah have a new freezer and bar fridge they plan to fill this Australia Day. But the freezer won’t…

A culturally significant site south of Boonah which archaeologists warned was being desecrated by rock climbers has been handed back to traditional owners, in a…

UNIVERSITY researchers investigating a rare fossil find in South Australia have uncovered clues to why the last of Australia’s giant birds, the dromornithids or Thunder…