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Seniors Insight - Spoilt for choice on great Australian train journeys

MY FIRST memory of travelling by train was when our school teacher and assorted parents boarded our class on the last train out of Boonah, bound for Ipswich.

Staff Writers

01 Oct 2025

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Mountain transport service to become permanent

THE Demand Responsive Transport (DRT) service between Tamborine Mountain and Helensvale will become permanent at the end of September.

Staff Writers

06 Aug 2025

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More than a destination, base camp Boonah

IF YOU base your overnight stay or choose to linger even longer in Boonah, you’ll find you are at the gateway to some spectacular bushwalks.

Staff Writers

21 May 2025

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A self-drive tour through our smallest state

OUR brief was to find a self-drive holiday with minimal travel stress, lots to see that’s out of the ordinary, and where accommodation was easy to find along the way.

Wendy Creighton

05 Mar 2025

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From Bhutan to Boonah

BOONAH was recently favoured by a visit from two special visitors from the Himalayas.

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12 Jun 2024

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Seniors Feature - A travel challenge met

THERE’S a lot of destinations in Australia that suit the ‘holiday for all abilities’ criteria.

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05 Jun 2024

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24 hours ‘on safari’ by Kaye Martin

WE awoke to find tigers watching us through the window … and the next night we slept in a tree house and our early morning greeters were giraffes … oh, and I mustn’t forget our encounter with the sun bears.

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13 Mar 2024

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Travel - 24 hours in Binalong Bay

TASMANIA is listed among the world’s top 30 ‘must visit places in 2024’ by the New York Times.

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17 Jan 2024

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Travel - 24 hours in El Nido

IT WAS a humid, hot Christmas (are there any other in Queensland?), when I booked an ‘island hopping’ experience in the Philippines.

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20 Dec 2023

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Travel - 24 hours in Christmastime London

IF WE were to talk about the best time to make an extended stay in London, I would say it is the best city in the world in summertime.

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14 Dec 2023

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Travel - 24 hours in Tuscany

“It’s the wonder of it. You’re walking through history … through a town that has changed little since the Middle Ages … it’s the living, breathing definition of Medieval!”

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06 Dec 2023

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Travel - 24 hours in Yarrangobilly

Rainwater seeps down into the earth for almost a kilometre where it’s heated before it bubbles back up through the porous rock and then flows through a man-made pool at a rate of around 100,000 litres per hour before eventually pouring into the Yarrangobilly River.

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21 Nov 2023

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Travel - 24 hours in Athens

THE Acropolis dominates the skyline of Athens. A straightforward statement we’d read many times. We’d seen the photographs. We should have been prepared. We were not. Our taxi from the airport took us into Athens after dark.

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14 Nov 2023

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Travel - 24 Hours in Cactus Country

TO MY travelling companion, it was an absolute, not to be swerved from, Instagram-able must.

Guest Writer

08 Nov 2023

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Elsewhere - Fishing Villages

There are 430 habited Islands in Japan, so there are bound to be a few thousand fishing villages spread among them.

Drew Creighton

01 Nov 2023

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Light horse tribute moving reminder of mounted soldiers

CAPELLA, a town 54 kilometres north of Emerald in Central Queensland, lays claim to being the place the emu plume worn in the slouch hat of the Australian Light Horsemen originated.

Lara Hart

26 Oct 2022