Ax Patient Tax says MP
I recently met with staff and Doctors from the Nanango Medical Centre to discuss the many issues affecting GP’s and medical centres, especially the...
A fond farewell to Hazel
January saw the passing of another long time Gympie resident.
My mother, Hazel Elizabeth Duthie, spent most of her 92 years in Gympie.
She...
We need to do better
The holiday season can be quite the intoxicating time of year, with Christmas celebrations and New Years quickly to follow, it’s no wonder police...
Pinched by fuel prices
It’s been a few days since the fuel excise ended, and I’m sure a lot of us are feeling the strain already. As a...
OPINION: Koalas come last in priorities
The quiet rural town of Widgee is home to lots of wildlife including koalas, which are now listed as endangered, and yet this year...
A colour character fondly remembered
Peter Lorensen, one of Barry Lorensen's two sons, shares his recollections of memories they shared during his dad's lifetime in a candid and moving...
We’re not the undeserving poor
Diving into the Census Data, I was dismayed at comparisons between the Gympie region and elsewhere.
It showed that on average, households in Gympie were...
Sweet, sweet charity
Flying well below the radar was a feel good story about our young people being considerate to the needs of local businesses hit hard...
Farewell beautiful Janice
Janice Yvonne Monteath (nee Brown) was born on 9 April 1942 and raised in Tākaka New Zealand.
It was a small town situated at the...
Now for the Cooloola inquiry
It may say something about our public life that it was necessary to go back nearly 40 years to find a significant public figure...
Resilience our greatest asset
I have always said that our region is the greatest place to live and that’s because of the people who live in our beautiful...
OPINION: ‘Let it be known’
No doubt many other readers were, like me, shocked and disturbed by the resignation of Council CEO, Mr Shane Gray, after only eighteen months...
Health ‘black hole’ claimed
Gympie region had many of the symptoms of the health service under-funding crisis which was claimed in state parliament last week to be a...
