Ipswich Festival set to inspire
This year's Ipswich Festival will present a sensational program designed to inspire, entertain, create and explore. Be inspired by a collaboration of global fusion at the Ipswich City Council &…
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Ipswich Festival set to inspire
Art Gallery lights out for puppets
The lights are out at the Children’s Gallery at the Ipswich Art Gallery, but not because it’s closed. Instead, the ever-popular gallery has dimmed the lights to allow the fluorescent…
Voss - Lion King
No matter what your expectations are, when you meet AFL legend and Brisbane Lions Coach Michael Voss... it’s amazing how normal he is.
Here is a bloke who has won practically every…
Australian 'Chinook' helicopters return to…
Australian Defence Force’s CH-47 “Chinook” helicopters have returned to duty in Southern Afghanistan, providing medium lift transport capability to Australian and International…
Where there’s a Wil….
Stand up comic, radio presenter, columnist, author and the face of The Gruen Transfer, (one of 2011’s biggest hits), Wil Anderson is on a hot streak. Appearing in Brisbane with his new show…
Springfield railway station closer
Minister for Transport Annastacia Palaszczuk says work is progressing well for a 2013 opening. “This station is ideally located for residents in Springfield and Camira to access it as well as…
The divine Miss Fisher
It is in this world that author Kerry Greenwood has set the hugely successful series of books starring the heroine Phryne Fisher. With the twentieth book in the series set to hit the shelves later…
Jason Byrne - the people's puppeteer
By Darren Hallesy: Jason Byrne is quite possibly the funniest Irishman alive, and seeing Jason Byrne live on stage is something that has to be experienced at least once in your lifetime. To say…
Grant funds St Mary's building renovation
The long overdue renovation of the Mercy Convent at St. Mary’s College, one of the Ipswich’s oldest buildings, recently got a boost with a grant from the State Government towards the…
Girls' Grammar celebrates 120 years
Ipswich Girls’ Grammar is celebrating a milestone this year, their 120th Birthday. To mark this special occasion they have planned a series of events throughout the year, starting with their…
Search and Rescue for Super Hornet operations
The RAAF’s F/A18F Super Hornet Squadrons take to the air with the reassurance of a team of Search and Rescue (SAR) specialists on stand-by in the event of an aircraft accident.
CHC…
Rebuilding a town from the ground up
While Ipswich has been remembering twelve months since the floods, February 7th will be three years since Black Saturday…a day etched in the memory of all Australians when bushfires in…
Top Ten must see movies for 2012
Darren Hallesy rates these movies as "must see" for 2012
THE HOBBIT
Lord of the Rings fans
rejoice! After years of delay Peter Jackson’s vision of J.R.R. Tolkein’s
prequel…
Local trampoliners aim for Olympics
After almost losing their
training facility earlier in the year, the PCYC trampoline squad is not only
celebrating a new home, but three members are in the Queensland team at the
National Trampoline…
Julie Goodwin - Wife, Mum, Masterchef
It was one of the most
watched moments in Australian TV history, when Julie Goodwin became the
very first Masterchef, a moment etched into the minds of anyone who
saw it as the mum of three from the…
Super Hornet commander flies higher
Group Captain Steve Roberton, soon to be Air Commodore rank, has been at the forefront of introduction of the F/A-18F Super Hornet into the Air Force - and he is now moving on to more challenges…
Speedy Summer Fun at the Gallery
Start your engines – Built for Speed is on at Ipswich Art
Gallery every day these summer holidays until 19 February.
Created exclusively for the Children’s Gallery, ‘Built…
Cecelia Ahern: having the time of her life
Darren Hallesy: Cecelia Ahern has Hollywood knocking on her door. After the
success of her first book “P.S. I love you” and its movie adaptation, the
stunning Irish girl from Dublin now has three…
Marion: Recipes from a hungry cook
By Darren Hallesy: She’s the
Brisbane-raised girl who gave her all to MasterChef last year, yet life for Marion
is great and getting even better.
Despite finishing ninth,
Marion has managed to…
Vicky McClure returns to ‘This Is England’…
By Darren Hallesy: One of
the most critically acclaimed British films of the last decade, ‘This is
England’ written and directed by Shane Meadows, made a huge impact and did big
business in…
Sixth C-17 airlifter planned for RAAF Amberley
Defence is investigating the
purchase of a sixth C-17A Globemaster III heavy-lift aircraft for RAAF Base
Amberley’s Number 36 Squadron.
The Minister for Defence
Stephen Smith made the…
Aircraft techs skill up for Air Force tanker
The new Airbus KC-30A MRTT
is transforming the aviation trades at Amberley’s 33 Squadron, with personnel maintaining
the new technology aboard the world’s most advanced tanker.
Traditionally, RAAF…
F-111s to live on in museums
Up to seven retired F-111
strike/reconnaissance aircraft will be made available to Australian aircraft
museums and other historical organisations across Australia.
Minister for Defence
Material…
New look CityWest magazine out now
CityWest magazine has a fresh new look and it's out now in letterboxes across Ipswich and Springfield. On the cover this issue we feature MasterChef's 'Marion' who has a new book titled 'Marion:…
Nutritionist brings 'no diet' message to Ipswich
“Diets make
you fat, chocolate is good for you,” will raise eyebrows, but it’s the
controversial view of nutritionist Cyndi O’Meara, an advocate for ‘real food’,
who is coming to Ipswich to speak…
Ipswich boss goes ‘Undercover’
Iain Mars
from JBS in Dinmore goes 'undercover' in an episode of Network Ten’s ‘Undercover
Boss’ screened on October 3, and he sees his business from a different perspective.
If you had
a boss…
Return of the Retro Babes
By Darren Hallesy: The 1950s
will be remembered by TV shows like Mad Men, and the music of the era but it’s the
look of the 'fifties' pin up models that has women looking at themselves in a…
New squadron crews ready for takeoff
Over the past three years,
aircrews and ground crews have been training with QANTAS on the Airbus A-330,
the civilian equivalent of the RAAF’s new KC-30A Multi Role Tanker Transport
(MRTT). Now…
Literature exhibition at Art Gallery
The Ipswich Festival of
Children’s Literature is currently in full swing with some of the country’s
best children’s authors and illustrators conducting workshops around the city
and a special…
Smoking ban considered for Ipswich Mall
Ipswich City Council is keen
to follow the lead of Brisbane and impose a ban on smoking in the Ipswich Mall.
Changes to State Legislation
mean that the Council will soon have the power to impose a…
Couples turn to relationships coach
By Darren Hallesy: The
statistics on divorce in this country make for grim reading. With twenty nine
per cent of Australians deciding never to get married, of those that do take
the plunge, around…
Cobb & Co coach back in Rosewood
A window to the past is now in Rosewood with the arrival of Ipswich’s replica Cobb and Co
coach.
Councillor David Pahlke said
as part of Ipswich’s plan to revitalise the Cobb and Co tourist drive…
Long summer of civil war in Libya
By Peter and Kimberley Layton: Just before Christmas 2010 a Tunisian street vendor, Mohamed Bouazizi, set himself on fire, beginning a sequence of events that directly threatened long-established…
Bomber crews return to home base
Airmen of No 2 Squadron who
flew bombing missions during the Vietnam War more than 40
years ago returned to the Canberra Bomber’s home base at RAAF Amberley recently
for a memorial service and to…
Doom, gloom and the elephant in the room
People from India have an
interesting expression about ‘the elephant in the room’: the thing that
everyone is aware of yet nobody talks about.
Much like the odd smell in
the elevator, the…
Boeing targets pod maintenance
Dean Agnew, CityWest: A
Boeing team at RAAF Amberley is maintaining the F/A-18F Super Hornet’s advanced
targeting pod as part of a contract between Boeing and Defence.
Australia is the first…
Rosewood Festival in September
Now in its third year, the
festival will feature a range of new and exciting events alongside popular
favourites such as the Tables for Ten dining experience, country carnival and
colourful street…
Fitness - It's a SNAP
SNAP Fitness, next to
Woolworths in Yamanto, is open when you are ready to train – twenty-four hours
a day, seven days a week.
Co-owner of the new gym Jake
Henley, says that there has been a…
Kate Bracks wins MasterChef
With over 2.5 million people
watching, Kate Bracks from Orange was recently crowned the MasterChef Winner
after a blockbuster finale against Adelaide’s Michael Weldon.
Spending seven months…
Agony and the ecstasy
This is
more than the story of a restaurant finding a new home. It has all the
ingredients for a best seller. It’s the story of how one man had a dream and
put everything on the line to make it…
Matthew Lloyd tells it straight
By Darren
Hallesy: Love him or hate him, Matthew Lloyd had a career that put him up there
with the goal kicking greats of AFL like Lockett, Coventy and Ablett. Out of the game for two years,…
Public debut for Sukhoi T-50 fighter
Russia’s
Sukhoi T-50 fifth-generation fighter, also known as PAK-FA, will make its
public debut at the upcoming MAKS 2011 airshow near Moscow in August, 2011,
according to Nikolai Zanegin, Deputy…
Rodeo stars to ride in Ipswich
The
hottest stars of Australian rodeo will ride into southeast Queensland this
September, when Ipswich’s Briggs Road Sports Complex plays host to the 2011
National Rodeo Finals.
Held
over two…
Judith Lucy’s spiritual journey
Darren Hallesy: Most of us
have grown up with Judith Lucy on TV, so it seems appropriate that we as a
nation can rely on her to answer the biggest question of all ‘Life, the
Universe and…
Back to the (virtual) Future
Real-time virtual trips through foreign cities and mountain-top vistas
with digital arrows pointing to top restaurants and tourist spots are just part
of what lies ahead for Geographic Information…
Air combat over Alaska
Fighter pilots with the Air Force’s No 3
Squadron are engaging in simulated air combat in the skies over Alaska during this years ‘Red Flag’ exercise.
The US-led large force employment…
Day in the life of Asher Keddie
By Darren Hallesy: Jerry Seinfeld once made the statement that
it took him 20 years to be an overnight success. The same could be said for
the hottest TV star of 2011, Asher Keddie.
A regular…
Tax time is here
It's that time of year again when it's time to report to the Australian Taxation Office on how much tax we have to pay for the 2010/11 Financial Year.
These days, most people need expert assistance…
Catholic Education Week in Queensland
Catholic Education Week in
Queensland is a special opportunity for all Catholic education ministries to
celebrate their distinctive mission and share the great things they are doing
with their…
Lawyers for life's challenges
There is a common perception
that the only time you may need a lawyer is if you get in trouble with the law.
The truth is quite the opposite.
McNamara & Associates
are a team of lawyers that…
Bunnings competitor set to open in Springfield
Anticipation is growing as
to when the new Masters home improvement store will open its doors in
Springfield Central, offering the first substantive competition to the Bunnings
chain of warehouse…
Hollywood legend in Ipswich
By Darren HallesyIt’s not every day that a
legend who has been perfoming for eighty years drops by to our fair city, but
recently Jerry Lewis did just that.
Making a lightning
promotional tour of…
Day in the life of Asher Keddie
Jerry Seinfeld once made the
statement that it took him twenty years to be an overnight success. The same
could be said for the hottest TV star of 2011, Asher Keddie.
A regular on our TV…
First air refueller arrives at RAAF Amberley
RAAF Amberley has welcomed
the world’s most advanced aircraft tanker, the Airbus KC-30A, the first of which is now resident on the air base.
It was smiles all
round as RAAF pilots Squadron Leader…
Ben Handy's Tech Talk
The age of tablet computers
has arrived, and it has revolutionised the way people view portable computing
devices. In the short span of time since the launch of Apples iPad, one year
on, consumers…
Claire Hooper ‘Good News’ star
Claire Hooper, stand up
comedian, TV star, author and breakfast radio host is a bubbly thirty-five year
old from Sydney, and what you see is what you get.
Claire is the same person
you see on ‘Good…
Brothers in arms
Two Ipswich brothers have
added another first to the list of achievements for RAAF Amberley’s Super
Hornet squadron.
Flight Lieutenant Trent
Baldry and Corporal Simon Baldry have just returned from…
Rotary donates defibrillators to community groups
At events where crowds gather there’s always the risk of
someone suffering a potentially life threatening heart attack, so the Rotary
Club of Ipswich City decided to fund the purchase of four…