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…
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Third year for Heron UAV in Afghanistan
The Heron Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) Detachment has just commenced its third year of operations in Afghanistan. The Heron is capable of flying continuously for up to 24 hours collecting…
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…
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…
'Hard’n Up' Australia!
Darren Hallesy: We are labelled the ‘fattest nation on earth’. Jamie Oliver knows it, the medical system knows it, and statistics show that we as a nation, have an obesity…
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…
RAAF Amberley to be global airlift centre
RAAF Base Amberley is now
the hub of the RAAF’s heavy airlift capabilities, with Air Force moving its 86
Wing Headquarters to Queensland.
The Officer Commanding 86 Wing,
Group Captain…
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…
Super Hornets in historic flypast
A rare flypast of 24
Australian F/A-18F Super Hornets has marked the delivery of the final four
aircraft from the United States.
Two squadrons of Super Hornets wowed southeast Queensland with a 20…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Ipswich says "Bin the Crim"
The Ipswich City Council’s
waste fleet became a mobile billboard recently with the launch of a new
partnership between Council, the Ipswich Crime Stoppers Volunteer Committee,
the Queensland…
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…
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,…
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…
Dark side of ‘Sleeping Beauty’
While she isn’t the
household name that Nicole Kidman may be, Rachael Blake has been on our TV and
movie screens for many years not only as an actor, but as a voiceover artist
too.
The Perth-raised…
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…
Q&A with the star of Merlin
Getting massive ratings on a
Sunday night for Channel Ten, the UK production of Merlin has continued to wow
audiences around the world and is a success story that has reached every corner
of the…
Drift 'moors' at Brookwater
Brisbane’s Drift restaurant floating out of control and in
ruins was one of the most infamous images of the Queensland flood disaster but
from next month it will be back.
Ironically Queensland…