Book review: NURTURING THE NURTURERS: HEALING THE PLANET | Leon Petchkovsky
To heal the planet, it’s not just climate change that needs fixing. We need to nurture our fellow humans in the first three years…
From Perth to Lismore: NORPA’s new Executive Producer
Lismore NSW based NORPA (Northern Rivers Performing Arts) has not only secured $1,295,000 in March last year from an Australia Council for the Arts…
Women in Docs together again for Festival of Small Halls
It’s been two years since Queensland duo women in docs have played together. Roz Pappalardo and Chanel Lucas will be playing as a duo…
BOOK REVIEW: When America Stopped Being Great | Nick Bryant
The outcome of the US election will soon be known. It won’t matter who becomes the next President of the USA. That once great…
Gold Coaster wins STEM award
Gold Coast local Lauren Hall, Founder and CEO of revolutionary events and hospitality software company iVvy, has won the prestigious Sue Wickenden Innovation in…
We talk Indigenising education with Dr Ali Sammel
For over 200 years in Australia we’ve been teaching science and other subjects to Indigenous children from Western cultural assumptions and pedagogies. It’s time…
Sharon Styman pioneering a new direction at Twin Towns
For the first time since its inception in 1950, Twin Towns Services Club has a woman on its board of directors. Sharon Styman is…
How music helped these Gold Coast artists cope
The mental health of musicians has suffered an enormous blow since the pandemic shutdown their livelihood almost overnight in March this year when COVID…
Gold Coast get its first ever weekday farmers market
It’s hard to believe that the Gold Coast hasn’t had a weekday farmers market before now. Paula Brand, a leading small business advocate and…
Book review: Just Like You | Nick Hornby
Nearly 20 years after penning his novel ‘How to Be Good’, British author Nick Hornby revisits the perspective of a forty-something mother of two…