INTERNATIONALLY renowned Irish singer Daniel O’Donnell will be a special guest at the Daniel’s Shield Nursing Home Awards in September.

Launc...

BRIAN Gabrielli’s decision to not become a builder is a good thing for cancer research as the scientist works with a team to find better diagnostic...

OUTRAGEOUS is how one Queensland seniors’ groups has described last month’s announcement of a 13.29 per cent rise in electricity prices.

Aust...

LARRY Walter was the third generation of men in his family to become a Queensland Rail worker.

He had always wanted to work on the railways, ...

Alison Cunningham loves reading to children. This very act makes her an angel; but no ordinary angel. She’s a Pyjama Angel – one of many volunteeri...

IT’S about 120km from Charters Towers to Townsville – a fair drive in anyone’s language. But by horse-drawn wagon?

Charters Towers locals Jim...

In September 1909, four brave girls walked up to Scout Movement founder Robert Baden Powell and asked if they could join the Scouts.

In 1910,...

Time to tune up that voice, slip on the dancing shoes or pull a rabbit out of a hat... the search is on for our next Golden Idol.

And with th...

AUSTRALIAN motor racing legend Dick Johnson has spent more time than most behind the driver’s wheel – on the racetrack and on the road.

So he...

NEWS that automated community mail hubs could replace the postman in some new communities has created outrage among seniors groups.

However s...

THE fruits of two years’ labour and the efforts of a team of dedicated volunteers were unveiled when Vietnam war hero Keith Payne VC opened the new...

ELDER abuse continues to rise, with an estimated 26,000 older people the targets of financial, psychological or physical abuse in the past year. An...

IT HAS little to do with global warming and the world’s increased need for trees. Basically, as one volunteer at North Queensland’s Tully Rev...

BURIAL at sea may be the most adventurous way to go, and even romantic – if just for the setting sun, floating wreaths and the poetry of the prayer...