Better Homes & Gardens this week visits Ravine House and Saumarez Homestead and whips up burgers and lava cakes. Joh + Pete – Amazing Home: Ravine HouseHanging over a rock chasm next to the ocean, the Ravine House is a stunning feat of architecture, showing what can be achieved on even the most challenging sites. … [Read more…]
After years of COVID-19-affected productions, the school is back on stage with a full-blown production of The Addams Family. This will be the school’s first show with orchestrated music, stage sets and costumes since the 2019 production of Oliver! A cast of 35 students from Year 7 to 12 will dazzle audiences with their singing, … [Read more…]
Mr Antony ‘Tony’ Deakin OAM, former mayor and architect, has been granted the City’s highest honour of the Keys to the City by Armidale Regional Council, at a special ceremony held in the Armidale Mall on Wednesday 17 May 2023. Armidale Regional Council Mayor, Sam Coupland, dressed in his mayoral robes to mark the importance … [Read more…]
Share Tweet Share Share Email Photo credit: Atmosphere Photography More than 1500 students from 17 schools across South Australia celebrated the opening of DreamBIG Children’s Festival yesterday with an opening spectacular at Adelaide Festival Centre’s Festival Theatre. As part of The Mighty Choir of Small Voices, students sang My Island Home and were led in … [Read more…]
With an emphasis on club contributors during Volunteer Week, the Federal Government’s Volunteer Grants program is delivering cash handouts of between $1000 and $5000 to help boost volunteer numbers and lift participation. “I was very pleased to support the grants to these organisations,” Federal Member for Nicholls Sam Birrell said, announcing the grants. “While the … [Read more…]
Drag queen Betty Confetti said this isn’t the first time she has experienced hate for her drag. Picture supplied A council has been forced to cancel Rainbow Story Time, a children’s book reading by Bathurst drag queen Betty Confetti, following threats received by the council as well as the performer. Rainbow Story Times have been … [Read more…]
“Council is very disappointed that the State Government have now passed on what we refer to as ‘cost shifting at its worse’ on the levy for essential services without notice. This is going to increase Goulburn Mulwaree Council’s commitment by $295,102 this coming financial year, that has not been allocated for in our budget, which … [Read more…]
Betty Confetti planned on hosting a story-time event at Goulburn. Photo: Betty Confetti Facebook. A drag queen-hosted event for families that planned to celebrate diversity has been cancelled in Goulburn due to the threats received by her and staff at the region’s council. Rainbow Story Time with Betty Confetti had been scheduled to take place … [Read more…]
This magical event is set to captivate the hearts of over 1500 students from 17 schools across South Australia, as they gather at the Adelaide Festival Centre’s Festival Theatre for a grand opening like no other. Brace yourselves for an explosion of talent, music, dance, and high-energy performances from some of the most exciting DreamBIG … [Read more…]
An inland NSW regional community is set to begin talks on whether locals want their area to become a renewable energy zone. The New England region, taking in the north west slopes, the northern tablelands and the regional centres of Armidale, Tenterfield and Tamworth, could be one of the state’s five renewable energy zones (REZ). … [Read more…]