Travel

Seniors Insight - Spoilt for choice on great Australian train journeys

MY FIRST memory of travelling by train was when our school teacher and assorted parents boarded our class on the last train out of Boonah, bound for Ipswich.

Staff Writers

01 Oct 2025

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More than a destination, base camp Boonah

IF YOU base your overnight stay or choose to linger even longer in Boonah, you’ll find you are at the gateway to some spectacular bushwalks.

Staff Writers

21 May 2025

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100 years of Aussie Fords

FORD AUSTRALIA was established on March 31, 1925, just as the reign of the Model T was ending.

Staff Writers

16 Apr 2025

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A self-drive tour through our smallest state

OUR brief was to find a self-drive holiday with minimal travel stress, lots to see that’s out of the ordinary, and where accommodation was easy to find along the way.

Wendy Creighton

05 Mar 2025

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Seniors Feature - A travel challenge met

THERE’S a lot of destinations in Australia that suit the ‘holiday for all abilities’ criteria.

Guest Writer

05 Jun 2024

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24 hours ‘on safari’ by Kaye Martin

WE awoke to find tigers watching us through the window … and the next night we slept in a tree house and our early morning greeters were giraffes … oh, and I mustn’t forget our encounter with the sun bears.

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13 Mar 2024

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Travel - 24 hours in Binalong Bay

TASMANIA is listed among the world’s top 30 ‘must visit places in 2024’ by the New York Times.

Guest Writer

17 Jan 2024

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Travel - 24 hours in El Nido

IT WAS a humid, hot Christmas (are there any other in Queensland?), when I booked an ‘island hopping’ experience in the Philippines.

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20 Dec 2023

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Travel - 24 hours in Christmastime London

IF WE were to talk about the best time to make an extended stay in London, I would say it is the best city in the world in summertime.

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14 Dec 2023

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Travel - 24 hours in Tuscany

“It’s the wonder of it. You’re walking through history … through a town that has changed little since the Middle Ages … it’s the living, breathing definition of Medieval!”

Guest Writer

06 Dec 2023

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Travel - 24 hours in Yarrangobilly

Rainwater seeps down into the earth for almost a kilometre where it’s heated before it bubbles back up through the porous rock and then flows through a man-made pool at a rate of around 100,000 litres per hour before eventually pouring into the Yarrangobilly River.

Guest Writer

21 Nov 2023

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Travel - 24 hours in Athens

THE Acropolis dominates the skyline of Athens. A straightforward statement we’d read many times. We’d seen the photographs. We should have been prepared. We were not. Our taxi from the airport took us into Athens after dark.

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15 Nov 2023

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Travel - 24 Hours in Cactus Country

TO MY travelling companion, it was an absolute, not to be swerved from, Instagram-able must.

Guest Writer

08 Nov 2023

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Elsewhere - Fishing Villages

There are 430 habited Islands in Japan, so there are bound to be a few thousand fishing villages spread among them.

Drew Creighton

01 Nov 2023

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High-speed tourist train celebrates 25 years

One of Queensland Rail’s most modern trains, the Tilt Train, achieves a milestone this year, racking up 25 years of service taking travellers from Brisbane to Rockhampton. We look at the Tilt Train’s journey.

Guest Writer

12 Jul 2023

Fassifern Guardian

Education on the agenda to assist restocking projects

AS families on holidays prepare to enjoy what rural lakes offer, restocking groups play a valuable role enhancing and sustaining the waterways. Ongoing efforts releasing hundreds of thousands of Australian bass, golden perch, silver perch and Mary...

David Lems

21 Dec 2022

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Hot on the trail of adventure

AS NOTORIOUS thrill seekers, mountain bikers are continually in pursuit of the next big thing, whether that be splashing out on new gear, buying the latest bike or barrelling down a recently built trail.

Rob Mellett

14 Dec 2022

Travel

Chasing stars in a galaxy not so far away

HAVE you ever considered chasing stars – not the ‘leading light’ celebrity kind but those twinkling bright lights in our night sky?

Staff Writers

12 Jan 2022

Nature

The South East’s river systems are failing. Can they be restored?

South East Queenslanders need to value their rivers and creeks like we do our beaches and bays

Joe Hinchliffe

08 Dec 2021