Help cats have a meow-y Christmas
This Christmas, The Cat Protection Society of Victoria (CPSV) is calling on Victorians to help give the gift of life to cats in need through its Nine Lives Emergency Fund as the shelter braces for a spike in admissions of abandoned and surrendered cats and kittens requiring care this summer….
2025 Australian Mental Health Prize Winners Announced
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Australian Mental Health Prize, a decade of recognising Australians whose leadership, research, and lived experience have transformed how we understand and respond to mental health. Since its establishment in 2016 by UNSW Sydney, the Prize has honoured advocates, clinicians, researchers, peer workers…
Iconic comedian Steady Eddy returns to touring
There are stand-up comedians who make you laugh. Then there are those who make you rethink what laughter is even for. Christopher Widdows, better known to the world as the internationally acclaimed, and even infamous Steady Eddy, did – and does- both. When he first burst onto the Australian comedy scene in…
Man extradited from New Zealand in relation to financial elder abuse.
A 68-year-old man has faced the Brisbane Magistrates Court after being extradited from New Zealand on allegations he defrauded an elderly family member of more than $1 million. Queensland Police said detectives from the Financial and Cyber Crime Group secured the man’s extradition after New Zealand Police arrested him in…
The Appeal of Living in Rural Australia for Seniors
For many Australians, as retirement ages continue to push later, it still signals not just the end of working life, but the beginning of a new chapter. Increasingly, that new chapter is being written in country towns and rural communities. While cities continue to expand and strain under the pressure…
The legend and the young gun
Just two Queensland boys who like riding bulls! Sixty years difference, same eight seconds matter to these bucking Bronco wranglers. There are sixty years between them, yet these two Queensland cowboys speak the same language, and that’s bull riding! Warwick is their favourite arena. The place where Daryl Kong, 77, is rodeo royalty….