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Young moviemakers wanted for film festival
PROMISING filmmakers’ work will be showcased at the 2025 Ipswich Film Festival for Youth. The festival encourages those aged from seven to 25 to tell…
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The hard living navvies who built our railways
WITH their picks, shovels and their old sticks of dynamite, the men who built Queensland’s railways tunnelled, drank and brawled their way through the 19th-century…
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Bourne: vouchers give kids a sporting chance
IPSWICH MPs want discount sports vouchers to remain to help kids stay active while finances remain tight. More than 300,000 FairPlay vouchers went into circulation…
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Vandals’ ongoing assaults on Newtown street library
VANDALS continue to target at night a Newtown street library. Several times a week, random attackers have been swooping on the humble books lending site…
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Show birthday icing on cake for Val
CELEBRATE 40 years of the Ipswich Gala Doll Fair this Sunday. Doll Fair organiser Val Metcalfe will welcome showgoers at 10.30am with the cutting of…
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Groundhog day as ’22 India House pledge recycled
KEEN recycler of ancient election funding vows, Blair MP Shayne Neumann last week rehashed a three-year old pledge to deliver cash for the first Indian…
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The 10 candidates in the running on May 3
THE main contenders for the Federal seat of Blair are expected to be ALP sitting Member Shayne Neumann and the LNP’s Carl Mutzelburg. Ten political…
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Tower block stoush goes to planning boss Bleijie
A LONGTIME Riverview local says Ipswich City Council denied residents a fair go by not allowing them the right to appeal a development that has…
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Woogaroo owner loses Pisasale libel case
THE property developer who argued a news article wrongly depicted him as acquiring prostitutes for former mayor Paul Pisasale faces a huge legal bill after…
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What’s On In Ipswich – 23rd April 2025
MUSIC Damien IPSWICH electro-pop rocker Damien returns with new single Hot Days, his first new offering since I Don’t Listen to the Radio which made…










