Explore stylish spaces, coastal homes, small-space living and practical design ideas for creating a comfortable, beautiful Australian home.

You don’t need an ocean view, or a prize-home budget, to capture the easy, breezy feeling of a Queensland coastal home. From indoor-outdoor living to subtropical greenery, here are seven ideas worth ...

You don’t need an ocean view, or a prize-home budget, to capture the easy, breezy feeling of a Queensland coastal home. From indoor-outdoor living to subtropical greenery, here are seven ideas worth ...

ATTENTION citizen scientists! Now’s your chance to join the fun of collecting data while out whale watching and helping researchers better understand our world. Don’t know what citizen science is?

From lively juveniles in July and August to mothers teaching their calves the ways of the whale in spring, every stage of Hervey Bay’s whale-watching season has something different to offer. Here’s ...

Jocelyn Watts is an Australian writer, photographer and former newspaper editor based in Hervey Bay on Queensland’s Fraser Coast. With a career spanning regional journalism, communications and ...

HAVE you ever wanted to travel back in time? If so, and you’re in the Sunshine Coast or Gympie areas, then you’re in luck… well, almost. Riding the iconic Spirit of the Mary Valley Steam Train is the ...

In June 2026, the Sunshine Coast Hinterland was officially recognised as Queensland’s first Dark Sky Reserve — only the second in Australia — marking a major milestone for regional tourism and ...

In June 2026, the Sunshine Coast Hinterland was officially recognised as Queensland’s first Dark Sky Reserve — only the second in Australia — marking a major milestone for regional tourism and ...

What a regional newspaper taught me about food, bodies, and starting again. In 2005, long before “clean eating” became a hashtag or wellness turned into an industry, a regional newspaper on Queensland ...