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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 ...

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 ...

The Simple Pan Trick to Make Store-Bought Naan Taste Better LET'S be honest, supermarket naan can be a bit of a let-down. You buy it with high hopes, imagining pillowy, charred, buttery goodness like ...

LET’S be honest, supermarket naan can be a bit of a let-down. You buy it with high hopes, imagining pillowy, charred, buttery goodness like the kind that lands beside your curry at a good Indian ...

THERE’S something about winter that makes a slow-cooked Indian curry feel less like dinner and more like a necessity. When the nights cool down and the kitchen windows fog up, I start craving the kind ...

The Surprising History of Tomatoes in Indian Curries (and Butter Chicken) THE OTHER day, while stirring a slow cooker full of butter chicken — the sauce thickening into that rich orange-red colour, ...

The 2026 humpback whales are heading for Queensland again. Season runs July–October, with the best encounters in August–September. If you’re ready to go in Hervey Bay, choose a tour and book early.

TO STAND on the deck of a boat while a 40-tonne humpback whale surfaces nearby has a way of putting everyday worries into perspective. You arrive hoping to see whales. You often leave with a renewed ...