General Seniors News

Dating IT'S not every day a couple celebrates their 50th wedding anniversary, but today is that day for Bernard and Doris Muller.

News HISTORICAL machinery from around Australia will roll into the Southern Downs for the Allora Heritage Weekend.

News SAVING Sawtell Cinema serves as a blueprint for other communities struggling to save their local theatres and cinemas from closure.

News SESSIONS to discuss the importance of planning ahead and to provide planning tools for you to manage what your future may bring.

News SINCE he was 10 years old, Noel Selway has been playing the bugle at Anzac Day and Remembrance Day ceremonies.

News ONE of the leading airlines is only an aircraft away from flying non-stop between Sydney and London and Sydney and New York.

News THE 21st Allora Heritage Weekend will descend up the "best little town on the Downs” this weekend.

News HE IS Australia's most in-demand bloke at the moment but Australian of the Year Professor Alan Mackay-Sim is a mystery man at home at Currimundi.

Offbeat IT'S either an enduring local myth or the biggest crocodile ever shot in Mackay, and perhaps Australia.

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News DIVORCE and a realignment of assets were the answer to Sarah's Aged Pension woes.

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News FORGET about your age and book yourself in to experience a full body workout paddling a dragon boat.

News WE CAN can all help to address the e-waste epidemic by recycling our used mobile phones, accessories, batteries and even computers

News DON Moffatt has been recognised as a Member of the Order of Australia for his significant contributions to helicopter rescue services in Queensland.

News Advance Australia Fair is such a profoundly uninspiring song that heaps of Aussies haven’t even bothered to learn the words.

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News TELEVISION actress Mary Tyler Moore has died aged 80 in Connecticut after several years of suffering diabetes.

News A PIONEERING scientist whose work has led to groundbreaking advances in the treatment of spinal cord injuries has been named Australian of the Year.

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News THE Australian Republic Movement has released a new TV ad for Australia Day to highlight the "absurdity” of having the British monarch as our head of state.

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News A LIFE dedicated to maritime history has seen a Kyogle sailor awarded an OAM for service on and above the seas.

News GEORGE Farmer wished he had brought his alter-ego, Rocco the Clown, when he won the Sunshine Coast Council's Australia Day Senior Citizen of the Year Award.

News SUNSHINE Coast Council's Australia Day Environment Award has gone to a volunteer of four decades.