Meg Hooper News Today

Budget stories are always about winners and losers, and Ipswich was mainly the latter after we took a while to look for which major projects were set to receive federal government funding. At the top of our list this year were upgrades to the Cunningham Hwy Yamanto to Ebenezer Creek section, the Springfield-Ipswich rail line, and improvements to North Ipswich Reserve. Blair MP Shayne Neumann has been scathing of the budget, saying Ipswich has been ignored. Picture: Alix Sweeney The upgrade to...

Premium Content Subscriber only WHEN a young Ipswich mum found herself looking for something more from life while raising two children, working and completing her PhD, she stumbled across a trick or two. Meg Hooper hasn’t looked back since she joined a circus group about a decade ago, and after also getting her children involved she started looking at ways to start her own group up in Ipswich. The result was Circus Ipswich, formed in 2017, which has provided a much needed creative and physica...

Premium Content BECOMING a circus performer seemed like a natural fit for former Ipswich dancer Rebecca Height. The 16-year-old was first introduced to community program Ipswich Circus about three years ago in search of new challenges. From her very first trick, a new passion was born; the skill of climbing tissue rope quickly becoming one of her favourites. “I’ve been doing dance my whole life, I wanted to do something other than dance and my mum found circus and I thought I would...