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12 March Governor's Program The Governor’s Official Program is comprised of a wide range of constitutional and legal duties and ceremonial and community engagements. Each year, the Governor hosts thousands of visitors to Government House to take part in investiture and award ceremonies, Open Days, receptions and meetings, and travels widely throughout Queensland to support the activities of Patron groups. View a chronological record of the Governor’s daily program below. Back to all events Friday 12 March 2021   On Friday, in the morning, at Ayr, His Excellency the Honourable Paul de Je...

WHY GO? Because nobody ever rode a Segway without a permanent grin. Plus, you get to enjoy so many of Devonport’s hidden treasures, which include, unexpectedly, a giraffe and a pair of concrete greyhounds. Humming through the quiet back streets, between North Head and Mt Victoria, you’ll see beautiful, old villas painstakingly restored, set in lovely gardens, and hear insider gossip about some of them. You’ll make a note to come back to those tearooms by the sea you go past, or that tempting French café and the cute museum inside an old church. Mt Cumbria Reserve’s peaceful lawn...

Flying in, I see it. Not the hulking green mass of Norfolk Island, which looks like a dairy farm plonked in the middle of the ocean, but its smaller sibling six kilometres to the south, a rugged, uninhabited (except by thousands of seabirds) red-earth island that's been called "the Uluru of the Pacific". It's called Phillip Island, and getting there involves a mini-expedition that starts with a short, often rough boat trip from Norfolk; you then have to leap ashore onto slippery, wave-sloshed rocks and scramble up ladders and ropes to reach the island's higher, drier slopes. See Also On my fi...

The Lincolnite adopts Wind, the cheeky Imp trail forerunner Bringing IMPmania to Lincoln Say hi to Wind, the community roving imp adopted by Stonebow Media. | Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite The Lincolnite and publishers Stonebow Media have adopted Wind, one of the five community Imps preparing Lincoln for the arrival of an army of their bigger brothers this summer. Some 30 1.55m tall Imp sculptures will the placed across the city from Newport Arch to St Marks, Brayford Waterfront to Monks Road from July 3 to September 8, 2021. The sculpture is based on the WH Goss pottery IMP model t...

If this month is any indication, local tourism is on its way back to becoming the thriving industry it once was. On Feb. 9, the Town of Marana announced that the Marana Visitor Center has finished moving into its new location near the Municipal Complex, located at 13251 N. Lon Adams Road, the same address as the Marana Chamber of Commerce. “We can now serve our visitors better, because we have a nicer, newer facility. It’s more comfortable and there’s amenities right across the street, if people want to park, ask for directions or find out where their journey is headed next,â�...