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Each year, to pay tribute to the return of the humpback whales, the Fraser Coast community comes together to celebrate the beginning of the whale season at the Hervey Bay Whale Festival. Thursday, 3 August 6-8pm, the education drawcard ‘Creating Waves’ is a night of academics hosted by UniSC in the Main Lecture Hall. Learn…

Fraser Coast’s visiting humpbacks whales are on their way! It’s just weeks away from the 2023 Whale Watching season and Fraser Coast tourism and Events is ready to celebrate! Each year from July to October thousands of humpbacks journey into Hervey Bay’s sheltered waters where they stop and play for up to two weeks at…

Get Ready for a Weekend Packed with Thrills, Chills, and Endless Fun! Are you ready for the most epic event to hit the Fraser Coast? The students and staff at Maryborough State High School are excited to bring you the annual Fraser Pop Festival; back and bigger than ever! Mark your calendars for July 14th,…

The Mary Poppins Festival celebrates 16 years of storytelling through time in 2023! Returning to Queens Park and Portside precinct in Maryborough on Sunday 2nd July 2023 for its 16-year anniversary, this year the much-loved event showcases the depth of Maryborough’s history and ‘Storytelling through time. Celebrate creativity and imagination on the day with fun…

Limited session tickets for the Relish Food & Wine Festival have been released online, offering special food and beverage options for locals and visitors to enjoy! The ticketed sessions are a marked addition to the 10th annual 2023 Relish Food & Wine Festival which returns to Maryborough’s Queens Park and Portside precinct on Saturday 3rd…

Many of us have been there before – you start a job you’ve been wanting for ages, and all of a sudden you realise it’s not quite like the brochure promised. But while work experience and placements are great for secondary students, real-world job exposure tends to be less common – and less practical –…

Imagine, if you can, getting the awful news that you have breast cancer quickly followed by news of treatment options which include having one or both of your breasts removed. As a woman (or her partner) we can relate to how stressful and scary this would be. Most of us know a friend, colleague or…

After a decade of research and development and this year; marking 40 years since it’s controversial demise, an original Australian production about ‘The Greatest Ballroom in the Southern Hemisphere’ will for the first time, tour all the Eastern states of Australia. With a cast of 30 Singers, Dancers, Musicians and Actors, Cloudland the Musical features…

Written by Jobs Fraser Coast Plenty has changed for women in work and study over the years. It’s sometimes hard to believe that, as recently as the 1950s and 1960s, many of our grandmothers were expected to permanently give up their jobs when they got engaged, married or fell pregnant.Those same young women grew up…