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Overseas project an ‘eye-opener’ for students

Deep in the Bornean rainforest, with 99 per cent humidity, students were hard at work delivering a humanitarian project to...

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29th Oct. 2019 8:10 AM

TRIP OF A LIFE: Students and staff at Noosa District State High School recently took part in a trip of a lifetime participating in a humanitarian project in Borneo.

The story of Malcolm Smith: POW researcher and advocate

Malcolm Smith has stood on the same soil which soaked up the blood of Australian and British prisoners of war in Borneo 65...

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17th July 2019 12:07 AM

NOT STOPPING: WW2 researcher and memorial advocate Pialba's Malcolm Smith, 81, with a picture of a Borneo POW camp memorial he helped transform into a tourist attraction and site of remembrance.

Ripper stories come from Anzac Day

Growing up, a cabinet of sentimental possessions stood at our front door and welcomed me home each day.

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24th April 2019 12:04 PM

RIPPER CLAN: Casey, Felicity and Simone Ripper with their grandfather and Second World War hero Maxwell Ripper.

Hang our heads in shame over animal extinction

Through habitat loss, climate change and poaching this planet is gradually losing hundreds of beautiful animals.

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15th Feb. 2019 7:02 AM

Hope for the shrinking wild corners of the world

Now is the time for all of us to throw our weight behind doing everything we can to protect the world's remaining wild...

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05th Jan. 2019 3:01 PM

Steve Backshall star of the television show Deadly 60.

Art tells of oil's terrible effects

Subtle activism hopes to inspire shopping trolleys with a debut exhibition from Sunshine Coast mixed-media artist.

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23rd Oct. 2018 5:10 AM

ART WITH MEANING: Robyn Baker will hold her exhibition to bring attention to the devastation unsustainable palm oil production can cause.

Behind enemy lines: digger looks back on secret unit

Pottsville's Jim Banks will be the guest of honour at Anzac Day service

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22nd April 2018 3:04 PM

METTLE: Flight Sergeant Jim Banks (far right) with other crew members from the 200 Flight Liberators who flew supplies in behind enemy lines in the Pacific.

Students leave on trip of a lifetime

NINE students from Matthew Flinders Anglican College have left on the trip of a lifetime to Borneo.

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21st June 2016 11:06 AM

Supplied image obtained Thursday, June 19, 2014 of one of Perth Zoo?s female orangutans Utama, who celebrated her 35th birthday on Thursday.(AAP Image/Perth Zoo) NO ARCHIVING, EDITORIAL USE ONLY

Defence family expo

Defence personnel new to the Darling Downs enjoyed a welcome expo at Borneo Barracks

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21st Feb. 2016 9:02 AM

Students work helps brighten the future of sun bears

FOUR University of the Sunshine Coast students have travelled to Malaysia to help design a brighter future for sun bears in...

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08th Jan. 2016 5:01 AM

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