Keer Moriarty
From the Editor's Desk

Supporting local news

You may notice the Our news, your voice campaign that is running across our social media, website and newspaper for the first week of May. There is an article later in the paper which explains this campaign a little more, the basics is that it is a nation-wide awareness and […]

Susie Cunningham
From the Editor's Desk

From the Editor – a missed opportunity

One thing I’m genuinely interested to know is how do you, as a local, get your information from the Scenic Rim Regional Council? Considering you’re reading this, you are probably someone who goes looking in your local paper if you want to find out local information. Until late last year, […]

Susie Cunningham
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From the Editor – ‘Media hype’

THE term ‘gaslighting’ comes to mind when someone dismisses accurate reporting on a relevant issue as ‘media hype’. Recently every local newspaper in the Scenic Rim, including our papers, reported on an attempted leadership spill for the Deputy Mayor position at Scenic Rim Regional Council, and the issues surrounding it. […]

Susie Cunningham
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From the Editor – words of encouragement

WHEN you go to work and do a job that (ideally) pays the bills you don’t do it for the praise, but we all know it’s nice to be thanked sometimes. If kind words were dollars, we’d be rich at the Beaudesert Bulletin thanks to those who have gone out […]

Susie Cunningham
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From the Editor – the power of community

IF you had any reason to doubt the community we have here, let the first Beaudesert Bulletin of 2026 reassure you that we’ve still got it. It exists in the warmth that filled St Mary’s church for Father Kevin Njoku’s final mass and in the way everyone is rallying around […]

Susie Cunningham
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From the Editor – You have to wonder

THE push by developer Moremac to fill up to 75 per cent of its Beaumoor development with small terrace housing seems a bit at odds with its award-winning marketing campaign, which clearly focuses on bigger blocks and space to grow. The developer now wants to build up to 1450 dwellings […]

Susie Cunningham
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Good local kids

AS I write this editorial, I’m harnessing a positive feeling I got walking through Beaudesert CBD at the start of the school holidays. It was the unbounded energy of youth I witnessed in teenagers enjoying the freedom of their spring break. To say I saw them simply ‘walking’ down Brisbane […]

Susie Cunningham
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From the Editor

It’s phenomenal, really, to think that a simple blood test could save a life. September is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month and local Beauy Blue group volunteers are part of a global push to raise awareness and funds to fight prostate cancer. You’ll see our local volunteers have wrapped Beaudesert township […]

Susie Cunningham
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From the Editor

THERE are people who leave a lasting impact when they come into your life. I believe Gerry Gimblett, the former Principal of Beaudesert State School, is one of those people. Mrs Gimblett is still well-known and loved in Beaudesert more than a decade after she retired from education and she […]

Susie Cunningham
From the Editor's Desk

From the Editor

DID you know the Beaudesert Bulletin is a small businesses funded by advertising? For those in the know about newspapers this fact shouldn’t come as a surprise, but as we round out 2025 Small Business Month, I thought I’d take the opportunity to share a bit about us as a […]