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LOCAL emergency services have helped pioneer a Queensland first major drone exercise for pilots to train in bushfire mapping, search and rescue and night operations. Beaudesert based Senior Remote Pilot Chris Thompson, who manages the response of South East Region drone pilots, helped facilitate Exercise Wedgetail at Wyaralong Dam on […]

YOU cannot miss the RSL Beaudesert Sub Branch sign filling the 17 William Street window. The sub branch shifted there in August after more than a decade in their offices upstairs in the Nielsen Building on the corner of Brisbane Street and William Street. The new location, which they moved […]

HILARY Rains is proud of how far the Beaudesert Potters have come. The woman who has dedicated more than half of her lifetime to the local group remembers when they started with a handful of members meeting in each other’s homes in 1975. Now there are about 40 members, and […]

Riding high after great Beauy Show COMMUNITY groups and businesses, volunteers and sponsors, entertainers and entrants, committee and showgoers all pitched in to make the 2024 Beaudesert Show a success. The grounds were buzzing with people young and old keen to enjoy their favourite show traditions, from eating their way […]

SCENIC Rim Mayor Tom Sharp says Council is reviewing how it does community consultation and may bring in external providers to revisit the Beaudesert Pig and Calf Saleyards issue. It comes after the Mayor at a July 24 meeting pushed for Council to reopen community consultation on the saleyards, a saga […]

DANIEL Barnes from RDO Equipment Beaudesert has been recognised in an elite group at the fourth annual John Deere Technician of Year awards. Daniel was one of just five technicians from throughout Australia and New Zealand to be named as the best of the best. He was presented with the […]

CLOSING the northbound lane of Brisbane Street in the middle of Beaudesert is necessary to address the town’s long-running drainage woes. That is the word from Scenic Rim Regional Council as major deep excavation and drainage works intensify as part of the Beaudesert Town Centre Revitalisation Project 2020-2025. At time […]

THERE is an easy camaraderie between experienced bowls coach Margaret Durante and junior bowls newcomer Typhoon Le Garde as she teaches him the sport she knows so well. Beaudesert local Typhoon, 16, is enjoying making the most of Beaudesert Bowls Club’s free Junior Bowls program at his weekly lessons. “I […]

MCAULEY College has come together with the Mununjali community of Beaudesert to launch its Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP). The formal document, which McAuley launched on August 22, is a public declaration of the college’s ongoing commitment and actions toward reconciliation. “Our ultimate goal in creating this RAP is that McAuley’s […]