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TAFE cookery and outstanding apprentice of the year Phillip Mooka is delighted to take out the top awards. Picture: TAFE Queensland

Winner ‘loves’ his career

TAFE Queensland cookery apprentice Phillip Mooka, 35, has claimed the top title at the 2025 Cairns Trade Excellence Awards.

19 August, 2025

Family support worker Dianne Forsyth in the new community kitchen at the Birch St Community Hub. Picture: Lizzie Vigar

Manunda News

Di retires after 13 years

Cairns Toy Library founder and president Ailsa Horsburgh (left), guest volunteer and children’s author Lachlann Carter and long-time volunteer Grace Wildley at the toy library. Picture: Lizzie Vigar

Manunda News

Toy library means a lot to struggling families

Psychic medium Sara (right) receives a mock Akashic Records reading from guest practitioner Alexandra Caron, who will offer her spiritual insights at the Cairns Spiritual Centre’s Open Day on August 9. Picture: Lizzie Vigar

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Centre provides lots of hope

Founder Jane Mitchell (left) and volunteer Bec Johnston stand in one of the She Shed’s many creative nooks, surrounded by neatly sorted supplies, including colourful buttons, stamps, punches, scissors, inks and craft paper. Picture: Lizzie Vigar

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Safe haven for women

Whitfield budgie breeder Bruce Schiuster with one of his prized birds. Picture: Isabella Guzman Gonzalez

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Budgies swoon aplenty

Whitfield budgie breeder Bruce Schuster with one of his prized specimens. Picture: Isabella Guzman Gonzalez

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There’s no budgie smuggling going on here

Cr Anna Middleton at Endeavour Park, which Football Queensland has announced will be renamed Macca’s Park in a sponsorship deal with McDonald’s. Picture: Nick Dalton

Manunda News

Macca’s name anger

Barron River MP Bree James (third from right) celebrates the opening of the new Manunda Neighbourhood Centre in Birch St with staff and clients. Picture: Supplied

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New hub at heart of ‘hood

LNP candidate for Leichhardt Jeremy Neal with Cr Anna Middleton on the empty grassed lot at the Piccone’s Village where there are plans for a basketball court. Picture: Isabella Guzman Gonzalez

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Big slam dunk for youth

Linda Bristow (centre), the great niece of Evan Whiting killed in the 1918 Kuranda rail tragedy, thanks Australian Federated Union of Locomotive Employees’ state secretary Mick McKitrick (left) and president Anthony Woodward for the new grave. Picture: Nick Dalton

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Rail tragedy recalled

Trinity Bay State High School students Brodie Lucas (left), Jack Wood-Bartle, Lewis (surname withheld) and Andzejs Maltby took out top honours at this year’s Premier’s coding challenge. Picture: Education Queensland

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Students break the code

The scene of the Kuranda train derailment in 1918 which took the lives of two Queensland Rail employees who will be remembered next Saturday at a memorial service. Picture: Supplied

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Service planned for rail victims

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