ABC Sunshine Coast

22/11/2025

A new Sunshine Coast competition is giving boys aged 10 to 13 their own netball pathway.

It is part of a national push to grow boys' and men's netball.

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From regional Queensland to state level, boys' netball is gaining momentum and reshaping the future of the sport.

22/11/2025

Queensland is bracing for extreme and severe heatwave conditions, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.

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Large parts of Queensland are expected to swelter under extreme and severe heatwave conditions, with temperatures soaring across much of the state.

21/11/2025

🎄🦌SUNNY KIDS CHRISTMAS APPEAL 2025 🎄🦌

Each day SunnyKids are confronted with heartbreaking stories of trauma.

Many of the families SunnyKids assists have experienced homelessness, economic hardship or domestic violence.

This year, ABC Sunshine Coast and SunnyKids are calling on the community to assist in making Christmas a little brighter for at-risk children across the region.

While Christmas certainly isn’t all about gifts, we’re inviting residents and businesses to donate a toy, book, game or gift card if they’re in a position to do so.

Items can be dropped into

ABC Sunshine Coast at 1/15 Carnaby Street in Maroochydore until 6pm, December 7.

Suggestions include;

💳 Gift cards
🎬 Experience vouchers
👟 Sports items and gym gear
🚲 Outdoor/exercise equipment
📖 Picture books and novels
🎧 Headphones and electronics like speakers and cameras
🧱 Lego, Mega Blocks
✄⚉ Art, craft and science kits
🎸 Musical instruments
♟️ Puzzles and board games
🐚 Body boards, beach towels
🎀 Bath bombs, nail art kits, perfume
🚗 Toy cars, train sets, slime/kinetic sand
🎁 Non persisable goodies for Christmas

Items must be new and unwrapped please

21/11/2025

Five deli meat products sold in Queensland and New South Wales have been recalled over possible listeria contamination.

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Multiple deli meat products sold in two Australian states have been recalled over fears of possible listeria contamination.

21/11/2025

Historic day

Saved from the scrapheap by a committed team of volunteers, the Krauss locomotive 6854 has made its long-awaited return to Buderim.

Between 1914 and 1935, this petite locomotive transported passengers and produce on a rail line between Buderim and Palmwoods.

When the track closed, the little loco hauled cane in Bundaberg until it was bought by a collector in Woodford.

Today, 21 years, one month, and one day after it was found rusting away in a rail graveyard, surviving members of the original Buderim-Palmwoods Heritage Tramway Inc. team witnessed history being made.

Treasurer Bruce Horton described the new location of the restored 111-year-old steam locomotive as "fantastic".

"The original rail line between Buderim and Palmwoods runs just behind the site," Mr Horton said.

"So it's going to be sitting within probably 10 metres of where it used to be chugging up and down the mountain."

The Buderim War Memorial Community Association made room for the Krauss on land next to the Old Post Office on Burnett Street.

With $350,000 in support from the Queensland government, a crane company had the tricky job of moving it from storage on Wises Farm this morning.

It was a tight squeeze as it was trucked in beside Buderims's old Telstra building, before being carefully lifted into place on a short new track.

A display case will be built around the Krauss, to keep it safe, and commemorate its rich history.

Part of the old rail track is popular with walkers off Telco Road, near the intersection of Mons Road.

21/11/2025

Striking new purple-skinned pineapples are being trialled in Queensland, but the wait to taste them could take 10 years.

"We've got a handful of plants that we then need to turn into millions of plants," Piñata Farms managing director Gavin Scurr said.

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Striking new purple-skinned pineapples are being trialled in Queensland, but the wait to taste them could last 10 years.

20/11/2025

Free snags - and food for thought!!

Have you ever taken a drive through the back blocks of K***a Park?

The industrial estate turns 50 this year and is home to some amazing businesses, that don't just serve the Sunshine Coast, but the world.

Come down and meet ABC Sunshine Coast's Sarah Howells and her presenters Tessa Mapstone and Samuel Audus-Ryan who are currently broadcasting live from the Sunshine Coast Brewery.

Visit us at 13 Endeavour Drive until 11am today, or listen in on 90.3 or 95.3 fm or the ABC Listen App.

From military manufacturing, to incredible aquariums, vegan meals and chocolate, to the history of the estate, there's a lot to learn.

Plus, there's a BBQ breakfast and coffee, and a big K***a Park shaped cake for morning tea!

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20/11/2025

A year after Gold Coast Council was victim to a fraud attack, Noosa council was also targeted by a sophisticated artificial intelligence scam.

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A year after Gold Coast Council was victim to a fraud attack, Noosa council was also targeted by a sophisticated artificial intelligence scam.

19/11/2025

Nitrous oxide bulbs and canisters, known colloquially as nangs, can lead to paralysis when consumed in large quantities over an extended period of time.

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Nitrous oxide bulbs and canisters, known colloquially as nangs, can lead to paralysis when consumed in large quantities over an extended period of time.

19/11/2025

the thoughts of ‘H’
(mind set)

When life kinda shows you what life kinda does
and your darkest of moments light up all abuzz.

Then something must tell you in the nicest of ways,
that whatever your struggle
there’ll be much brighter days.

When you’re tired of exploring those pitfalls of hell,
the birds stop their singing
and your roses won’t smell.

Well…solutions are simply just mindset away,
‘tis that light through the tunnel tells you all is ok.

See…a shift is but all that’s required at times, no matter the problem
or how steep the climb.

A shift in the feel and formation of thought, so simplistic the notion
and intuitively sought.

So here is the spiel and I’ll tell you but once,
you’ll digest it for brekkie,
be enlightened by lunch.

Take any assumptions by the scruff of the neck, hoick ‘em far as you can
’til they’re merely a speck.

What you don’t know for sure is not worth any fuss, so deal only in facts
with the utmost of trust.

Give all that you care for, the benefit of doubt,
and then watch it return
with incredible clout.

Give to you all the love you can muster...and more,
sweep those cobwebs and dust from your heart out the door.

And I promise you now as I speak these last words,
you’ll be smelling those roses,
and hearing those birds.

Harry Donnelly
20-11-25

The thoughts of ‘H’ (no strings)
We share Harry Donnelly’s written poems on our page and audio on 90.3/95.3FM every Thursday.
You can also join his free email list at [email protected]
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19/11/2025

The Sunshine Coast's oldest industrial estate is turning 50 this year! 🎉 Come and celebrate with Sarah Howells and the ABC Mornings team this Friday from 8.30am - 11am at the Sunshine Coast Brewery. 📻

There is more hidden in this humble industrial estate than you might realise - a rich history of manufacturing and job creation on the Sunshine Coast, global headquarters for military manufacturing and oversized aquariums, vegan meals, world-class chocolate and the longest running brewery in Queensland. 🍺

But what will a future made in K***a Park look like? You'll hear about the opportunities that come with digital technology, artificial intelligence and the new subsea cable linking Sunshine Coast to the world. 🌍

Plus, there will be a BBQ breakfast and coffee from 7am, and a big K***a Park shaped cake for morning tea! 🎂

Come down and join us broadcast live, or listen in to ABC Sunshine Coast on 90.3FM, 95.3FM or the ABC Listen app. 📻