ABC Sunshine Coast

09/01/2026

Administrators for collapsed luxury caravan manufacturer, Zone RV, are threatening litigation against the company's director, accusing him of running the business while it was insolvent.

Administrators of the collapsed luxury caravan manufacturer have threatened to sue David Biggar, whose company owes customers millions of dollars.

09/01/2026

An Australian humpback dolphin has been saved from a painful death thanks to a team from the Sea World Foundation.

Together, they restrained three-year-old Skye, as he came into visit Tin Can Bay's Barnacles Cafe & Dolphin Feeding centre this morning (Friday).

As the rest of the dolphin pod watched on, the team successfully cut away a nasty tangle of thick braided fishing line.

Centre manager, Kaitlyn Hall, told ABC Sunshine Coast the line had become wrapped around his bottom, at the base of his tail, and was cutting into his flesh.

It took less than a minute to free Skye, who was released as quickly as possible.

"He was very happy, he was out doing jumps and aerials and everything afterwards," she said.

Ms Hall said it was the second time Skye has become entangled; the first time, a rope had wrapped around his nose.

09/01/2026

🙂 Cod bless 🙂

For decades, nest boxes have been built to address the housing crisis faced by Australian birds and mammals that rely on hollows in very old trees for habitat.

But have you ever given thought to the impact that widespread clearing has had on native species that live underwater?

With funding from the state and federal governments, the Mary River Catchment Coordinating Committee (MRCCC) has deployed 36 sections of hollow logs in waterways - with another 30 lined up.

Endangered Mary River Cod have not only used them, but laid eggs in them.

Other species of turtles, lizards, and eels have also found shelter.

"Historic land clearing over the past two hundred years has meant that a lot of the habitat the cod evolved in, and have been living in generationally, is absent now," MRCCC project officer Nathaniel Larsen said.

"We're seeing some really brilliant work with riparian fencing and revegetation, but the thing is, trees take a long time to grow.

"You're not replacing all of the habitat that should be in-stream initially, and that's where we can go and actually put structure in-stream while the trees are growing up."

The MRCCC is now working with the Jinibara and Kabi Kabi people, Main Roads and Noosa Council to repurpose hollow old-growth trees, felled for road widening.

Queensland Environment Minister Andrew Powell has supported the project and other work the MRCCC is doing with farmers to improve catchment quality.

"It doesn't work against a farmer making a profitable livelihood; it goes hand in hand," Mr Powell said.

"You can get a good environmental outcome and a good economic outcome, that's why we want to back this."

Funding for the Mary River Cod habitat enhancement project ends in July, and the MRCCC is lobbying for more help.

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08/01/2026

The state government has approved a 150-site tourist park on the Sunshine Coast with 95 conditions despite ongoing environmental concerns from authorities and community groups. ⛺️🛖🌳

Read the story: bit.ly/3Na9CcQ

The state government approves a 150-site tourist park with 95 conditions despite ongoing environmental concerns from authorities and community groups.

08/01/2026

Seven people, including two children with life-threatening injuries, are being treated after a four-vehicle crash on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.

Read the story: https://bit.ly/3Z9x4JL

Seven patients are being treated after a serious crash on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.

07/01/2026

‘Epitaph’

Amazing what comes about from simple conversation, happenings...oh so mystical — bereft of explanation.

A couple of workmates working...chatting times of long before, unaware of what was brewing or what may lay in store.

Out of this conversation came a story to behold, of a young boy — oh so gifted with a tale that must be told.

A young teen...early seventies, Canberra born and Canberra raised, with a gift for words a world could only openly have praised.

Back to that conversation though — and the story that evolved, the two workmates and the younger one were inevitably involved.

They had each gone to the same school...at different times of course, but the one who wasn’t a brother, became a life reviving force.

He produced a school time year-book dated nineteen-seventy, with a photo of the younger boy — most poets could never be.

With a poem he’d written called ‘Epitaph’...at the age of fifteen years, just a three verse grasp of feeling — unrivalled by most peers.

‘Epitaph’

“Carve my mind Drink my blood My love stays young on the sea, in the sand. ‘till your fruits are ripe. as my body grows old.
Bury my bones Feed my flesh Forget my body... in the heart of this land. to the beasts of the night. remember — my soul”.

John Cardiff
1970

Whatever drove a fifteen year-old to write such brilliant verse, is made much more remarkable by life’s ever searching curse.

John Cardiff...beautiful human, was struck by cancer — unforeseen, our troubled world lost a life-born poet — at the age...of seventeen.

Harry Donnelly
8-1-26

We share Harry’s written poems on our page and audio on 90.3/95.3FM every Thursday.
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07/01/2026

🔥🚒 Gunalda blaze under control 🔥🚒

Police have now revoked a Public Safety Preservation Act (PSPA) declaration for Gunalda, north of Gympie, after a car towing a caravan caught fire.

Both vehicles were destroyed in the blaze, which was outside a service station along the Bruce Highway.

A PSPA was declared at 1.42pm while emergency crews worked to extinguish the fire, but was revoked an hour later.

No one was hurt. Drivers travelling through the area are still being warned to expect delays.

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07/01/2026

A Sunshine Coast op shop is urging people not to dump broken goods.

Volunteers at Beautiful You Funky Op Shop in Currimundi were forced to send a load of rubbish to the tip on Monday after someone left a large pile of junk outside the shopfront.

The items included broken bicycles.

The op shop has reported the matter to the Sunshine Coast Council.

Photo: Supplied (Beautiful You Funky Op Shop)

06/01/2026

A serial fraudster, previously jailed over separate rental property and car sale scams, is allegedly targeting residents with a new pet and house-sitting con.

Dozens of people from multiple states have come forward after allegedly falling victim to a new pet and house-sitting scam orchestrated by career con artist Patricia McIntyre.

05/01/2026

Light aircraft crash

Two men were lucky to walk away after a gyrocopter crash on the Noosa Northshore early on Sunday morning.

The LifeFlight aeromedical crew airlifted them from the crash site in a soggy paddock near an airstrip.

A LifeFlight spokesperson says the men, aged in their 50s, were placed in harnesses and winched into the helicopter for transport to the Sunshine Coast University Hospital.

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31/12/2025

‘Resolutions’

With the New Year approaching and the party all set,
the Nursery-rhyme book
wasn’t quite ready yet.

There were streamers to hang and red carpet to lay
because story-book stars were now all on their way.

The first to appear were the Three Little Pigs,
a young heavy-metal group
playing worldwide gigs.

They’d befriended Bad Wolf now the three were all grown
and hired him as bodyguard…
almost just as well known.

With flashlights ablaze,
Cinderella arrived, on the arm of her Prince,
to keep the party alive.

Cindy, posing for photos as was usually the case,
for her early departures had become common-place.

Just entering the carpet, heart-throb Jack and wife Jill, from their glitzy apartment
top of Hollywood Hill.

His drinking and falling had journos licking their lips, abstaining this New Year topped his own ‘bucket list’.

Humpty Dumpty was joined by Mother Hubbard this night,
Wall Street’s collapse had seen him fall from great heights.

This popular old pair had never missed New Year’s Eve,
along with Little Red Riding-hood
with some wolf on her sleeve.

Well…the party went off like the rest of the globe, resolutions and hopes…
glistening listening ear lobes.

Amongst the clean-up next day, a glass slipper there lay,
along with Jack and his ‘bucket list’
and nothing new ‘bout the day.

So be mindful of promises and hopeful wishes in time, for life, as we know
is not all Nursery-rhyme.

Let’s wish this New Year the strength of mind that we need, to find the willingness of heart,
for each wish — to succeed.

Harry Donnelly
New Year’s Eve, 2025.

Full story of how poet Harry and artist Keith began to collaborate: https://bit.ly/3Og6jx3
We share Harry Donnelly’s written poems on our page .
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