Byron Bay Football Club may finally get the funds to complete its new clubhouse, with Byron councillors to consider loaning the club $200,000 at this week’s meeting.
A century and a half ago, the visionary Henry David Thoreau declared people had become ‘the tool of their tools.’ In this device-driven age of smartphones, social media, and artificial intelligence, few observations could be seen as more prescient.
The company behind the Wallum housing development in Brunswick Heads is once again taking Byron Council to court, this time for allegedly holding up its planned earthworks at the site in an unlawful manner.
Fifty sculptures line the beautiful stretch of beach at Currumbin on the Gold Coast until September 17. The SWELL sculpture festival is celebrating it’s fifteenth year as it transforms the golden sands of Currumbin Beach into a dazzling landscape of interactive and inspiring public art amid a carnival atmosphere of live entertainment, street food, artist talks and masterclasses for all ages.
There are up to 50 Australian and international artists who are displaying thought-provoking works plotted along a 1km stretch of coastline, highlighting a range of social, environmental and contemporary issues.
Sculptures by local artists Alison Allcock, Jeanette Krohn, Gabriel Rosita and Lance Season form an important part of the exhibition.
Make sure you take the chance to head up the coast and feast your eyes on these fantastic works.
Fifty sculptures on a on a beautiful little stretch of Gold Coast at Currumbin. Photo Jeff Dawson.
A bomb may kill you but time always will. Photo Jeff Dawson.
Christopher Trotter’s, Beached Racer, Falcon beawdy. Photo Jeff Dawson.
The Crab by Joy Heylen. Photo Jeff Dawson.
Currumbin Cruzin’, Lance Seddon’s nostalgic look at a time when creativity and danger mixed in child hood imagination. Photo Jeff Dawson.
Conversations by Phillip Piperides. Photo Jeff Dawson.
Knight to? Gabriel Rosati’s saw horse, scrap metal rides again. Photo Jeff Dawson.
A New Face, please take a seat. Photo Jeff Dawson.
Post Tree Museum, glasswood, by Jeanette Krohn Photo Jeff Dawson.
Intuitions, Light Lighthouse. Photo Jeff Dawson.
Pig Of Steel, Pos, taking all his best ideas from Trump, Abbot and Putin with the sensitivity of Hanson. Photo Jeff Dawson.
Captain Goodvibes is Joe Stark’s rendering of the Tracks magazine Super Anti-Hero from the twisted imagination of Tony Edwards. Photo Jeff Dawson.
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A century and a half ago, the visionary Henry David Thoreau declared people had become ‘the tool of their tools.’ In this device-driven age of smartphones, social media, and artificial intelligence, few observations could be seen as more prescient.
Though no machinery arrived at Wallum this morning, contractors and police were on the development site at Brunswick Heads as well as dozens of Save Wallum protesters.
Springing to life in the Lismore Rainforest Botanic Gardens this April school holidays, Understory is a magical, interactive theatre adventure created for children by Roundabout Theatre.
Gilmour Space Technologies is looking to put Australia on the map when it comes to space flight with the first test flight of an Australian-made and owned rocket coming in a few months.
Detectives from the Financial and Cyber Crime Group have arrested and charged five people in relation to an alleged ‘boiler room’ investment fraud operating on the Gold Coast.
