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Skate parks are not usually the typical breeding ground for respect and manners, but one local skate park is raising the bar when it comes to stamping out bullying and anti-social behaviour amongst youth. Yesterday, 80 young people aged from 4 to 16 donned their helmets and hit the ramp

When Coolum’s Carla Ellingsen joined Heartbeats three years ago, she was one of only a small handful to participate in the regular drumming workshop. Today, more than 60 individuals, many with intellectual and physical disabilities, crowd into the Uniting Church in Coolum for the colourful and loud musical therapy session.

Sixty years is a long time to serve in any profession, let alone an unpaid volunteer role, which is why Coolum local Tom Schwabe has a milestone worth celebrating, according to Ninderry MP Dan Purdie. Mr Purdie presented Tom with a Certificate of Service for 60 years as a Justice

Ninderry MP Dan Purdie was given his marching orders during a heated debate in Parliament today after the Premier failed to explain how children as young as 10 years of age are being held in the state’s maximum security watch houses.  Mr Purdie, a former Queensland Police Child Protection Officer

A national support group for new dads which has launched a local Coolum branch is a positive step in addressing new fathers physical and mental health and improving family relationships, according to Ninderry MP and father, Dan Purdie. Mount Coolum resident Thomas Docking is the brains behind Dads of Coolum,

Following widespread community outrage over the sentence handed to child killer Shane Akehurst last week, Ninderry MP Dan Purdie has slammed a Labor-led committee’s failure to back stronger child killer laws. The Legal Affairs Committee earlier today decided against supporting LNP legislation which would introduce a new offence of child