Students Realise Their Potential
Education is all about potential … the potential to be successful, to achieve outcomes, to gain qualifications, to improve life skills, to be happy and live life with a purpose.
Students Celebrate Year 12 Success
Family and friends of indigenous Year 12 graduates from across the South Burnett gathered at Murgon Town Hall on Thursday night to congratulate school-leavers and hand out awards.
Positive Parenting Pays Off
Six Murgon and Cherbourg residents have successfully graduated from a Triple P parenting program organised by Barambah PaCE.
Ration Shed Wins Award
The Cherbourg Historical Precinct Group has won a Gallery and Museum Achievement Award
Indigenous Home Ownership
Moves Another Step Closer
The dream of Cherbourg residents owning their own home built on traditional land could be a step closer following the release this week of a Discussion Paper by the State Government.
Education Reaps Rewards
Lavina and Jeffrey Dynevor surround themselves with the joy and love of children all day, every day. At work they read to them, play games, paint, sing, dance, tell stories, listen to what the children have to say…
$26m Funding Round Opens
More than $26 million is up for grabs for community groups to showcase the best of Australia’s Indigenous culture, languages and visual arts.
New Café Does Cherbourg Proud
Birds sing and a magpie calls as I taste the best coffee I’ve had in years on the verandah of the Yurri Muntha Café at Cherbourg.
Cherbourg Gets Ready
Cherbourg schoolchildren and their parents took the opportunity today to remember last year’s floods
Why Missing School Matters
Going to school every day really does count … and NAPLAN results prove it.
Fun Day To Prepare For Disaster
A “Get Ready Cherbourg” day will be held on Friday (November 9) at Jack O’Chin Oval to allow residents to swap stories about last year’s floods and suggest ways that disasters can be handled in future.
$9m For PCYC Sporting Program
Sport and Recreation Minister Steve Dickson has announced a $9 million funding boost to sport and recreation in Indigenous communities.
Youth Pelted Police With Bottle
An 18-year-old youth was placed on a 12 months intensive correction order – basically prison in the community – after he pleaded guilty to assaulting a police officer during a disturbance at Cherbourg on August 30.
Titans TAP Future Dreams With Education
Titans rugby league club has helped Kalchiri Jacobs become an office manager just five months after she left the dole queue.
‘Positive Impact’ From Pilot Project
The Queensland Early Intervention Pilot Project – an alcohol awareness and early intervention program which operates in Cherbourg – will be marking its second anniversary this week.
Boys Hurt In Rodeo Falls
A 12-year-old Cherbourg boy has been flown to hospital with abdominal and head injuries after a fall at the Kumbia Junior Rodeo this morning.
Cherbourg Planning Scheme Unveiled
The State Government has unveiled local planning schemes to help Indigenous Councils guide the development of their communities – and Cherbourg is one of the first.
Axe Falls On Murgon Programs
South Burnett CTC’s Diversionary Services team in Murgon today received the bad news they had been fearing … the State Government has not renewed their funding.
Cherbourg Bids For Academy
Cherbourg Shire Council is hoping to bring the Clontarf Foundation program to the town
Axe Hangs Over Alcohol Diversion Service
Packed into some quiet offices in Murgon’s Lamb Street is a service which everyone seems to agree has been having a positive effect on people’s lives but it appears to be facing the axe in December because there’s not enough dollars in the State coffers to run it.
