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Pip Andreas

Tilly Hersel: The 000 everyday hero

The unsung heroes of Queensland’s Police, Fire, Ambulance, Health, Corrections, Justice and Public Service employees have been recognised by the QBank Everyday Heroes Award for the past eight years. This year, one of the finalists, is Tilly Hersel...

Pip Andreas

September 2022

Music

The Courage Collective: A safe space for female and non-binary artists

The Courage Collective is a new initiative created by Zoe Maras, owner of artist management agency 97 Joyride, and artist and educator JESA. Zoe and JESA have together created a new event that provides a safe, diverse and inclusive space for women...

Pip Andreas

October 2021

Arts

Leave me alone: Christian Hull heads to Byron Writers Festival 2021

Pip Andreas

June 2021

Arts

From Perth to Lismore: NORPA’s new Executive Producer

Lismore NSW based NORPA (Northern Rivers Performing Arts) has not only secured $1,295,000 in March last year from an Australia Council for the Arts four year funding grant, they have attracted a new Executive Producer all the way from across the...

Pip Andreas

March 2021

Music

Women in Docs together again for Festival of Small Halls

Pip Andreas

November 2020

Lifestyle

Gold Coaster wins STEM award

Gold Coast local Lauren Hall, Founder and CEO of revolutionary events and hospitality software company iVvy, has won the prestigious Sue Wickenden Innovation in Technology award at the 2020 Women in Technology (WiT) Awards announced last month. iVvy...

Pip Andreas

November 2020

Arts

We talk Indigenising education with Dr Ali Sammel

For over 200 years in Australia we’ve been teaching science and other subjects to Indigenous children from Western cultural assumptions and pedagogies. It’s time to change that according to Griffith University academic Dr Ali Sammel, co-author...

Pip Andreas

November 2020

Lifestyle

Sharon Styman pioneering a new direction at Twin Towns

For the first time since its inception in 1950, Twin Towns Services Club has a woman on its board of directors. Sharon Styman is a successful local businesswoman who has taken on the mantle with aplomb. She discussed her new role and the future...

Pip Andreas

October 2020

Lifestyle

How music helped these Gold Coast artists cope

The mental health of musicians has suffered an enormous blow since the pandemic shutdown their livelihood almost overnight in March this year when COVID 19 meant that live performances where cancelled across the country. Mental Health Week happens...

Pip Andreas

October 2020

Food & Drink

Gold Coast get its first ever weekday farmers market

It’s hard to believe that the Gold Coast hasn’t had a weekday farmers market before now. Paula Brand, a leading small business advocate and the woman behind the iconic Small Business Expos on the Gold Coast, saw the gap in the market - literally...

Pip Andreas

September 2020

Music

ALBUM REVIEW: BAREFOOT by AKoVA

AKoVA is a Gold Coast based artist whose heartfelt music cements him amongst a growing community of conscious musicians eschewing the mainstream and feeding an ever-increasing audience who are dissatisfied with our leaders, our fractured communities...

Pip Andreas

February 2020

Music

Many sounds, many stories covered in new women in music documentary

Twenty five years ago, legendary musician Lindy Morrison (The Go-Betweens) filmed a documentary about women in the Australian music industry called ‘Australian Women in Rock and Pop Music’. In 2019 she shared the stage at new music festival and...

Pip Andreas

November 2019

Lifestyle

Gold Coast girl shows us how to crypto-travel

With Bitcoin’s value skyrocketing again, there are plenty of get-rich-quick hopefuls trying to make a fast buck out of it in the hope the mania of it’s rise in 2017 will be surpassed. However, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies aren’t just an...

Pip Andreas

July 2019

Music

Conversations with Nick Cave: Live review | HOTA | Friday 11 January 2019

Lets start at the end. We’re at the Arts Theatre at HOTA and have just witnessed a Nick Cave show that we never thought we would see. The warm, funny, honest, friendly guy onstage has just spent three hours respectfully answering as many...

Pip Andreas

January 2019