Aub Podlich

1 month ago | fassifernguardian.com | Wendy Creighton |Aub Podlich |Ivy Mullins |Rory Callinan

HIGH gusting winds and heavy rainfall along much of the eastern escarpment summed up the impact of Tropical Cyclone Alfred around the Scenic Rim by mid-morning Friday. A heavy gust during the gale force winds which made it as far inland as upper Carneys Creek in the early hours of this morning caused extensive damage to Bruce Warren's five bay steel framed shed. “I’m not sure of the time but it was still dark when we heard a really big gust go through,” said Mr Warren.

Dec 19, 2023 | fassifernguardian.com | Wendy Creighton |Rob Mellett |Aub Podlich |Lara Hart

FOUR days, 59 koalas detected – that’s the findings of a University of Queensland survey of the population of the endangered marsupial in the vicinity of the Fassifern Reserve near Aratula. The Koala Research Team found the numbers so significant that the population was declared as “important to the future of koalas in South East Queensland”.

Dec 19, 2023 | fassifernguardian.com | Aub Podlich

MORNING invites the calls of doves, symbols of Shalom, but peace is an illusion. Gaza burns. Rescuers carry the pieces of babies clawed from the mountains of rubble where their parents lie, to the remains of the hospitals, but there is no one to put them back together again. The newsreader warns, “This report contains images that may distress viewers.” In America the commonest morning doves are Mourning Doves. The world is distressed. Shalom is burning.

Dec 12, 2023 | fassifernguardian.com | Aub Podlich

LIKE Queensland’s Ipswich on the Bremer, South Australia’s Callington has a Bremer River too, about 60 kilometres east of Adelaide, in the hills. The town retains so much of the original charm of the 1840s mining days (copper) that people used to say that the whole town, including some of the characters who lived in it, should be preserved in a museum for posterity. Subscribe to Fassifern Guardian to read the full story.

Dec 5, 2023 | fassifernguardian.com | Aub Podlich

A TINY beetle-thingo scurried across her palm. “What’s this?” said she, “it was crawling on the washing!” “Oh, easy,” said he, clueless, but one has to say something, “That’s the Giant Green-Red-and-Blue -Washing-Louse, otherwise known as a Stink Bug. They’re quite common on some people.” Subscribe to Fassifern Guardian to read the full story.