Tom Forbes

Ghana, Gold Coast

Breakfast Radio Presenter and Journalist, ABC Gold Coast at ABC News (Australia)

Communications Officer at Queensland Capacity Network (QCN). Former ABC journalist.

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Articles

Celebrating 50 years of community radio

Jan 22, 2025 | abc.net.au | Tom Forbes |Dominic Cansdale

For half a century, community radio has made an incredible mark on the Australian media landscape, helping raise some often forgotten voices. So what's the secret behind this grassroot radio?
Taking your bike on a holiday

Dec 3, 2024 | abc.net.au | Tom Forbes |Dominic Cansdale

When most of us go on holidays we pack our luggage, jump in the car, and head off. But one family has been taking a different approach to holidaying — taking their bikes instead.
Even with Jordyn Tyson out, ASU focused on Big 12 championship

Dec 2, 2024 | cronkitenews.azpbs.org | Tom Forbes |Spencer Barnes

Arizona State running back Cam Skattebo celebrates after his first score in this year’s Territorial Cup game in Tucson Saturday. Skattebo went on to score two more times in what has been a career year for him. (Photo by Spencer Barnes/Cronkite News) With the win this past weekend, defensive back Latterance Welch and the Sun Devils clinched a spot in the Big-12 Conference championship Saturday in Arlington, Texas.
80-year-old to walk 80km across Queensland in memory of allegedly murdered granddaughter

Nov 7, 2024 | abc.net.au | Jessica Lamb |Madeleine Cross |Tom Forbes

Russ Thompson's mind often replays the final conversation he had with his granddaughter before she was allegedly murdered. It has been more than two years since he received a last text from 18-year-old Emily. She was about to sit her final exams at Pine Rivers State High School in Queensland's Moreton Bay region and had big dreams for her future. But like most young girls about to graduate, she had her eyes fixed on the night when she could dress up and let her hair down.
Nurse Erica Roberts can see her local hospital from her driveway, but she drives interstate to make more money

Sep 26, 2024 | abc.net.au | Tom Forbes |Madeleine Cross |Nicholas Mcelroy

Nurse Erica Roberts can see a brand-new hospital from the end of her driveway on the NSW far north coast. A trip to the Tweed Valley Hospital would be an enviable commute in an area where she's worked on and off for almost 20 years. But, like many colleagues, the grandmother says she is thousands of dollars better off working in Queensland. While she occasionally picks up shifts in her local area, she much prefers conditions on the Gold Coast, north of the border, after making the switch last year.
Holidays aren’t cheap but this 'bikepacking' family can travel on $100 a day

Sep 20, 2024 | abc.net.au | Jessica Lamb |Julia Andre |Tom Forbes |Madeleine Cross

A cheap family holiday that keeps you fit and reconnects you with nature sounds too good to be true, but for Isaac Vitesnik and his family, "bikepacking" is a way of life. The 42-year-old from Northern NSW recently spent the school holidays cycling 400 kilometres with his partner Natasha Kasselis, 37, and their two children, aged 10 and 13, around the Gold Coast. The nine-day adventure cost the family of four less than $230 a day.
Former Gold Coast mayoral candidate Virginia Freebody homeless as rent continues to soar

Sep 16, 2024 | abc.net.au | Tom Forbes |Madeleine Cross |Julia Andre

Struggling to find a rental property and living in crisis accommodation, former Gold Coast mayoral candidate Virginia Freebody is not living the life she thought she would be at the age of 62. After her husband died in December last year she said she was not thinking straight and forgot to check her rental property's lease renewal date. Ms Freebody, who owns a dry cleaning business on the Gold Coast, said she also owed money to the landlord for water usage.
Tributes paid to pilot Michael James, who saved lives in Sea World helicopter crash, after death from cancer

Jun 15, 2024 | rnz.co.nz | Mackenzie Colahan |Tom Forbes |Kirsten Webster

By Mackenzie Colahan, Tom Forbes, and Kirsten Webster, ABC NewsThe pilot who successfully crash-landed his damaged helicopter during a mid-air collision at Sea World, saving the lives of all four passengers on board, has died of cancer, it has been revealed.
I scanned every package on PyPi and found 57 live AWS keys

Jan 6, 2023 | tomforb.es | Tom Forbes
Safely eating cane toads

Nov 27, 2022 | abc.net.au | Tom Forbes