ON A WATERMELON-INSPIRED BAR OPENING IN CAIRNS
Yum!! They are the best kind of cocktails
Rhegan Hartwig Lawry
Geoff Dale Alicia Dale this is a perfect reason to move here Lisa Waywell
I can’t wait to try this place out! Shari Nocen
Congratulations Chase!
Isa Freshup & Aaron Lee Robson we have to go have a watermelon cocktail with Fiesta when it’s open! Sasha Diffey
This place is the best I can’t wait for it to open
Tina Ribbons
Congrats Chase , can’t wait to come and celebrate and wish you all the very best and success x
Tonia Rose
Yum. So trying this . Cher’i Kreegher
Marc Just
Vanessa Tankard see even the bar is watermelon themed
Jade Ebony Morris
Kayla Thynne I love everything about this
Erin O’shaughnessy
ON A FROZEN CHIP SHORTAGE IN FNQ
What a joke! Tableland potatoes are a plenty.
Stacey Boyden
Stacey Boyden they must prefer them in a packet ..no handmade potatoes for them
Jenni Bibi
Jenni Bibi fresh is best eh
Tash Mckell
Stacey Boyden sadly numerous farms have converted to growing sugar cane and avocadoes, and hardly any potatoe farms left Doris Cooper
Doris Cooper, check out Kaban and Evelyn. Plenty there.
Stacey Boyden
It’s been a wet growing season is
why. I live in potato growing area. Believe me this is absolute truth. Janene On Lakes
Been a struggle for a while to get frozen potato products in woolworths. Corn as well
Scottie Travers
Scottie Travers yep Weeks now in Mossman
Susan Davenport
Susan Davenport I go to 2 different woolworths and struggle
Scottie Travers
Is this really news worthy. It’s a really simple problem to solve.
1. Buy a large spud
2. Grab a veggie peeler and peel said spud.
3. Wash spud and cut into chips.
4. Dry of chips while oil is heating.
5. Cook said chips and drain, salt.
6. TADA hot fresh chips. Lynn Herron
1610Astronomer Galileo Galilei observes four moons orbiting Jupiter. These are the first satellites seen orbiting another planet.
1788
Crew and convicts of the First Fleet catch their first glimpse of what is now Australia, off the coast of Van Diemen’s Land, now Tasmania. The Lady Penrhyn signals land in sight.
1799
Bass and Flinders complete their circumnavigation of Van Diemen’s Land on the Norfolk, having explored the Tamar Estuary, climbed Mt Wellington and confirmed the existence of Bass Strait.
1830
Explorer Charles Sturt sets off with seven other men by boat down the Murrumbidgee River on his way to Lake Alexandrina.
1887
Four youths hang in Sydney’s Darlinghurst Jail for the gang rape of Mary Jane Hicks, 16, in Moore Park after she accepted a ride in a hansom cab. Two other men are given a reprieve.
1931
The first solo flight from Australia to New Zealand, by Australian Guy Menzies, 21, flying from Sydney, ends as he crash-lands on the west coast. He completes the flight in 11hr 45min in an aircraft named Southern Cross Junior.
1933
Bert Hinkler (above right) dies in a plane crash in the mountains of Tuscany, Italy, on a flight from England to Australia in a DH. 80A Puss Moth.
1953
President Harry Truman announces the development of the hydrogen bomb.
1965
Sydney’s hydrofoil service begins between Circular Quay and Manly. The Japanese-built vessel carries 72 people and cuts travel from 40 to 20 mins.
1989
Emperor Hirohito, who came to the Japanese throne in 1926 with divine status and reigned during World War II, dies at 87.
2003
The end of Australia’s housing boom is revealed as the Bureau of Statistics says building approvals fell by 26 per cent.