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Tracey Bradshaw, Glenda Smith, Loraine Bayliss and Lance Bayliss get into the Oktoberfest festivities at Kurrimine Beach. Picture: Supplied

Many beers and sore heads

FROM competitive keg rolling and nail-hammering to a few expected sore heads the next morning, Kurrimine Beach showed the rest of the Cassowary Coast exactly how to throw an

29 October, 2026

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Elsa Sganzerla, St Rita’s primary school’s oldest living former student is 105. Pictures: Supplied

Babinda News

VIP dame older than school

Australian rock band Powderfinger will bring its reunion tour to Cazalys Stadium in Cairns for two concerts on 17 and 18 September 2027, the band’s only regional Australian performances. Picture: Facebook/Giulia Giannini McGauran

Cairns News

Exclusive Powderfinger show

Erika Swiney, president of Friends of The Con, advertises ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’ night at the Con Theatre on Halloween Pictures: Natural Images by Susan Kelly

Innisfail News

It will be one hell of a night

Asabi Goodman and Judah Kelly perform ‘The Big Chillout: Motown Spectacular’, which comes to Cairns Performing Arts Centre on 24 October. Pictures: Simone Gorman-Clark

Cairns News

Big chillout in Motown

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Kapu Fest returns to Cairns from 21 to 24 October, with four events across The Jack and The Woolshed. Picture: KAPU Fest Facebook

Cairns News

Premier island festival

Oktoberfest will return to Kurrimine Beach this weekend. Pictures: Supplied

Kurrimine Beach News

Here’s cheers to Oktoberfest

Far North Queensland actor Jarron Andy portrays Indigenous drover Charlie in Netflix’s adaptation of ‘My Brilliant Career’. Picture: Supplied

Innisfail News

Coast to Netflix

Attori duo Rick Romeo and Nyree Woods fired up the crowd with non-stop 80s favourites at Brothers Leagues Club Innisfail earlier this month. Picture: Maria Girgenti

Local News

‘Awesome’ night for all

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The Steele Syndicate from Brisbane will be forming at the Tablelands Folk Festival. Picture: Supplied

Far North News

Festival all set to go, folks

Joshua Thomas in the award-winning solo comedy Let There Be Thistles, touring Far North Queensland this October. Picture: Supplied

Cassowary Coast News

Prickly subject tackled

Amity Stewart is the 2026 Miss Riverfest Queen and received a tiara, sash and special cape at the annual event which drew more than 10,000 people last Saturday. Picture: Maria Girgenti

Innisfail News

Our Riverfest Queen

Johnstone River singers from left (back) Bill, Paul, Dave and (middle) Graham, Annette, Christine, Betty and Trixie and (front) Trevor, Mary, Shirley, Kate, Marilyn and Heather (surnames withheld) after their latest concert. Picture: Supplied

Innisfail News

Singers ‘trip’ around world

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