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Science Comes Alive This Month At Rainbow Beach!

Cooloola Coastcare Cooloola Coastcare and the Gympie Regional STEM Hub have joined forces again to celebrate National Science Week with the FREE STEAMzone Twilight Science Market, being held on 23 August from 4pm to 7pm in the parklands beside the...

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Rainbow Editor

01 Aug 2025

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Council Budget Delivers for Coast Communities

Addressing the community’s essential needs while keeping pace with the growing region was the focus of the 2025-26 Gympie Regional Council Annual Budget adopted on 24 July 2025. The total budget is $262M with an operational result forecast of...

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29 Jul 2025

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From the Queen’s Mainland back to Queensland: A Farewell to Michelle Gilmore

Elisa Mele, Elisa: People, Places & Stories Women of Cooloola Coast - IG @womenofcooloolacoast It was quite the transoceanic leap when Heatley and Michelle Gilmore left London to return to Australia, more precisely, to Rainbow Beach. They had...

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Rhyll Davis

01 May 2025

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Community Skilling Up To Be Prepared In Rainbow Beach

Nicole Harper, CCR Project Manager Plan C started delivering its Community Carers and Responders (CCR) training to Pomona, Gympie, and Maryborough last year and the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. A new program will start on the Coolool...

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01 May 2025

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Community Centre Update - April 2025

Denise Orr Rainbow Beach Community Centre is gradually adjusting to life under the new team of Jed Elmer, John McLinden, and Lynda Twamley after the resignations of long-time stalwarts Fiona Hawthorne (retired) and Jenny Brown (moved to Gold Coast)...

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01 May 2025

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New Zero-Tolerance For Illegal Camping In Rainbow Beach

Following growing community frustration in Rainbow Beach, Gympie Regional Council is taking a zero-tolerance stance to illegal camping. From April 2025, Council will install new ‘11pm – 4am No Parking’ signage along Griffith Esplanade, a known...

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Rhyll Davis

01 Apr 2025

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Rainbow Beach to Host Surfing Penguin

From 4 August 2024, the 10 Force Support Battalion; the 35 Water Transport Squadron, will be conducting their annual exercise Surfing Penguin from Rainbow Beach to Inskip Point. Soldiers will be conducting surf negotiation training and certification...

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01 Aug 2024

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Drink driving charges, Rainbow Beach

https://r2. mypolice. qld. gov. au/uploads/2024/04/25/214730_offences-rainbow-beach. mp4 Police have charged a 24-year-old Miva woman with multiple offences following an incident in Rainbow Beach at the beginning of the week. Around 3pm, on April 22...

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26 Apr 2024

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Light Up Your New Year’s Eve!

See Out 2023 With A Bang Well, somehow this year has already come to an end. It just whooshed by didn’t it! As the countdown to 2024 begins, both Rainbow Beach and Tin Can Bay are gearing up to paint the sky with vibrant FREE fireworks displays: ...

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Rainbow Editor

30 Dec 2023

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Santa Flies In To Rainbow On A Surge Of Community Spirit

Elisa Seul As the festive season approaches, Rainbow Beach is gearing up for its much-anticipated annual event, ‘Santa Comes to Rainbow’, now in its remarkable 5th year. The Community Centre, the heart of our vibrant town, will once again be the hub...

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Rainbow Editor

06 Dec 2023

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Cultural Waves Showcase: A Vibrant Celebration at Rainbow Beach

Elisa Seul Rainbow Beach, brace yourselves for another heartwarming evening of artistry, culture, and melodies! After the great success of the Tunes & Tales Event in September, our very own Producer Elisa: People, Places & Events is back...

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23 Nov 2023

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It’s Raffle Time For Rainbow School!

Rainbow Beach State School P&C News Melissa Spanton, P&C Secretary Welcome back to Term 4! On reflection it has certainly been a busy year, with much planning and preparation going into building the Outside School Hours Care (OSHC). There...

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Rainbow Editor

01 Nov 2023

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End Of An Era For Ice Worx

DEAN’S ICE WORX STORY Marilyn Dean Dean’s Ice was started over thirty years ago on 19 March 1993 from small beginnings. We rented half a shed and set ourselves up with a small ice manufacturing machine, a container for storage of product, and...

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Rainbow Editor

01 Nov 2023