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Sir Elton John coming to Mackay: What you need to know

Sir Elton John coming to Mackay: What you need to know

MACKAY will play host to one of the world's biggest superstars Sir Elton John later this year.

MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT: Global superstar to rock Mackay in 2017

A major concert is set to rock Mackay this year.

Mackay, Cairns to host world's biggest superstars Sir Elton John

Five things to do this weekend

SHARP SHOOTING: Kyle Breese as John Wilkes Booth and Alex Andujar as Charles Giteau appear in the Assasins theatre show.

What's on in Ipswich

Where to see The Herd, Opiuo live this weekend

SEE THEM LIVE: Hip hop collective The Herd will perform at Earth Fequency Festival.

THE music and arts festival is bringing some big names to Ipswich.

How Stay at Home Mum blogger Jody Allen struck it big

Jody Allen and Walt Collins will co-host the Seven Network's Stay at Home Mum television series from April.

Jody Allen's star continues to rise at incredible speed

Assassins will slay audience with music

SHOT: Kyle Breese as John Wilkes Booth and Alex Andujar as Charles Giteau in Assassins.

A dose of song, dance and laughter, starting this weekend

The Angels love life on tour

ALL IN ONE PLACE: The Angels will play Noosaville on March 31.

Band brings 40 years of music

Free RAAF open day this weekend

The RAAF Amberley Aviation Heritage Centre has a free public open day this Sunday. Photo Contributed

The focus will be on aircraft and memorabilia

Events
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TapeScape

Explore the tunnels and slides made entirely from 56,000 metres of packing tape designed and created by artist Eric Lennartson direct from the US!

Construction Site

Be your own architect and build your dream cubby house, castle or city! Use giant foam blocks to build whatever you can imagine.

Be your own architect and build your dream cubby house, castle or city! Use giant...

War-Time Quilts

The history of military conflict and the soldier’s life is retold through the ‘war quilts’ of this rare collection curated by quilt historian Dr Annette Gero.

The history of military conflict and the soldier’s life is retold through the ‘war...

The Ipswich Bridal Spectacular

Wedding Planning Event

Museum Twilight Markets

The Museum Twilight Markets is Ipswich's newest event destination!

”Celebration of Music” - a Musical Concert

All Saints Anglican Church Booval presents the “Celebration of Music” a musical concert.

All Saints Anglican Church Booval presents the “Celebration of Music” a musical...

Switch Bricks School Holiday Activity

Switch Bricks is back , bigger and better than ever Amazing range of LEGO to play with 2 sessions daily 3-8th April Affordable fun for the family

Switch Bricks is back , bigger and better than ever Amazing range of LEGO to play...

Guides

Surfing: Where to start when you don't know how

PART 1: Learn the basics of surfing with Robbie and Carlene Sherwell, of XL Surfing Academy in this series aimed at getting you in the water.

VIDEO: Coast's best, secret freshwater swimming holes

Making the most of rock pools on the Sunshine Coast.

All most people want to do during the heatwave is cool off

10 common snakes and how to identify them

Sunshine Coast Snake Catcher Richie Gilbert holding up a coastal carpet python retrieved from a home at Lake McDonald

Snake catcher Richie Gilbert has seen it all

Five of the best to places to bushwalk

Popular pass time offers something for everyone

Tourism

Longreach is a welcome oasis

Arguably the economic centre of Outback Queensland, it is almost a mirage amid hundreds and hundreds of kilometres of grazing and scrub country

The beautiful capital city that we don't want to see

Perth has fallen out of favour with Aussie travellers.

When it comes to taking a holiday at home, you’re a bit of a dud.

Mackay buoyed with sugar, mining and tourism on the rise

Canegrowers chairman Paul Schembri on his sugar farm north of Mackay.

IT BORE the mining downturn like no other region in Australia

Australian tourism's changing face

Holiday makers were the main tourists who visited Australia in 2016.

Asian countries now Australia's main tourist source

WATCH: Elephant flings tourist into air in Thailand

A tourist finds out the hard way about trying to wash an elephant.

Woman washing elephant with a sponge in a river

Captain Mike hails Ipswich tourism spike

SUCCESS: Captain Mike Jarvis from Pterodactyl Helicopters says tourists will keep coming on the back of collaboration and promotion

Pterodactyl Helicopters boss reveals why region is a beacon

Summer draws up to 10,000 to Rainbow Beach

POPULAR SPOT: Swedes Jakob Friedrich, Jakob Pettersson and Emma Andersson at Rainbow.

Australia Day is set to give Rainbow one last boost for summer.