On Wednesday 9 November Scenic Rim Regional Council hosted the second annual Strategic Leaders Forum in Beaudesert. Attended by over 60 representatives from business, social, cultural, environmental sectors and Council departments, the forum was an action-based hub of learning and sharing. During the day, presentations… Read more...

On Sunday October 16 around a thousand protestors staged a dramatic protest to oppose coal and coal seam gas in the Scenic Rim region. Farmers, tourism operators and other land holders stood side by side on the region's name-sake mountain peaks, in paddocks and in… Read more...

After almost 12 months of community consultation, Council approved the Scenic Rim Community Plan 2011 - 2026 at its meeting on 22 November 2011. Now that it has been adopted by Council the Community Plan provides a shared vision for the region’s future and will… Read more...

National Landscapes are the best of Australia's nature and culture - inspirational places like Australia's Red Centre, the Great Ocean Road, Australia's Coastal Wilderness, Kakadu, the Kimberley, the Flinders Ranges and Australia’s Green Cauldron, the bioregion encompassing north eastern NSW, the Gold Coast and Scenic… Read more...

Community leaders and activists from the Southern Gold Coast are starting a series of workshops in early December to develop a Transition Town initiative for that region. Here in the Scenic Rim, the Tamborine Mountain community is one of the first in the world to… Read more...

Local sustainability learning organisation the Ethos Foundation, in collaboration with Southern Cross University (SCU) has released a report about Local Living Economy and its relevance for Australia. Called “We are the (enterprising) leaders we have been waiting for: Local Living Economy and its relevance for… Read more...

In late October, the Beechmont Business & Enterprise Network (BBEN) in collaboration with renewable energy company Nickel Energy screened the award-winning documentary “The Economics of Happiness” at Binna Burra Lodge. Beechmont was the fourth Scenic Rim community to screen the film this year and word… Read more...

Darlington State School is hosting its next Darlington Community Markets on December 4 and invites locals and visitors alike to share the day at their beautiful school grounds on the Albert River. The Darlington Community Markets is a new facility where local farmers, food, wine… Read more...

A grazing workshop will be held on Thursday December 15th in the Beaudesert/Canungra district. The content of the day will modify previous grazing workshops - this time it will be a pasture stock take focusing on grazing management techniques and land condition assessment/ pasture ID.… Read more...

While we all hope the proposed coal seam gas pipeline will never happen in the Scenic Rim region local ecologist Dr Ronda Green believes it is vital we begin to survey, document and monitor the wildlife in the proposed pipeline pathway. She believes that even… Read more...