Female Tourist Bitten By Wongari On K’gari | Mirage News
23 Oct
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Female Tourist Bitten By Wongari On K’gari | Mirage News

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Top Stories Tamfitronics Rangers on K'gari (formerly Fraser Island) are monitoring a male dingo (wongari) believed responsible for biting a female tourist around the thigh on 20 October 2024.Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service (QPWS) rangers were advised of the incident which occurred at around 8:00am at Beach Camping Zone 6 on the east coast of the island.Rangers were told that a group of international tourists arrived on the beach, and that nearby campers warned them of a dingo in the area.The dingo approached the woman while she was going to the toilet alone. She wasn't carrying a stick and started to run as it approached her. The dingo gave chase and bit her on the left rear thigh resulting in two puncture wounds. Campers nearby overheard and chased the dingo away.Rangers are investigating the incident...
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Sawfish Disappearance: Where Are They? | Mirage News
23 Oct
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Sawfish Disappearance: Where Are They? | Mirage News

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Top Stories Tamfitronics Sharks And Rays AustraliaAustralia is home to some of the last significant populations of sawfish on the planet. We need your help to find out how many are left. In December 2023, the world's five sawfish species were reassessed as 'critically endangered' on the IUCN Red List.Four of the five species – Freshwater sawfish, Narrow sawfish, Dwarf sawfish and Green sawfish – are found in north Australian waters, but 'proof of life' is limited to isolated pockets in Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern Territory.During National Sawfish Sighting Week 2024 (26 October – 2 November), citizen scientists are needed to help spot these rare and endangered creatures or, just as importantly, report back if they are nowhere to be seen. Registration closes Friday 25 October: https://www.sharksandraysaustralia.com/sawfish-week-registration/ Forty years ago, sawfish were regularly...
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Edenglassie Wins 2024 Roderick Literary Award | Mirage News
23 Oct
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Edenglassie Wins 2024 Roderick Literary Award | Mirage News

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Top Stories Tamfitronics Melissa Lucashenko's mesmerising colonial Queensland epic Edenglassie has taken out the Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award for 2024, along with the record $50,000 prize.This year's prize, organised by the James Cook University-based Foundation for Australian Literary Studies (FALS), had a record 235 entries but it was Lucashenko's extraordinary novel on Queensland's colonial past and a reimagined Australian future that emerged from a shortlist of exceptional quality.A delighted Lucashenko accepted the award and the accompanying H.T. Priestley Memorial Medal at a ceremony at the JCU's Bebegu Yumba Campus on Monday night, with the acclaimed First Nations writer revealing her links to the Indigenous people of North Queensland made her win even more special."I'm absolutely thrilled and honoured to receive the Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award," she said."Though I hail from...
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Queen Elizabeth Memorial Panel Consults UK Experts, Youth | Mirage News
23 Oct
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Queen Elizabeth Memorial Panel Consults UK Experts, Youth | Mirage News

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Top Stories Tamfitronics These meetings, which have included roundtables and visits to locations in all four nations, have focused on various aspects of the memorialisation programme, covering both the design of the permanent memorial and broader themes for the legacy programme. Participants have included historians and academics, such as Dame Mary Beard; environmental experts such as Tony Juniper (Chair of Natural England); figures from the world of arts like Andrew Ellis (Chief Executive of Art UK); digital artists such as Doddz; and experts in heritage and the built environment such as Professor Elizabeth McKellar and Sir Charles Saumarez Smith. Dame Mary Beard shared, "It is tremendously important to create a memorial to the Queen that is appropriate, relevant and in some way makes a difference. It was fascinating and fun to be part of generating...
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