Articles

Published, Queensland Country Life. The ms Volendam, on which Paula
Heelan was a guest of the Holland
America Line, is a fantastic, midsized ship now crusing in the Australasia region. ...more

Published The Weekend Morning Bulletin, Rockhampton...

It's Saturday night on the ms Volendam. Executive chef Troy Wastell has joined our table in the signature retaurant, the Pinnacle Grill. ...more

On the banks of the Barcoo - pubilshed Outback magazine, Aug/Sept issue 78
With a lovely lack of luxury, pomp and poker machines, Clancy’s Overflow Hotel in Isisford, in the middle of everywhere, has a heady sense of times gone by. ...more

Queensland coordinator-general Keith Davies and four senior department heads flew in to the central highlands on Wednesday to meet with landowners affected by the proposed rail corridor developments to move coal across more than 500kms of country from the Galilee Basin to Abbot Point and Moranbah. ...more

Disturbed by the Bligh Government’s announcement to move Year 7 into secondary school from 2015, Isolated Children’s Parents’ Association (ICPA) president Lorraine McGinnis said rural and remote families would face enormous emotional and financial burdens from having to send their children to boarding school 12 months earlier. ...more

Published Canberra Times, August 26, 2010

It’s late afternoon and behind storm clouds the sun is casting a brilliant deep purple light across the outback. More than 40 weary, but exuberant horse riders are heading back to their base camp after a day of droving more than 500 head of cattle on Anna Creek Station in South Australia. ...more

Outback magazine, published April/May 2010...Working in a long, swaying narrow galley and serving gourmet cuisine to train lovers calls for a skilled mix of teamwork, balance and quick thinking. ...more

THE photographic talents of Clermont’s
Paula Heelan have earned her
an official place among the state’s top
rural photographers. Published Rockhampton Morning Bulletin, Rural Weekly, 15 July 2011 ...more

On Assignment for OUTBACK magazine - Issue 57
Paula Heelan writes from a cattle station north-east of Clermont in central Queensland. ...more

Feature story published OUTBACK magazine, Issue 59, Jun/Jul 2009
Despite major challenges, Mac and Gayle Shann have built a thriving horse and cattle breeding business on their station, Cantaur Park, and with the help of family and friends, are living their dream ...more

Feature story, published in OUTBACK magainze, Issue 59, June/July 2009
The name The Ghan, stems from the pioneering Afghan cameleers who blazed a trail into Australia’s red centre more than 150 years ago. Now pulling more than 25 shimmering silver carriages and offering a new Platinum service, today the legendary Ghan matches the world’s best in luxury train travel. ...more

Feature story, published Outback Magazine, Issue 57, Feb/Mar 2008.Half a century ago, 15 pioneers headed to central Queensland to establish crops and cattle. The legacy of their hard work and faith in the land lives on. ...more

Born of the Sea, published Outback magazine, issue 62, Dec/Jan 2009
Working in one of the world's most dramatic seascapes along a rugged, pristine coastline, two young men on Tasmania's north-east coast are reaping the benefits of their crayfishing and seabird charter operation. ...more

Published in MLA's FRONTIER magazine, Winter, 2008. The burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and natural gas (in which carbon has been stored for millions of years), combined with accelerated land clearance, has led to unprecedented levels of greenhouse gas emissions. ...more

News feature, published in the Queensland Country Life, April, 2008. People from the Belyando River community gathered at Waltham Station last weekend to say thaks to those who helped them through the devastating flood earlier this year. ...more

Published, Australian Country Style, August'07. Death, drought, mining incursions and even tornados aren't enough to drive the inheritor of a great Queensland station off the land. ...more

Published Outback magazine,Issue 53, Jun/July 2007. Capricornia School of Distance Education's youngest students got to know their class mates and teacher and experienced classroom life for the first time, at Prep 'minischool'. ...more

Published Outback magazine, Issue 48, Aug/Sept 2006. With a complement of rural skills, four friends are taking Australian organic meat to the world. ...more

Feature story, published Outback Magazine, Issue 36, 2004.
Raised on a Blackwater cattle station, Myffawny Lawrie spent years studying in Brisbane before coming the full circle and returning to central Queensland as a bush vet. ...more