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Bishop Venables visits St David’s Allora

Mim Rogers, Allora Advertiser
Community
A special confirmation service was held at St David’s Anglican Church on Sunday with Bishop Cam Venables attending. Fifteen people were confirmed with the Bishop believing this may be very close to a record in the Anglican Church Southern Queensland Diocese!

Huge donation to Cancer Council

Mim Rogers, Allora Advertiser
Charity
To raise $20,000 is a great measure of the heart and soul of the community who helped to support the Cancer Council Biggest Morning Tea hosted by The Higgins Family on Sunday 17 May.

What bugs the photographer?

Mim Rogers, Allora Advertiser
Arts
Glenda Guy. Allora Photography Group now has their schedule of topics for 2026 sorted and we are working our way through an interesting list challenging our imagination and skills to come up with thought provoking, interesting and creative images to take viewers along our journey with us.
Bee's knees

No-till farming may provide the right conditions for mice

Mim Rogers, Allora Advertiser
Agriculture
Grain growers are urged to check their paddocks for signs of mice, with reports of activity in SA, WA and parts of northern NSW. CSIRO rodent expert Steve Henry, who is one of the lead researchers on GRDC-supported investment into mouse management, is reminding growers that conditions are ripe for mouse breeding at this time of year.

Allora’s Sally Higgins steps into global United Nations youth role

Mim Rogers, Allora Advertiser
Climate
Allora local Sally Higgins has been appointed by Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Chris Bowen as the United Nations Presidency Youth Climate Champion (PYCC) for COP31 - a global role created to ensure young people are meaningfully included in international climate discussions.
Anzac Day Allora

Allora’s ANZAC services strongly supported

Mim Rogers, Allora Advertiser
Community
The community was out in force on Saturday to recognise the brave men and women who served and continue to serve Australia in defence of our freedom.

The Salvation Army Corps 106 year participation in Allora’s ANZAC Day commemorations comes to an end

Mim Rogers, Allora Advertiser
Community
Trevor Neale. The time was 2pm on the 25 April 1919 - Lieut. Robert Brown (Ret. AIF) marshalled the gathered groups at 53 Warwick Street, (now Historical Museum) for the Anzac Day march to the Fallen Soldiers Memorial via Forde, Drayton, Herbert and Warwick Streets. Main service was at 3pm ... This was the start of a 106 year association of the Salvation Army with Anzac Day in Allora.

Old wool table now looks classy

The Allora Men’s Shed has done a magnificent job of giving new life to this old wool classing table. During the past month Graham Hickson has been the main man to work on this unusual project.

Fuel relief measures miss the mark for ag sector

Mim Rogers, Allora Advertiser
Agriculture
AgForce says National Cabinet's decision to halve the fuel excise and suspend the heavy vehicle road user charge does little to address the immediate challenges that are facing Queensland producers. AgForce General President Shane McCarthy said while the measures may provide some relief to consumers and parts of the transport sector, they fall short in regards to agriculture.

First published in 1935, the Allora Advertiser is a free weekly A4 gloss newspaper distributed around Allora and district as well as Warwick.

The Allora Advertiser is one of the suite of local independent papers circulating in the Darling Downs region published by Our News,
the others being The Clifton Courier, Pittsworth Sentinel, Oakey Sentinel and On Our Selection News.

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