Month: July 2017

Family Doctor Week – an initiative of the AMA highlighting the role of our family doctors and their value to the community and the health system – runs from Sunday 23 July to Saturday 29 July 2017. The theme for this year’s event is Your family doctor: all about you. We all know the benefits of having a regular family doctor, with 85 per cent of the population visiting a GP at least once a year. Ninety three per cent of Australians return to same practice, and 66 per cent return to the same GP. GPs are also the...

After 17-years of calling the Brisbane Powerhouse home, Vulcana Women’s Circus is coming back to its roots to offer exciting youth and adult classes at West End’s Kurilpa Hall. Founded in 1995, Vulcana Women’s Circus is a leading organisation in social circus and has delivered the greater Brisbane community with bold performances and programs that empower women and children through the teaching and performance of circus arts. Coupled with Rock & Roll Circus (now Circa), and Flipside Circus, Vulcana’s Women’s Circus is part of West End’s prolific output of circus companies that have gone on to build solid reputations outside of Brisbane. Taking its name from the...