Sunshine Coast Hinterland Times

From the Editor

Whither the Maleny Credit Union…? The proposed merger of the Maleny Credit Union with the biggest credit union in Australia – CUA is significant because it signals the absorption of a once, small, and uniquely ethical village organisation into a huge, Australia-wide business with a $560 million capital base and 78 branch offices. The question is not that this is a [...]

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A rash of medals for Colin James & Maleny Dairies

COLIN JAMES Fine Foods and Maleny Dairies have won impressively again at the Queensland Food & Wine Show which encompasses all foood and wine competition for the Brisbane Ekka. Colin James won two gold medals. One for their new cabernet and star anise icecream, and the other for their berry delight icecream which are both gluten [...]

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Astrid’s Amazing Gap Year

ASTRID EASTON, daughter of Maleny lawyer, Tove and Kim Easton is taking an unusual gap year before she starts university. She will spend a year in a peculiarly Scandinavian phenomenon – a full time boarding school for school leavers who are looking for some fun as well as social learning. Astrid will go to Fana Folkehoyskole – [...]

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Maleny Jobseekers get Green skills for the workplace

EIGHT Hinterland jobseekers have graduated from Queensland’s Green Army after completing 16 weeks paid work on a state government funded employment program. Four of the participants worked in national parks alongside DERM rangers, three were placed with Barung Landcare at their Landsborough nursery and the Maleny Wood Expo, and one worked at the Hinterland Business Centre. Business [...]

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Peter Vermeer … serious sculptor with a sense of the silly

Emiel Peter Vermeer is a sculptor who makes you smile – he creates humorous and uplifting art pieces from those things we regularly throw onto the tip. Peter and his wife Lia live in a sprawling house, studio and private gallery that Peter has built in Eudlo over the past eight years. The garden is dotted [...]

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The two lives of Colin Petersen … PART 2

The Little Drummer Boy Last month in the Hinterland Times we told the story of how nine year-old Queenslander, Colin Petersen became a child movie star as Smiley in the 1956 film of the same name. Before he became an actor, Colin was already familiar with performing in public – as a seven year old tap dancer [...]

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Fitness and Fun at Veterans Exercise Group

TED SHEEN had a bullet in his knee from war service in Vietnam. Before that he had served in Korea. Approaching 80, Ted is remarkably fit and one of a group of ex-servicemen who are keeping their limbs supple and their spirits high via a veterans exercise class at the Maleny Community Gym. The weekly class [...]

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Lucas Parklands brings the finest music to the Hinterland

IN THE spirit of bringing Hinterlanders the best possible music by the best available musicians, Lucas Parklands are offering concerts this month that are the most famous, and some of the most notoriously difficult ever written. It is likely that the Emperor Piano Concerto and The Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto have never been programmed together. The Rachmaninov 3 [...]

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HANS ERKEN’s… Passion for Bamboo

Hans Erken has maintained a passion for bamboo for more than 20 years. It has provided his living and a source of endless ideas for using this astonishing natural product. Hans, who has a propagating nursery in Maleny and a 5 acre farm at Crystal Waters, spoke to HT editor Michael Berry about bamboo and his [...]

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Chef Connections WITH Julie Shelton

Jamie Baxter Maudy’s Restaurant WITTA A CRISP autumnal morning and the colours of Witta are vivid and engaging. Sitting in the sun at Maudy’s Restaurant, having an animated yarn over coffee with chef, Jamie Baxter, I once again appreciated what a great gig this is. Jamie grew up in Sydney’s cosmopolitan western suburbs, discovering his passion for food during [...]

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