Sunshine Coast Hinterland Times

A Festive Stroke of Genius

MY DAUGHTER has left me in the Exquisite Bean Cafe while she does her Christmas shopping. She always looks a little guilty when she leaves me here like this, as though she is off on some pleasurable mission she doesn’t want me to share. Perhaps she does some window gazing along with the groceries, dreaming [...]

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Now it’s Facebook… the movie

Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker, left, and Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg IF, LIKE ME, you have drawn the line at joining Facebook reported $US65 million) but are suing again on the (I do not need faceless friends in my face), then you might just be intrigued to know why 500 million people around the globe have gone public [...]

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Stephen Fry reveals himself

IF YOU LIKE to read biographies of the rich and famous then you will enjoy the latest installment of the life of Stephen Fry – The Fry Chronicles. This multi-talented author, actor, TV presenter and scriptwriter covers his years at Cambridge University, and his rapid rise to fame and fortune as a young writer and [...]

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How the world really moves …

WE ALL KNOW that modern life moves fast – we see it reflected in our iPhones, our laptops and our interactive TV programs. But recent discoveries by economists and scientists suggest that momentum exerts a far stronger influence on our world than previously thought. The integration of communications, technology and markets has accelerated the velocity at [...]

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What makes YOU tick?

SOCIAL RESEARCHER Hugh Mackay claims that we all say one thing and do another, and we do the very things we criticise others for doing. We humans are nothing if not confused and contradictory. Nevertheless, we are all propelled by ten basic desires, claims Mackay in his new book, What Makes us Tick? Perhaps surprisingly, sex [...]

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Seeking Stephanie Dowrick

Internationally acclaimed author Stephanie Dowrick visits Maleny on Tuesday November 23 for an in-depth conversation about her new book, Seeking the Sacred at the Maleny Community Centre. Stephanie will converse with award-winning Hinterland novelist Steven Lang who is being funded through Arts Queensland to stage eight Outspoken conversations with famous authors over the next year. Stephen will [...]

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Never Say Di … Di Fingleton’s fight for her reputation and her life

Diane Fingleton, the first female Chief Magistrate in Queensland’s judicial history, was also the first Australian Chief Magistrate to be sentenced to prison. She was charged under a criminal code in a disagreement over conditions of employment. APPOINTED Chief Magistrate in 1999, Diane Fingleton set about managing the issues of law in Queensland and the many [...]

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Punch & Judy

In this extract from Mungo MacCallum’s new book, the author reviews the political ‘biff’ that was Election 2010. THURSDAY 24 June 2010 was a red-letter day for Australia, and we’re not just talking about hair. Indeed, Julia Eileen Gillard may not even be the country’s first ranga prime minister; since all the old ones appear only [...]

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50 Years of Rotary in Maleny

Don Boadle of Charles Sturt University reviews the history of Maleny’s Rotary Club researched and written by Jack Wilcox. (Contact Maleny Rotary Club for copies of the book Ph: 54 94 3677) JACK WILCOX has written an engaging, generously illustrated, and handsomely produced history of the first fifty years of Rotary in Maleny. In the absence of significant quantities [...]

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Fiction : June Godkin – Moving Forward …?

I DO SO WANT this job. But I don’t like the look of the interviewing panel. The woman on the right, with Mrs Blair on a card in front of her, her mouth turns down at the corners, and she’s gazing through me at something behind my head. Then there’s Jones, on the left. He [...]

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