Sunshine Coast Hinterland Times

Chef to the stars settles on the Hinterland

After years of travelling the globe as personal chef to celebrity actors and rock stars, Brent Cressey has established a café in Maleny. Julie Shelton had a chat with him to find out just why he’s picked this region. IT SOUNDS like a dream job: cooking for A-list performers, flying in private jets to exotic locations [...]

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This Act of Treachery …

“Slipper … is neither good-humoured nor personable, and even before becoming a serial rat, he was carrying a lot of political baggage. THERE is an old political saying: A man who will rat once will rat twice. Obviously it has escaped Tony Abbott, or if he has heard it he assumed it only applied to Labor [...]

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The woman who would be Sunshine Coast mayor

Sunshine Coast Councillor Debbie Blumel wants to be mayor of the next Sunshine Coast Council. At the time of going to press, she was the only councillor standing for the position, and the only woman. Debbie is known for her enormous hard work, both within council and on a variety of outside organisations. She agreed [...]

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Mark creates Sunshine Coast Australia Day Awards

So, it is not surprising that the Sunshine Coast Council should ask Mark to design and cast in glass their Australia Day awards for 2012. For Mark’s awards design, he returns for inspiration to the Glasshouse Mountains, which have become the ubiquitous image of our Sunshine Coast environment and lifestyle. Over the years Mark has devised his [...]

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15 year-old Hinterlander’s passion for photography

PHOTOGRAPHY – Jye Hardin JYE HARDING is an extremely motivated 15 year-old photographer who is eager to show his talent and particularly reveal the beauty of our local environment. At 15 Jye is getting work experience at professional Studio Republic on the Coast, as well as soaking up as much as possible online from such photographers s [...]

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We need one more bell say … Flaxton’s Cottage Bell Ringers

ONE OF THE most vibrant groups at the Blackall Range Care Group in Flaxton is the Cottage Bell Ringers. For just over three years, this musical group of ‘hard knocks’ has been meeting at Flaxton to ring a set of Whitechapel Foundry-forged handbells made in the 1880s. The group consists of a mixture of local residents who [...]

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How can we put the Buzz back into Bees?

STEPHEN STILLMAN greets me at the door of his Eudlo shed in bare feet: bear-sized feet covered in honey and wax, offered hand just rinsed and dripping with water but still sticky. Here is a man obviously immersed in his work. With the sound of bees buzzing at the windows providing a gentle white-noise background to [...]

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PAUL COPPENS … Mr Music Man

The Hinterland of the Sunshine Coast has a way of drawing highly talented individuals away from the big city to its alluring green hills. One such talent is Paul Coppens, the internationally-renowned musical director, conductor and composer. Now in his late 60s Paul has settled In Maleny and has slipped seamlessly from directing huge productions of Aida [...]

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BOB ABBOT …

“I won’t be one of those former mayors who can’t let go.” In four months the first amalgamated Sunshine Coast Regional Council stands down along with its high profile mayor, Bob Abbot. Mayor Abbot spoke with HT editor Michael Berry about his retirement from office and his views on the next mayor and council. HT: The council election [...]

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Making leather sandals by hand

They say that when man stepped out of the primordial slime he first made himself a pair of sandals so he could go hunting in comfort. These days, genuine leather sandal makers are few and far between, not because hunting is out of fashion but because footwear has become a sophisticated global enterprise . TUCKED AWAY [...]

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