Sunshine Coast Hinterland Times

Frank Shipp’s dream come true…

THE BLACKALL RANGE has a way of attracting dreamers and visionaries – people who see in its spacious landscape, a broad, blank canvas on which they can leave their personal mark. Frank Shipp is one such, self-confessed dreamer. Eight years ago he discovered a tired, 110 acre cattle farm in Maleny with a front row [...]

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We’re off on the road to Morocco

Hinterland sculptor, Janna Pameijer creates a Middle Eastern adventure IT WAS IN 2009 that my husband Euan and I picked up a flight to Morocco, on the rebound from another trip that had to be cancelled. Marrakesh was well recommended by my relatives in Europe who had been there only months before. Always happy for a new [...]

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Tree Changers… Neil & Heidi Holmes

…about people who change their lives to settle on the Range and why they choose to stay For Neil and Heidi Holmes and son Luca, moving from the Gold Coast to Montville two years ago was like a breath of fresh air. This pair of freelance creatives have moved a heritage home onto a truly breathtaking [...]

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Bellthorpe sprinter on track for Olympics

AUSTRALIA’S next Olympic sprinting sensation may well be 17 year-old Hugh Donovan, a quietly spoken teenager from Bellthorpe. Hugh recently returned home from the World Youth Athletics Championships in France, where he was the first Australian male athlete in ten years to represent Australia in the 100 metres and 200 metres. He posted the fastest time in [...]

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Bright spark builds mobile recording studios

YOU MAY have heard about the growing trend in recycling steel shipping containers into homes, hotels, museums and sculptures. Now Maleny musician and sound engineer Mark ‘Sparky’ Paltridge of Spark1 Studios, has come up with his own bright idea: shipping container recording studios. Shipping containers outlive their usefulness as cargo carriers within five years, and their [...]

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Local buffalo breeders return from world tour

BUFFALO breeding is still in its infancy in Australia but with Margaret and Mal Thompson (pictured) having won a Churchill Fellowship to study buffalo breeding overseas, that looks set to change. The innovative Maleny buffalo breeders recently returned from a whirlwind six-week tour of South America, Canada, England, Scotland, Bulgaria, Italy and Switzerland, and say the [...]

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Kevin Borich is rocking on after his battle with cancer

He’s a long way from the city lights and rockstar lifestyle he once lived, but the legendary guitarist Kevin Borich, once described by Carlos Santana as Australia’s Jimi Hendrix, couldn’t be happier. HAVING BEATEN a particularly aggressive form of cancer, Kevin is now fighting fit and is back on the road playing live shows and recording [...]

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Norm Richards wins state’s Best New Home Awards

Maleny-based building designer, Norm Richards has won further awards for his Range home designs. In the recent Queensland Building Design Awards Norm won Best New Home (351-450 sq m) for the Inside Out House and Best New Home ($1100-$1400 per sq m) for the Maleny Vista Home. Both homes were previous winners in the 2011Sunshine [...]

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Tree Changers…John Hillman

…about people who change their lives to settle on the Range and why they choose to stay Maleny’s new vet, John Hillman, moved from Childers to take over the Coral Street surgery. Originally from Rockhampton, he moved to a cottage in North Maleny in August. He has worked in the United Kingdom, Canada and India, and [...]

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A taste for Whimsy

DONALD GREENFIELD has had a pen in his hand since boyhood when he copied comic book characters from newspapers. Not surprisingly he soon embarked on a career as a successful cartoonist . For two decades, Donald’s whimsical illustrations appeared in the most illustrious publications in Australia – Nation Review, The Bulletin, Playboy, Penthouse, Australian Business, Gourmet [...]

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