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NEW Farm is blessed with an abundance of birdlife. The parks and green spaces on the peninsula provide a safe haven and natural playground for the many species.

The balconies on the many high-density residential apartment blocks in the area provide a great perch or two. They are also encouraged by the many people who feed them.

One resident is 80-year-old Donal O’Sullivan from Mountford Road, where he has lived with his wife Una for 15 years: “I am not a serious twitcher but do enjoy the birds that we have even in our urban situation.”

Donal said the most common birds on his 7th-floor balcony were butcherbirds and magpies but there were often mikis and parrots.

“We are frequently visited by a host of local birds on our balconies. Often they sing most beautifully for us especially early in the morning,” Donal said.

“Just very occasionally, we do actually get a kookaburra or two – maybe only once or twice a year.

“Most of the balconies in our (10-storey) building have been closed

in with windows so there are only a few that are left for the birds to perch on so maybe we do get more than our share,” he said.

Donal said Graham Pizzey’s book The Field Guide to the Birds of Australia helps the couple “understand more about what we see and hear”.

At the recent Teneriffe, Donal bought a timber sign which had a kookaburra on it, which he thought would look good on his balcony. He was also attracted by the text “Welcome to our deck. Sit long.Talk much. Laugh often”.

“I liked the sign and bought it and spent some time giving it several coats of varnish to protect it from the weather and finally hung it on my balcony,” Donal said.

“Imagine my surprise the next morning when I found four kookaburras on our balcony. Were they there to inspect the sign? What a lovely coincidence. How did they come to decide to come to our balcony just then?” he said.

Donal was able to take some pictures of his new feathered visitors and the sign which he decided to share with Village News readers.

Amused kookaburras find Donal’s balcony sign no laughing matter

A kookaburra on Donal O’Sullivans balcony

NEW Farm Park has won the Pride Award at this year’s Keep Australia Beautiful Queensland awards.

Announcements and presentations by the Lord Mayor Graham Quirk to award winners took place in the rotunda in the iconic park last month.

The Central Ward, which covers New Farm Park and is represented by retiring Labor councillor David Hinchliffe, was a finalist in the 2011 Brisbane Spotless Suburbs competition which Keep Australia Beautiful Queensland runs in conjunction with the council and SITA Environmental Solutions.

Cr Quirk said the competition was a part of his commitment to keeping Brisbane’s suburbs clean and tidy, including a further $8.7 million in this year’s Budget for sweeping local streets and cutting roadside grass.

“I’ve also allocated almost $7 million in 2011/12 for litter patrols across the city and $3.6 million for graffiti removal and enforcement,” Cr Quirk said.

“We will also be continuing our Eyes in the Suburbs program, rewarding people who take the initiative to let us know about issues in their area so we can fix them.”

KABQ chief executive officer Rick Burnett said the achievement was made all the more significant considering the damage caused to the area covered by Central Ward in the Brisbane River flood in January this year.

“The January floods proved challenging and, in this year’s competition, we have made every

effort to recognise and reward any affected local communities,” Rick said.

Editor of newfarmpark.com.au Chris Derrick said the much-loved park was a worthy winner considering the commitment and involvement by a large number of people within the community with great enthusiasm in seeing the park continue to be the crowning jewel among Brisbane green spaces.

He said a steady stream of visitors poured into the park on any given day but was especially popular at weekends. It was also home to “a vast number of community-based activities”.

“The award confirms the enormous community pride we have in New Farm Park,” David Hinchliffe said.

“That’s also why so many people have complained to council about the ongoing saga of the edging around our magnificent rose gardens and the

concern about what’s happening with a kiosk.”

He said special congratulations should go to Chris Derrick for” the amazing work” he did on the website.

For more details and photos log on to newfarmpark.com.au

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Chris Derrick with Cr David Hinchliffe

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WITH the use of additives in many everyday Australian food items becoming more widespread, peninsula residents are being encouraged to attend a free public seminar to find out what they are eating and feeding to their families.

Holy Spirit School tuckshop convenor Carol Taylor said the seminar, titled “What’s Really in the Food You’re Eating? would be on Friday, August 26, at the school, in Villiers Street, New Farm.

Carol said the seminar was aimed at parents and anyone interested in their health and that of their family.

She said the seminar was a first for Holy Spirit School and part of the school’s commitment to promoting healthy local communities and. It is to be based on the Australian best seller Additive Alert: Your Guide to Safer Shopping by Julie Eady.

The seminar is open to the public.

Additive Alert says many Australians unwittingly each year consume more than 5kg of food additives.

It says parents may not be aware that such additives may cause many problems in children such as asthma, irritability and sleep disturbance.

“Our food supply is constantly changing so we need to keep up to date on what’s actually in the food we eat,” Carol said. “Food labels provide a wealth of information but it can be very confusing to make wise food choices.”

Queensland’s Additive Alert community talks presenter Louise D’Allura said everyone would take something away from the presentation.

“We hear so much about carbohydrates, proteins, fats (good and bad) sodium, sugar which are all really important in the health equation but what we aim to teach during the presentation is

how we also need to learn a little bit more about food additives if we truly want to be healthy,” Louise said.

How to read and interpret labels, what the science-based research says about food additives such as artificial sweeteners, colours and preservatives founds in our foods, which to avoid and why are to be covered by the seminar.

“You’ll also learn easy strategies to take to the supermarket the next time you go shopping,” Louise said.

Everyone who attends also receives a free label reader. The book Additive Alert - Your Guide to Safer Shopping is to on sale at the seminar.

“Additive Alert founder Julie Eady developed her interest in food additives and their effects on health after the birth of her first child,” Louise said. “It really began as a personal project to identify better food choices but became a much bigger cause as a result of the stories from other mums and families.”To book, email Carol Taylor on [email protected]

Seminar on additives open to public

Additive Alert: Your Guide to Safer Shopping by Julie Eady

Cars not stoppingI LOVE receiving the Village News each month. It is a great way to keep up with what is happening in the local community.

Since having a baby earlier in the year, I have been making a conscious effort to be responsible and cross at pedestrian crossings. I am appalled that cars stopping at pedestrian crossings seem to be a voluntary action rather than the law. At the crossings on Commercial Road and James Street, I regularly watch 2-3 cars speed past before a car actually stops.

Thanks for putting together a great magazine.AmandaNew Farm

Death to stir actionREGARDING the Merythr Village Crossing (July issue): It’s only a matter of time until a pedestrian is killed there. Perhaps then council will do something.Adam MeyerBrisbane

Park has magicPETER of Teneriffe writes (July issue) that the magic of New Farm Park has vanished. I can only urge him to look up from the red concrete garden edges and see the real magic in the park – the people enjoying themselves. The park is a meeting place, a picnic spot, an exercise and fitness venue, a live music venue, a romantic retreat, a sports field and a fabulous playground for children. On any Sunday, Saturday or public holiday people come from all over Brisbane to enjoy this inner city oasis. Things may change – they always do – but I urge Peter and everyone else hung up on garden edges and a burnt down cafe to look around them next time they are in the park and see the enjoyment on the faces of park users. That is the unchanging magic.L.M.WrightNew Farm

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MANY thought the reddish colour of the edging around the historic rose beds in New Farm Park was set in concrete. It wasn’t and cracks have appeared in Brisbane City Council’s plans to spruce up the beds.

After community anger at the beds being edged in the first place and the distasteful colour chosen, council has moved to change the colour.

The edging stays but the red has been replaced by a shade of green - a heritage colour, closer to that used on light poles and fencing around the park.

Collingwood Concreting from Ipswich was contracted to paint over the original colour – at a cost of more than $20,000.

The Village News believes it cost council $25,000 to put in and paint the edging earlier this year.

The business owner, Sam Evola, from Collingwood Park, said he and his son, Patrick, expected to take 10 days to finish the job which involved two coats of paint and a lacquer which would give the edging sheen.

The original colour faded and was touched up with a bright red which annoyed locals further.

Now, after dozens of complaints, the colour has been changed to Cottage Green – which Con said was chosen because the heritage green council wanted had been discontinued.

Lord Mayoral candidate Ray Smith and retiring Central Ward councillor David Hinchliffe said all this colour-changing was going on at a time when basic services for parks could not be provided.

“Some parks haven’t even yet been restored after the flood six months ago and yet the amount of money is being wasted on edging that local New Farmers didn’t even want,” Ray Smith said.

Cr Hinchliffe said residents were “ropeable” about the “ugliness” of the garden beds.

Labor candidate for Cr Hinchliffe’s ward, Paul Crowther, labelled the situation as the “edging fiasco”.

“What’s wrong with this council that it takes six months to fix playground equipment but wastes money on edging that wasn’t even needed. The rose beds looked perfectly fine with a trench dug around the bed,” he said.

Garden beds find it’s not easy being greenBy Darryl Whitecross

Sam Evola puts on a coat of Cottage Green to one of the rose garden beds in New Farm Park

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BRISBANE City Council has agreed to meet with a group of peninsula residents concerned about its plans to turn the old ferry terminal at the end of Brunswick Street into a cafe.

Deputy mayor and council’s Economic Development Chairman Cr Adrian Schrinner said that, although council had held four community consultation sessions at the site, which is on the edge of New Farm Park, he was prepared to formerly meet with the reference group.

The meeting was planned for August 3.Central Ward councillor, David Hinchliffe, said a

resident reference group made up of three or four people would meet with the deputy mayor.

Cr Schrinner said people could put any views on the planned refurbishment and redevelopment of the terminal through the council’s website.

Already more than 180 people had attended the sessions and/or provided feedback, he said.

Council believes the majority of residents and New Farm Park visitors are in favour of the refurbishment and planned cafe.

Cr Schrinner said nearby residents had expressed concerns about the cafe trading hours and that the facility did not increase in size over time which he said would not happen.

“They also do not want to see the cafe have a liquor license or commercial kitchen,” Cr Schrinner said.

He reiterated that the proposed cafe would only operate in daylight hours, would not be granted a liquor licence and not have a commercial kitchen.

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AT the August meeting of the New Farm & Districts Historical Society, history buffs will be invited to try something just a little different.

As part of its involvement in the Brisbane Digital Histories project, the society is gathering digital postcards of New Farm and surrounding districts.

In lieu of the usual meeting format, a workshop is to be held to enable people to include their memories on a special website which forms part of the project.

The workshop is to be held on Saturday, August 27, at the Uniting Church Centre, 52 Merthyr Road, from 2pm to 4pm.

Several tables are to be set out with a laptop on each. People may either use a computer themselves or sit beside a society representative who will record the details for them.

The subject matter of the digital postcards is entirely up to the individual.

Norm Horton and Sarah Moynihan of New Farm-based arts and cultural company Feral Arts, which encourages storytelling in communities, are the organisers of the innovative project.

“Once the images and information are input to the website, it’s a simple matter to press the ‘Create a Postcard’ button and there it is – online, for all to enjoy,” Norm said

“People might even bring current photos of their favourite New Farm places, along with a short story about why they love it,” he said.

Sarah said letters, documents, newspaper articles or other mementos

relevant to the district’s history could also be useful.

Sarah has her own cache of favourite New Farm stories.

“When we moved into our Bowen Terrace house 10 years ago, naturally there were sheets and sheets of newspaper under the lino. My mother looked at a page from the Brisbane Telegraph and was amazed to see her wedding photo from 1955,” Sarah said.

That is not only a wonderful anecdote but it is emblematic of the fact that New Farm must abound with stories yet to be recorded.

At the end of the workshop, it is planned for all to sit down together for

afternoon tea and watch a flying tour of the stories that have been created.

Society president, Ross Garnett, said the workshop promised to be “lots of fun so we really encourage you to come along and share your reminiscences”.

For further information about the project, log on to www.ps3beta.com/project/8030.

A donation of $3 is requested on the day which includes the afternoon tea. For further information, telephone Ross or Desley Garnett on 3254 1449.

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JUNE was a busy month for some local business owners juggling running their operations and parenthood.

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SHORT-term pain for long-term gain is the message from Brisbane’s Lord Mayor Cr Graham Quirk to residents of Teneriffe as a CityCat terminal is constructed at the end of Commercial Road.

Cr Quirk said the twin-berth terminal would be finished by the end of the year and link Teneriffe residents to the rest of the City’s CityCat network. The existing terminal is for the cross-river ferry which links Teneriffe with Bulimba.

He said the Teneriffe-Bulimba service would remain once the new CityCat terminal came online but the old infrastructure would be removed.

Council is exploring ways to retain the jetty structure for future community or commercial use.

One third of the cash needed to construct the new $5million terminal is to come from the private sector.

Cr Quirk said the money had been pooled for some time from infrastructure charges put on a number of developments in the area and it was into that pool that council had dipped to secure some of the funding for the new terminal.

He said Teneriffe was a dynamic and growing community and deserved to become part of the CityCat network.

As well as being a terminal for traffic

up and down the Brisbane river, it would also provide two off-peak and overnight moorings for CityCats.

A council spokesman said the CityCat terminal had always been planned to be built at the end of Commercial Road and not further downstream as some in the community had thought.

Although Cr Quirk could not be specific on when exactly the terminal would be finished, he said it would be constructed next to the existing terminal and “be finished by the end of the year”. It is to include a sheltered ramp, non-slip gangway and a 50-seat waiting area.

As part of the “green” inclusions, recycled building materials are to be used in the construction of the facility and it is to have a 3000litre rainwater collection tank and solar panels.

Cr Quirk said the construction of the new terminal would add to the other public transport options available to Teneriffe residents, including the CityCycle bikes, the CityGlider and the 199 BUZ bus services.

Parking continues to be a concern for residents of the area and the CityCat is expected to put more pressure on that – despite parking meters controlling what parking is available.

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AGED Care certainly is not a barbecue stopper but it is a something everyone needs to prepare for because few know if or when they – or their parents may need to move into an aged-care facility.

Most people have tended to ignore this possibility, have not bothered to educate themselves or to take part in the ongoing debate about the future of aged care and consumers are in grave danger of being shut out of important decisions about their future by the other two main players in this field – the government and the providers.

We are all ageing and with Baby Boomers approaching retirement age, their parents, and eventually that whole generation, will swell the numbers requiring increasing levels of care as we all live longer. Yet the providers of specialised care facilities such as nursing homes are reluctant to invest in new facilities because, like any business, they need to make a profit and that is not easy in the present financial climate. The costs of providing an adequate level of care

are rising steeply, the government is unable to foot the bill and the result is that consumers face increasingly higher charges.

The government commissioned the Productivity Commission to investigate aged care. A draft report was released in January to which National Seniors responded with a detailed submission and also commissioned Access Economics to undertake independent research – a copy of that report is available from the website www.nationalseniors.com.au

The commission’s final report is with the government and is expected to be released later this month. Because of the importance of this complex subject to New Farm residents, I intend to cover the issue in this column in coming months but, in the meanwhile, it is in the interests of all of everyone to keep up to speed with and to make views known on new developments.

+++THE New Farm branch of National Seniors is to hold its monthly dinner from 6pm at the New Farm Bowls Club on Friday, August 12 while the AGM is to be held at the Merthyr Uniting Church from 9.30am on Wednesday, September 7. The AGM is to be followed by lunch. RSVP to Tony Townsend on 3315 2523.

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IGA gives cash boost to Girl GuidesTHE community spirit of the New Farm peninsula so spectacularly

demonstrated during the Brisbane River flood in January this year has

again come to the fore.Fortitude Valley IGA has donated to Girl Guides Queensland $10,000

which was raised as part of a national four-week flood relief appeal.

Girl Guides Queensland commissioner, Monica Elliott said the organisation was “extremely grateful” for the donation. “I think this money will be of particular use in replacing

equipment, electrical appliances and furniture within our huts,” she said.

TWO months into a new tender agreement and the goalposts, that are part of the cafe wars saga inside New Farm Park, continue to move.

When Glen Boyle and his temporary Summerhouse kiosk were moved on by Brisbane City Council at the end of June after a 10-year battle over the rebuilding of his cafe which burnt down in 2000, and Bellissimo Coffee was awarded a temporary tender to replace him, there were specific requirements put in place.

Village News believes the new tenderer was required to set up the roadway outside the playground an operation that was to be set up each morning and removed that evening. On the first day of operation, Bellissimo was asked, by the council, to set up in a muddy area on the footpath and not on the road – as the tender required, for safety reasons.

It was also believed there would be no power and water connected to the site but Bellissimo’s Mark Bicknell said he believed council was going to put down a concrete slab on which he could sit his van and also be given water and power.

Then the council confirmed to the Village News that Mark would be moved down to the area where the Summerhouse Kiosk was but within days there was a large sign erected pointing patrons to the current location.

“When Mr Boyle vacates, the new operator will move up to where Mr Boyle operates from and plug in to the

electricity grid – eliminating the need for a generator,” a council spokesman said at the time.

“Until Mr Boyle vacates, this cannot happen, although the operator has offered to bring in two smaller trucks to reduce the amount of noise during this time,” he said.

Gone now is the original large van and replaced with two mini vans

with coffee making machines in the back.

Gone is the large van and in its place is a four-post marquee and trestle tables, reminiscent of a school fete.

Council is happy with the

setup: “Perhaps one needs to take their mind back to Mr Boyle and his demountable tin shed,” a council spokesman said.

Deputy Mayor and Economic Development chairman Cr Adrian Schrinner said the hoards of people buying food and coffee from Bellissimo’s vans every day showed that choosing it to run the service was already paying off.

“Not only do I think Bellissimo’s high-quality food and drink is drawing in the crowds but also the decision to locate them next to the playground so parents can get coffee while still keeping an eye on the kids,” Cr Schrinner said.

Mark won the tender to provide food and drink in the park for at least six months while council plans and builds a permanent cafe outside the park in the old ferry terminal.

Council says “bellissimo” to new park coffee setup

Bellissimo’s trestle tables and tent presence in the park

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NOT every suburb has an archbishop living in a 19th Century mansion there. I was intrigued last month when reading Frances Whiting’s story in The Courier-Mail about New Farm resident Archbishop John Bathersby

where he expressed a wish to be buried at Stanthorpe, the town of his birth, rather than the traditional way – under the floorboards of St Stephens Cathedral, alongside archbishops Duhig, O’Donnell, Rush and company when he eventually passes on to “the Pearly Gates” in the Heaven attainable to all Christians.

When I was asked to interview the soon-to-retire archbishop, one of my first questions to His Grace, apart from researching his life from schoolboy to archbishop was: “What is so special about Stanthorpe - besides being your town of birth?”

“Ah,” he said. “It’s beautiful country. My parents lived and were buried there. I went to primary school there. Mum and Dad owned a pub there, the Country Club Hotel, and when I went to Nudgee College and the seminary I went home there for holidays. As a home town, it takes some beating. There is so much family and community history there.”

I asked: “As in New Farm, there is a traditional Italian population base there (Stanthorpe)?”

“Very much so. As a child, I recall World War II, with the American troop trains coming through. Stanthorpe was also a POW camp base, where Italian soldiers were interned from overseas. When Italy later sided with the Allied forces, the prisoners were sent home but some returned along with other Italian immigrants and their brides in the years after the war.

They had been enchanted with the place and its soil and climate and they were hard workers, building up our fruit industry – apples, grapes and, in turn, our wineries. Of course, there had been an influx of Italian

immigrants earlier, in the 1920s, and the wine industry had already begun to flower.

“I enjoyed living in the hotel and getting to know the customers,” he said. “Mum’s

maiden name was Conquest (she was a first cousin of the jockey Bronco Conquest) and she rode her horse on 20-mile droving trips from her family’s property. Dad was a lieutenant in the army during the war and he fought at Milne Bay. He had a shop and ran an SP betting business. Then he won the Golden Casket – thirty thousand pounds – so he and Mum bought the

pub. Once Dad took me to the races and I won 30 quid and I thought: ‘Gee. Easy going.’ I really enjoyed the atmosphere at the track. The sun was shining. Racing people are a happy, generous lot. Poor Dad. He wanted me to be a doctor or a lawyer. ‘Now I’ll never get my money back unless you become a bishop,’ he said to me when I announced my plans.”

We both laughed. Tongue-in-cheek, I suggested to

His Grace that perhaps our lives were somewhat paralleled as I came from a country town hotel family, went to boarding school, climbed Mt

Tibrogargen (though only my once compared to his probably 300 times), we had ended up living in New Farm, we have both lived in 19th Century mansions on acreage in Brisbane, his father and my grandfather had been SP bookies in pubs and we both had mothers who were Protestants before marriage. “The only thing is,” I said, “You became a priest and I became a publican.”

He laughed heartily and I had to immediately like him. Not too many people laugh at my jokes.

The archbishop is a disarmingly open and pleasant man. I did note however his serious side – that he had always been strictly loyal and unwavering in his faith and, although he had to draw a line for his priests to stand firmly behind, he is inspired by the dream of Christian unity.

He said the past five years may had been the toughest in his life referring indirectly to local politics in his Catholic church but they also had been his happiest.

He enlarged on that: “Everything revolves around love. Everyone needs someone to love. I have a great love for Jesus Christ. He lay down his life for us. I believe in Christianity and the ecumenical process. My love for Jesus has kept me going.”

I was interested to see if John Bathersby knew many New Farm residents: “James Duhig had a good eye for real estate and the original four acres here now include the Holy Spirit Church and convent next door.”

“Do you ever call in or say ‘hello’ to Fr Leo Coote, the local parish priest?” I said.

“Not more than half a dozen times in my 20 years here. I read his book on Shakespeare and I know he enjoys marathon running. When I climbed Mt Barney (between Beaudesert and the border with New South Wales and Queensland’s second highest peak) to celebrate Mass up the mountain with the Catholic Bushwalkers Club for its 50th anniversary, I saw his name in the commemorative book that he’d been the guest of honour himself twice. As my immediate domain is St Stephens Cathedral and I have a busy schedule, I don’t get to meet too many locals.”

I told His Grace about my friendship with the departed hotelier and racehorse Gunsynd’s owner George

Pippos, who had lived in Oxlade Drive for many years: “Oh yes, I remember George,” he smiled fondly. “George owned a pub in Goondiwindi, and that was my first parish after my ordination as a priest. George was a good friend of the newsagent there Archie Bishop – in fact, Archie was known locally as ‘The Archbishop’ – and they and others bought Gunsynd and everyone in Goondiwindi rode Gunsynd to success. It’s funny but my Dad used to say often: ‘Ah, if only I had a horse that ran in the Melbourne Cup’ and, of course, Gunsynd nearly won it.”

The ‘fair dinkum’ Archbishop Bathersby, who I had now met properly and was enjoying his company, discussed other local identities and I asked him about any old Nudgee boys (schoolmates) we may mutually know and two names of interest came up: those of former classmates Graham Streets and Denis Murphy. I have arranged for him to meet up with Graham, a former classmate and cricket and rugby team-mate. I phoned Graham who told me the young Bathersby was an excellent batsman with a good technique which was something His Grace had inadvertently failed to disclose.

Streets said that their Under 15s and thirds rugby teams in the junior years (Grades 9 and 10) won GPS premierships and the three of them (he with Bathersby and Murphy) had usually finished in the top six scholars in their junior years, although he found it ironic that he (Streets) had won the Religion Knowledge prize. Streets’ father owned a pub at Charleville but, when they opted for a hotel at Maryborough, young Streets returned to the Gympie St Patricks College to complete his senior education.

Murphy was Nudgee Dux in their senior year (Grade 12) and Streets was Dux at the smaller Gympie school. Streets advanced to be a champion rugby league player and athlete as a young schoolteacher and was to complete his working life as one of Queensland’s leading educators, being Head of Teacher Education and A/Principal of the Queensland University of Technology’s multi-discipline campus at Carseldine.

Considering parallels in an even higher sense, Denis Murphy and the student priest met a couple of years after having left school. John told Denis he was studying to be a priest, which appeared to startle the budding politician. Murphy was studying history and politics and he boldly stated he would one day be Premier of Queensland. They departed that day after each having a 20 quid wager on each other’s future. Murphy bet that Bathersby would not

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become a priest and would leave the seminary, while Bathersby bet that Murphy’s dream of being Premier of Queensland would not be fulfilled.

Some years later, Murphy knocked on the door of the newly ordained priest. While saying that his time as Premier was still to come, he admitted to his 20-pound loss but instead paid in like value with a bundle of books, all political, including one by Karl Marx, commenting at the time: “John. These books probably need revising. As do all great ideas eventually.”

I could not resist asking: “Do you think he was referring to the teachings and requirements of the Catholic Church?” The now-soon-to-retire Archbishop Bathersby didn’t miss a beat: “All things take time but, whatever the Church decrees, then that is the line. We cannot step over that line.”

He then went on to speak of the strides he and other denominations were making in the ecumenical direction. His Grace also announced that he had set in progress in recent years that all priests should have ongoing seminars and education re their responsibilities in the community, along blue card guidelines, that they all must follow. “Earlier, seminary education had been thought to be sufficient,” he impressed upon me.

“What of Denis Murphy?” I said. “I recall he was a leading luminary, held in high esteem in the ALP; even state president of the party?”

“Yes. He died at only 47. Very sad. No doubt he was headed for high office as he mentored rising stars such as (former Queensland premier) Peter Beattie.”

I researched the career of the highly regarded politician. Murphy became a professor at the University of Queensland teaching history, wrote 12 books including a biography of the great premier TJ Ryan and former

governor-general Bill Hayden, had achieved his PhD before he was 30, became state president of the ALP and was heading towards collecting his long-placed bet when fate and illness intervened and the curtain dropped on an already spectacular career.

Bathersby achieved his doctorate in Rome in 1979 and was ordained Bishop of Cairns in 1986 by Archbishop Rush. He was appointed Archbishop in 1992 on Rush’s retirement. He has lived at Wynberg in Brunswick Street for 20 years.

Wynberg reminded me much of my own former residence Shafston House (built on five acres 1851-54, refurbished 1880s) across the river at Kangaroo Point. Built on four acres off Brunswick Street in 1890, the mansion Wynberg was built by prolific railroad builder Mr George Willcocks who had also built that huge stone wall around All Hallows in Ann Street. Wynberg was eventually bought by Archbishop James Duhig, who refurnished the dining room from the TJ Ryan estate and turned the huge front bedroom of Mr and Mrs Willcocks into an office which is ornately furnished to this day, and this was the room where I met His Grace recently for our delightful talk.

Duhig reigned the Archdiocese from 1905 to 1965, dying while still leader at age 94. Coadjutor Archbishop PM O’Donnell, who had been waiting in the wings for 16 years (Duhig was then 78), once stated when he thought his superior would retire: “Ah. God bless us. James will probably die of pneumonia at my funeral.” (*This is another anecdote researched by me, not related by Dr Bathersby.)

Times did change. Following O’Donnell’s retirement in 1973, other archbishops and bishops were then advised by Rome to retire at 75 but that they should write a formal

letter of retirement. It appears that Archbishop Bathersby will write his formal letter any day now.

Dr Bathersby also has a great sense of humour. At a recent funeral where a stalwart 98-year-old Catholic Rose Keliher, a former lady of the land, was being buried, the Archbishop was heard by a good pal

of mine to say: “I believe Rose was a great whistler. That’s one more thing she’ll be able to do in Heaven.”

Following my experience with him, I would say that when his day comes John Bathersby will have many listeners sitting around him within those hallowed gates. He is a wonderful raconteur.

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THE New Farm United Junior Soccer Club has been a unique and positive sporting environment for young soccer players and their families for 25 years.

Assistant secretary Lisa Neighbour said the “100 percent volunteer-run club” continued to play an important role in the community as the only junior sports club/venue in the New Farm area.

“This year, the club celebrates 25 years of soccer with a membership of 220 plus players and their families,” Lisa said.

Lisa said the club came into being when children in New Farm began playing competitive soccer matches on the New Farm Park fields in 1986.

She said club’s key priority and focus was to enable players of all ages and abilities to develop and reach their individual potential in skill, team participation and enjoyment.

The club has won several premierships and championships and awards along the way and several of its players have reached junior representative level.

“This vibrant and friendly club has delivered many happy memories and long-term friendships for New Farm children and their families over the years,” she said.

Club President, Barry Neighbour said some of the original junior players, such as Fabio Zullo and Sam Scarpato, had returned as young adults to help out with coaching and

refereeing.“They

wanted to give back to the club that gave them so much in their childhoods,” Barry said.

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to acknowledge the club’s silver anniversary is to be held on Saturday, August 20, from 9am- 2pm at the clubhouse in New Farm Park.

Formal presentations, with a cake cutting, are to begin at 11am.

All members of the community are welcome to attend including current and past players, families and volunteers.

Lisa said that, as players had grown up and families had moved in and out of the area, the history of the first 10 years of the club had become “somewhat sketchy” with

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“The club is very keen to fill in the gaps and would like to encourage past players, families, coaches, managers, committee members and other volunteers to share their memories, stories and perhaps even lend some photos and any other memorabilia for the day to be displayed on the day of the anniversary celebrations,” Lisa said.

A celebration to acknowledge the club’s silver anniversary is to be held on Saturday, August 20, from 9am- 2pm at the clubhouse

in New Farm Park.

SPECIAL MEMORY: Fabio Zullo, front row first on the left, was a member of this 1988 U8 New Farm Junior Soccer Club team. Fabio,

who played for New Farm until U15s, returned to the club to help coach as a teenager and young adult for many years. He is involved in the men’s team which plays at the New Farm fields – and he continues to live in New Farm. The older man on the far left in the picture – one of the earliest the club can find of its U8s – is Fabio’s dad who has passed away so the

picture is special for Fabio.

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IGA New Farm continues to work hard on the peninsula to help the community fully recover from January’s Brisbane River flood. Store owners Gaurav and Vishal Bansa

have given $5000 to the New Farm United Junior Soccer Club to assist with the repairs needed to the clubhouse and to replace equipment after the damage caused by the

flood. Pictured is IGA New Farm store manager Christian Madsen with some of the New Farm players accepting the cheque.

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THE second annual Fusion Games has raised about $1560 for the children’s charity Variety.

Fusion Cycles’ Chelsie Easton said the games were held “on a glorious sunny Sunday morning” last month around the streets on the edge of Newstead and Teneriffe. Several streets were closed as the riders raced around the suburbs.

Chelsie said duathlete participant numbers were more than doubled on last year.

Two new events were added to the race schedule this year, a 40km social ride, which included a hot breakfast and a coffee, and a duathlon for children where riders between the ages of seven and 11 took part, each receiving a medal no matter where they finished.

Todd Spackman took out the adult duathlon as the first male rider over the line and Sarah Crowley won the women’s section.

Seven different graded divisions made up the cycling criteriums. The Masters C winner was Patrick Oldham with Adam Graham taking out the Elite C division. Stephen Hammer was the Masters B with Richard Rouse taking out the Elite B division. The pace was stepped up in the Masters A criterium with Lucas Nicoll triumphant and Peter Thompson defending his Elite A crown from last year. Justin Vanstone won two

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FORTITIDE Valley on the fringe of the Brisbane’s CBD is one of the most go-ahead precincts in the city and 30-year-old business entrepreneur Simon James wants to make sure he is along for the ride.

Simon, the brains behind SIMJEN, moved out of his 400sq m city office space in Elizabeth Street recently into an old powerhouse in Constance Street to be part of the buzz that is the resurgence of the Valley as an entertainment precinct and commercial hub.

Simon said the CBD was more of a corporate centre whereas the Valley was more creative “with a big future”.

“Things change here a lot. A lot of doors open. I’ll be here for the next 15 years,” Simon said.

He began SIMJEN with three employees in 2010 and, within 12 months, had outgrown the city space so he had to move. He has more than 100 staff today and aims to have 300 by this time next year.

The old powerhouse now home to SIMJEN HQ was one of Brisbane’s first power stations, having been built in 1929, and part of the infrastructure for the old tramline that ran through the suburb. It now powers Simon’s rapidly-growing business.

Simon said working in such a rich part of Brisbane’s history was a privilege.

He said he loved the flare the building gave his company.

“We’ve been able to retain around 500m of steel from the original structure,” Simon said.

“Simon has matched the pioneering aspects of the building with his own pioneering ideas - a 50-seat cinema, 50-seat Imac training lounge, catering facilities, production office, photographic studio, boardroom, courtyard, bar, nightclub and cafe.

SIMJEN’s services include branding, business strategy, design and creative marketing. With the facilities in the old powerhouse, it can also provide venue hire and architecture.

“We have already outgrown two buildings in the last year and are making full use of the five storeys of space this new office is giving us while retaining the building’s historical charm,” Simon said.

Simon’s always on the go but the only thing that moves faster than him is his Silver Bullet – the Porsche he has entered in the 2011 national Porsche Carerra Cup which is leading the championship at present.

The Silver Bullet is driven by New Zealand driver Johnny Reid.

On the eve of the August issue of the Village News going to press, Simon was returning from Melbourne where he opened the doors on his expanding empire in a new market – on St Kilda

Road South Melbourne – his first foray outside Brisbane.

SIMJEN’s creed is to assist new and established small-to-medium businesses with strategic guidance.

He said the Global Financial Crisis had put increased pressure on SMEs to survive, caused business start-up rates to plunged and send more than 4000 to the wall.

As is his creed, Simon bucked that trend. He started his business in the middle of the GFC and boasts unparalleled growth and expansion.

Simon surrounds himself with like-minded people, handpicking a diverse range of specialised staff with backgrounds in most major industries to give his company expertise to help clients through harsh economic times.

Simon says his biggest passion is philanthropy.

“The biggest thing in my life is helping the world in some way,” he said.

He has been busy developing a commercial model that intertwines with charity – a SIMJEN credit/debit card which sees a percentage of money spent at specific outlets go straight to the card holder’s nominated charity through the SIMJEN Charity Rewards program. Negotiations are well advanced with a major credit card company.

Simon said many businesses did not want to help charity because they did not get anything tangible back.

With his credit card, the company would get the business and, without lifting a finger, would be helping a specific charity in the process.

The card is expected to be available by the end of the year.

He says he is an idealist who sees things that are broken and is determined to fix them – or at least “give it a crack”.

He said he owed his business ethics and entrepreneurial skills to his parents, Vi and Trevor. His mother, now is a sales manager within SIMJEN. What’s next on the horizon? Get ready for the SIMJEN Telephone Company.

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THE 165th anniversary of historic Newstead House, regarded as Brisbane’s oldest residence still standing, is to be celebrated this month with a day of celebratory activities planned.

The event is to be held on Sunday, August 21, from 2pm and is to include birthday cake and a concert. The Brisbane City Temple Salvation Army band, conducted by Stuart Lang, is to present brass band music from a range of genres.

Newstead House, which is in Newstead Park at the junction of the Brisbane River and Breakfast Creek, dates back to 1846 when Darling Downs pioneer Patrick Leslie and his brother-in-law John Clements Wickham, a police magistrate and former navy officer, bought the land as two adjoining blocks.

By the end of 1946, Leslie had commissioned a two-storey cottage on the land which was a trading area for fruit and vegetables.

In 1947, Leslie sold the property to John who added stone foundations, brick walls, a slate roof and a ballroom. He also helped develop Newstead House as an unofficial government house and an integral part of Brisbane’s social scene during the 1940s and 1950s.

By 1959, the residence had been

home to notable figures such as Queensland’s first Attorney General Ratcliffe Pring and Consul General for the United States George Harris.

In 1878, the property was subdivided and the land around Newstead House developed into what today is the suburb of Newstead.

The house became the first headquarters of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland and was occupied by American military troops during World War II.

In 1939, the historic site was heritage listed by the Queensland Government when the parliament passed the Newstead House Trust Act. The Victorian-style Newstead House, which has been restored, is protected as Brisbane’s oldest form of residential architecture.

It is open to the public between 10am and 4pm Monday to Thursday, between 2pm and 5pm on Sundays and on selected public holidays. It is closed on Fridays and Saturdays. It is also popular for weddings and functions. Traditional devonshire tea is served between 2pm and 4.30pm each Sunday between March and November.Admission is $6 for adults, $5 for concessions and $15 for a family.For further information, telephone 3369 2507.

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THE inaugural Ride to Conquer Cancer is to be held over the weekend of August 20 and 21 and many keen cyclists on the peninsula are in training and fundraising for the event.

Among them are a group of 10 American medical students let by Andrey Pavlov and Brian Cripe.

Brian is the team captain and in charge of fundraising. To take part in the ride, each cyclist needs to raise $2500 before they can start. That means the students need to raise $25,000 if all are to ride.

Also taking part in the ride is Village News senior reporter, Darryl Whitecross and his wife Nerylie.

The ride is to begin early on Saturday, August 20, with thousands of riders expected to take part. The route will take the cyclists 100km west of Brisbane towards Somerset where they will camp in tents overnight before hopping back on their machines to ride the 100km back.

Money raised from the event is to be given to the Queensland Institute of Medical Research for research into cancer. Each rider indicates to which form of cancer the money they raise is to go.

This is the first time the event has been held in Australia. It has been held annually in Canada for several years.

The medical students recently held a fundraiser at Mark Bignell’s Bellissimo coffee house in Wandoo Street, in the Valley and are looking for many more donations.

Andrey, a second year, and Brian, a first year student, are part of a new medical school program through the University of Queensland in conjunction with the Ochsner Clinical School in New Orleans.

At the completion of their studies, they will eligible to practice in both countries.

“As part of our time here we decided that we wanted to make a positive impact on our new, albeit temporary, home and build a good reputation and start a tradition

of charity and giving back to the communities hosting us here during our studies,” Andrey said.

So they have decided to take part in the Ride to Conquer Cancer.

“As of now, there are 10 of us (nine first years) who have formed a cycling team with the goal of riding in the RTCC,” Andrey said.

“Besides being in the medical profession, each one of us has been touched by cancer in some way and we felt this would be an excellent way to be part of the Brisbane and greater Queensland community.

“There are a few elite riders amongst us (including myself) but most of the small team are novices. We would like to have this be an ongoing tradition, maintaining a cycling team (dubbed team UQ-Ochsner) which will continue to ride in charity events year on year,” he said.

As part of their fundraising, Team UQ-Ochsner is to have a donation jar on the counter at Bellissimo.

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NEW Farm developer Craig Laggeroth is to swap his site hardhat for a bike helmet in October when he cycles about 100km from Brisbane to the Gold Coast – for charity.

Craig, who lives on Moray Street, is expecting to be among more than 10,000 riders to take part in the annual Bicycle Queensland Cycle Challenge on Sunday, October 9. Organisers expect riders from teenagers to octogenarians to take part.

Craig took part in the ride last year for the first time and said he enjoyed it so much that he was keen to front up again.

Last year, he had just returned from having cycled 1500km around France with eight mates when he signed on to take part in the Brisbane to Gold Coast Cycle Challenge.

Craig, who was a hockey player and coach for about 40 years, first took up riding about 10 years ago after an invitation from a friend to go for a social ride and now, about 20,000km later, he and his second-hand Cannondale road racer are virtually inseparable.

He said he had been looking forward to getting aboard a new Italian Fondriest machine imported from America but it arrived with a cracked frame so he is still working

through that disappointment: “Cycling overpowers you. It’s addictive. It can end up being an obsessive thing with some people.”

These days, a trek up Mt Coot-tha each week in the dawn hours is part of his riding regime along with circuits of what is known as the river loop which can cover upwards of 40km.

“We’re well looked after in this neck of the woods for bike shops,” Craig said, expecting peninsula stores to be the centre of attention following Victorian Cadel Evans’s win in the Tour de France which finished on July 24 – the first Australian to win the prestigious event.

Craig’s is a plumber by trade but, about 15 years ago, began dabbling in property development.

These days that dabbling has progressed to “bigger stuff”, having been involved in several prime locations including the Powerhouse apartments.

His involvement at the cutting edge of urban renewal on the peninsula saw him invited to speak at the recent Teneriffe Festival on the topic.

“I’ve lived in New Farm for 25 years. My kids went to school in the area. I love living here,” he said.

Being a keen cyclist, he is looking forward to Brisbane City Council rebuilding the section of floating

riverwalk which was washed away in the Brisbane River floods in January.

“I miss my boardwalk,” he said.More than $880,000 has been

raised for charity by the BQ Cycle Challenge since it was introduced seven years ago. Organisers aim to raise $250,000 this year for Diabetes Australia – Queensland and the Heart Foundation.

Craig and BQ events and marketing manager Rebecca Harwood stressed the challenge was not a race.

“Riders should find someone of their own pace and ride with them,” Craig said. “Ride with someone around you with the same ability,” he said.

The ride from Brisbane is about 100km with a 60km option starting at Logan.

“The ride is as easy or as hard as you make it,” Rebecca said. “If you are an occasional rider or a moderately fit person, there is no reason why you can’t take part in this ride.”

The challenge is to have the use of the South-East Busway which is to give cyclists 15km of traffic-free riding.

Early bird entry fees range from $65 for BQ members and teams of 10 or more to $75. Early bird entries close on September 23. All entries close on

October 3. To enter, log on to www.b2gc.bq.org.au.

Everyone who enters goes into a draw to win a $3000 to spend on bike equipment.

The ride is to begin at 5.15am at South Brisbane and finish at the Broadwater Events Parkland, Southport. Riders need to find their own way home.

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WHENEVER in Melbourne with a day to spare, seriously consider a trip to the Mornington Peninsula. It is less than an hour’s leisurely drive south and boasts some of the country’s finest cellar doors and coastal views. It’s an idyllic setting to hunt down some of the country’s top wines. Specialising in chardonnay, pinot noir and increasingly pinot gris, the region’s coastal climate and maritime breezes assist in developing grape ripeness while retaining natural acidity. In the glass, this translates to wines with abundant flavour, vibrancy and structure making them incredibly attractive prospects either with or without food. Here are three great examples to introduce you to the region.

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POPULAR locals Winnie and Richard Li are back on the restaurant scene again, delivering authentic Chinese cuisine in their new Richard’s Kitchen Chinese Restaurant.

The Brunswick Street restaurant, which specialises in traditional-style Chinese food, is situated on Brunswick Street, and has been open little more than a week.

The couple previously owned Merthyr Cafe, where Richard had designed the menu in typical Shandong style, and now in Richard’s Kitchen Chinese Restaurant they have chosen to focus closely on Richard’s wonderful Chinese cooking experience.

The couple and their daughter emigrated to Australia in 2003, before which Richard trained as a chef in their home province of Shandong, then worked for more than 20 years honing his skills in the five-star Beijing International Hotel.

Richard and Winnie say they were encouraged by their loyal customers to re-open their doors, because customers missed Richard’s northern Chinese-style cooking and Winnie’s penchant for warm hospitality.

“The locals ask me how my daughter is,” Winnie said. Their daughter, who is in her first year of university at the University of Queensland studying law, used to play violin at the Merthyr

Cafe and now teaches music at Allen’s Music as a part-time job. The Li’s were forced to close the Merthyr Cafe when the owner was renovating it and the site is now home to Snap Fitness.

Re-opening with Richard’s Kitchen Chinese Restaurant, Winnie said they were offering some of the best prices in New Farm. There was a takeaway Happy Hour special from 5.30pm - 6.30pm every day when everyone received a 20 percent discount and the banquets were also great value.

Winnie and Richard are happy to continue sharing their Chinese heritage with New Farm. “With our older customers coming in and telling us how much they missed us, we’re excited for the future. It’s really encouraging to know how much people missed Richard’s cooking and how happy they are to know we’re back,” Winnie said.

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Brio is one of the rare locations where you can have breakfast all day as well as lunch and soon to be introduced afternoon grazing choices.

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Pablo is a newly established eatery run by husband and wife team Michael and Amy.

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THIS year’s Royal Queensland Show, the Ekka, was officially launched by a group of students and their school principal from the tiny community of Murphy’s Creek in the Lockyer Valley.

The RNA decided that, after the impact of the violent weather and flood conditions Queensland suffered over summer, it would provide some welcome relief and cheer to some of those worst affected.

It has organised for the entire student population from Murphy’s Creek State School which was devastated by the floods in January to attend the Ekka for a day.

As part of the excursion planning, the RNA gave the responsibility for officially launching this year’s Ekka to a quartet of students and the principal from the school.

Together, principal Jo Sinclair and students Joshua Ragnoni, Zac Keogh, Jesse Sheehan and Ava Sinclair declared the show open.

Jo said that, this year, the link between the city and the country had particular significance, as the entire state had experienced “a summer like no other”.

“The ferocity of nature in full-flight floods and cyclones has effected every single person in this great state

of ours,” Jo said. “I know first hand the devastating impact this has in our small community and within our school.”

“From the bush to beach, Queenslanders have reached out to each other in the spirit of mateship and selflessness that is the hallmark of being Australian.

“This year, the Ekka provides us with the opportunity to celebrate the diversity of our great state as well as having a bit of much-needed fun at the state’s favourite celebration place,” she said.

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Murphy’s Creek students and principal launching this year’s Ekka

TWENTY years is a long time in fashion; long enough in some cases for a particular style to return to vogue.

One person who has been around the rag trade long enough to see many of those changes is Lindsay Bennett who, through his Kangaroo Point-based PR firm LBM, has been at the forefront of showcasing what Queensland has to offer the industry.

Lindsay said people embraced fashion in Brisbane. The James Street precinct in Fortitude Valley was one example of that.

He said an increasing number of international brands were setting up retail stores and fashion labels from southern states were tapping into the market.

August is a busy month for Lindsay with lack of sleep the order of the day as he ensures the iconic and popular cotton and wool fashion parades at the Royal National Association show – better known as the Ekka – go off without a hitch and then quickly followed up by his Mercedez-Benz Fashion Festival which has fast become a A-list ticket item nationally.

Lindsay said he planned to be at the Ekka parades every day entertaining the myriad of VIPs who were to fly in to see what was being presented.

Lindsay has been working with the parades for 20 years and has seen the shows outgrow the wool pavilion and swamp the Walter Burnett Auditorium with its state-of-the-art light and sound

show. The parades last year returned to the cotton and wool theme.

“It’s the longest running and largest free parade in the country,” Lindsay said. “It’s become an institution. People queue for up to an hour to get in for the 22 minutes of colour and excitement.”

RNA chief executive, Jonathan Tunney said the parades continued to draw “massive crowds”. Lindsay estimated that a million people had seen his shows over the years.

This year, 88 outfits will be strutted out along the catwalk in 36 shows – all using natural fibres – from about 20 Brisbane designers helped out by hair stylists and make-up artists.

“Quality wool and cotton fabrics remain the most versatile and enduring of all,” Lindsay said

Several of the outfits were shown off at the launch of Ekka 2011 at the Stockmen’s Bar inside the showground, at Spring Hill, on July 21.

Lindsay said he continued to be excited about the fashion parades and was working hard to ensure they remained relevant well into the future. He was confident he would “be here in another 20 years” – which would make him almost 70.

The parades will be presented at 12.30pm, 1.30pm and 2.30pm daily during the show with an extra parade from 3.30pm on the first weekend of the Ekka. The Ekka is to run from August 11-20.

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Some of the designs to be on show during the Ekka fashion parades

THE Ekka continues to be at the forefront of new tecnhology, RNA chief executive Jonathan Tunney said at the launch of this year’s show last month.

Jonathan said that, in 1979, showgoers saw for the first time the telephone and electric lights and now, 132 years later, the first royal show iPhone app.

He said the app enabled the technical savvy to sort and catalogue their favourite showbags in a number of different ways and to also plan what they would see and do during the iconic 10-day event.

Jonathan said the app also enabled showgoers to compete, in the mould of television’s Amazing Race, to redeem a prize after having completed one or all of the three trails set up in the showground – the thrills and spills trail, the animal highlights trail and the foodies trail.

He said app users could compete to become a Grand Champion or Champion of Show.

“This is the very first free Royal Show iPhone app,” Jonathan said. “You can even race your friends around on Facebook.”

“We think it’s going to be a huge success,” he said.

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Exhibition continues from Saturday 6th August to Tuesday 9th August from 10am to 4pm dailyOfficial opening by Sallyanne Atkinson. Enquiries Pam on 0411 139 141.

THE latest in the series of exhibitions entitled Eclectica at Newstead’s Fireworks Gallery runs until August 6.

The latest exhibition titled Red July is part of the series which has celebrated the gallery’s stockroom.

It is designed to warm up winter with all pieces having a strong colour palette that has echoes of the Australian landscape in desert plains and red soil.

Selected by gallery staff Catherine Insch, Prue Taylor and Tasha Finn, Eclectica III includes more than 30 paintings of rich reds and oranges by artists including Josie Petrick Kemarre, Joanne Currie Nalingu, George Tjungurrayi, Ronnie Tjampitjinpa, David Paulson, Ian Waldron, George Ward Tjungurrayi and Michael Nelson Jagamara.

Fireworks Gallery, which is rustic and open, showcases some of Australia’s top Indigenous and contemporary artists.

The gallery has a stable of core artists who exhibit every two years and between those shows are group or themed shows, of which Eclectica has been one.

Fireworks has a main gallery space as well as a stockroom which visitors can browse through in what director Michael Eather calls “an exhibition within an exhibition”.

The setting of the gallery is perfect for the natural and rich colours of the artworks and Michael said he had always been attracted to similar spaces.

“I’ve always been attracted to the rustic quality of warehouses combined with the big white walls which are dramatic and I like to always have three or four large pieces on show for the wow factor,” Michael said.

“There’s a real dynamism to these big works and

that sets the tone with the style of gallery that we like with the warehouse as opposed to a boutique presentation,” he said.

Fireworks Gallery is at 52a Doggett Street, Newstead and is open Tuesday to Friday 10am-6pm and Saturday 10am-4pm.

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THIRD instalment of Cows at the Beach’s Indian Jazz Concert Series is to be performed at The Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts on Saturday, August 6.

Inspired by his study under some of India’s master musicians, Brisbane-based jazz guitarist Toby Wren has gathered together a group of local musicians from jazz, Indian and experimental music genres for the concert – Tunji Beier on kanjira, tavil, mridangam and ghatam, Kim Cunio (harmonium and oud) and Shenton Gregory (violin and electric mandolin).

The concert, which is to explore the raga ornamentation, jazz harmony and Indian rhythm, is to be presented in Judy’s Shopfront at the centre.

Cows at the Beach is to perform from 7pm-9pm.Tickets are $20 and $15. To book, telephone the Judith Wright Centre box office on 3872 9000 or log on to www.judithwrightcentre.com.

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SOROPTIMIST International Brisbane South’s annual gala art exhibition at the Art Factory at South Brisbane until August 9, aims to raise much-needed funds for research into motor neuron disease.

The opening to the exhibition is to take place at Art Factory, 84 Merivale Street, on Friday, August 5, at 7pm. Tickets are $20.

The artwork by local artists is for sale. Proceeds will support MND research at the Queensland Brain Institute, which is based at the University of Queensland.

Statistics show that more than 1400 Australians suffer with motor neuron disease, which is a progressive neurological disease in which the nerve cells controlling muscles that allow people to move, speak, swallow and breathe fail to work normally.

MND often does not become evident until many nerve cells have died – which is why most patients undergo rapid deterioration shortly after diagnosis.

QBI neuroscientists use a multidisciplinary approach to improve the understanding of the disease.

Dr Robyn Wallace, the Ross Maclean Senior Research Fellow who heads the Peter Goodenough Memorial Laboratory at QBI dedicated to MND research, said a

small proportion of MND patients carried mutations in the superoxide dismutase gene.

“Earlier research has found transgenic mice carrying the mutant SOD1 gene undergo progressive motor neuron loss,” Dr Wallace said.

As such, the Wallace laboratory is looking into ways of preventing cell death associated with MND in SOD1 mice.

The disease is further characterised by protein tangles that cluster in affected nerve cells of the brain and spinal cord.

Recent studies have revealed that a protein called TDP-43, which binds DNA and is involved in gene regulation, is a main component of these nerve cell clusters.

Accordingly, members of the Wallace laboratory are attempting to identify the mechanism by which TDP-43 leads to loss of motor neurons in MND patients.

“We suspect that the aggregation of TDP-43 in the cells of MND patients is not pathogenic in itself, but rather it prevents TDP-43 doing its proper job,” Dr Wallace said.

“We hope this research will provide us with crucial insights to understand how motor neurons degenerate in MND and to identify new diagnostic biomarkers and novel therapeutic targets,” she said.

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FILMMAKER and writer John Waters returns to Brisbane Powerhouse for one night on Wednesday, October 26, to perform his one-man show This Filthy World.

Described as a vaudeville act, This Filthy World celebrates the film career and obsessive tastes of the man William Burroughs who was once labelled “the Pope of Trash”.

Focusing on Waters’ early artistic influences, his fascination with true crime, exploitation films, fashion lunacy and the extremes of the contemporary art world, the devious monologue elevates all that is trashy in life into a call to arms to filth followers everywhere.

This Filthy World draws on material from Waters’ most recent book, Role Models, which has been described in a Melbourne newspaper review as “a study in lunatic admiration, a tribute to self-acceptance and tolerance and a joyful and witty celebration of life”.

Waters, a member of the International Jury for the 2011 Venice Art Biennale, said This Filthy Word tries to “make you feel good about being nuts” – which he said he believed was “important these days.”

Waters, from Baltimore in the United States made his first 16mm film, Eat Your Makeup, in 1967 and followed that with a feature-length film titled Mondo Trasho. That was followed up in 1972 by Pink Flamingos (what is considered the most notorious film in American independent cinema of the 1970s) which turned Waters into a cult celebrity.

He is most recognised for his 1988 hit Hairspray which was a box office and critical success and turned into a Broadway production. A remake of the film released in 2007 starred John Travolta, Michelle Pfeiffer and Christopher Walken. Later hit films include Cry-Baby with Johnny Depp and Serial Mom with Kathleen Turner.For further information, telephone 3358 8600 or log on to brisbanepowerhouse.org

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BRISBANE is to play host to the inaugural Iranian Film Festival Australia when it opens at the Brisbane Powerhouse, at New Farm, on August 4.

The privately owned and operated project is led by former Brisbane International Film Festival artistic director, Anne Demy-Geroe and film director and writer, Armin Miladi, and is to run until August 7.

The festival program is to kick off with Asghar Farhadi’s lauded A Separation which has received acclaim on the international festival circuit in recent weeks. It won the Sydney Film Prize at the recent Sydney Film Festival and Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival.

Anne said current and retrospective Iranian films would be screened during the festival and give a glimpse into a country which remained a mystery to many Australians and showcase the rich and diverse nature of Iranian film.

“It will also provide a platform to enjoy and exchange opinions and celebrate and stimulate cultural

diversity,” Anne said. A Mohammad Rasoulof spotlight is to form part of the festival to celebrate the concept of cinema without borders. Rasoulof was sentenced to six years in prison and banned from making films for 20 years under current Iranian regime on charges of assembly, collusion and spreading propaganda against the regime.

He was recently in the news headlines having won accolades at the Cannes Film Festival but was unable to personally accept it as he was not allowed to leave the country. Two of his films are to be screened during the festival.

Tickets are $35 for gala opening and $15 for adults or $12 concessions to other sessions. A $100 festival pass entitles the holder to attend the gala opening, entry to all seven films and talk shows.For further information, log on to www.iffa.net.au or to book tickets, log on to www.brisbanepowerhouse.org or telephone 3358 8600.

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MOST parents of teenagers know the constant battle of getting their young adults to keep their rooms tidy – from beds staying unmade for days to the inevitable range of clothes strewn across every fitting and fixture.

To this end, the title of latest presentation at the Judith Wright Centre, in Fortitude Valley, will pique the interest of many: Songs from an Unmade Bed.

For those same aforementioned parents, songs or music coming from said teenager bedrooms ranges from thump thump thump from behind closed doors to silence as the kids has the earphones in (bliss that).

The hit musical Songs from an Unmade Bed stars Queensland University of Technology graduate Tye Shepherd and is part of the Hum Series which is an initiative of Judith Wright Centre and Joymas Creative.

It is a solo work to be performed at the centre on Saturday, August 13, from 7.30pm

The work, according to the promotional blurb, propels a smart, resilient, wry and ultimately gay New Yorker through the heartaches and triumphs of love in the big city. The performance involves one lyricist and 18 composers.

Shepherd, fresh from having performed the role of Peter Allen in Empire Theatres’ production of The Boy from Oz, said the Unmade Bed audience would be presented with micro-stories or vignettes, emotionally supported and enhanced by music and each in a contrasting musical style.Shepherd with Matilda Award winner Lewis Jones who directed The Boy from Oz.

Songs from an Unmade Bed is the fourth instalment in the Hum Series.

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He recently bought a third-floor apartment in Mirvac’s billion-dollar Waterfront Newstead development and wants to be near his daughters as they go to school in Brisbane.

Roy lives in Pelican Waters at the moment, the 800ha property his family developed, but has bought a new third-floor apartment in Pier South at Waterfront Newstead.

“We have a daughter at boarding school in Brisbane and two others coming along who will possibly also go to the same school so it may be that they become day students and we live at Waterfront Newstead,” Roy said.

“We aim to make good use of the apartment in any event and we decided to buy it because of the magnificent position and the views,” he said.

Roy runs the 75-year old Henzells Real Estate in Caloundra which was started by his grandfather, also Roy Henzell. The Henzells have developed or marketed much of the city’s business district.

In the past 18 months, the Henzells have bought another Mirvac property on the beachfront at Mariner’s

Peninsula, just off The Strand, in Townsville.

“I love buying good-quality property and, when you look at both the Mariner’s Peninsula beach houses and the apartments at Waterfront Newstead, they . . . tick all the boxes,” he said. “They both occupy absolutely prime, never-to-be-repeated locations.

“Mirvac has a reputation for acquiring the absolutely best developments sites and then their architectural and building expertise kicks in and they deliver truly world-class residential properties.

“We were taken by the beach houses in Townsville because of the prime position and the quality and those same attributes are what attracted us to Waterfront, Newstead,” he said.

The Henzells have rented out their Townsville beach house.

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THE decision by the State Government to remove the stamp duty home concession will flatten the struggling Queensland residential property market and cost homebuyers thousands of dollars, according to the Real Estate Institute of Queensland.

The concession which non-first home buyers received when buying a new or established home as their principal place of residence was removed at the beginning of this month.

The REIQ said that for a median-priced house in Brisbane homebuyers would now be hit with more than $15,000 in stamp duty – an increase of more than $7000.

First home buyer stamp duty concessions remain for homes up to $500,000.

The government also announced a $10,000 grant – The Queensland Building Boost – which is to be available for anyone building or buying a “new-build” home or unit priced up to $600,000 until January 31 next year.

REIQ chairman Pamela Bennett said that, while any incentive to increase housing supply and create jobs in the construction sector was a positive for the economy, the removal of the stamp duty concession for

non-first home buyers would wreak havoc on the Queensland property market.

“The market is already the lowest it has been in many years and (this plan) will just make it worse,” Ms Bennett said.

“A better way to stimulate the economy would have been to provide financial incentives for all buyers of all types of properties which in turn would have increased activity and therefore helped the government’s bottom-line,” she said.

The REIQ said the $10,000 grant may provide a much-needed shot in the arm for the building sector but its value would be greatly diminished by the increased rates of stamp duty that non-first homebuyers would have to pay. It is also unlikely to assist more first home buyers into the market.

Ms Bennett said there had been “a huge reduction” in first homebuyer activity over the past 12 months and the new grant was unlikely to change that to “any significant degree”.

“While the grant means first-timers will be able to access $17,000, as well as stamp duty concessions, purchasing a new-build home or unit continues to be out of the financial reach of most prospective homeowners,” Ms Bennett said.

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ExprEssioNs oF iNTErEsT cLosiNg Thursday 18Th augusT 2011

‘rEpToN’ is aN uNspoiLEd 7 uNiT ‘arT dEco’ BuiLdiNg siTTiNg oN approx. 1207sqm iN oNE oF NEw Farm’s FavouriTE sTrEETs. iN addiTioN To ThE muLTipLE iNcomE is ThE

currENT ‘d.a.’ To coNsTrucT a FurThEr 10 aparTmENTs.

on offer:• currently 7 ‘art deco’ apartments

• positioned on approx 1207sqm of New Farm land• The site consists of 2 Lots with a ‘Br4’ zoning

• current ‘da’ to build an additional 10 apartments• This property wiLL BE soLd!!

wiTh so much poTENTiaL aNd opporTuNiTy, This propErTy is a musT sEE!!

character, income & ‘d.a.’!

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Peter Hawtin M. 0421 358 764

T. 07 3358 4377 | 629 Brunswick Street, New Farm QLD 4005

114 Kitchener Road, Ascot

ExpREssions of intEREst closing thuRsdAy 18th August 2011

cashflow & opportunity - don’t Miss this!

hold oR RE-dEvElop ARE EquAlly Exciting And REwARding options foR A pRopERty with such A stRong cAshflow sitting on AppRox. 1285sqM (3 lots) of flAt Ascot lAnd.


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BRISBANE apartment prices are the third lowest of any capital city in Australia and represent good value for buyers, an invitation-only seminar held at Hamilton has been told.

RPData’s national research director Tim Lawless told the seminar the overall median apartment price in Brisbane was $375,000 with newly developed inner-city apartments commanding a premium and priced between $560,0000-$570,000.

The Property and Economic Seminar, held at Moda Events at Hamilton’s Portside Wharf residential and retail development which is home to Brisbane’s Cruise Terminal, was also addressed by property industry researcher and managing director of Resolution Research Strategists, Diana Howes, and national finance and economic commentator and media presenter, Michael Pascoe.

Tim, who has just completed a review of the Brisbane residential market, said that overall housing supplies remained low, the local economy was set to improve and the rental markets continued to tighten resulting in improved yields for investors.

“The median apartment price is now behind that in Darwin, Perth, Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney with only Hobart and Adelaide cheaper,” he said. “Sydney has the highest

median with a price of $467,000 and the average of all capital cities is $425,000 so Brisbane is very well priced.”

Tim said changing lifestyle preferences, affordability pressures and an increased level of demand to live close to the city had resulted in value appreciation in the apartment market generally outperforming the detached housing market since mid-2004.

“Over the past five years, Brisbane unit values have increased at an annual rate of 5.8 percent and detached house values have recorded an annual gain of 5 percent,” he said.

“Twenty years ago, unit sales comprised just 15 percent of all dwellings sales in Brisbane and today the figure is between 28 and 30 percent of all Brisbane dwelling sales.”

Tim said the latest research showed that, over the whole residential market in Brisbane, prices were down 5.9 percent in the 12 months to May this year but were up 5.1 percent in the period from May 2006.

He said the price gap between the major capital cities had narrowed.

“At the end of 2003, Sydney prices were 40 percent higher than Melbourne, 52 percent higher than Brisbane and 90 percent higher than Perth,” Tim said.

“By the end of 2007, a significant shift had occurred with Sydney prices dropping to 18 percent higher than Melbourne, 14 percent higher than Brisbane and 1 percent higher than Perth.

“At the end of May this year, Sydney prices were 4 percent higher than Melbourne, 23 percent higher than Brisbane and 13 percent higher than Perth,” he said.

Brisbane’s inner-city rental vacancy rate for apartments was 2.3 percent which highlighted the lack of supply and strong demand for inner city rental accommodation.

Tim said rental levels across the board had remained relatively flat during 2011 but yields were improving because of the fall in prices. Brisbane rental yields were above the national average.

“Rents for apartments are now trending upwards and we expect rental growth is likely to keep improving,” Tim said.

He said south-east Queensland remained one of the fastest growing regions in Australia with an additional 1.6 million new residents expected to be living in the region by 2031.

“This will create demand for an additional 754,000 new residences,” he said. “Currently housing supply remains low and there will be a continued increasing focus on medium

to high density development for a range of reasons.

“It is fair to say it is currently a buyer’s market but the leading indicators are levelling and some are improving indicating the market may be at or approaching the bottom of the cycle,” he said.

Property researcher says unit market still ‘good value’

RpData’s Tim Lawless, Mirvac’s Georgie Madsen, Diana Howes from Resolution Research and Michael Pascoe, finance

and economics commentator

10/102 Sydney St, New Farm $495p/w This unit offers an atmosphere of peace and privacy and the privilege of relaxing on your large covered North East facing verandah whilst enjoying the views of New Farm Park.

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For rentHastings St, New Farm $1250p/wThis unique home is also offering a two story living arrangement perfect for guests or a growing family. Air con throughout plus garden and pool maintenance included in the weekly rental.

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Work With the top leasing agency in the area.

Enderley Rd, Ascot $1600p/w Saturated in natural light, appeasing colour tones, high ceilings and wooden floors, this home enjoys wide open spaces and functionality for any executive family.

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4/2 Villiers St New Farm $400p/w Renovated with flair, this immaculate two bedroom unit will surprise you with its functional design and spacious living area and large bedrooms.

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20/159 Merthyr Road, New Farm Spacious 3 bedroom courtyard apartment featuring a generous 190m2 of indoor and outdoor living areas, security intercom, pool, lock up garage, close to river.

$529,000

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4/176 Sydney Street, New Farm Stylish one bedroom apartment, modern finishes Parquetry flooring, wide balcony perfect for outdoor entertaining, resort style pool + gym, prime corner position.

$340,000

12/133 Moray Street, New Farm River, city and Story Bridge views, well designed open plan end apartment, floor to ceiling glass, lift, security intercom, lock up garage, inground pool, excellent location.

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$349,000

34 Brassey Street, Fairfield Classic Queenslander on prime corner block open plan living, high ceilings, wide polished floorboards, leadlight windows, covered entertaining deck.

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$590,000+

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Lee Paul m.0418 733 818 e. [email protected] Selling New Farm since 1986

2/111 Thorne Street, East Brisbane Near new 2 level luxury townhome comprising 306m2 of lifestyle living. Spacious open plan tiled living opens to wrap-around covered terrace, designer kitchen, boutique block.

$950 pw

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“Cutters Landing” Private and secure 2 level home, unique floor plan comprises 352m2 of living, light filled open plan living areas and separate media room, double height outdoor sala.

$1500 pw

15/925 Brunswick Street, New Farm Top floor tiled open plan living areas, covered terrace, stylish kitchen, security intercom, secured gate, prime position near park and river.

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$550 pw

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Raine & Horne New Farm – the boutique office with the big brand name.

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An Award winning office since 1986

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LEASED

$565,000

6/31 St Leonards Street, Coorparoo Top floor 2 bedroom apartment, huge balcony, end position, further potential, lock up garage.

New Farm properties selling fast! Several qualified buyers wishing to buy now. Annie Street Villiers Street Brunswick Street

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123SPRING HILL 20 Gloucester StreetINSPECT by appointment

AUCTION Thu 25 August 2011, EuroMarque Ferrari

HEATH WILLIAMS 0403 976 115JUDY GOODGER 0438 767 377For more visuals and floor plans see judygoodger.com eplace.com.au (8149)

Featuring the perfect fusion between charm and style, this unique home boasts a traditional façade with sleek contemporary interiors and all of the modern comforts to create an ultra chic inner city residence. 173m² spans over two levels to create a clever floor plan that maximises on space and style. Upstairs, an open plan design abounds with a sizeable combined living and dining area adjoining the gourmet kitchen that boasts the finest fittings and extensive work and storage space. The master bedroom, also located on the upper level, is a contemporary haven that spans out onto a private front deck. Downstairs, a second living area, two sizeable bedrooms, a study and a kitchenette, flow out onto a large timber deck – the perfect location to capture a glimpse of the city’s impressive skyline. Set in the popular inner city suburb of Spring Hill, this home is a superb lifestyle option with the CBD is just moments away.

Sophisticated Inner City Style

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NEW FARM 42 Villiers Street 4 2 2New Farm gold with great potential for future enhancement. Set on a sprawling 860m² grounds, this landmark home combines comfortable living with classic elements, including 12ft ceilings, leadlight windows, VJ panelling and ornate detailing. A clever design boasts 369m² of floor space with defined yet flowing living spaces. The practical wrap around veranda has been transformed into multiple sun and sitting rooms while a generously sized deck offers elevated views of the private surrounds and waters edge pool. Perfectly positioned with the RiverWalk and New Farm Park close at hand.

A Great Family Home… Huge Potential to Enhance Further… 806m² Grounds

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JUDY GOODGER 0438 767 377For more visuals and floor plans see judygoodger.com eplace.com.au (7996)

NEW FARM 3 Bowman Lane 3 2 2An Arkhenfield designed home of unsurpassed quality and style. This low maintenance residence

features an intelligent courtyard design with media room and centre atrium void that opens the

home for a sense of boundless space and freedom. Bi-fold doors off the dining area offer soft natural

light and access to a generously sized outdoor area surrounded by lush tropical bamboo – perfect

for entertaining. Additional features include a powder room on the lower level and heated pool.

This excellent lifestyle opportunity is just moments to the Brisbane River and Moray Street Cafés.

Smart… Stylish and Perfectly Positioned

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HEATH WILLIAMS 0403 976 115JUDY GOODGER 0438 767 377For more visuals and floor plans see judygoodger.com eplace.com.au (7998)

35 Kingsholme St, New Farm

Place: Queens Arms HotelDate: Wednesday 10th August 2011Time: 6.30pm

Matt Lancashire 0416 476 [email protected]

Welsby Street, New Farm

Merthyr Road, New Farm

Harcourt Street, New Farm

Main Street, Kangaroo Point

Wellington Street, Brisbane

Ballow Street, Fortitude Valley

If you would like your property to be listed with us and rented as quickly as these ones, please call us on 3254 1022 or email [email protected] for a free no obligation rental appraisal.

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24 Turner Avenue, New Farm

Place: On Site Date: Saturday 20th August 2011Time: 12.00pm

Matt Lancashire 0416 476 [email protected]

331/64 Macquarie St, Teneriffe “Ansonia”


Haesley Cush 0421 057 233 [email protected]

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4 23 2 11114 Browne Street, New Farm

Place: On SiteDate: Saturday 6th August 2011Time: 11.00am

Matt Lancashire 0416 476 480 [email protected]

14 Hopetoun Way, New Farm

Place: Level 5 Riverside Centre Date: Friday 5th August 2011Time: 10.30 am

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Haesley Cush 0421 057 233 [email protected] Andreja Brkan 0405 796 882 [email protected]

New York Chic Meets Riverfront Al Fresco LivingTeneriffe 55 Macquarie Street

Boasting panoramic river views this uber chic freehold Teneriffe home is only moments from the Brisbane CBD, inner city New Farm and Fortitude Valley and has a bus at the door. With pavers over a pond to the atrium entrance the contemporary residence is a fusion of timber, glass and stone rising three floors in a split level, open plan design over a generous 450sqm of space. Features include cathedral ceilings, an abundance of natural light and a wealth of quality inclusions and fixtures.

• Master bedroom with private balcony

• Open ensuite and walk-in wardrobe

• Gourmet kitchen featuring SS appliances

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• Formal lounge & casual living + kitchenette

• Study/office on mezzanine level

• Entertainment deck with built-in BBQ

Platinum Riverfront LifestyleNew Farm 7/166 Oxlade Drive

Platinum on the River occupies an absolute riverfront position and offers an enviable lifestyle by combining timeless design with rich quality interior finishes - a blend of contemporary style with sophisticated function. The state of the art apartment features 3 bedrooms (master with ensuite) and a deluxe Gaggenau equipped kitchen with granite finishes including a huge entertainment balcony.

• City and River Views

• 3 Luxuriously appointed bedrooms

• 2 Bathrooms plus powder room

Auction

• Formal Living/Dining room

• Gymnasium, Lap Pool & Theatrette

• Direct access to river & City Cat

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Prestige Properties599 Brunswick St, New Farm

Margaret Waters 0412 069 699 [email protected] Pauline Southerwood 0413 721 [email protected]

Sale

Friday, 2nd Sept 2011, 10:00 amRiverside Centre, Level 5123 Eagle Street, Brisbane

Margaret Waters 0412 069 699 [email protected] Pauline Southerwood 0413 721 [email protected]

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